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Disrupt Or Be Disrupted: NGPX 2019
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Growth Without Change: The Tail Wagging the Dog
Fear Is A Good Thing: The Psychology of Being Spooked
Whether you love horror films or prefer to be scared in person at a haunted house, one thing is certain: people love to be spooked. But why do we love being scared so much? You may be tempted to chalk up
When Treating Others with Compassion is no Trick: Halloween with Empathy
This Halloween, companies and individuals are demonstrating how that handing out kindness is even better than a full-size candy bar.
That Night when a 10-Year-Old Schooled the Rest of Us about Generosity
In an evening where more than 1,200 people came together to raise over $150,000 for a game-changing healthcare organization, the most important number of the evening was a whopping 172.
The Tragedy of Thomas Cook: Disrupt or Be Disrupted
The tagline "Don't just book it, Thomas Cook it!" became a household phrase in Europe. But even the most familiar brands must continue to disrupt–or they'll be disrupted. What should you do to avoid leaving your customers, employees or shareholders
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At Nason Group, we bring The Power of Yes! and our empathy exercises to large healthcare companies like Walmart and Quest Labs to help them solve big business problems by asking, "How might we?" Last weekend, we got to think through
Truth Tellers: Living Authentically in a Land of Bullshit
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Tag: Clive Stafford Smith
The idiocy of drone strikes
An unnamed military source confirmed to the Washington Post yesterday that last week's airstrike in Somalia was carried out by a US drone. While there have been previous reports of drone strikes in Somalia, as the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports, this is the first time that such a strike has been confirmed.
The drone strike was aimed at members of al-Shabab group which the US alleges is building close ties with al-Qaeda. A 'senior US military official' told the Post that "they have become somewhat emboldened of late, and, as a result, we have become more focused on inhibiting their activities."
'Inhibiting the activities of groups which have become emboldened' is a fine euphemism for a drone strike – and one that we may hear more often due to the new counter terrorism strategy that was revealed by the White House this week.
Unveiling the new strategy, John Brennan, counter terrorism advisor to President Obama, stated (while heroically keeping a straight face) that "Al Qaeda seeks to bleed us financially by drawing us into long, costly wars that also inflame anti-American sentiment." Cleverly avoiding this trick (!) the US will instead, as the LA Times put it:
"pursue a war in the shadows, one relying heavily on missile strikes from unmanned aerial drones, raids by elite special operations troops, and training of local forces to pursue terrorists."
When challenged about whether targeted killing was appropriate, Brennan, a former CIA officer went on to argue that in the past year, "there hasn't been a single collateral death because of the exceptional proficiency, precision of the capabilities that we've been able to develop." However, as even the LA Times itself pointed out, it was just last month that two US servicemen were mistakenly killed by a US drone strike. Tactfully the LA Times suggested that Mr Brennan must mean drone strikes in Pakistan. However even if Brenan's claim is limited to drone strikes in Pakistan, it is extremely difficult to square with the myriad of civilian casualty reports from there.
The Pakistani lawyer, Mirza Shahzad Akbar, who is suing the CIA on behalf of civilian victims of drone strikes, was refused entry into the US this month to take part in a human rights conference at Colombia Law School.
Mr Akbar wrote in the Guardian this week that
"If seeking justice through the law – instead of violence – is the reason for banning my travel, then mine is another story of how government measures in the name of "national security" have gone too far… Why would the US government want to prevent me from discussing these cases at Columbia law school? Perhaps, it is because our legal challenge disrupts the narrative of "precision strikes" against "high-value targets" as an unqualified success against terrorism, at minimal cost to civilian life."
Trying to prevent angry Pakistanis from using lawful means to pursue claims against the CIA for drone strikes instead of turning to violence seems to be purely idiotic. Clive Stafford Smith, renown lawyer and founder of Reprieve, the organisations supporting Mr Akbar and other layers in Pakistan, took this theme up in a short interview with Newsweek when asked for his opinion on US drone strikes:
"Drones are idiotic. When you fire a drone, the odds are you're wrong when you identify someone as a terrorist. Our experience in Guantanamo is that the Americans get it wrong more than two thirds of the time. The second thing the Americans have to do when they fire a drone is to identify where [the target is in real time]. The chances of getting that right are slim to none. The third thing they've got to get right is hit the right place. When you add these things together, the odds that they're going to hit the right person are very small. The odds that they're going to kill innocent people, really annoy people in Pakistan, and provoke people to hate them are very, very high. So not only is it immoral, it's very stupid."
Unfortunately, pointing out the stupidity of a particular policy to the military never seems to be enough. Thankfully more and more people are beginning to take action to stop the idiocy of drone strikes.
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Post Acute Providers
Improving Coordinated Care During COVID-19 and Beyond
This article originally appeared on Population Health Alliance's website.
Meeting the healthcare needs of patients requires multiple organizations, people and resources throughout the patient journey. As the patient moves through the system, simple, accessible and precise communication among care teams has the power to improve quality patient care.
Healthcare navigation for providers and patients, however, has always been a barrier to potential sophisticated population health management interventions. The pandemic forced providers to adopt technology quicker and revealed there are ways to adopt technology and support clinicians in the business of healthcare. In the week ending April 18, 2020, almost 1.3 million beneficiaries of Medicare or Medicaid received telehealth services compared to just 11,000 in the week ending March 7, 2020, according to current claims data — an increase of more than 11,718% in just a month and a half.
Historically, providers and patients slowly and reluctantly have adopted technology and telehealth. Some of the barriers to use include reimbursement criteria, regulations, cost and concern over the experience. During this national emergency, special exceptions are underway related to both privacy and reimbursement. Widespread use during an exceptional time may lead to ongoing adoption when life returns to normal - whatever that might look like.
Coordinating Care for Acute Care Patients
Telehealth works for non-acute scenarios and provides follow-up opportunities once acute patients return home. Yet 26.3% of patients discharged from hospitals require institutional post-acute care, including skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs). With the pandemic, it is estimated that approximately 24 million Americans could require hospitalization and/or intensive care for more than six months due to the pandemic. Estimates project at least 700,000 patients may require inpatient short-stay rehabilitative care and 10 million more may need outpatient rehabilitative services.
The journey to better outcomes requires optimal communication amongst hospitals, post-acute care facilities, patients and their families. Deaconess Health System, a premier provider of healthcare services in 26 counties across three states, has been at the forefront of innovation. For the third year in a row, they have been ranked by the CMS as a top 5 performing ACO in the country.
Deaconess has seen success, in part, by using a software solution that enables their care teams to track and guide their patients as they transition to post-acute care. This has supported improved patient outcomes within their value-based care population health strategy. They began using the software prior to COVID-19, and it served as a vital platform to improve patient care coordination during the pandemic.
