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Another thing I was thinking of is that they gas ripen fruits these days. So even though it's "ripe" it may have been sped up prematurely and still contains higher amounts of minerals/vitamins/amino acids/etc that a ripened banana might not have?
or lower or unbalanced amounts? Even so, with something like bananas one would probably expect the level of artificial ripening to be fairly constant.
On the subject of catecholamines, here is something I found on Dr Kaslow site that I lack expertise to evaluate:
- Since the largest source of neurotransmitters is the gastrointestinal tract, dysfunction as discussed above could be a major contributory component. This would include congestive bowel toxicity, Candida/yeast overgrowth conditions, increased intestinal permeability (leaky gut syndrome), IBS, & inflammatory bowel.
- John A. Allocca, M.D. lists a variety of additional mechanisms by which neurotransmitters are lost: ingestion of various food allergens or sensitivities, inhalation or ingestion of various chemicals, chemical sensitivities, rapid changes in hormone levels, rapid changes in barometric pressure, head cold or sinus congestion, rapid changes in blood sugars, dehydration, inadequate exposure to sunlight (hence the excessive conversion of serotonin to melatonin), and hepatobiliary dysfunction. These remarks may be based on the precipitation of migraines, which Dr. Allocca assumes to always be related to serotonin imbalance.
Wouldn't ingesting a large portion of a single high fructose/glucose food in particular, be expected to produce rapid shifts of some sort? Except that it still fails to explain differences in tolerance under the same conditions.