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<p style="padding-left: 40px;">3) The book &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Keto-Migraine-Ketogenic-Sufferers-Physicians-ebook/dp/B0829FN1F4/">Keto for Migraine</a>&#8220;</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;">4) <strong>The book that started it all &#8211;</strong> The Migraine Miracle: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Migraine-Miracle-Sugar-Free-Gluten-Free-Inflammation/dp/1608828751"> https://www.amazon.com/Migraine-Miracle-Sugar-Free-Gluten-Free-Inflammation/dp/1608828751</a></p>
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<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Welcome to the migraine miracle moment. I&#8217;m your host, Dr Josh Turknett. I&#8217;m a neurologist, migraines, specialist, migraine sufferer and author of the book The Migraine Miracle. In this podcast, you&#8217;ll learn all about how to find your path to migraine freedom, without pills. Let&#8217;s get started.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">All right, howdy Beast Slayers. So today I am thrilled to have another fantastic migraine miracle story to share with you on the podcast. This one is from Migrai-Neverland member Tom Frankl, who was kind enough to recently reach out to me to offer to share his story with you. As you&#8217;ll hear, Tom&#8217;s battle with the beast began over 20 years ago, reaching the point where not that long ago he was needing a board of medications on average about 20 times per month. So stay tuned to hear how he&#8217;s doing now and how he got there, like so many of the other stories that we&#8217;ve shared on the podcast. Not only are you going to find this one to be a source of inspiration, but also a source of great wisdom. So stay tuned. Before we get to that conversation, I want to make a couple of announcements. So first, our next Jump Start challenge launches this Saturday, July 11th. And for those who don&#8217;t know, the jump start is our 30 day challenge that&#8217;s designed to get you often running with the migraine miracle plan. So it includes a dedicated meal plan for that 30 days, one that we&#8217;ve been refining over the years since the book came out. It also includes a private Facebook group for the Jumpstart members who will all move through the challenge together and move through the Beast Slayer Training Academy together. Like all of our 30 day challenges, it is available to all of our Migrai-Neverland members.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And as a member, you can participate in it as many times as you like. So we usually have a mix of new folks and veterans who are looking for a reboot. Also, as you&#8217;ve heard from our prior success story, guests, people often find it valuable to go through the B Slayer Training Academy more than once. In fact, you&#8217;ll hear Tom mentioned this as well as the things that you tend to focus on are going to change as you move along the timeline of things that may seem less important. At one point become really important at another point. So to become part of the Jumpstart Challenge, all you need to do is become a member of Migrai-Neverland. And the second announcement is that if you register anytime before, before now and Saturday the 11th, you&#8217;ll get the first week of your membership for free. So that means you can join Migrai-Neverland. Take a look at all the many resources we built over the years for you. Kick the tires and see what it&#8217;s all about. So to take advantage of it, just use the discount code, slay the beast, all one word. When you sign up and to become a member. Just head to my migraines, miracle dot com and click on Migrai-Neverland under the resources tab. Also, at the end of this interview, Jenny and I will share some of our key takeaways from Tom&#8217;s story. And now, without further delay, here is our interview with Tom Frankl.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">So we are delighted to have on the podcast with us today a special guest in Tom Frankl. Welcome, Tom. Thank you. So Tom is going to share his recent successes with the migrane miracle with us. Hey, before we dig into the details of your battle with the beast, you can just first share a little bit about yourself.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yes. Yes, so I&#8217;m a 51 year old, happily married father of two. It&#8217;s crazy to say that both my kids are married, which is much younger than I thought. Right. That is what happened there. So I&#8217;m not a grandpa yet, which is nice, but I&#8217;m enjoying kind of the second half of life.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">I&#8217;ve been to a sporting goods owner all my life and I&#8217;ve recently retired too, whereas I have a great manager and my son are going to be taking over the business from me in the near future. Cool. And I just kind of a lifetime health person and health nut. And I think I was drawn to your Web site because kind of being 51, like the one thing I was never able to overcome in my health was migraines. And it was kind of a secret story that not many people knew about because everybody that knows me would, you know, I look healthy and seem healthy, but my brain is kind of my secret where I would just go away and be like, I&#8217;m not feeling well. And little did they know that I probably have 24 hours in the dark in excruciating pain. And also, I think the other part that I kind of reflected upon is I&#8217;ve been thinking about this podcast, is that different than strep throat or bronchitis or some other sort of common ailment? When you have migraines and you go away for a day, you come back the next day and you&#8217;re almost better than before. There&#8217;s almost for me, there&#8217;s almost this elation or manic happiness to be out from that dark place. And so the people in your life, they can&#8217;t really know or tell. Like what Migrante actually means, except for those of us that that experience it.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yeah, that&#8217;s a great point. I can relate to that story a lot. And, you know, I was kind of same way I think a lot of people are in terms of just like, you know, it&#8217;s this thing and it happens sometimes. And they retreat and they kind of you kind of mixed feelings about how much you want to share about it. Right. And then and then, like you say, there&#8217;s no visible signs. And then and then. Yeah, we could I&#8217;m sure a lot of people can relate to that elation. That&#8217;s kind of like the one little silver I tried I tried to take little silver linings for migraines. Right. But it does make you appreciate just like being alive and OK and not and without pain. I mean, it&#8217;s you just you don&#8217;t want to take it for granted when you have out of it. So. So how old were you when this first started?</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">When your battle. Yeah, I do. I love to listen to your podcast. I love to listen to all the stories.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">I think one of the ways my story is unique is that I didn&#8217;t get migraines unti about twenty five. Twenty six. And there&#8217;s kind of no lead up to it. And I trace it back to that at a very young age. I did become a business owner, which really put a lot of pressure that looking back on, I wasn&#8217;t ready for that. Right. But being my personality type, I just sort of charged into it and just took it on full steam ahead. And then here I was. Twenty five. I&#8217;d been married to Rachel for a couple of years. No health problems. And then also out of nowhere, you know, I would be just down with no warning and you would usually even end up in, you know, throwing up. And so my wife and I were wondering, like, boy, do I have cancer or am I sick? Like, what&#8217;s going on? Right. And I went to a regular doc and just told them what had been happening for the last three or four months. And he said, oh, your migraines. And so then from there, I just started taking center and migraines, which was a real game changer for me. And I was able to manage these migraines for twelve or thirteen years just with Excedrin migraines. But then, like probably so many people, there came a point where that drug stopped working for me. And so after after I would have, you know, eight or 10 migraines a month in the Excedrin, only work on two of them. I just said, Amann, I need to go to a specialist.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And at that point, I went and saw a neurologist and, you know, he asked me the questions and Stephanie, he prescribed me sumatriptan.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And like the whole community, like that was quite the game changer. Right. And I couldn&#8217;t believe that. Oh, now my problem is solved. And then I just had a couple of good years with that. But then from there, it wasn&#8217;t so much that sumatriptan stopped working as much because it probably did work. Sumatriptan for me worked 80 to 90 percent of the time. Well, what was so jarring and alarming for me was that I had gone from, you know, six headaches a month to now 20 attic&#8217;s a month. Right. And I had never I never even known about rebound or medication overuse. And so I could always trace migrants to my migrants to very stressful situations. Mm hmm. And so when I just started saying, wow, this drug works, yet I&#8217;m just getting so many more. That was just such an alarming. It was very scary for me.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yeah, that&#8217;s an interesting point, because it&#8217;s when you&#8217;re in rebound like that, there are still triggers. There are still things that, you know, there&#8217;s still times when you&#8217;re better in times when you&#8217;re worse in the environment still matters. It&#8217;s just this kind of hidden force in the background. It&#8217;s that&#8217;s amplifying everything that it&#8217;s hard to see. And so you I think you stumbled upon us a couple of years ago, is that right?</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yeah. Yes. So this story for me was that, again, one thing about me is that I&#8217;m kind of always selling myself and I&#8217;m always proudly telling myself a little bit better story than is true. And, you know, I think when I would go to the M.D. and he said, how many migrants have you ever in a month, I pray would have shaded it. Yeah. And when I went to the neurologist prayed the same thing. And so about two years ago, my wife and I were blessed to be able to go to Europe for two months. And so as I prepared for that, I just noticed myself really putting a lot of effort, energy into gettingkid&#8217;s enough sumatriptan, Sustagen. Right. And I started thinking to myself, this is not like you. Like, I&#8217;ve always been kind of a happy go lucky guy. That&#8217;s like, how do I get migraines? That&#8217;s not that big of a deal. And so when I noticed in my own heart that I was really putting a lot of energy and effort into getting enough quantity of pills. Yeah. That was almost like a sign before the sign. Before the sign. And then when we went to Europe again, I&#8217;ve always been lucky enough to work close to home and my kids schools close to home.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">But when we went. You&#8217;re up for it. So my point being that if I was ever at work and I could feel a migrant coming, I just zip home and grab to accept and a husband chipped in. And so when I was in Europe for two months, for the first time in my life, when I got ready to take off for the day, whatever we&#8217;re doing, I really just thought to myself, like, I need to have a soup. I assume a trip into my pocket. You frightened me. And that was really alarming to me. And I just said, well, I&#8217;m real. My brain is really starting to develop new things that just weren&#8217;t there before. And so I told Rachel when we were in Europe, I said it was very weird. I said, when we come home, I need to really do something different. And I said, and I think I need to suffer a little. Why would. That was the thought I had. And so we came home and I told her, I said, I think it&#8217;s time for me to quit pills, cold turkey. I don&#8217;t know why, but when I said that, I mean, it was like I might as well said, like, I think I need to jump off the Empire State, sleep like I was terrified.