"Within all our community hospitals in the region, we can connect through the Olio software — especially those we either did not have a relationship with before or that we weren't able to connect with via EMR [electronic medical records]," says Shelly Evans, the former Manager of Post-Acute Services for Deaconess Health System. "We've been able to use Olio during the COVID pandemic for communication, and to look at COVID activity along with staffing resources because as a health system we want to help those facilities."
Evans says the platform provides them a real-time snapshot of where that patient is in their journey, while tracking the length of stay along every level of care. "It ensures collaboration with those facilities to keep patients moving along the continuum in a very successful and timely manner," Evans says.
Managing Escalations and Limiting Readmissions
Overseeing the discharge of hundreds of patients to post-acute facilities involves a great deal of complexity and economic burden, requiring active engagement at scale to make an impact. Managing care often includes manually tracking and monitoring patients through non-HIPAA compliant channels, and utilizing costly resources to coordinate communication between acute and post-acute providers.
"Our medical directors and nurse practitioners have been very receptive to the new platform, because they know exactly where our patients are, where they are in that journey, and provide the ability to communicate," Evans says.
She shares that various electronic health record systems result in a gap in the care process as there is no conduit of communication between the hospital and the skilled nursing facilities when utilizing different systems. Deaconess uses Olio to communicate with the facility staff, ask questions, share patient records and monitor daily progress, resulting in the ability to track and successfully manage patients.
"You can send a note back and forth to the staff of another facility and talk directly with nurses, all HIPAA protected," says Jaime Redman, Lead Nurse Practitioner for the Accountable Care Organization program at Deaconess. "We can access care quickly through a provider without triggering a nuisance. For the provider, they have to manually escalate something and Olio is programmed in a way that's good for providers. There are not a lot of nuisance calls — only when they need you for something urgently."
Supporting Coordinated Care in Real-Time
Healthcare workers' efforts before, during and after the pandemic elevate them to hero status. Communication technology earns the title of supporting sidekick as providers embrace innovations to navigate new pandemic challenges. Telehealth and Olio, amongst other solutions, provide easy-to-use, real-time support for the best possible patient outcome and provider experiences.
"Direct communication with the staff at the facilities is huge," Redman adds. "We're able to communicate with the nurse about what's going on without a phone conversation. A lot of times we're in the middle of meetings. We can communicate and not interrupt the meeting, place orders, go ahead and take care of this, and provide real-time solutions to real-time problems."
Transcendent Healthcare of Owensville, LLC, a privately owned and operated Skilled Nursing Facility, receives referrals from Deaconess. The facility strives for innovative efforts when caring for lives. With the onset of COVID, communication with the hospital proved even more critical when providing patient updates, ensuring appropriate care, and managing patients in place.
Transcendent not only used Olio to get in touch more quickly with the hospital, but to schedule and conduct visits with the hospital through telehealth. "Olio's program to improve communication in post-acute care measurably improved resident outcomes for us on a number of occasions and was pivotal in growing our relationship with Deaconess Care Integration," says Tom O'Niones, Transcendent's Owner and President.
"Our goal each day is to ensure resident health, safety and satisfaction," O'Niones says. "As of 2020, and particularly during restrictions associated with the current pandemic, utilizing Olio as a tool enhanced our success plan. The speed by which we can access Deaconess providers to discuss crucial issues for our residents, with telehealth consults, is invaluable. We utilized Olio's escalation feature multiple times with rapid response. We are certain this has improved coordination of care and likely helped save lives."
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class BingoBoard

  def initialize(board)
    @bingo_board = board
    @bingo = ['B','I','N','G','O']
  end
  def call_bingo
    letter_index = Random.rand(Time.now.strftime('%s').to_i) % 5
    letter =  @bingo[letter_index]
    number = Random.rand(Time.now.strftime('%s').to_i) % 100 + 1
    puts letter
    puts number
    check_board letter, number
  end
  def check_board (letter, number)
    index = @bingo.index(letter)
    @bingo_board.each do |el|
      if el[index] == number
      el[index] = 'X'
      end
    end
  end
  def print_board
    @bingo_board.each do |el|
      p el
    end
  end
end

# Refactored Solution
class BingoBoard
  def initialize(board)
    @bingo_board = board
  end
end
def call
  bingo = ["B","I","N","G","O"]
  index = Random.rand(Time.now.strftime('%s').to_i) % 5
  number = Random.rand(Time.now.strftime('%s').to_i) % 100 + 1
  bingo[index] + number.to_s
end
def check board, called_number
  bingo = ["B","I","N","G","O"]
  index = bingo.index(called_number[0])
  called_number.slice!(0)
  board.each do |el|
    if el[index] == called_number.to_i
      puts 'match!!'
      el[index] = 'X'
    end
  end
end
def print_board board
  board.each do |el|
    p el
  end
end

#DRIVER CODE (I.E. METHOD CALLS) GO BELOW THIS LINE
board = [[47, 44, 71, 8, 88],
         [22, 69, 75, 65, 73],
         [83, 85, 97, 89, 57],
         [25, 31, 96, 68, 51],
         [75, 70, 54, 80, 83]]
#initial
#new_game = BingoBoard.new(board)
#puts '************board*************'
#new_game.print_board
#puts '************board*************'
#50.times {
#new_game.call_bingo
#}
#new_game.print_board

#refactored calls
50.times{
  check(board, call)
}
#check(board, call)
print_board board

__END__
#Reflection

How difficult was pseudocoding this challenge? What do you think of your pseudocoding style?
  This was not too difficult, as I stuck with what the code should produce, and not get into the details

What are the benefits of using a class for this challenge?
  The class makes this solution much more simple to see what is going on, and requires less code.

How can you access coordinates in a nested array?
  Easily with a nested .each.  However this was not necessary for this challenge because
  I already knew what index to check for.

What methods did you use to access and modify the array?
  the .index method worked really well here, as I used it to access that particular index
  for wach of the iterated arrays

Give an example of a new method you learned while reviewing the Ruby docs. Based on what you see in the docs,
what purpose does it serve, and how is it called?
  the .index method was cool, it returns the index of the first time it hits a value.
  Also the slice! method, which removes chars according to arguments.
How did you determine what should be an instance variable versus a local variable?
  I hope I did this right, as the first time I wrote it as a class. The second time
  I wrote it as methods. I thought that was the point of the exercise to see the value in
   using classes. I knew the board was going to be an instance var. my bingo var didn't need to be an instance var as
   it remained the same the entire time, across all instances
What do you feel is most improved in your refactored solution?
  My initial solution worked best as I wrote it using the class. I am now getting the impression that I did this
  assignment wrong!!

