Dr. William (Bill) Dodson

Two reasons.

One is that originally, foods that were aged rather than cooked had an amino acid called teramine that came from the aging process.

that usually the body destroys as soon as it's absorbed in the gut, and it's destroyed by an enzyme called non-amine oxidation.

Well, as you inhibit that enzyme, it gets in.

First thing the body does with it is turns it into adrenaline.

And all of a sudden, you have a huge blood pressure.

spikes, and several people in Europe, there's a reason why just in Europe, had strokes and died.

Scared the bejesus out of people because they didn't know why it was happening.

Now we know that it's pteromaine and that if a person eats a balanced diet, they don't excessively eat really expensive teas or something like that, they don't have to make a difference and change in their diet perfectly.

The other one is that the MAOIs are fairly strongly serotonergic.

They really boost the serotonin side.

That's part of why they work so well as antidepressants.

But if you add that in on other drugs that are really boosting serotonin, such as the SSRIs, SNRIs, dextromethorphan, which is the most common cause, there's a list.

you risk getting into what's called serotonin syndrome, where basically your muscles just lock up.

They're stiff as a board, disorienting, sweating, blood pressure bounces all over the place.

And again, there have been deaths reported.

Well, usually when you tell people there have been deaths reported, that's the end of it.

I don't want this.

But when you use them, well,

Most of that 40%, it's an even better response.