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Right. Yeah, I know. Over with over the ten years, I Price said a few times like Kamina Trango Pelfrey and I probably made it four hours without taking a pill and there were four miserable hours. And so so, you know, Rachel&#8217;s always just been she&#8217;s been my biggest supporter and just such a wonderful resource. And as a lot of the spouses of microRNAs would know, it sucks to be the spouse of someone that gets migraines. So one morning I walked out. We had been back from Iraq about seven days, and my wife had been recently exploring Kitto diet for herself for other reasons. She doesn&#8217;t get headaches, thank God. And she just said, wow, I just Googled Kitto and migraines. And then this popped, you know, your Web site of your podcast came up. Right. And so, you know, from there, it was like I didn&#8217;t mind, sort of like I didn&#8217;t mind if I had something hard to do because I really felt like there was a light at the end of the tunnel or like for the first time, it felt like there was a fight I could actually take on towards in the past. It was like the choices are, you know.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">You know, it&#8217;s like if you Google around, you&#8217;re going to see a lot of migraine help. Right. But it&#8217;s more. It just it doesn&#8217;t. What I call, like, passed my smell test. And in three things that I really appreciate about you is that one is that you had suffered migraines. Two is that you are a neurologist. So you weren&#8217;t just like an Eastern medicine acupuncturist. Right. Three, that you told me it would be hard. Right. And it&#8217;s because if I have been if I&#8217;ve been having this 20 year struggle and somebody tells me in two or three weeks of this or that, like, I can get you out of this. Yeah. Agnes decis at the age of 50, one like that does. Right. Smell test. Yes. And so. Yeah. So that&#8217;s kind of how we found you. And then we just like started devouring all the stuff because it just felt like finally something I can grab on to. And you know, it&#8217;s like if someone said, like, you have to run a marathon tomorrow, you wouldn&#8217;t do it. But if they told you I give you a six month training to run the right. Right. So for someone like me, that was just very appealing. So that&#8217;s kind of how we found you.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yeah, that&#8217;s a great story. And, you know, I haven&#8217;t thought about that specifically, but the fact that, you know, that we do that, we say that this is not going to be easy, it&#8217;s not going to be easy. And if you&#8217;re not prepared for that, then you know it&#8217;s not going to go well. But, you know, I think most everyone it comes on the other side of it feels like it was will far well worth it. But it&#8217;s still really hard.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yeah. And one thing I wanted to add into it, I forgot a little bit. My story is then I went to a neurologist, and that was three years ago, three or four years ago. And he was like he was a wonderful guy. He was so Thoreau. I did not at all feel like sometimes you are the doctor. You feel like you just get shuffled and shuffled out. Sure. And I didn&#8217;t feel that at all. I felt like he cared for me. And as I reflect back on today, he he there was like zero overlap with what he did and what you&#8217;re doing. Like, he had me he was tapping on my knee. He was like looking at my eyeballs. Right. But I mean, like, it was it was so much different than your approach. So I just kind of wanted to add that in there. Yeah. This thing is an interesting setting.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yeah. And that, I think speaks to one of the one of the points that I try to make is that we as neurologists have a sort of a worry. We have our own skill set. We have our own tools. And and we&#8217;re we&#8217;re choosing from within those. Rules. And those haven&#8217;t worked so well, you know, and it&#8217;s not it&#8217;s not anybody&#8217;s fault. That&#8217;s what we that&#8217;s the pilot we&#8217;re given to work with. Yeah. So it sounds like you were, you know, living a pretty healthy lifestyle, at least by traditional measures prior to finding your way here. What kind of things that you did first or the changes that you that you made?</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yeah, that&#8217;s a that&#8217;s a great question. And one of the things I wanted to say that I hope would be an encouragement for people is that I really did have to take the long view. And there there is so much information coming. That was so good and such quality. I gave myself the grace not to hear at all or take it all in. It&#8217;s like if my story is now almost two years old, it&#8217;s like sinking. Starbright came into my life about nine months in. You probably told me that right off the bat. But I hear it because I was so trained to work on my work, on my eating, and then things like intermittent fasting, like that&#8217;s something I do just religiously now. Like I just eat between 10 and six. But when I first started doing a program, I prayed eight, eight, eight typewrite, eight at maybe eight at night sometimes. And it wasn&#8217;t that, it wasn&#8217;t that I wasn&#8217;t exposed to that. But it&#8217;s just like I would just like people to give themselves time to soak in all the resources because it&#8217;s such it can be such a change if that makes sense.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Oh, absolutely. It&#8217;s it&#8217;s almost like, you know, your experience with a a movie or a book and at different times in your life, and you&#8217;ll pull out completely different things. And guess what you&#8217;re ready for at any given moment.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Exactly. So for me, you know, one of the biggest game changers was your list of what I can eat, because for 15 years I had heard the word elimination diet, and that just drove me crazy.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yeah. I eat everything like I love food. Right. And my migraines had nothing to do. It&#8217;s like I did pretty early on, learn about alcohol, getting migraines. But the sense that if you tried to ask me, like, what kind of food, getting migraines, I&#8217;d say I mean, I couldn&#8217;t even start with that because I eat so broadly. And so when I clicked on your list of foods, I can&#8217;t eat like I printed that out. And that was such a game changer for me. And there so much I could eat. There are so many combinations I could make. But I also think it just took that it just took a little anxiety out of there right now instead of trying to figure out like. Yes. So that was huge. The other thing that was so hell for me was like, find the perfect day and repeat it. And that&#8217;s really changed a lot of my social habits and a lot of how much space I give myself in between different things. So, yeah, that that was really huge. Yeah, I think another huge thing was when I went to the neurologist, they said, like, take a pill at the first sign of a headache. Right. And I mean, if I&#8217;ve been doing this two years, you know, there&#8217;s there&#8217;s times where I still have months where I might have two or three migraines, but in that month I might have 10 headaches that by using the systems that go away after an hour and effort to. Mm hmm. And so that has been like such a game changer for me. You know, my wife and I have a word where we say we say full-blown, you know. Right. Yeah. I&#8217;ll say I can get a headache and she&#8217;ll give me a nice background where she&#8217;ll do lavender oil or do the sink and starve. And it&#8217;s just like, hey, it&#8217;s like 9:00 a.m. and I get the full day without headache. I woke up at seven thirty with, you know, five years ago. I would just pop two pills right now. So that&#8217;s been a real game changer, too.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">So have you. Do you recall the first full-blown one that you made it through without taking anything? Yeah, I think that was on day two of the year, right off the bat, you know, and.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Well, yeah, but again, like, OK. And I remember I emailed you dislike the thought that there&#8217;s a reason to go through a full blown. Yeah. Gives you every bit of power to do it. Like when you talked about healing your brain because I just thought, hey, I&#8217;m 30 and 40 and 50. My migraines are getting more. I must be getting older. My right. I mean, less. You know, it&#8217;s like all my health is like not what it was. No, it&#8217;s 30, you know. So you just feel. And so when you feel that you can get ahead a nasty go into a dark room and there&#8217;s a reason to do it is like it&#8217;s an incredible experience to have that instead of.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Like I said, you know, five years ago, there might have been a time when I said, I just want to try this. And after three or four hours of absolute minute misery, you just pop the pills and then it&#8217;s like a double loss because a you ad for crummy hours and you took pills, right? Yes. Yeah. So but yeah, the full bloods came right away, too. Didn&#8217;t take long.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yeah. Yeah. And so you mentioned that, that ultimately you started using the starving sink. Is it has that been your main way of dealing with it over over time or have you had other things you&#8217;ve used?</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Well, it&#8217;s really ironic and I hope this doesn&#8217;t confuse people, but I&#8217;ve found that sometimes the best thing for me is to go into a dark room and try and take like an hour of just like kind of calming myself down. And that has been way to dissipate it. But then sometimes I get the feeling like I&#8217;m a mountain biker, so I need to jump on my mountain bike and spread it out for like twenty five minutes. So that&#8217;s kind of a weird thing in the fact that each one has been helpful. The one thing I will say is that that would be on the centerpiece.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">But the staff piece is 100 percent. I never. All I do is start it like I never call experimentalism carbs now like.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Right. Let&#8217;s never go to. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And I&#8217;ve said I think the most that&#8217;s probably the single most important thing to remember about that strategy is that is that eating prolongs the migraines, you know, rather than not eating, you know, ending it right away. It&#8217;s just that if you want to in this in the minimum the shortest period of time, you know.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yes. And just how you know. With you educating us that that gives it energy like that makes so much sense. But we just had never heard that.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Right. Right. So that was so helpful. Paint a picture. Today, what things are like for you migrant wise, but also with, you know, your what your your what your diet lifestyle is like like I&#8217;m sure people would like to hear that.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yeah, well, it&#8217;s really exciting. I know it&#8217;s fun to talk to you now because it&#8217;s a real big thing for me is that I am a little different, that I went cold turkey when you&#8217;d when I first heard about it, because being like kind of a competitor, the athlete, I was like, whether you like it or not, Dr. King meant like you became the coach. So it could be right. But if that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re gonna do, that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re gonna do. Yeah, I got it. But then, you know, as I mentioned, it&#8217;s the most you I did have a few things, like both my kids got married. So there were things, my life where I just said that I&#8217;m going to take a pill. And I also want to say you you&#8217;ve done a great job with giving us the grace to take a pill. Like you&#8217;ve said, there&#8217;s no there&#8217;s no exact way to do it, right? Absolutely. But the exciting thing here today, and I am excited to share with your listeners is that, like, I&#8217;ve had one hundred days now without a pill, and that&#8217;s like really incredible for me. Yeah, because I&#8217;ve literally since the day started with you, I think I emailed you like September 2018. I&#8217;ve Gerrold every day. There&#8217;s not been one day. Well and I don&#8217;t do long journal some things there. Some days they&#8217;re really short, some days they just say no migraines you know.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">But I&#8217;ve counted how many I get a month and that kind of thing and how many pills I take. And so my last pill is February 15th and it was because my brother is in town from Korea and I really wanted to be present for him. But yeah. So that&#8217;s like super exciting for me because I didn&#8217;t know if I&#8217;d ever be a guy that could just not take pills. Right. And so I really feel now my life now today I feel like when I get a migraine, there&#8217;s so much less than that used to be and there&#8217;s so bearable. There&#8217;s some proved, which is a funny thing to say. But yeah, it&#8217;s like, you know, I get a migraine now. I can, like, even walk outside and start gardening. You know, my head&#8217;s killing me. But it&#8217;s not like the old days, right. Is headlight. Go bury myself in a black room and do nothing. And then a lot of times if I do that by 1:00 or 2:00 or 3:00 in the afternoon at all. Clear. So, yeah. So that that&#8217;s how my life looks now and my eating, you know, I just get cleaner and cleaner and cleaner. I think back to I think back to something I heard you say a few months back where you said you don&#8217;t mind putting stevia in a smoothie, but you recommend not doing it just so your taste buds can kind of change.