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On Saturday as part of a good half-day's birding I explored Jamaica Bay hoping to find some birds that have come in with the warm weather that I could count for my Anti-Global Warming Big Year. I didn't find too much that I haven't already seen this year, in fact, a Little Blue Heron was the only totally new bird for the year. Glossy Ibis, Greater Yellowlegs, Laughing Gull and Forster's Tern were all added to my year list though as the only previous sightings I had of them were aided by getting rides in cars. What does all of this have to do with Fish Crows?
Well, nothing, except that while I was finding all of these birds at Jamaica Bay I also came upon a Fish Crow perched in a tree, eating tree buds. Then it flew to a cedar tree and started eating cedar berries.
I have always had a tough time photographing crows or ravens as their all-black bodies tend to defy my picture-taking abilities. Even these shots are not as nice as I could hope for, but they are better than the usual black, bird-shaped blob that usually is the result when I release the shutter around these crafty corvids.
When I lived upstate in Albany we found Fish Crows by going down to the Hudson River and waiting to hear their nasal "Caa" which was easily distinguishable from the harsh-sounding "Caw" of American Crows (if you want to learn more about distinguishing the two check out Jochen's post from last August which includes some information on the subject). Down here in New York City Fish Crows can be readily found virtually anywhere along the coast and seem to be more common than American Crows. And despite the fact that Fish Crows, like all corvids, are opportunistic feeders that will eat almost anything that they can fit in their mouth, I had never found one eating cedar berries, or any kind of berry, before.
It was fun to watch such a (relatively) big bird delicately eating the berries one at a time. The watching didn't last long though, and the Fish Crow, despite being more cooperative than any I had ever seen before, winged away, emitting a couple of "caas" as it went.
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struct Ply
{
	Move* whiteMove;
	Move* blackMove;
};
#endif


Then we were all poisoned.
The morning arrives and I'm numb.
Through the fields sheeted in ice.
You'll find me, we'll never have a home again.
And they'll never find me again.
So embrace this, it's what's left.
But I'm still here, and I can still help you.
Though nothing can make this right.
Because words can make this right.
Because words fall short like my breath.
And your faith in me, so I'll finish this myself and tell you, every word I ever said I meant.
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The Deviant's Cell
Dili's Playground
KotOR Series
Age of the Characters
Started by Dark-Mage, Apr 12 2005 09:45 AM
#1 Dark-Mage
Dark-Mage
Because killing is an art, and I am a master.
I am trying to find out the age of the characters of KOTOR for a fanfiction but the only one I can seem to find is Carth's, who is said to be 38. I am also gonna take a guess and say that MIssion is 14 but as for the others, I have no clue.
Does anyone know or have a general idea?
#2 Scorch
Basitia= 23-26 i think
Carth= 30-32
mission= 18
Zalbaar= 50 (could be younger)
jolee bindo=50+
Juhini=25+
Canderous=30+
HK-47= not sure
T3-M4= Not sure
#3 Athena
Tiny Terror/Lady Arien
*delurks*
Mission says in-game that she's fourteen years old. T3 can't be more then a couple of months old at the most.
I've also heard that Carth is 38, but I'm not sure where that is said.
We know from K2 that HK was about five or six during K1.
We know Jolee was alive and married during the Exar Kun wars, which were--as I understand it--40 years before K1; I'd guess he's somewhere in his sixties or early seventies.
Canderous says he's been fighting for 40 years; it's anyone's guess when he saw his first battle. I don't know much about Mandalorian culture, so taking a wild guess I'd say he's probably somewhere in his early or mid fifties; it makes sense to me that Mandalorians would want to expose their children to battle early on.
Zaalbar left Kashyyyk 20 years before K1, and AFAIK that's all we know about his age.
Bastila is pretty young, probably anywhere from 20-25. I favor 22, but that's just my estimate.
No idea for Juhani, but she's got to be pretty young. She was definitely older then the norm when she was accepted into the Jedi Order, but she had to have been young enough they would have thought there was still hope she could be successfully trained. So my guess, based on that, would be 19 or 20, maybe 21.
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#4 Postosuchus
Postosuchus
It says that Carth is 38 on the official website . The only other one I know is Canderous, I remember reading on one of the Kotor forums that mandeloreans start fighting at 15; 15 + 40 would make Canderous 55.
Thanks for all the info guys, it really helps
What age do you all think Revan is then. I favor the 27-29ish range myself. Though he/she could be younger or older.
#6 Celestine
Elven Maiden
T3 is definitely only a few months old. Mission is 14, that's stated in the game and Carth's 38, pretty much what Athena said.
I think Revan can be anywhere in the mid twenties range to thirties. She(He)'s afterall a jedi knight, isn't there an age range where the Jedi Order grants the Jedi Knight title?
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#7 Tom
I would've said Bastila is a bit older, around 30.
Forward he cried from the rear
And the front rank died
And the general sat and the lines on the map
Moved from side to side.
yeah, a thirty-year-old prissy princess jedi knight. Somebody's been skipping maturity school I say. B) Don't mind me, I just don't quite like Bastila.
Haha, well it was her superior, immature attitude that makes me think shes a bit older than 25. I liked her...
#10 Grunker
Grunker
Prince Charming
If Bastila was 30 she would be fully trained, and the masters wouldn't toss her around like the do, albeit her Battle Meditation.
Bastila was annoying. KotOR 3 must be made with the ability to smash her head into some kind of rock
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#11 -Guest-
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We were all that annoying... at 15...
#13 jezzy101
jezzy101
Posted 25 June 2005 - 04:15 AM
the robots (hk, t3...) have an old age because, hk was with revan for a long time, and loads of people besides that, i dont see how anyone would know robot's age, if i had to though, nah, i wont bother, im rubbish, he he
Edited by jezzy101, 25 June 2005 - 04:17 AM.
#14 Cícero
Cícero
Official site says that Carth is 38, and Canderous is 40.
Bastila is most probably 22-25.
Revan is probably 25-30. (The Masters in Dantooine say that he was young when he went to the Mandalorian Wars; since is is probably the most powerful Jedi in the galaxy, it is reasonable that he was a Knighted early, perhaps at 19, 20).
#15 -Axjustus-
-Axjustus-
Revan and Carth are both 38. You can look it up on the wookieepedia ( starwars.wikia.com ). It tells what year they were born and what year Revan defeated Malak on the Star Forge, after that, all you have to do is the math. Carth and Revan were both born in the year 3994 BBY (which stands for Before the Battle of Yavin, a reference to the end of Star Wars IV: A New Hope) and Malak died on the Star Forge in the year 3956 BBY. That makes them 38.
