Alcohol Use and Alcoholism

[Jrrarglblarg]

Are you including yeasted breads, cheeses, and aged meats in that? Does Benedryl zonk you? If that describes your triggers, you might look up tyramine, and low tyramine diet. You may lack the CYP2D6 enzyme that breaks down Tyramine. 15% of people do have a prob there.

I might have that one as well, I have a cluster of various symptoms. I've had some pretty bizarre mental reactions to cheese a couple of times, but not all cheese and I've generally been able to correlate symptoms with a cross contamination from allium products, my primary intolerance issue. (If a mass produced product has a garlicky or oniony variant in the product line, chances of cross contamination I can detect are very high.)

The fermented thing is due to histamines produced by fermentation. So no yeast breads, no beer, no random leftovers in the fridge ( I'm a dad - leftovers have been a big part of my diet), no cheeses of any kind, no aged meats of any kind, no fish that isn't so fresh it meets Gollum's approval.

And no alliums at all. Or, at this point, herbs and spices of any kind, due to a multitude of factors including cross contamination and general digestive system sensitivity.

 

[Jrrarglblarg]

The study I am familiar with shows a J shaped curve of risk. 3 drinks per day is the healthiest, better than T-totaling. 6 per day eliminates that advantage, and gets you back to the norm. So as a norm, light drinking is OK. But if 6-8 gives you an
unquenchable thirst, you better get your drinking under control.

One of my Army buddies called it "One's too many and a hundred's not enough."