Low-Tyramine Diet
Resources for This Diet
Headache and Diet: Tyramine-free Recipes by Seymour Diamond, Diane Francis, Amy Diamond Vye, and others. Madison, CT: International Universities Press, 1990.
The American Pharmaceutical Association
www.aphanet.org
New York Online Access to Health (NOAH)
www.noah-health.org/english/illness/mentalhealth/cornell/medications/tyramine.html
Bibliography
Alpers DH, Stenson WF, Bier, DM. Manual of Nutritional Therapeutics. 3rd ed. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company; 1995.
Gardner DM, Shulman KI, Walker SE, Tailor SAN. The making of a user friendly MAOI diet. J Clin Psychiatry 1996;57:99–104.
Mahan LK, Escott-Stump S. Krause’s Food Nutrition and Diet Therapy. 10th ed. Philadelphia, PA: W.B. Saunders Company; 2000.
Shulman KI, Walker SE. Refining the MAOI diet: tyramine content of pizzas and soy products. J Clin Psychiatry 1999;60:191–3.
Walker SE, Shulman KI, Tailor SA, et al. Tyramine content of previously restricted foods in monoamine oxidase inhibitor diets. J Clin Psychopharmacol 1996;16:383–8.
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