It doesn't exactly tell how old Bastila is, however, Mission states that she (Bastila) is not much older than her (Mission) and we know Bastila is still a Padawan, so it's likely that she is in her early 20s. We know Mission is 14 because she was born in the year 3970 BBY and again Malak dies in the year 3956, so the simple subtraction there is 14.
It doesn't say when Zaalbar was born, but we know that he has been away from Kashyyyk for at least 20 years for attacking his older brother Chuundar who had dealings with slavers. One would assume they were young adults when this occurred, not knowing how long wookies live, we can only guess that they were around 20 at the time and 40 during the timeline of KotOR. We know from Revenge of the Sith that wookies have a longer lifespan because Chewbacca is there and he is a full grown adult at the approximate time that Luke and Leia are born (Han Solo would only be around 10 years old at that time), we know Han is about 30 and Luke and Leia are around 20 during the A New Hope timeline and we know Chewy is at least 20 years older than he was in RotS.
Juhani was born in 3963 and Malak died on the Star Forge in 3956. According to that math, Juhani would be 7 years old. Perhaps Cathar have much shorter lifespans like real cats and are mature at a much younger age.
With Canderous, again we don't know exactly when he was born, but it's clear that he has been fighting for 40 years as a warrior, he says so. Knowing that, we can assume Mandalorians expose their youth to warrior training at an early age and as such Canderous could be anywhere from early 40s to mid 50s give or take.
Finally, Jolee Bindo was on Kashyyyk for around 20 years and was an experienced adventurer before that. He said he left The Order as a padawan, but we know he fought in the war with Exar Kun which started 2 years before Carth and Revan were born, so we can assume that Jolee is anywhere from 20 to 40 years older than they are making him around 58 to 78.
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Top 15 Best Rank Software Tools in 2020 – Complete List
Finding the best rank tracking software is hard. The range of available services is huge. This article compares the leading products.
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Top 15 Best Rank Tracking Software in 2020 – Complete List
The (best) rank tracking software allows you to check and analyze the positions of keywords that a website ranks for in SERPs (search engine results pages). Without such tools, determining the organic positions of keywords and executing effective SEO strategies could be difficult.
Tracking your rankings provides you with the information you need to scrutinize the position of your website in organic search results. It's what you need to monitor your rankings over time and take your SEO efforts to the next level.
Therefore, you need a good rank tracking software to derive useful insights that you can incorporate into your digital marketing strategy and improve your site's performance.
To assist you in making the right decision on the one to go for in 2020, we reviewed several tracking tools available out there. Ultimately, we came up with an unbiased list of the top 15 best rank tracking software.
Here is a table that summarizes our findings:
Tool Main Features Price
1 Ranktrackify Daily keyword updates, 200+ countries, desktop & mobile tracking 14 day free trial period, plans starting at 7$
2 Ahrefs Monitor organic search rankings, visualize SEO progress, track desktop and mobile rankings Free trial period and paid plans from $99 to $999 per month
3 SEMrush Monitor organic search rankings, track location-based keywords, view rankings in different devices Free trial period and paid plans from $99.95 to $399.95 per month
4 SERPWatcher Track site performance in SERP, monitor desktop and mobile searches, use metrics to assess rankings Free trial period and paid plans from $29.90 per month
5 AuthorityLabs Monitor SEO performance, track performance by locality, monitor competitors' SERPs rankings Free trial period and paid plans from $49 to $450 per month
6 SE Ranking Monitor keyword positions, derive insights from top 100 search results, white-label the tool Free trial period and paid plans from $23.4 per month
7 AccuRanker Track search engine results, monitor mobile and desktop searches, use metrics to assess rankings Free version and paid plans from $99 per month
8 Keyword Rank Checker Track website rankings, check competitors' rankings Free
9 Advanced Web Ranking (AWR) Track website rankings, monitor searches by locality, use metrics to assess rankings Free trial period and paid plans from $49 to $499 per month
10 ProRankTracker Monitor website ranking in multiple languages, track desktop and mobile searches, get up-to-date reports Free trial period and paid plans from $25 to $180 per month
11 Moz Pro Rank Checker Track keyword rankings, perform competitive research, monitor mobile and desktop searches Free trial period and paid plans from $79 per month
12 CognitiveSEO Track SEO rankings by locality, monitor mobile and desktop searches, get alerts Free trial period and paid plans from $129 per month
13 Rank Tracker Track organic search rankings, generate reports, track keywords across multiple languages and locations Free trial period and paid plans from $8 to $58 per month
14 Rank Tracker by Link-Assistant.com Monitor search engine positions, perform geo-specific tracking, perform competitive SEO intelligence Free trial period and paid plans from $124 per month
15 Wincher Track organic search results, get alerts, perform keyword research Free trial period. €10 per month for a single website, then €3 per month for each additional one.
Let's now talk about each of the tools.
1. Ranktrackify – *winner – best rank tracking software*
Ranktrackify – Best price-performance ratio
Ranktrackify.com is the winner of our comparison, as it offers the best price-performance ratio. Plans start from 7$ / month. Even the smallest plan offers everything you need for rank tracking. All plans include:
Daily keyword updates
Desktop & mobile rankings
Worldwide coverage (200+ countries)
14 day free trial period
Ranktrackify is not a complete complete SEO suite, but when it comes to rank tracking it is definitely a good choice!
Ahrefs is a software suite that contains a wide range of tools for various SEO purposes, including for rank tracking. The Ahrefs rank tracking tool lets you monitor your organic search rankings and gauge your performance against your competitors'.
You can use its interactive graphs to visualize your SEO progress over time, track the percentage of clicks from organic visitors that end up on your website, and more. The rank tracking software also allows you to check if your website ranks in SERP features, such as featured snippets, people also ask, and sitelinks,
You can use it to monitor desktop and mobile rankings across more than 170 countries. It's also possible to use the tool to evaluate the performance of your competitors. The tool aggregates your competitors' data and automatically provides you with helpful reports. The ranking updates and reports can be sent regularly to your email inbox.
Ahrefs offers a free 7-day trial period for testing its products. Thereafter, you can opt for any of its paid plans, which starts from $99 per month to $999 per month.
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You can use the tool to track your local, regional, and national target keywords in the top 100 organic and paid results. The Position Tracking tool also allows you to carry out competitor analysis and adopt a winning organic content strategy. With its Competitors Discover feature, you can discover the competitors ranking in the top 100 search results for your target keywords.
Furthermore, you can use the Keyword Grouping feature in the Position Tracking tool to group keywords by tags, brand names, or specific words. This makes it easy to manage thousands of search keywords and discover exciting opportunities.
The Rank tracking software also lets you view and compare your search engine rankings in different devices, including desktop and mobile devices. This way, you can easily understand the performance of your website on the current multi-device market and implement effective organic content strategies.