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And so I was left with my wife because it&#8217;s like now, you know, I can have cashews after dinner and it&#8217;s almost like a soup. And when you leave, right? Yeah. It feels like I&#8217;m in the ice cream store, cashew clusters. And they&#8217;re just cashews. Yeah. So. So that&#8217;s that&#8217;s a blast. You know, I make smoothies in the morning and I put a few for us. We raise it just takes so great. You know, I am kind of the the find the perfect entropy guy. So I&#8217;m, I&#8217;m, I&#8217;ve been blessed that I&#8217;m Varya. I don&#8217;t mind routine. So you know that I&#8217;d say we really try and shoot for my last meal by six, six thirty and then I really do. If I start to eat I read eight thirty or nine I will just drink like carbonated water, anything to kind of push down the hunger. I eat between ten and six and I eat a ton of food which I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s a good thing or a bad thing to share, but I just don&#8217;t want to think that I&#8217;ve had to cut back on food quantity right now. I&#8217;m very athletic, I&#8217;m very active and athletic, and I eat just a crazy amount of calories. And that and that&#8217;s wonderful to have the list. That said, it&#8217;s like things I can eat.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yeah. And so, yeah, just my life, you know, it&#8217;s like I found you two years ago, but I feel like I&#8217;m getting better at the program kind of everyday and. Yeah. And I&#8217;m getting the benefits of the program.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yeah. Every day. Right. It keeps they keep coming.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yeah. It just keeps coming in. And I do believe in the pillars and I do believe in the phases and that&#8217;s like that&#8217;s just so exciting and it&#8217;s such a miracle. It really is. Like I really do think you can have miracle on your website because. Yeah, I mean my life. I mean before this there, you know, and I really did, I tried twenty to twenty five acupuncture website like and I&#8217;m not trying to say bad things about insurance, but for me personally nothing ever did you know. Neurologist nothing. And so here I am just kind of following your guidelines and I just I mean another great word does like freedom. Like I just feel like I freedom, you know, like I can we we do our life and the migration doesn&#8217;t hijack our life like it used to.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yeah, that&#8217;s. Yeah. And we took it as a common theme. It&#8217;s come up so often too. It&#8217;s just like the the measure of control that comes in that you get back from Yefim. It it&#8217;s just can&#8217;t. Can&#8217;t. State, how how important that is. I&#8217;m curious, you know, it sounds like you&#8217;re lead a physically active lifestyle. Did you ever struggle with exercise induced migraines?</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">No, I don&#8217;t. I don&#8217;t think so. Again, that&#8217;s it. Be you know, one word I tell people when I talk about your program of sobriety. Like, for the first two years I&#8217;ve been. So we&#8217;re off pills. So it might be hard for me to know if I ever struggled. Yeah, but I don&#8217;t think so. To me, the big triggers before I started reading your material and listening to your podcast and reading the books was we we could trace it so clearly back to stress at work. It was very obvious, like you get a migraine and it&#8217;s like, hey, let&#8217;s talk about yesterday. It&#8217;s like, oh my gosh. Meeting with my manager where I had to really, you know, we really had some conflict or I had that one customer who was just like, drive me crazy, you know? And then the other the other clear trigger seemed to be alcohol, like alcohol was like, you know, rolling the dice and pretty much. Yeah.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">So I, I just have cut that out, you know, cut out the alcohol in the sugar and the stresses is the number one reported trigger, but it&#8217;s often insidious. You know, it&#8217;s often you only realize it in retrospect after some becomes one of those things were even up for me. Well, that&#8217;s. This is such a such a great story. And so so we&#8217;re happy to hear. It&#8217;s just it&#8217;s so phenomenal still. It never gets old. Hearing this stuff that we put out there and then like that, you&#8217;ve taken it to heart and really implementing it. I&#8217;m guessing the same, you know, seeing the same benefits. It&#8217;s so rewarding. Anything else that that you would like to share with the audience before we leave?</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yeah. I think one thing that keeps coming up for me is just sort of that, you know, something that I haven&#8217;t heard much about on the blogs or podcasts is just the cost it can bring to like those we love. And just how much it&#8217;s been or how it can be a rollercoaster for a spouse. You know, if if the spouse or if the two people coming together try and kind of tackle it together. Yeah. And I know, you know, with my wife, it be like we could come to these kind of grips or terms of what we were going to do the next time one came. But then when one comes, my mental state is so off. Yeah. That, you know, it&#8217;s like she could be out in the kitchen trying to be as quiet as possible. But it sounds like she&#8217;s just making such a ruckus. You know, like every like, shouldn&#8217;t you be eating a bowl of cereal, two doors, two rooms down in the clink of the spoon on the porcelain bowl?</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">I feel like there might as well be a simple someone playing drums in my ears. Right. And so, yeah, I just think it&#8217;s it&#8217;s an interesting thing to explore. Just when yeah. When couples trying to come together over this and I don&#8217;t know, I hope I just would hope that something would come out of it would be more of an understanding for the spouse when they&#8217;re trying to be good. And how it&#8217;s just how it can be a disconnect. I don&#8217;t quite know what I&#8217;m trying to say, but.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yeah, no, I mean, there are obviously a lot of issues there. And and certainly the stories that we hear, you know, when it&#8217;s when the spouses are involved in some capacity in the process that, you know, it tends to go a lot better. Yeah. Did you did your wife. Was she also consuming like she also learning about the program along with you?</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Possibly more than. Yeah. I see that, too. Yeah. And I think it&#8217;s it&#8217;s a two edged thing. One, you know, cause she wants to be helpful for my migraines, which I&#8217;m so grateful for. But she also just loves health. And so, you know your stuff. Like, I guess one thing I could talk about is how much, you know, there&#8217;s so many other benefits, health benefits to it, you know? And so she&#8217;s really tracked your stuff a lot because she loves the health benefits of what you&#8217;re talking about. Right. You know, within and without headaches, it&#8217;s like, you know, if I get four headache days a month, there&#8217;s still twenty six days of, like, premium health from your information. Right. Both of us like to be healthy and we like to do stuff outside. And that kind of thing. So, yes, she&#8217;s been fascinated. She wasn&#8217;t. She was a kinesiology major. And so she&#8217;s interested in all kinds of health and diet and that kind of stuff.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yeah. Yeah, the the the migrating avenues, kind of the the entry way. But, you know, you come for the migraine relief, but stay for kind of the long term health benefits. In my view, at least. Yeah, for sure. Yeah.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And people that have spouses that kind of jump on board and, you know, are eating the same way, that&#8217;s just got to be so helpful because, you know, we hear from some people that say, oh, I&#8217;ve got to cook, you know, entirely separate meal for my kids and my husband. And, you know, I have to cook something separate for me. So could us, the spouses out there that do get onboard and guess what? Their their family in this way. Yeah. Yeah.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And she&#8217;s also very thankful to you, Dr. Quicknet, because since this program started, I&#8217;ve started cooking a little bit.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And if they think that that&#8217;s like beef before I learned about this program, I&#8217;ve just always been the type that can just, like, eat anything and. Right. And so, you know, like, my dad called me a furnace when I was younger so I could just come up hungry and just throw down tons of carbs and then just run out and do my export or whatever. Yeah. And I didn&#8217;t realize the link between headaches because I never got an upset stomach craving. And so and I never put on a pound or whatever. And so since I realized that, that what you put in your body is so important to keeping your your headaches at bay. I&#8217;ve taken much, much since coming home and preparing a meal off of the off of the two that what I can eat list instead of just grabbing anything to fill myself up as fast as possible. Right. Right. She hated that.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">I bet. So has it sounds like to it&#8217;s probably changed kind of your relationship to food overall?</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Oh, absolutely. Yeah. And I&#8217;ve never I&#8217;ve never really been what you&#8217;d call a foodie or anything. I&#8217;ve I&#8217;ve just been a hungry person and I like all kinds of food. So I would just I pray the way I describe my eating is pray. How can I do this as fast as possible so I can get up on to the next event? Right. And so, you know, I&#8217;d be I&#8217;d be working and I would just get to a place where I&#8217;m starving, you know, zip home, throw down enough food to fill myself up so I could jump on my mountain bike and then go. And so I never realized the the benefits to taking the time to prepare and to eat mindfully and to slow down. And so, yes, it&#8217;s changed my relationship to food a whole lot again.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Thank you so much for coming on, for volunteering to come on and and just hear your stories is fantastic. And as I&#8217;m sure you know, these these are super helpful. Probably the most helpful thing that we put out there are stories from people like here who like you, who&#8217;ve done and has been through this. Know exactly what it&#8217;s like. You know that it&#8217;s not easy, but know that it&#8217;s so much so worth it on the other side. So.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yeah. Well, thank you so much. I appreciate it.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">All right. Well, thanks again, Tom, for taking time to come on the podcast today. He sounds like about the nicest human being on the planet. Yes. Anything in particular that stood out for you, Jenny, and his story?</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yes, I took a whole page of notes while we were chatting them. So one of the things I always love to point out about people that we interview is that they very often seem to have a positive mindset. And he definitely had a positive mindset. And I definitely think that that&#8217;s, you know, something that take someone very far in this journey. And that&#8217;s one of the sections in the Beesly are training academy is all about mindset in the first section. And so on. Again, you know, I just think that, you know, if you&#8217;ve already got that or you&#8217;ve developed that and worked on that, then that&#8217;s going to take you far. And he certainly had that. He also was an an action taker. He, you know, latched on to the plan and he took action and he continued to move himself forward. And one of the things that that I like that he said that I hope others will take away from this. And I think a lot of our members have discovered this, is that, you know, when you go through the Beesly or Training Academy or, you know, you consume any of our materials, you&#8217;re going to pick up on different things based on where you are in your journey at that time point. And so some of the the different pieces that we put out there may or may not have relevance for you in the very beginning, but continuing to go back and revisit those materials and seeing what else you can take from that over time. And, you know, that&#8217;s one of the things that we talk about, too, is the continuing to refine over time. There always, you know, things that you can continue to develop.