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Poll on tyramine sensitivity

Do you think you have a unusually high sensitivity to tyramine containing foods (think aged foods)?

  • YES

    Votes: 3 100.0%

  • NO

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Not Sure

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    3
  • Poll closed .
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Senior Member
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Tyramine is a biogenic amine. Its similar in some ways to histamine, except broken down by MAO not DAO . Biogenic amines tend to be produced by protein as it ages (breakdown product of protein along with other amines) and sometimes by bacterial processing of undigested stuff. I should have clarified that the poll is only useful if NOT on an MAO-A inhibitor. That is, those who are on a drug known to inhbit the monamine oxidase A enzyme, are known to have bad effects from tyramine containing foods, but am asking about those who are not on such meds. Am asking because its a missing puzzle piece for me. ONe of the odd things that happened to me when I crashed from this illness was a senstivity to tyramine foods that has grown over the years. I think its connected, but really am not sure how.
 
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