Posted by Elizabeth on February 10, 2002, at 12:23:46
In reply to Re: Nardil » Elizabeth, posted by Rick on February 8, 2002, at 5:49:06
> My pdoc, a real fan of MAOI's, said a general guideline is to avoid food that's "trying to spoil," which would include things like aged cheese and highly fermented beers. Liver falls in there too.
That's a generally good guideline. I have an actual [evidence-based] list, though, and I think some of them don't fall into your "trying to spoil" category.
> I think the key here is to stick with mozzarella, and especially avoid gourmet pizzas that have aged cheese.
It is important to avoid "sharp" cheeses, yeah.
> Processed meat is basically any meat that's been chopped or ground somehow and then reformed. The most common is probably bologna, which is the same meat as hot dogs.
I think that hot dogs would probably fall under things to avoid [or at least use caution].
> Just think, "Oscar Mayer." Interesting that you would say Processed Meats "sounds bad", given that a few months ago there was a report concluding that processed meat consumption greatly increases cancer risk.
I didn't know that. I guess I have great intuition!
> I think the only processed meats that would be risky with MAOI's are those that fit your aging/fermenting/smoking etc. description such as salami,pepperoni, summer sausage.
Interestingly, no significant levels of tyramine were found in pepperoni pizzas when a bunch of researchers went out and tested them. (Just a bit of trivia.) I'd be careful if trying pepperoni, though.
> I used to make sure my pizzas didn't have pepperoni, but I have to admit that one night I pigged out on a whole pepperoni pizza. Nothing happened, but it was probably a stupid thing to do. Maybe it was unauthentic pepperoni.
It's important to know that sometimes you can "get lucky" and not have a reaction to something that is, nonetheless, potentially dangerous. Like I said -- be careful if you try stuff like that.
(Nardil made me want to pig out a lot, too, BTW. :-} )
-elizabeth
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