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Right. Yeah. And that was that was a reason for developing the phases in the timeline, because we get, you know, realizing that what things help the most. Very different point of reference in time. And also, we know what kind of information you need to move yourself forward varies over time. And so trying to provide that, but also provide kind of a roadmap for how to how to put it into action. Right. Became it became obvious that that was really important. And in spirit, still need to see people doing that right for themselves and taking it and and figuring out what what to do when. And, you know, getting the daily point we make is that there is no one size fits all you have to take. It requires taking the information and then customizing it and applying it to your own life. And he clearly did that. And so what we try to do is get the tools to for you to do that. And, you know, ultimately that&#8217;s we want to empower the individuals. And this is really a flipping the health care model on its head because, you know, I am not the guru with all the answers. Right. I&#8217;m just helping you find your own path. And it&#8217;s got to be, you know, only only you really are the one who can do it. Right.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And giving yourself the space to to take what you can now and not feel overwhelmed. Exactly. Just don&#8217;t do what you can now and just continue to move your show for.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Right. Right. It&#8217;s mainly about what&#8217;s the next step. Right. And if you just keep focusing on that. I think, too, that, you know, first he talked about that, knowing that it took the confidence to know that there was a light at the end of the tunnel to then go all in, you know, to commit to it full. I mean, we see that over and over again, too. It&#8217;s like once someone says, this is it, I believe in this. This is why we do these these episodes, because we know that if you can get to that place, that&#8217;s what&#8217;s going to be driving your success. Right. Don&#8217;t get to that place, we think. I&#8217;ll try this and see. Mm hmm. You know it we know it doesn&#8217;t work out the same way, so because it requires that kind of full level of commitment. And would you say that because we just seen that so many times. Right.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">I also think it will be worth mentioning what he referenced in terms of the list of foods that you can eat and explaining what that is. Because I know people ask us for that all the time. Yeah.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">So the idea there, which he clearly understood and grass, which I was great, was to reframe food. Right. Because because we you know, the whole Magrane store old story that I call it, you know, is this you know, you&#8217;re all the things to be afraid of here. All the things are gonna harm you here. You know, Insys sort of, you know, terrible, fearful existence that you live in. And as he pointed out, that that idea is embedded in the idea of an elimination diet. Right. Here are the things you can&#8217;t eat rather than hear all the things you can&#8217;t. You know what? If we just take that reframe and then think thinking in terms of Magrane, here are all the foods that are nourishing and protective and that help us. And guess what? There&#8217;s a lot of stuff out there like that. So it completely transforms your relationship to food. And takes a lot of the anxiety out and realize it&#8217;s not a story of deprivation. It&#8217;s just as is a story of, you know, finding out what&#8217;s what&#8217;s what&#8217;s so good for you and and appreciating the abundance that&#8217;s out there. So we create so created with that idea to kind of highlight the idea, the idea of them of. Migraines, superfoods list, which is, you know, a list of all the foods that I consider to be kind of the most nourishing and protective and, um, and that&#8217;s found in the Beesly or seem Baesler training. All right. And it&#8217;s not in you know, it&#8217;s not to say that foods that aren&#8217;t on that list are to be avoided. Right. But it&#8217;s kind of like the idea of, you know, a top 10 list of movies. Right. You don&#8217;t avoid the onus, really. You&#8217;re saying that the ones that aren&#8217;t on the list are bad. Right. But you&#8217;re saying here are the superstars. And a lot of people have found that to be helpful. But the the one of the main reasons are probably the main reason for you actually creating it to begin with was to create this new idea or just different reframing of how you think about food. Right.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">I&#8217;d also like to highlight he mentioned the Groundhog Day strategy. You know, he said, you know, find your perfect day and repeat it. And he mentioned it rather quickly. So I wanted to make sure people knew what he meant. That&#8217;s also part of the Beazley or Training Academy. Do you want to talk about that? Just a minute.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Right. So the it comes from the movie Groundhog Day. If you&#8217;re familiar with where Bill Murray has to repeat the same day over and over and over again. But for the migrant or this can be a really useful thing. And again, it goes back to that same exact reframing rather than figuring out what you can&#8217;t do.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Find their best days, figure out what you know, journal what you&#8217;ve done on those days, and then you have a day you can repeat. That&#8217;s you that you&#8217;ve no link to your best odds of success. And, you know, that&#8217;s another tool that people can use, especially in the early phases when you&#8217;re trying to move yourself down the time, the the timeline of migrant freedom, you know, more quickly. Right. Is just to, you know, lean on the Groundhog Day. People who like Tom don&#8217;t mind. Some don&#8217;t mind routine. Mm hmm. You know, if we we said this before, that that routine and monotony is an enemy of the beast. Right. So you can definitely use that to your advantage in kind of the most extreme example of that is a Groundhog Day strategy. And, you know, if you&#8217;re thinking about the fundamental principle here of of trying to move back towards a more evolutionarily appropriate lifestyle, our ancestors weren&#8217;t eating completely different foods from one day to the next or thinking what they had for breakfast today can&#8217;t be what they had yesterday or when, you know, they were eating the same thing every day, day in and day out. They had a really tight routine. And and so that&#8217;s probably why it&#8217;s it&#8217;s it&#8217;s worked so well.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And another strategy that he mentions that he uses that I think is so important to highlight, because we found it very crucial to success, is the meal timing. And, you know, he keeps a specific window. I think he said he eats from 10 to six. And we&#8217;re also very aware of that ourselves. And for example, we were we had booked a cruise last year and they did not have the early dining available. So the only dining time they had available was like eight fifteen at night. And so we, in fact, were going to cancel the cruise because we could not get the early dining and they were able to switch us to the early dining, but we would have canceled it if we had not been able to get that early dining because it&#8217;s so crucial to our success. Right.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And again, it gets back to this is the ancestral model, right? We weren&#8217;t eating. We were eating when the sun was up. Right. So we started. It&#8217;s not a coincidence that all these things that bring us, quote, more align with how we used to live are also the greatest enemies of the beast. Right.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">I think it&#8217;s also worth highlighting that he said and we&#8217;ve heard this time and again that even when he does get a migrant now, they&#8217;re not as bad because, you know, you don&#8217;t have that rebound factor that really seems to just intensify the headache. And so I think that&#8217;s also a point worth mentioning as we&#8217;re thinking about breaking rebound.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">That was what made me say I would never take another trip down because you get to places there that you just can&#8217;t get otherwise. Right. That you just never wanted to get. So and so. Yeah. Now that knowing, like, you know, he&#8217;s in the same boat, you know, knowing if something comes, I can handle it.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Right. It doesn&#8217;t get through it. Right. And I know what to do. And it&#8217;s no fun. Right. And I know you know, I know why it happened. And you know. I know what I mean. So there&#8217;s at this this level of control and, you know, you&#8217;re protected against the worst of the worst. You know that place you never want to go back to.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Also, one thing that we see often is that people come to us and say, well, I&#8217;m already eating, you know, healthy. And so Tom said that he said, you know, I was, you know, seemed to be pretty healthy guy before I even started this. But he was open to still continuing to refine and explore what he could do. And so maybe what, you know, seemed and felt healthy then takes on a new perspective when you kind of look at it from an AM central framework, for sure.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And yeah, that&#8217;s been part of the challenge over the years, is that this is, you know, in my opinion, the healthiest way to be. But that does require unlearning or, you know, it goes against what has been traditionally taught, you know, as as what&#8217;s what&#8217;s healthy. All right. For the past few decades. Fortunately, things are changing quite a bit. And the popularity and acceptance of the ketogenic diet being a big example of that.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And it was so nice that Tom reached out to provide a male voice in this arena, because we do hear more from women who tend to be more on Facebook where, you know, we see them and reach out to them to be on the podcast and tend to be more vocal on on Facebook. But we do have plenty of people that we actually don&#8217;t hear from until they&#8217;ve gotten into this, you know, phase for the later part of their. You want to share this, their successes with us. So we really do appreciate Tom reaching out and sharing his voice.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And yeah, men do actually do really well with this. We&#8217;ve talked about this some in our clinic chats before, but because they don&#8217;t have the hormonal challenges that some women do.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Men tend to have a even faster progression. Right. But it&#8217;s nice to hear. Nice to hear from another man. That&#8217;s right. And so thanks again, Tom. You were filled with many words of wisdom, as evidenced by Ginny&#8217;s laundry list of comments that she hadn&#8217;t made. All right. Well, thanks so much for listening. Now it&#8217;s time to go out and slay the beast.</p>