SEMrush offers three subscription options, which are priced according to the extent of features available. They range from $99.95 per month to $399.95 per month. All three plans come with free trial periods.
4. SERPWatcher
SERPWatcher is a simple rank tracking tool that allows you to easily monitor the position of your targeted keywords on search engine results. With the tool, you can view the performance of your website in SERP and make appropriate adjustments.
You can use SERPWatcher to track the position of your keywords in both desktop and mobile search results. You can also track the results for specific locations.
It has a two-column interface that lets you view all critical data on a single screen. This saves you the hassle of having to open multiple tabs to see your data.
SERPWatcher provides various metrics for assessing your organic rankings. These metrics include Keyword ranking distribution chart, Estimated visits per month, Biggest changes, and Keyword position flow. It also has the Dominance Index, which assists you in discovering your unique organic traffic performance based on search volumes, tracked keywords, and their positions.
Furthermore, this tool allows you to organize keywords by tags, get daily keyword positions reports, and share interactive ranking reports.
SERPWatcher offers a free 10-day trial period for testing its services. If satisfied, you can go for any of its paid plans, which starts from $29.90 per month.
5. AuthorityLabs
AuthorityLabs provides a useful rank tracking software that allows you to monitor your SEO performance and make the most of your digital marketing efforts. After providing the locations, keywords, and domains you want to monitor, you'll get daily automated reports about their rankings in Google, Bing, and Yahoo.
You can use the AuthorityLabs' Rank Tracker tool to track the search performance of your website by locality. It lets you track the search engine rankings by country, city, or ZIP code. The tool also supports rank tracking for both desktop and mobile devices.
The Rank Tracker displays different types of results that appear for the particular keyword you're monitoring. These include image carousels, video carousels, basic link results, and featured snippets.
You can also use the tool to monitor the SERPs rankings of your competitors and maintain a leading edge in the competitive digital marketing landscape. Furthermore, the tool allows you to find useful keywords in Google Analytics and improve your SEO results.
The Rank Tracker tool is priced from $49 per month to $450 per month. There is also a free 14-day trial period for testing the tool.
6. SE Ranking
SE Ranking offers a complete set of SEO tools for optimizing and promoting websites on the Internet. With its Keyword Rank Tracker tool, you can monitor keyword positions in Google, Yahoo, and Bing for any device and location.
Alongside monitoring keyword positions, you can use the tool to monitor Google SERP features, your Google Ads positions, and Maps results. It also allows you to scrutinize the rankings of your search competitors and business competitors, and make sound competitive decisions.
You can use the Keyword Rank Tracker to derive insights from the top 100 search results and use this information to improve your SEO efforts. For each keyword, you'll get data about its various parameters, including traffic forecast, number of search results, search volume, and Google's suggested bid.
SE Ranking also provides an option for white labeling their rank tracker. You can also create sub-accounts with different levels of privileges for accessing the tool's data.
The Keyword Rank Tracker is priced according to the number of keywords tracked and the frequency of checking the rankings. Its pricing starts from $23.4 per month for 250 keywords checked every week. There is also a free 14-day trial period for testing the tool.
7. AccuRanker
AccuRanker is a rank tracking tool that provides daily and on-demand keyword ranking updates. It's also useful in analyzing websites and monitoring search engine results. It supports Google, YouTube, Bing, Yandex, and Baidu search engines.
Since the organic search results are based on several factors—such as platform, time, language differences, and location—AccuRanker considers this and gives you a clear picture of what is happening with your rankings.
With the tool, you can monitor SERP results and search rankings by country, city, or location. You can also monitor the rankings for either mobile devices or desktop devices.
AccuRanker provides an extensive range of metrics for carrying out in-depth keyword analysis. It also supports third-party integration with various tools, including Google Analytics, Google Search Console, and Adobe Analytics.
You can also use the tool to monitor your competitors' ranking positions and track SERP features, such as featured snippets.
AccuRanker provides up to five free searches per day. For more extended usage, you can go for any of its monthly plans, which starts from $99 per month.
8. Keyword Rank Checker
The Keyword Rank Checker by Small SEO Tools is a free tool that lets you track the position of a website in the search engine results (especially Google) for the provided keyword.
Using the tool is easy: you just need to provide the keyword you want to get its rankings and the associated domain name. Then, when you perform the check, it'll display the position of the specified keyword(s) in the search engine results. You can perform the check by keywords or by the site's URL.
You can also provide your competitor's domain name to track their rankings on the search engine results. Although the tool supports Google.com by default, you can also choose other Google TLDs (top-level domains) as per your target country.
The Keyword Rank Checker allows you to provide up to 20 keywords for each check. You can also select whether you want to get the results for desktop, tablet, or mobile devices.
9. Advanced Web Ranking
Advanced Web Ranking (AWR) is a rank tracking software that allows you to monitor your website's rankings in more than 170 countries across desktop, mobile, and local searches. It supports a wide range of search engines, including Google, YouTube, Amazon, DuckDuckGo, Baidu, and Yandex.
Depending on your requirements, AWR allows you to select any location in the world, down to a country, state, or city. In case you need more accurate results, you can provide the GPS coordinates of the location you want to monitor. You can also use the tool to get the search results of your competitors and monitor their visibility in SERPs.
Furthermore, the ranking reports can be delivered into your email inbox on-demand or by schedule—monthly, biweekly, weekly, or daily. You can even use interactive reports to visualize your SEO progress over time and derive more insights from the data.
It also has a wide range of performance metrics that will enhance your visibility into your organic presence and assess your rankings more effectively. Some of these metrics include Average Rank, Estimated Visits, Click Share, Market Share (share of voice), and Visibility. To get more metrics, you can integrate AWR with other data sources, such as Google Analytics (goal completions, visits), Google Search Console (impressions, clicks), and more.
AWR offers a free 30-day trial period for exploring its core features. Beyond which, you can subscribe to any of its paid plans, which starts from $49 per month to $499 per month.
10. ProRankTracker
ProRankTracker is a rank monitoring and reporting tool that is designed to provide up-to-date results on the performance of your website. With the tool, you can get an exhaustive picture of your rankings (deep to the top 100 results) and make the most of your SEO efforts.
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ProRankTracker supports all the popular search engines, such as Google, Amazon, YouTube, Bing, and Yahoo. You can also use it to monitor organic desktop and mobile search results. It also supports other search elements, such as Google My Business listings and Google Map listings.
You can use the tool to monitor your website performance from all locations around the world with any set language. Furthermore, the tool allows you to find additional keyword ideas for your website, perform a site audit on your website, get keyword search volume data, analyze your competitors' rankings, and more.
ProRankTracker offers a free 7-day trial plan for exploring its features. Thereafter, you can subscribe to any of its monthly plans, which starts from $25 per month to $180 per month.
