In a message dated 7/19/03 4:00:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Fredrik Murman <
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> Smith <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >My inability to enjoy liver remains a mystery to me.
>
> Maybe there's simply one or several compounds in these animal organs that
> your body does not tolerate, perhaps because your forebears never ate these
> organs. . .
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> Liver (and maybe other organ meats as well) are high in Tyramine, a known
> trigger of migraine headaches in sensitive people. This doesn't make sense to
> me from a Paleo perspective, unless in Paleo times people sensitive to
> Tyramine would have been at a survival disadvantage, (hard to hunt food and avoid
> being hunted when you have a migraine headache!) whereas we Tyramine sensitive
> folks today can go blithely on handing our defective genes down to the next
> generation!
>
> Maddy Mason
> Hudson Valley, NY