Dizzy for Nutritional Yeast

Got vertigo?

I have been AIP since 2017. I have only been able to add back in a few foods since I react to most foods.

So, I thought I would try nutritional yeast (since cheese is one of the foods I miss the most). I tried it in April 2021 and my nose turned red and itchy. Two months later, I thought “Well, maybe I was reacting to something in the air “. So, I tried it again. I didn’t notice an immediate reaction. However, 6 hours later, in the middle of the night, I awoke with a horrible case of vertigo (I only had vertigo once before, decades earlier, due to a bad sinus infection). This vertigo knocked me over. I couldn’t walk to the bathroom. It lasted about an hour.

I started researching (as usual). I am not the only one who has experienced vertigo from nutritional yeast! This is not a common reaction, but it is not rare or unheard of. If you are on AIP and very sensitive like I am, be warned that this could be a side effect.

Needless to say, I will not try it a third time. So much for imitation cheese :-(