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<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Welcome to the migraine miracle moment. I&#8217;m your host, Dr Josh Turknett. I&#8217;m a neurologist, migraine specialist, migraine sufferer, and author of the book Migraine Miracle. In this podcast, you&#8217;ll learn all about how to find your path to migraine freedom without pills. Let&#8217;s get started.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Hello, Beast Slayers. Welcome to another episode of The Miracle Moment. I&#8217;m your host, Dr. Josh Turknett, author of The Migraine Miracle and the recently released Keto for Migraine. And speaking of Keto for migraines, as of this recording, the Kindle version is currently on sale for four ninety nine. And thanks to all of you who have already supported it and made it an Amazon bestseller and also a huge thanks to those of you who have taken time to leave or if you really appreciate it. All right. Today I&#8217;m bringing you a short episode about three key mindset shifts related to food that I think are really helpful, not only in helping you to be successful with the plan, but in developing healthier eating habits in general, not ones that are kind of more in line with what we need as humans. And these are all mindset shifts that I went through. And then I think I&#8217;ve been enormously useful to me in retrospect. We are currently in the midst of a food and cooking challenge this month with our migrant Evelin members, which is what sparked the idea for this particular episode. As I&#8217;ve talked about before, there are many different limiting beliefs and myths that are related to not just my grain, but to help a general that can stand in the way of success. And that certainly applies to how we think about food. And crucial to being successful is ditching those limiting notions and replacing them with ones that are empowering.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And that will set you up for success. Also, if you are interested in jumping into our latest food and cooking challenge or interested in learning more about micro never land, you can do so by visiting the website. My micro miracle dot com and just clicking on the resources tab at the top. And also remember, as a thank you for being a podcast listener. If you do register, you can get thirty dollars off your first six months in Migrante Evelin. If you use the discount code moment, that&#8217;s M0 M.B.A. when you check out. OK. Let&#8217;s get to it. So three key mindset shifts around food. As I said, these are mindset shifts about food that I bet both I and Jenny have been through, as well as many of our most successful Migranyan Naggar Neverland members. So the first one has been to lose the idea that there is such a thing as a breakfast, lunch and dinner foods. In other words, that there are specific foods that you should eat at specific meals or at specific times of day. And this is especially true when it comes to breakfast. So in Western society, for reasons that aren&#8217;t entirely clear, but probably have a lot to do with advertising and the cereal industry, we one day decided that it was OK to eat dessert for breakfast.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">So things like breads, waffles, muffins, croissants, donuts, cereal and fruit juices. So in other words, breakfast became the time where you were supposed to down this big plate of refined carbohydrates. And to this day, you can still go to any continental breakfast at pretty much every hotel. And you&#8217;ll see this on full display. Hopefully now you can recognize how backwards of an idea this is that we should not only eat this stuff in general, but as our first meal of the day. And moreover, the main thing we eat during that meal. But if you&#8217;ve been conditioned to thinking that that&#8217;s what breakfast is supposed to look like or include, and if that&#8217;s how you&#8217;ve been eating and your body has spent years expecting that you&#8217;re going to start the day with this big bit of sugar. Then you&#8217;ll likely crave those foods at first when you&#8217;re transitioning to the plan. And it&#8217;s natural for you to then try to look for substitutes that are okay or within the guidelines that will satisfy those cravings. But going with this first key mindset, the important thing to remember here is that this craving for this hit of sugar, carbs in the morning is not a natural pattern. So those cravings are a result of conditioning rather than any intrinsic biological need for them. But because those foods are so pervasive and so certain, synonymous with breakfast, it&#8217;s natural and even easy again to think that this is what breakfast is supposed to look like.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">But it will make the transition to the migraines miracle plan and, you know, going back to foods that are appropriate for a human, it&#8217;ll make that so much easier if you start by just losing the idea that you need different foods at different times of day, especially in the mornings. And as so many others have discovered, those cravings will dissipate in short order. Again, I was in this boat, too, for a while, initial age when I changed my diet. I still kind of had my head. You know, breakfast meant different sets of foods and trying to think how I could replace the sorts of things that I was used to eating for breakfast for something that was, you know, more in line with the plan, something that was more part of an ancestral diet. And this is where you get into people trying to make all sorts of baked goods with substitute flowers to kind of make things that resemble the array of dessert foods we&#8217;re used to for breakfast. And that&#8217;s why breakfast is oftentimes the biggest hurdle when people are transitioning. And that&#8217;s because the standard breakfast of refined carbohydrates doesn&#8217;t include any food fit for humans. But again, there&#8217;s nothing in our biology that mandates that we eat anything different for our first meal of our day from any other meal of the day.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And this was so liberating when I finally realized this and I and I got this out of my head, which was several years after transitioning to the plan. And so nowadays the time of day is essentially irrelevant to what I&#8217;m eating. And it seems really strange and silly now in retrospect to think that I once, you know, thought that I needed different stuff at different time of day. And I think this is true of a lot of things that we think to be normal or kind of part of human biology or are instead a product of conditioning or just us being used to doing certain things for long period time. All right. So that&#8217;s the first one. The second key mindshift set shift has been to stop eating by the clock. So several years ago, I was having a conversation with a patient in my office. He was morbidly obese, probably, you know, a three hundred fifty or more pounds and was desperate to lose weight. He&#8217;d recently started working with a nutritionist, but was frustrated. And he said, you know, I&#8217;ve been doing all the right things, doc, but I&#8217;ve actually gained 10 pounds this month. And then he went on to say, I tried my best to eat six meals a day like she told me to, but sometimes I&#8217;m just not hungry at all. And I can still remember how frustrated and heartbroken I was talking to him.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And I can remember wanting to beat my head against the wall because his story was such a powerful illustration of how far we&#8217;d gone off the rails when it came to conventional advice around diet and nutrition. Here was this man who really committed himself to losing weight and whose life really depended on him doing so. And yet not only had he been given this absurd advice to eat more frequently to the point where he was trying to force himself to do so, but he felt like it was his fault that he wasn&#8217;t losing weight because he wasn&#8217;t able to eat as often as he&#8217;d been told to. And even worse. He&#8217;d been told to replace the sodas he was used to treat drinking with fruit juices, which he&#8217;d also been complying with. And again, the skip gets back to the idea that we need to eat by the clock. One of the most wonderful things about returning to an ancestral diet of eating the foods that are fit for humans, the ones that your body expects and has adapted to over millions of years of human evolution is that it restores your hunger and satiety cues. One of the many problems with so many of the foods that are eaten today is that they hijack the parts of our brain that generates our feelings of hunger or satiety. And those feelings are there so that we know when to eat and when we know when to stop eating.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">We&#8217;re not supposed to have to override those feelings to keep ourselves healthy. But the only reason we do is because those feelings evolved in response to the set of foods in our natural habitat. So when we stick to those foods, when we stick to ones that are evolutionarily appropriate, ones that are found in our natural habitat, the hunger and satiety cues once again can be trusted as accurate markers of when to eat and when to not eat for optimum health. And the only reason so many people today find themselves in a situation where they don&#8217;t trust those hunger and satiety cues that are being generated by their own brain is because we now have access to so many foods that not only weren&#8217;t part of our ancestral environment, but that have been explicitly designed to hijack our food reward centers. Every animal on the planet eats when he or she is hungry and stops when he or she is full. And just by doing that, they will be able to maintain body fat within a narrow range. One that&#8217;s appropriate for their species. And again, that&#8217;s provided you&#8217;re eating foods that are appropriate for your species. And so when you return to eating evolutionarily appropriate foods, you can once again rely on the millions of years of evolved wisdom that are embedded into your brain&#8217;s food reward circuitry.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And once again, trust, hunger and satiety use. And that means no longer eating by the clock. Again, just like the ideas of specific foods for breakfast, lunch and dinner are a product of conditioning. So is this idea of set mealtimes and the idea that we need three meals a day, or in the case of my poor patient, getting terrible nutritional advice, six meals a day. So instead of eating by the clock, you simply eat when you&#8217;re hungry and stop when you&#8217;re full. Just as it&#8217;s supposed to be. And over time, most people who transition to the plan and stop eating by the clock and instead start following hunger and satiety cues instead will tend to move to two meals a day. As you&#8217;ve heard from several of our people and our success stories, that&#8217;s become my pattern as well. And this isn&#8217;t surprising as studies on indigenous Hunter-Gatherer populations indicated, this is common, that they often eat one large meal a day and then maybe one smaller one. I can still remember years ago, after transitioning to eating this way and not being hungry at my usual lunchtime it and not eating people around me, being alarmed that I hadn&#8217;t eaten as if I&#8217;d skipped lunch and didn&#8217;t have anything to eat by like two o&#8217;clock, something terrible was going to happen. And it really is quite incredible to see how locked in a lot of people are to thinking that three meals a day is a necessity, as if you skipped lunch.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Something terrible is going to happen. So the three meals a day convention, just like the idea that breakfast involves a different set of foods, is a cultural invention and a fairly recent one at that, probably starting in the Industrial Revolution with our transition to quote, 9:00 to 5:00 work outside of our homes, or in the words of one study on this topic, that the idea of separate mealtimes, quote, evolved more for socio cultural reasons than physiological imperatives. In other words, this three meals a day thing is not our natural pattern. And then the third key mindset shift about food has been to see it as nourishing and protective. Obviously, food is essential for life. It delivers. Energy protein for body structure and function and nutrients that are critical for life. But a lot of migrant workers have been conditioned to be somewhat fearful of food, to be on the lookout for their triggers. And that&#8217;s another reason I think it&#8217;s so important. As discussed in the last episode, to move away from this idea of food as triggers and to move away from thinking that avoiding triggers is a key lifestyle component of micromanagement. Not only has this focus on environmental triggers distracted us from the underlying root causes, as I discussed in the last episode, but it can also lead to an unhealthy relationship towards food, one that creates this negative framing around food where our objective is to find the foods that harm us.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">But as I&#8217;ve talked about before, the much healthier and more productive view of things is to think of our objective as being to identify the foods that nourish and protect us. The foods that restore metabolic and gut health that allow us to thrive, and that impact us in a multitude of ways, all the way down to which genes are turned off and on to afford us protection against the beast. And we&#8217;re fortunate to have access to so many foods that fit that bill. OK, so those are the three key mindset shifts that have been super helpful for me. Super helpful for a lot of the people that we&#8217;ve worked with. And to recap, the first one being to lose the idea that there&#8217;s such a thing as breakfast, lunch and dinner foods, or that there need to be different foods for different times of day. The second key mindset shift being that you don&#8217;t need to eat by the clock and that you don&#8217;t have to adhere to a three meals a day schedule that is a cultural convention and not a biological need. And the third, to shifting from looking for the foods that harm you as a migrant or to looking for triggers and instead looking for all the foods that are nourishing and protective.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">All right. That&#8217;s all for this podcast. I will be back next time with another inspiring migraine musical success story. Thanks so much for listening, as always. If you enjoyed this podcast, it&#8217;d be great if you left a rating and review in items that really does help. All right. Now it&#8217;s time to go out, slay the beast.</p>
