Posted by Jonhed on October 17, 2016, at 16:17:52
In reply to foods that act like antidepressants, posted by rjlockhart37 on October 1, 2016, at 1:07:18
I know it's not food but I've read that the smoke of frankincense acts like a antidepressant.
But it's a lot of different chemicals in foods that are interfering with our synapses and mao-systems.
Just look at all the tyramine from aged food!
Though it's mostly noradrenaline and mainly a releasing agent, but I figure that it affects other synapses to.
The problem is that we need the chemical to act like reuptake inhibitor to do any good, or else it will just be like eating ephedra or tryptamines who are releasing agents...
I don't know. It's an interesting thought though.
Is there even any reuptake inhibitors that exist naturally in anything?
When I was younger i often had these kind of thoughts and tried to search the internet for plants that act like benzodiazepines. Years I have had it in my mind, and just this year I find out that muscimol, the active chemical in a Amanita muscaria, is like the most potent gaba-a agonist that exist.
Sadly it is extremely hallucinogen, but anyway, kind of interesting.
I think that when the nmda-antagonists start to conquer the market and become the main choice of antidepressants, we will find a lot of foods that are antidepressant.
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