11. Moz Pro Rank Checker
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The Moz Pro Rank Checker is also useful in analyzing keywords by search volume, tracking keywords for the long-term, and performing other SEO analytics tasks.
The tool will assist you to monitor your website's ranking performance on SERP over time and get valuable data for making sound decisions. You can also use it to compare and optimize your customers' search behavior on both desktop and mobile devices—down to the local and national levels.
The Rank Checker comes with a subscription to the Moz Pro bundle of SEO tools. Moz Pro offers a free 30-day trial period. Its subscription plans start from $79 per month.
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Excitotoxins
They're supposed to enhance flavor and excite your tastebuds, but could these common food additives also be overexciting your cells — and doing damage to your nervous system?
By Matthew Solan | March - April 2003
Fair warning: If you are drinking a diet drink, munching on chicken-flavored crackers or enjoying a fast-food lunch while you're reading this, odds are good that you'll toss them out by the time you finish the article. Why? Because many low-calorie sodas, highly flavored snacks and processed foods of all kinds contain substances known as excitotoxins – substances that could very well be doing a serious number on your health.
Excitotoxins are a class of chemicals (usually amino acids) that overstimulate neuron receptors. Neuron receptors allow brain cells to communicate with each other, but when they're exposed to excitotoxins, they fire impulses at such a rapid rate that they become exhausted. Several hours later, these depleted neurons die. Scientists have noted this effect particularly in the hypothalamus and temporal lobes – the parts of the brain that control behavior, emotions, onset of puberty, sleep cycles and immunity.
But brain cells aren't the only parts of our bodies that are being revved up. Excitotoxins also do a very good job of exciting our taste buds. And that makes them very attractive to the food industry. The chemicals in excitotoxins stimulate the taste cells in the tongue, causing the flavor of the foods we eat to be greatly enhanced. Soups, snacks, sauces, gravies, many low-fat and vegetarian processed foods – manufacturers often pack them with "flavor enhancers" in an effort to make them taste irresistible.
Although excitotoxin poisoning has gotten much of its recent publicity under the rather misleading title, "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome," the fact is, American processed foods – from McDonald's to Weight Watchers to Campbell's soup – are just as likely to contain excitotoxins like mono-sodium glutamate (MSG) and aspartame (NutraSweet® or Equal®). And according to many experts, these same foods are just as often to blame for the headaches, water retention, skin problems and other health complaints that some consumers experience.
One such consumer is Tom Kleffman. A graphic artist who lives in Navarre, Minn., Kleffman was in college when he ate a piece of cheddarwurst that made him sick. Hoping to make him feel better, his roommate fixed a bowl of ramen noodles. Soon after, Kleffman's heart rate spiked to 220. He passed out and was rushed to the emergency room, where he was referred to a food allergist who diagnosed him with a reaction to MSG.
At the time, Kleffman didn't understand how much his sensitivity was going to change the way he lived. In addition to avoiding the offending cheddarwurst and ramen noodles, Kleffman now eats no processed or prepared foods and rarely dines at restaurants because so many of them use MSG. "I had to learn how to cook," says Kleffman, who now subsists on a much healthier diet of fresh foods.
Most people aren't nearly as sensitive to excitotoxins as Kleffman, but many people do experience headaches (including migraines), rashes and "hangover" symptoms after consuming foods that contain them.
The problem is that if you regularly eat at restaurants, munch on chips, or toss back diet drinks and other commercial sugar-free treats, it's quite likely that you regularly consume significant quantities of these substances, so you may not be aware of which specific foods or drinks are causing your reactions. The other problem is, excitotoxins are so prevalent in modern industrial foods they're almost impossible to avoid.
Safe or Insidious?
Excitotoxin substances have long been used by food manufacturers to pump up the flavor of their products, and food manufacturers continue to insist they are safe. But in recent years, many health experts have regarded both excitotoxins and manufacturers' assurances with increasing concern.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has put both aspartame and MSG on its list of food additives to avoid (for details, see www.cspinet.org/ additives). Hundreds of other grass-roots health-advocacy sites – many with names like www.aspartamekills.com, www.nomsg.com and www.msgmyth.com – even more forcefully decry the idea that these substances are harmless. And while the Web is an infamous source of alarmist misinformation, it's not just a pack of paranoid health extremists who are voicing concerns.
Now a growing body of research from animal studies (see this article's WEB EXTRA! at the top of this screen for references and links) is giving evidence to what may have previously been viewed as misguided hysteria. Much of this research strongly suggests that regularly consuming excitotoxins over an extended period of time can destroy significant numbers of brain cells and lead to serious health problems, including seizures and strokes. According to Russell L. Blaylock, a neurosurgeon and author of Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills, excitotoxins have also been linked to human neurological disorders such as multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.
Everyday Excitotoxins
Small amounts of MSG are found naturally in many common foods such as seaweed, mushrooms, whole grains, carrots, meat, nuts and cheese. In its natural state, however, MSG is slowly assimilated by the human body and broken down so that the levels of concentration are kept low. The MSG in processed foods, on the other hand, is highly concentrated. And when people eat these foods, says Blaylock, they unwittingly bombard their brain cells with excitotoxins in large enough quantities to cause real trouble. (For a list of common MSG symptoms, see sidebar at end of page.)
Aspartame is used primarily in sugar substitutes like NutraSweet and Equal, which are common in many diet soft drinks, sugar-free candies and gum. According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), there are more than 90 documented symptoms of aspartame toxicity, ranging from mild headaches to comas, and even death. Other aspartame-related conditions include muscle, tendon and ligament pains; cramps; vertigo and ringing in the ears.
The FDA also warns that certain people with the genetic disease phenylketonuria (PKU), those with advanced liver disease, and pregnant women with hyperphenylalanine (high levels of phenylalanine in their blood) have a problem with aspartame because they do not effectively metabolize the amino acid phenylalanine, one of aspartame's components. High levels of this amino acid can cause severe central-nervous system distress and brain damage.
And there are other problems. Once inside the body, aspartame changes chemically into formaldehyde, a substance that is grouped in the same class of poisons as cyanide and arsenic. And when a product containing aspartame is heated to more than 86 degrees (for example, artificially sweetened hot cocoa), a brain-cancer-causing by-product called diketopiperazine is formed.
The food industry and the FDA argue that in the case of both MSG and aspartame, a person would have to consume an enormous amount of excitotoxins to cause serious ill effects. But Blaylock asserts this isn't necessarily true. His book cites research suggesting that "the amount of MSG in a single bowl of commercially available soup is probably enough to cause blood glutamate levels to rise higher in a human child than levels that predictably cause brain damage in immature animals."