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		<title>The Truth About Migraine Triggers</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh Turknett, MD]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2020 20:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Could focusing on migraine triggers be undermining your efforts to reach migraine freedom?</p>
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<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Welcome to the migraine miracle moment. I&#8217;m your host, Dr Josh Turknett. I&#8217;m a neurologist, migraines, specialist, migraines suffer and author of the book The Migraine Miracle. In this podcast, you&#8217;ll learn all about how to find your path to migraines. Freedom without pills. Let&#8217;s get started.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Howdy Beast Slayers. Welcome to another episode of The Miracle Moment. So in the world of migraine, triggers are a big topic and by triggers I mean, things that you do or things that you eat that tend to be associated with the onset of migraine. And so, not surprisingly, they are an area of significant concern for many migraineurs. Now, I&#8217;ve talked about the past, that the typical approach to migraine care amongst doctors and other health care providers. It&#8217;s first and foremost about choosing a drug. And I&#8217;m sure many of you know this and are familiar with this approach. So when you go to see your doctor, including your neurologist, that&#8217;s more than likely going to be the primary or only focus. What drug or combination of drugs you should take for your migraines? And in many cases, unfortunately, that&#8217;s where the migraine care starts and ends. If there is any discussion about the role of lifestyle with respect to migraines, it&#8217;s almost certainly going to be around the idea of migraine triggers. So, again, things that you eat or things that you do that tend to bring on a migraine or seem to increase the chances that you will get one. So in this case, you might be given a list of possible triggers to consider avoiding. You might be encouraged to keep a migraine diary in hopes of finding what your triggers are or if there are ones that are particularly relevant for you. And that really is the sum total of the traditional approach to migraine care in 2020.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And you know as well as I do that that approach has left a lot to be desired. And I would claim that this is because we&#8217;ve missed the big picture of migraine. And that also includes thinking about this idea of triggers in the wrong way. And hopefully by the end of this episode, I imagine many of you will reframe how you think about triggers, hopefully in a way that hopefully makes it much more likely that you will advance down the road to migraine freedom. Now, one of the reasons I think that we&#8217;ve missed the big the big picture of migraine here is that there&#8217;s this false narrative that migraines are this inescapable genetic condition, which I think still remains the dominant bias. And that has kept us from digging, digging deeper into the root causes of what&#8217;s going on. And, of course, as I&#8217;ve talked about in prior episodes, we know this isn&#8217;t the case. We know that it is not purely genetic condition. Far from it. There may be certain genes that render you more susceptible. But genes alone are not enough to lead to migraines. But this idea that they are sort of inescapable and inevitable has kept us from asking if perhaps there are some deeper, fundamental root causes that were driven by our environment beyond this whole idea of triggers. And this has led to this typical conversation about the role of environment and diet and lifestyle centering on these relatively minor details that become largely irrelevant once they&#8217;re placed in the broader picture.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And so placing triggers within the context of this broader picture is what I&#8217;m going to be talking about in this episode. And one of the reasons for doing this episode is because I see a lot of people get hung up on the concept of triggers, and it&#8217;s hard for them to kind of reframe or reorient how to think about them in the context of the migrant miracle plan. And that&#8217;s because many people have been thinking in these terms for so long. And as I&#8217;ve talked about before. One of the biggest barriers to reaching migraine freedom is kind of this old story that&#8217;s so pervasive and hard to let go of. And I talk about, you know, ditching the old story in favor of the new story as one of the most important parts about moving towards migrant freedom. So I&#8217;m going to begin this discussion with a thought experiment. So imagine that you&#8217;ve just gone through chemotherapy for blood cancer. And as you probably know, the goal of chemotherapy is to kill the cancer cells inside the body. However, one of the major downsides is that it often kills some of your body&#8217;s own cells as well. And one particularly vulnerable part of the body are the cells of your immune system. So it&#8217;s not uncommon after undergoing chemotherapy for the immune system to be severely weakened. And when that happens, you have germs or microorganisms that you normally encounter every day, that you can typically fight off with ease. That never caused any infections or problems, but that now pose a threat in the face of your compromised immune system.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And so you have to be very cautious, much more cautious than normal. And so in general, you will do things that you wouldn&#8217;t ordinarily do to minimize the chances that you will encounter one of these germs that are now dangerous for. Now, you wouldn&#8217;t consider that strategy a treatment of a compromised immune system. Right. It&#8217;s just that meat means of damage control. It&#8217;s a way of making do as best you can in the face of a compromised immune system. If your condition was fixed and permanent. In other words, if there was no chance that this that your immune system was going to recover in any way, then that may be the best that you could do. But it&#8217;s still not treating the root cause. Treating the root cause would be rebuilding the immune system either, you know, allowing it to recover over time. If it can do so or by doing something like a stem cell transplant, those would be root cause solutions. Now, as long as you do have a weakened immune system, it&#8217;s prudent to avoid the germs or microorganisms that would lead to an infection that you could fight off easily with a healthy, robust immune system. And then once your immune system has recovered, you no longer need to do so to that degree. You can now handle those microorganisms. So now how does this analogy or this thought experiment relate to migraines? In this case? The migraines is like the immunocompromised patient in that he or she has been rendered vulnerable to these recurring attacks of debilitating head pain that can be brought out by environmental exposures and behaviors that don&#8217;t pose an issue for other people or don&#8217;t pose an issue for that same individual when they&#8217;re not in that vulnerable state.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And so in this case, triggers are analogous to the germs that someone with a healthy immune system can fight off easily. And so the key takeaway here from this analogy is that if we&#8217;re interested in a long term solution, a root cause solution, then the most important thing to focus energy on isn&#8217;t the triggers, but rather the reason why the brain has been made vulnerable to those triggers in the first place. And again, if you think this vulnerability is just an inherent property of some brains that some brains have and others don&#8217;t, then it doesn&#8217;t make sense to do do this. But if you realize that this is not the case, that there is something deeper at work, there is something environmental that is producing this vulnerability, then it makes sense for the primary focus to shift towards addressing that underlying factor or factors. And so while avoiding trigger triggers is a sensible strategy in the short term, you can see that viewing it as your primary long term strategy would prevent you from addressing the most important factors of all that are driving the whole process. And that allows us to separate environmental factors into the things that may trigger a migraine or increase the likelihood of one in the face of this heightened vulnerability.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And then there&#8217;s other category of things that produce the heightened vulnerability in the first place. And those are two separate, entirely separate categories. That&#8217;s a super important point to understand. Now, after you&#8217;ve reframed it, the next question, of course, is what factors are causing this heightened state of vulnerability? And this, of course, is the primary focus of the Mogra medical plan and of this podcast. But I think it&#8217;s important to frame it in this way so that we can disentangle it from the discussion around triggers, which I know it can be a point of confusion for people. And so, broadly speaking, if we&#8217;re talking about the things that lead to this heightened vulnerability, it is environmental mismatch. And what I mean is mismatch between the present environment that we live in now and our an ancestral habitat where the habitat and the environment where our biology evolved for almost the entirety of human evolution. Now, mismatch is a broad term and encompasses many things. It encompasses a great many environmental exposures and behaviors. And those mismatches have consequences in several key ways that make us vulnerable to migraines. Some of those ways are known, or at least we have a pretty good handle on, and some are surely yet to be determined at this point. I think you can make a very strong case that there&#8217;s likely a combination of inflammation in the gut and in the brain. We have talked about in prior episodes that&#8217;s brought about by impairments in the permeability of the gut barrier and the blood brain barrier, as well as metabolic inflexibility or the inability to readily shift between glucose or sugar and fat as our fuel source.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And those two things, metabolic inflexibility, as well as impairments in gut permeability, inflammation in the gut and blood brain barrier, as well as systemic inflammation, are all strongly driven by environmental mismatches. And these are some of the key processes that we&#8217;re trying to impact when we are making these diet and lifestyle adjustments in order to lessen or eliminate this state of vulnerability. And I shouldn&#8217;t. Also neglect the significant role of the medications themselves, the board of medications and significant role of rebound and its direct impact on pain circuitry and sort of the maladaptive changes that occur over time with chronic exposure to those medications, as well as the direct impact that nonsteroidal antiinflammatory medications like I&#8217;m Provan and Naproxen have on the gut, as they have been shown to directly increase gut permeability. So that&#8217;s another means by which they likely can help in the short run, but then make things worse in the long run. So if you put all these things together to try to create a model for how this state of heightened vulnerability comes to be, we have these food and lifestyle factors that impair gut for mobility, which leads to the absorption into the body of foreign proteins that then activate the immune system that cause inflammation, that inflammation is linked to impairments in the blood brain barrier, which then leads to the brain being exposed to foreign, since the substances that are inflammatory, which then produces this state of heightened vulnerability to migraines.