Consuming aged cheeses like Parmesan while taking MAO inhibitors can cause migraines, headaches, and increased blood pressure due to excess dopamine. — Whalespan
Consuming aged cheeses like Parmesan while taking MAO inhibitors can cause migraines, headaches, and increased blood pressure due to excess dopamine.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“But if these people eat certain cheeses, including Parmesan cheese, and there are other foods, of course that include not just tyrosine, but one of the derivatives of tyrosine, called tyramine, that generates what's called the cheese effect, which is people get potent migraines, headaches, blood pressure goes up.”