The food industry, meanwhile, suggests such claims are irresponsibly alarmist, and counters that the "blood- brain barrier" – a protective biological system that's supposed to prevent bloodstream toxins from entering the brain and damaging cells – mitigates the potential dangers of excitotoxins. However, according to Blaylock's research, several studies found that measurable levels of excitotoxins have been found inside the brain following ingestion of both aspartame and MSG.
Blaylock points out that the blood-brain barrier can be weakened by many factors, including diabetes, aging, head injury, hypertension, strokes and brain tumors, certain drugs, neurodegenerative diseases and even exposure to pesticides and radio frequencies. He believes this also may explain why people with these conditions are even more susceptible to the effects of excitotoxins than the average population.
Blaylock says that the real excitotoxin threat isn't from ingesting abnormally huge amounts from isolated, rare sources – it's the steady stream of excitotoxins that we get daily from various foods and drinks. "During the day," he explains, "you often are mixing excitotoxins from multiple food sources as well as the natural excitotoxins that are released by food processing. So your total dose during a 24-hour period can be substantial."
While large doses of excitotoxins actually kill brain cells, that is not the only way in which they do harm. According to Blaylock, physiological problems have arisen from cells that survive exposure but are nonetheless compromised. "You can lose billions of these nerve connections without the destruction of the cell, but damage is still being done," he says.
What makes one person more resistant to excitotoxins than another depends upon his or her natural ability to produce a high amount of antioxidants, which help to build up resistance to excitotoxins and thus give the damaged nerve connections time to recover.
Reaction times vary, too. While some people react immediately after consuming excitotoxins, it may take up to 72 hours for others to notice that they are having a reaction. As noted, the symptoms themselves also vary widely, ranging from a simple skin rash to severe depression. Headaches, however, are by far the most commonly reported side effect.
If you have a poorly functioning immune system and a less than desireable diet, Blaylock believes you are at a higher risk for reaction to excitotoxins.
Experts agree that children are more susceptible than adults to excitotoxin damage. A child's brain is four times more sensitive to excitotoxins than an adult's brain, according to research by John W. Olney, MD, a neuroscientist at Washington University in St. Louis. Although any permanent brain damage will not be evident until the child is more mature, other common, more immediate reactions include behavioral disorders such as Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), impaired learning, stomach cramps, depression and nausea.
So now you've probably poured that drink down the drain, and maybe you're worrying that you've compromised your health forever. Don't freak out. Even people with impeccable eating habits are exposed to excitotoxins in some form. As with many pleasurable foods, deciding what you put into your body is a matter of balancing choices.
If you eat a predominately healthy diet and you're not particularly sensitive to MSG, then a can of soup that lists MSG as the last ingredient on the label may not cause you much trouble. But if you guzzle diet sodas every day and your idea of a snack is a chunk of MSG-laden sausage on an MSG-laden cracker, it might be a good idea to assess whether limiting or eliminating the excitotoxins in your diet will make you feel better. (To learn more about how to find out if your favorite foods contain MSG, check out the sidebar below.)
The good news is that even if you have been consuming a diet heavy in excitotoxins, in most cases you can reverse physiological damages simply by avoiding excitotoxins and increasing nutrients that the brain uses to repair brain-cell connections. How? First, use common sense. Eating a diet of unprocessed foods is a sound plan for anyone wanting to feel healthier. Get smart about identifying various forms of MSG and what kinds of foods are likely to contain excitotoxins. Then avoid those foods and eat more antioxidant-rich foods that contain high amounts of vitamin A, C, and flavonoids. Green, leafy vegetables, including spinach, kale, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and collard greens are rich in antioxidants, says Blaylock, as are many fruits such as prunes, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries. The spice turmeric is recommended, as are green, black and red teas.
Can nutritional supplements help repair excitotoxin damage? Blaylock says yes. He suggests taking the recommended daily dosage of several antioxidants such as vitamin E, vitamin C and Coenzyme Q10. He also endorses Acetyl L-carnitine, L-carnitine, taurine, lecithin and Alpha-Lipoic Acid and recommends that you consult with a physician or licensed nutritionist for specific dosages.
Blaylock cautions that if you want to see improvements, you need to both avoid excitotoxins and increase your antioxidant intake. "You can't keep bringing in more excitotoxins and at the same time try to fight them," says Blaylock. "It's like if you have a hole in a boat: You have to plug the leak, not just bail water."
Take the two-pronged approach and, particularly if you have sensitivities to exitotoxins, chances are good that you'll notice positive changes quite quickly. "People who follow these guidelines often report a greater sense of well-being," says Blaylock. "Most will see a change within two weeks."
The Many Faces of MSG
As a general rule, the more a food is processed, the more likely it is to contain MSG. Foods that commonly use MSG include potato chips, flavored crackers, canned soups, dry soup mixes, canned meats, diet foods, soy sauces, salad dressings, cured meats and poultry injected with broth. But reading the labels won't always help you.
When a food product is 99 percent pure MSG it is called "monosodium glutamate" by the FDA and must be labeled as such. However, when a food product contains less than 99 percent MSG, the FDA doesn't require that the MSG be identified. So it often appears on labels in various disguised forms, such as "hydrolyzed vegetable protein," "spices" and "natural flavoring." Here's a quick list of potentially suspect ingredients to watch for (when in doubt, call the manufacturer to inquire).
Ingredients that may contain 30 to 60 percent MSG: hydrolyzed vegetable protein; hydrolyzed protein; hydrolyzed plant protein; plant protein extract; sodium caseinate; calcium caseinate; yeast extract; textured protein; autolyzed yeast; hydrolyzed oat flour; Accent.
Ingredients that may contain 12 to 40 percent MSG: malt extract; malt flavoring; bouillon; broth; stock; natural flavoring; natural beef or chicken flavoring; seasoning; spices.
Ingredients that may contain some MSG: carrageenan; enzymes; soy protein concentrate; soy protein isolate; whey protein concentrate; some soymilk.
Sources: FDA backgrounder #BG-9516 (available at www.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/msg.html) and In Bad Taste: The MSG Syndrome, by George R. Schwartz, MD.
Are You Reacting to MSG?
George R. Schwartz, MD, author of In Bad Taste: The MSG Syndrome, believes there are three general categories of symptoms that result from MSG consumption:
Allergic Symptoms
Asthma, shortness of breath
Running nose
Peripheral Symptoms
Jaw tightness
Rapid heartbeat
Chest tightening
Diarrhea, stomach cramps
Central (Brain) Symptoms
Matthew Solan Matthew Solan is a health and fitness writer whose work has appeared in Yoga Journal, Men's Fitness and other publications.
