Posted by kate99999 on May 31, 2000, at 15:24:36
In reply to Re: Vitamin B-6 and MAOIs, posted by Kim on May 31, 2000, at 14:38:27
> > I've seen research that Nardil can deplete B6, but never any research on the relationship between that and Nardil poop-out. So this is a shot in the dark.
> >
> Was the research specific to Nardil, or do other MAOIs also cause B6 depletion?Well, this originally came from Elizabeth on alt.support.depression.medications mentioning hydrazine-based compounds (of which Nardil is one) can deplete B6. It's under the thread "Nardil side effects..." So she'd be the one to ask which MAOIs are and aren't hydrazine-based.
The research I saw was just about Nardil (phenelzine). But then I'd only looked up phenelzine and pyroxidine, not parnate and pyroxidine.
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