Today I Learned

Undertoad · 10-06-2015, 02:05 PM

Liver, fava beans, and red wine are three things that interact with a class of drugs known as MAOIs, early antidepressants that were sometimes used for personality disorders. If you eat those things and are on a MAOI it can kill you.

So the famous line from Silence of the Lambs,

"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."

...could have signaled that the patient was off his meds.

10-06-2015, 02:05 PM	#10
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Liver, fava beans, and red wine are three things that interact with a class of drugs known as MAOIs, early antidepressants that were sometimes used for personality disorders. If you eat those things and are on a MAOI it can kill you. So the famous line from Silence of the Lambs, "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti." ...could have signaled that the patient was off his meds.

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