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Advising patients about a low tyramine diet

  • Post author:Ken Gillman
  • Post category:Professional Pages
  • Post published:29 April 2019
  • Post last modified:28 July 2022

My recent paper published in the Journal of Neural Transmission (1) is the only paper in the literature, in the last 30 years, that thoroughly reviews the current best evidence…

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MAOI Diet Long Version

  • Post author:Ken Gillman
  • Post category:Antidepressants/MAOIs
  • Post published:15 July 2019
  • Post last modified:14 February 2026

AbstractThis comprehensive monograph surveys original data about dietary tyramine and Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors (MAOIs), about which there is much outdated, incorrect, and incomplete information in the medical literature and elsewhere. …

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The Risk of Harm From Acute Tyramine-induced Hypertension: How Significant?

  • Post author:Ken Gillman
  • Post category:Antidepressants/MAOIs
  • Post published:17 May 2019
  • Post last modified:14 February 2026

AbstractThere has been a long-standing presumption, ever since the original problems in the 1960s, that MAOIs produce a special risk of subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH).  That was why MAOIs were briefly…

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Treatment of hypertension resulting from tyramine ingestion

  • Post author:Ken Gillman
  • Post category:Antidepressants/MAOIs
  • Post published:14 March 2017
  • Post last modified:14 February 2026

This commentary is supplementary to the comments I have already made in the full version of the MAOI monograph which states clearly that ‘immediate-release’ or ‘short-acting’ nifedipine should not be…

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