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And then you couple that with the excessive strain on the hypothalamus, the part of the brain where the evidence indicates migraines begin from challenges to maintaining homeostasis that are a direct result of our modern environment, such as the challenge of maintaining energy homeostasis. When you have a diet that&#8217;s high in refined carbohydrates or when you have significant disruptions in sleep wake cycles and circadian alignment and so forth, and so it is the combined effect of all these things that then put the puts the brain into this state of heightened vulnerability where now triggers that we commonly think of are relevant. And so if your goal is a long term lasting solution for migraines, the strategy should be to focus on the things that are resulting in that heightened state of vulnerability rather than the triggers themselves. And that&#8217;s precisely what we&#8217;re focusing on with the micro miracle plan. And the Ketu for migraine plan, addressing those factors that over time lead to this heightened state of vulnerability. And so the ultimate reason for reducing mismatch in our lives by doing things like eliminating refined carbohydrates and gluten, grains, increasing sunlight, physical activity and so forth, is in order to bring our lives back in line with what&#8217;s evolutionarily appropriate, not because we&#8217;re trying to reduce triggers, it&#8217;s because we&#8217;re trying to make it so that we&#8217;re no longer vulnerable to those triggers, just as the things that we would do to boost our immune system is also targeting the underlying reason why we&#8217;re susceptible to infections by germs that are normally harmless.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And so for those of you who are putting the plan into action or just getting started or whatever, and you&#8217;re thinking about all the facets of the plan and the things that build the three pillars, don&#8217;t make the mistake of lumping them in in the same way you&#8217;d think of triggers. And the whole reason for writing the book and doing this podcast is because this is the big thing that we&#8217;ve been missing, the missing piece that has allowed so many people take to take their lives back. That is not currently part of the conventional conversation about migraines, but desperately needs to be. And so this means that when you&#8217;re putting these things into action, you are doing so for the long term. These are long term changes that you are trying to promote in the body to ultimately eliminate this underlying vulnerability, which is very different than avoiding a trigger that might provoke a migraine in the next few hours. All right. So hopefully that analogy and discussion will help to kind of clarify the differences between the traditional approach to migrant care and avoiding triggers and the migraine miracle plan. As always, if you enjoy this podcast to be great, if you left a rating and review in items, it really does help other people to find it.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">I will be back in the next episode with another fantastic success story. So something to look forward to. If you are looking for more resources, resources into how to put the miring miracle plan into action, you can head over to the Web site micrometer. Com and click on the resources tab on the top. All right. That&#8217;s all for this episode. So now it&#8217;s time to go out and slay the beast.</p>
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		<title>40 Myths About the Keto Diet Debunked</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2020 21:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As many of you know, fear mongering about the ketogenic diet is rampant, which has led to the spread of a host of myths about it.</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 40px;">1) The book &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Keto-Migraine-Ketogenic-Sufferers-Physicians-ebook/dp/B0829FN1F4/">Keto for Migraine</a>&#8220;</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Like so many other migraine sufferers, Josette had reached the point where she was in &#8220;survival mode,&#8221; doing whatever it took to make it through the day.</p>
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<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Welcome to the migraine miracle moment. I&#8217;m your host, Dr. Josh Turknett. I&#8217;m a neurologist, migraine specialist, migraine sufferer and author of the book The Migraine Miracle. In this podcast, you&#8217;ll learn all about how to find your path to migraine freedom without pills. Let&#8217;s get started.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Hello. Welcome to another episode of The Miracle Moment. Like many of you, I imagine, I am currently social distancing and quarantining with the rest of my family. First of all, I hope that you and your family are safe and well right now and managing as best as you can. And like so many of us right now, you probably find yourself with a little bit of extra time on your hands. So we&#8217;ve got a great episode ahead of you.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">I am delighted to be joined today with a special guest, a migraineverland member, Josette Wedge, who has been kind enough to share her wonderful story with you guys. I think you&#8217;re going to really enjoy it and find it inspiring and motivating as so many others of these stories have been. Just a real quick announcement before we get to that. Amidst all of the recent upheaval around Coronavirus or COVID 19, I have expanded my tele neurology practice, which means two things. First, if you&#8217;re a resident of the state of Georgia, I can now be your virtual neurologist and take you on as a patient. And I take Medicare and most major forms of insurance.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And if you&#8217;re not a Georgia resident, but you are a member of migraineverland, I have opened up more slots for one on one coaching visits. So this is something that I&#8217;ve been offering to members, but my available slots had been filled up for a while and I now have more time to accommodate doing these. And I&#8217;ve changed the way that they are structured so that I can now accommodate more people. So you can find out more about that and book a visit by going to my migrant miracle dot com and clicking on the work with Dr. T tab on the upper menu that has been recently added. And I will also place a link to that in the podcast description. If you are a migrant ever land member, you can go to your member home page and click book a session with Dr. T. OK. Now it is time for the interview. Just as a reminder, after we&#8217;re finished. Jenny and I will come back with some final thoughts and takeaways. So stay tuned for that as well.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">All right, so we are delighted to be joined today by special guest Josette, who is going to share her migraines story with us. So welcome to the podcast, Josette. Thank you. So if we can start maybe by you just telling us a little bit about yourself.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Sure. So I&#8217;m 56 years old. Married second time. I have two wonderful adult children from my first marriage, 31 year old daughter who is expecting our first baby, my grandchild. And then in July.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Thank you. And a 28 year old son and I also have three wonderful stepchildren and two adorable step granddaughters. I live in New Brunswick, Canada. I am an engineer turned project manager. So I worked my whole career, mostly in the I.T. field. I&#8217;m very active. I have a lot of interests and activities. And I just I have a very rich and fulfilling life. But up until last spring, I was starting to get pretty discouraged about having such a great life, but not being able to enjoy it. Yes.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yes. No. The feeling of migraines.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yeah. Yeah. Right.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">So, yeah, I discovered the migraines miracle plan in June.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Ok. That&#8217;s a Juno. Do you have 2092 in it? Exactly.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Exactly. So how long is your journey with to be spent? Ben, do you remember when it first started or when you were first visited?</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yeah, I do actually. I&#8217;ve actually been thinking about the whole history of it. And there&#8217;s actually kind of two chapters to my to my story. I&#8217;ve essentially had migraines my my whole adult life. They started I had headaches even as a child, but nothing debilitating or life changing, just annoying little headaches here and there. The first migraines I remember having was in my last year of university. I was studying for exams and I got such a bad headache and I vomited and I thought, oh, my God.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">I think I studied too hard, really bad.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">So that was the first time I really remember being debilitated and feeling so awful. And, you know, I would have been twenty two. And then, you know, I didn&#8217;t have a lot of migraines till after my children were born in 88 and 91. And I do remember them being small and and having these horrible headaches and vomiting and and, you know, trying to figure out what what the heck was wrong with me. Right. Yeah. So this would have been, you know, the early 90s. And I&#8217;ve I&#8217;ve seen my doctor quite a bit in the last year. And we went back and looked at my file and she prescribed Imitrex to me in 1994.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">What I really wants. Uh-Huh.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">One of the early ones. Yeah. And you know, like everybody else, it it was just a little miracle at the start of like, oh my God. Here&#8217;s the answer to my problem. You know, I&#8217;m now going to be able to function through these horrible events. And it did. It helped for a few years. And then, you know, fast forward to to like this was 94. So, you know, by 2005, 2006, all of a sudden, I&#8217;m having 18 to 20 of these a month. And I&#8217;m like, well, this is like this is out of control. The medication was still working. Okay. But I just felt so horrible. Just so horrible. Like it would make my heart rate faster or my heart beat faster. And. And, you know, as I started asking her, like, there&#8217;s gotta be another solution. And all she could do, you know, the only solution she had was like beta blockers and other preventative. And that did not interest me. So I did try some Chinese acupuncture extensively. You know, for a year in 2007, I did that and it actually got rid of the migraines. So that helped for several years. So that was kind of my Imitrex and acupuncture chapter.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Right. And, you know, that was 2007, 2008. Then, you know, I felt okay for four or five years. I&#8217;d still have little headaches here and there. But then the migraines came back. And in January of 2013, Excedrin migraines. Suggested to me and I took one during a migration and it helped and I thought, well, jeez, these can&#8217;t be too bad, they&#8217;re not even prescription medication. And then I started taking notes and, you know, for a few years it helped me be functional. But those got worse a lot quicker. And I also had gone through Rumen. I was going through menopause at that time. So I attributed it to being hormonal. And I just kind of thought they would kind of go away, but they didn&#8217;t take got worse. And then here I was stuck on this Excedrin migraines, which, you know, within four or five years back at the same place, 18 to 20 a month. And it&#8217;s not working. And the only thing the doctor can suggest is preventative and IV like I do not want to take more meds. Right. So what happened last? And I did go back to the acupuncture, but this time it really didn&#8217;t make a difference.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">It made you know, it made no difference at all, really. And it was expensive. I&#8217;d have to go to Toronto and fly there and tell night and my assurance wouldn&#8217;t cover much of it. So I just stopped and I didn&#8217;t quite know what I was going to do. And that brought me to last spring, like the spring of 2019. And I just I tried many different things. I took the that I hired a meditation coach. I brought a meditation practice into my life. I took Chee Gong, I saw a natural path. She told me to stop gluten and sugar, which I did her and I would see marginal improvements, but not really right. I was still and not by then. You know, I&#8217;d have to take not just one Excedrin, my grain, but three or four throughout the day and still have a headache. So I was supplementing that with that bill and I was like, oh, my God, this is so wrong. This is just does not feel right. Right. So I went back to see my doctor in June of last year, 2019, and she says, oh, yeah, you have to stop taking those abortive medications. They give you a rebound.