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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: Is MSG really bad for you and why?
gpt
MSG sensitivity, at least in the vast majority of cases, is psychosomatic. In every trial where MSG is administered blind (i.e. in a pill so you can't taste whether or not you have the placebo), people who report themselves to be MSG-sensitive have not actually reacted to it. Of course, psychosomatic conditions are still *real* in some sense, but if we stopped talking about MSG sensitivity like it's an actual thing it would almost completely stop being one.