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Yes, and for us, those pathways are also affected by excitotoxins (the worst for us was MSG) -- have a quick gander at some of the obvious foods you might eat, like noodles, chicken-flavoured potato chips, soups (anything beef/chicken/veggie flavour) it literally has like 50+ alternative names to hide it: Flavour enhancer 621, monosodium salt, monohydrate, monosodium glutamate, monosodium glutamate monohydrate, monosodium L-glutamate monohydrate, MSG monohydrate, sodium glutamate monohydrate, UNII-W81N5U6R6U, L-Glutamic acid, glutamic acid, monosodium salt, and monohydrate. and if you think it could be a cause, check out the actual only scientific article that comes up on Google (after the 20:1 saying MSG is 'totally fine and safe'). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5938543