Biogenic amine Intolerance

Sapsorrow

Just wondering has anyone been diagnosed as having a tyramine intolerance and what has your experience of it been?
Also has anyone ever heard of Tyramine or Histamine being linked to irritable bowel syndrome?
I can't seem to find much about it online only a few sites have mentioned a link and I'm not sure if the effects of Tyramine on cathecholamines could stretch so far as to affect the gut in that way.

El_Dangeroso

Never heard of this before. Quick google leads me to think it's a related migraine thing? Just think so because the foods to avoid look like traditional migraine trigger foods.

Is there a blood test you can get for the intolerance or is it a process of elimination type thing?

Sapsorrow

I think tyramine is primarily associated with migraines in sensitive people. It has a vasoconstricting effect on the vessles surrounding the brain I think it's something to do with it not being able to cross the blood brain barrier.
There seems to be some specialised clinics which can test for it, but I don;t know enough about it yet to know if their quacks of not!
I think Histamine has a more general effect on the nervous system etc.. by altering ciruclating levels of cathecholamines etc..
It's seems like a really interesting topic but my internet conection is so bad I can't really go checking out papers on the college database and the stuff coming up on googles a bit scatty, just the odd few lines here and there in otherwise irrelevant articles.

El_Dangeroso

*swish!*

That was the sound of that post going right over my head!

Best of luck though!