Posted by Sunnely on August 17, 2001, at 23:15:33
In reply to Re: MAOI diet short list, posted by Rick on August 17, 2001, at 19:56:08
> My pdoc, who fancies himself a kind of MAOI historian, says that the knowledge of MAOI food interactions first came to light when Europeans taking them started inexplicably "dying", while this wasn't happening in the U.S. This pattern was eventually linked back to the inter-continental differences in dining habits, especially with regard to heavily-fermented beers and aged meats, cheeses, kraut, etc. thus uncovering the tyramine connection.
If I am not mistaken, Barry Blackwell, M.D., retired Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, was the one credited for discovering the "cheese reaction" with MAOIs.
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