32 comments on "Excitotoxins"
Mustapha on November 29th, 2018 - 12:33pm
MSG makes me feel liked there is a ping pong ball in my throat, then chest then stomach. I am a label reader…
Sarah on March 23rd, 2018 - 5:53pm
Excitotoxins such as MSG, aspartame, and cysteine have been linked to adverse effects, some of which may be irreversible. Some people have reported allergic reactions like hives, shortness of breath, and rashes. Stay Away from them.
Tim on March 6th, 2018 - 3:59pm
I've been undertaking research on excitotoxins and this article was extremely helpful. I have read lots of things on how harmful MSG are and I definately stay away from eating foods that contain these.
Lynn Adams on March 1st, 2018 - 8:49am
Great article….diagnosed with a fib by dr after eating an apple with peanut butter (containing hydrogenated vegetable oil) and coffee creamer (containing hydrogenated vegetable oil). Got a fitbit and started testing, because my regular and resting heartrate is in the 60's. Surprise….I ate half an apple with a small bit of the same peanut butter…my heart immediately raced into the high 90's and 100's and stayed that way for about 8 hours. I may be ultra sensitive, however good to know this.
E D Barnett on October 22nd, 2017 - 3:10pm
Thank you, just what I needed. I have all symptoms and was told by Dr I had Reynaud's and rhinitis.
I now choose "real food" instead of processed. Boy, the devil's earthly minions really like to make a buck!! Low quality ingredients, trash plus more trash doesn't equal zero for us but "Negitave" food and health. Thx again!!
bonnie on April 8th, 2016 - 1:40pm
I have suffered from headaches that are accompanied by a very swollen eyelid ( or sometimes both eyes). When I have a reaction I need to take a very strong prescription diuretic to alleviate the pressure in my head. The swelling is not due to too much sodium intake. I have tried for forever to whittle down which food items cause this reaction, but it's been impossible. I find this article on excitotoxins to be very helpful. I have known MSG is one of the culprits, but never knew the many forms and names associated with it. Does anyone else have a reaction similar to mine? My doctor seems perplexed by this. Thank you
Chris Ogle on July 29th, 2015 - 9:43pm
Thank you so much for this article Matthew! Only a couple of days ago I was diagnosed with 'neurological inflammation' that I've had for over 5 years. I've suffered from back pain and depression since a major health crash at 19, but still worked as a Personal Trainer up until only recently (ironically specialising in back rehabilitation). I found out the Traditional Whole Food diet and exercise I was doing to try and fix the problem was only making it worse (due to the excitotoxins), and have now had to revert right back to giving the GAPS diet a try so as to remove the inflammation and start again 🙂
Your article has help to answer a LOT of questions, so I'm extremely grateful. Thanks again, and all the best!
Tom Damp on June 12th, 2014 - 1:28pm
MSG is particularly bad for us. It can cause heart palpitations and headaches. Its often found in crisps and snacks.
Nicole on January 27th, 2014 - 6:16am
Tim on November 19th, 2013 - 10:04am
You are what you eat. Process packaged foods are not the healthy option. It may take longer but preparing fresh vegatables, meats, pasta, etc is the way to go.
jean on October 18th, 2013 - 10:42am
is there ingredients in flavored liquid coffee creamer that is not good?
Jeannie on August 11th, 2013 - 11:43am
I recently ate at a buffet style chinese eatery. Ive eaten there before but this time I must of gotten a large amount of MSG. About 4 hours later, I developed a rash in my mouth starting on my tongue, then I begin to feel as though I was coming down with a cold. A headache settled in that night and was unbearable. I begin to drink massive amounts of water to flush out the msg. Two days later, I still have a lingering headache and the rash in my mouth is still bothersome. All I can surmise is a got a massive dose of MSG in my meal.
DeAnna on July 10th, 2013 - 7:11pm
Lee on May 27th, 2013 - 7:01pm
Does anyone know if NAC (N-Acetyl-Cysteine is an excitotoxin or contains excitotoxins. I have just started taking it for my MGD (Meibomiam Gland Dysfunction) and noticed a huge improvement, however I am getting the same symptoms I get (rapid heart beat, sleeplessness and anxiety) which I get from Monosodium Glutamate. I am taking some other supplements and had to stop one, L-Glutamine as that caused the same symptoms. They subsided but have flared up again this week and I am not sure if it could be this product. I am using Bio MEdica N-Acetyl-Cysteine. I also take Vitamin C 1000mg, Magnesium Optimzer, Taurine, Aloe Vera and Probiotics.
Can anyone advise please?
Diane on June 7th, 2013 - 5:19am
N-acetyl-L-cysteine is safe because it is converted to cysteine within
the neuron, where it is then converted to glutathione.
Dave Christensen on January 17th, 2014 - 9:53pm
Cysteine is an excitotoxin. There is opposite literature saying whether Cysteine helps with multiple sclerosis, or hurts. I want to know of N-Acetyl Cysteine is an excitotoxin? Is it safer than plain Cysteine?
v campbell on April 9th, 2012 - 10:13am
I ate Mexican(in a Meican restaurant) style rice-best ever,eventhought I was sure MSG was in it. Of course, I got a terrible headache,neck pain,rash,swollen face,etc; but,I,also, can not stop biting my fingernails-and biting my fingernails and biting my fingernails. Now,it is days later and I can't stop biting them. Can MSG have caused this to happen? It has happened in my past and I've,often,thought MSG caused it. Normally I don't even think about my nails. Please, give me your opinion.
Jocelyn Stone on April 9th, 2012 - 10:33am
While our editors are quite knowledgeable in the general areas of nutrition and wellness, there are no physicians or nutritionists among them. So we have made it a policy not to offer advice regarding specific medical conditions. We recommend that you consult a medical professional to see how he or she might be able to help you.
The Experience Life team
Beth T on January 21st, 2014 - 10:00am
Glutamate endogenous to the brain has been associated with OCD and drug (cocaine) addictions in some recent literature.
Jim J on April 27th, 2011 - 12:00am
I personally have a bad reaction, a strong headache, within an hour of having anything high in aspartame like diet soda and avoid it completely now. That's probably more to do with the excitotoxic free-form amino acids than the methanol though. I wrote about this at http://healthandenergyfoods.com/aspartame-excitotoxins-methanol-formaldehyde-d-avoid-diet-sodas-poison
If aspartame is as safe as the online aspartame defenders/cheerleaders keep saying it is then why do so many people get such an obvious bad reaction to it? The sheer number and variety of complaints to the 'food safety agency' should be enough reason alone to have aspartame removed from products.
gpw on December 9th, 2013 - 12:19pm
Consider who pays the piper to understand why these harmful food additives will not be removed from our foods until enough people can be proved to have died from consuming the chemicals. Consider how long it took to remove heavy metals like lead/mercury from every day products due to companies lies or tobacco companies denying that tobacco was bad for you health back in the good old 50's.