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And, you know, I panicked. You&#8217;re like, well, what? OK. Yeah. Well, what now?</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And she and she did prescribe me the me trip to learn the anti-depressants. So I think this is like an off label use.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yes. So I was I was scared to death about stopping, but I knew deep down that that I had to do it.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">So it took me a week. I kept taking them for about a week. And then one morning I said, that&#8217;s it. I&#8217;m going to power through one. And it was horrible. And I thought, oh, my God, am I ever going to wean myself off this medication? And then I Googled how to detox from migraine medication.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And that&#8217;s how I found you. Oh, let her hear how this happened. Yes. Yeah.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">So, you know, I&#8217;ve I&#8217;ve heard some of the stories where the the meds were like the last thing for them. For me, it was the first face that I. Yeah. But I mean, I had been tweaking and looking for improvements here and there, but never had I found like a holistic plan to follow that. I, you know, was very hopeful, would bring me to to the finish line or two to a better place. Right.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">So what were the kind of the first things once you kind of found found your way to us were kind of the first things you did.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">The diet, the diet. Well, first of all, I realized I could not take any abortive medication. And I didn&#8217;t talk about pacing myself. I just said, I&#8217;m not doing it anymore. I&#8217;m going to power. Yeah. I went cold turkey for sure. And then it was really about changing my diet, eliminating every, you know, all the refined carbs and the oils like the bad oils and lowering my carb content. I had no idea that many.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">That&#8217;s kind of experience his.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And you know, I do. I did. I certainly learned that all Cheetos are not created equal. Right. I learned the hard way that some of the Kito Foods are not my growing miracle friendly.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Right, at all. At all. I think we&#8217;ve all done that. Yes. Well, I think you kind of have to write because you don&#8217;t really want your bit in denial. Yes. Right. Yeah. I really need to give all that up. Right.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And then and then you kind of try to skirt around it and then you realize. Yeah, you do. You really do. But the good news is that, you know, when I when I first started getting my head around how I had to change my eating plan, I was kind of devastated. But now the way I eat, I like I&#8217;m so satisfied and I enjoy my food so much.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Right. Like what? What was I worried about? I mean that. Oh, yes.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">It&#8217;s it&#8217;s really life changing. Yeah. It really, really is. You know, I I joke, I tell my friends and my family. I&#8217;ve been looking for a solution for so long. Like I&#8217;ve been wondering what the heck was happening to me for so long. Why do people not live their lives normally and not have this debilitating right brain? And I do. Right. And I knew it was something within me, but and I knew it was this and that and this and that. But to have this knowledge and understand the principles. It&#8217;s like a superpower. I feel like I&#8217;ve been giving given a superpower.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yeah. It&#8217;s it&#8217;s kind of like, you know, all these pieces of information and observations that may have felt completely disconnected at some point. And now they kind of all come together and fit into a cohesive picture. And you&#8217;re right. Once you kind of figure that out and realize it, underneath it are some just some fundamental principles that you can follow and apply. And everything makes sense and everything works when you do that. I agree. It feels feels magical, feel like a superpower.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">It really, really does. Yeah. No, it&#8217;s it&#8217;s fantastic.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And have you so you alluded to this already that you in terms if you&#8217;re enjoying eating more and feeling more satisfied. Obviously, your your head feels better. Have there been other benefits in terms of the way you feel and live that you&#8217;ve that you&#8217;ve experienced since kind of making these changes?</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">So, absolutely. First of all, I&#8217;ve lost 25 pounds, which is huge because I&#8217;m I mean, I&#8217;m five, three and a half. And, you know, I had like ten fifteen pounds that I was OK to get would get rid of. But twenty five pounds is significant. I&#8217;m definitely the leanest I&#8217;ve been in my adult life. I&#8217;ve had to get all new pants like my my vest do not fit anymore.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And right now we&#8217;re talking two sizes down and I&#8217;m okay with all of this. And I just feel so good and clearheaded and joyful and like oh and my husband. I&#8217;ve been telling him lately, I don&#8217;t want to sound like a hippie, but I feel so spiritual.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yes.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">It&#8217;s like I&#8217;ve I&#8217;ve gone from survival mode to like, you know, how am I gonna get through this day? My going to be able to work today? Am I going to be able to show up at this event? Right. I&#8217;ve gone gone from that to like just feeling like I&#8217;ve got control of my life again, being able to make plans and knowing that I&#8217;ll probably be able to show up as long as long as I keep doing this plan, which is now, you know, becoming so routine and second nature.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Right. Yeah. Really? Athlete reconfigures kind of what you&#8217;re saying, your sense of what&#8217;s possible, right?</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Oh, my God. It changes everything. It absolutely changes everything. Yeah. Because, I mean, I&#8217;m a very positive, optimistic horizon. And I&#8217;ve heard you say that you don&#8217;t like to talk. What? You didn&#8217;t like to talk about the migraines. Once they were done, they were done. Right. I&#8217;m the same. And I didn&#8217;t like to complain about them. I just wanted them to go away.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">But now there&#8217;s plan. I could talk about it till I&#8217;m blue in the face. Exactly. That&#8217;s kind of why I just myself.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Some people are very open to it and they want to learn and hear. And, you know, other people. And you are right. Nutrition is a very controversial, opinionated field indeed.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Almost like religion. It is. Yes. Yeah.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And I mean, I don&#8217;t want to argue I don&#8217;t want to debate. I just want to do this plan and keep getting better. Right. Yeah. And one thing that I realized is my eating plan has become so simple. Like, it&#8217;s so simple. It saw it&#8217;s radical. In this day and age, because, you know. I know. So I also do the intermittent fasting. I essentially only eat from noon to 6 p.m.. It is really important that I don&#8217;t eat a good four or five hours before I go to bed. Yeah. So. And in the morning I drink fast coffee with NCT oil and cream in it. And I enjoy my coffee so much.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">But I get it. I drink.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">I eat from 12 to 6. So it&#8217;s super simple. And my my meals are very simple, but it is radical because it&#8217;s so different from the mainstream. I&#8217;m no longer part of the three meals a day crowds.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Right.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Socially, it&#8217;s a bit of a challenge. I haven&#8217;t figured all of that out yet. I read Lucent lately to Lori&#8217;s podcast. A lot of what she said was very helpful on how to kind of just adjust your life because I don&#8217;t want to miss on social events. I don&#8217;t want to offend anybody, but I want to keep feeling well.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Right. Right.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">You know, I know what the dos and don&#8217;ts for me.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yeah, it&#8217;s kind of it&#8217;s own skill set. You know, you figure out your own life habits in terms of what you&#8217;re eating, what you&#8217;re doing and so forth. And then you kind of figure out these other situations that you have to have to work through to Dino so that you can stay successful and then still participate in all the things you want to do. Exactly.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Exactly. And one of the things that I really appreciate about the plan and and the way you communicate your work is to really encouraging people to understand the principles, not.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yes. So that they understand the rules. Yeah. Not just write rules. Right. And your analogies are wonderful. I absolutely adore your analogies. Yeah.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">No, they&#8217;re helpful if they really help you understand different concepts and principles. And, you know, you&#8217;d I don&#8217;t need to be a doctor to understand, but but it really helps me to know that you&#8217;re a doctor and you have migraines and and, you know, you don&#8217;t make any statements unless there&#8217;s meat behind them. So, you know, it&#8217;s it&#8217;s been important to me once I did discover you back in June.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">I just. That&#8217;s all I wanted to do is listen to your bio guy material.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">I just wanted to download all this information into my head, like the faster the better. And I. And once I learned about this community, I joined and I went through the Peace Slayer Academy, which was so cool. And, you know, it takes a while because there is a lot to know and understand. Right. But you just have you know, I committed to spending in the beginning. I would spend a few hours every day. And now I, you know, either listen to a podcast or reread or something. But I like every day I commit to spending some time learning or reinforcing or free readings because, you know, you do miss stuff the first time for different reasons. Usually you&#8217;re not. You either glossed over it or it it just didn&#8217;t sink in.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Right. Or was it the right time? Right.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Why isn&#8217;t the right time? Well, one time or when I first read about that, just doing water with Himalayan salt the first time, I think I put it a teaspoon of salt in my water.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And I thought, oh, my God, I&#8217;m like I bagged it with a. I just drank beer. I read.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">I know it was terrible.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">So I went back and said, oh, Pancho, that&#8217;s better.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And, you know, it works. It works better because I could drink it. Right. Right. And it yeah, it really does help to understand the principles. For example, I use the starvin sink approach like that&#8217;s what I use the most in the beginning and I was already doing intermittent fasting. So it wasn&#8217;t that big a deal for me to to not eat. Plus I just felt so terrible I couldn&#8217;t eat anyways.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">But it helped me to understand that it was this excess of energy. Brown Yes.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">You know for many years I would read on migraines and there were the literature would say stuff about swelling of the blood, the blood vessels in your head. And I thought, oh, well, maybe it&#8217;s related to blood flow. But then when I went and listened to your podcast on Starve in Sync and it talked about energy and, you know, by starving you, you start putting more energy in. By exercising, you burn some of that energy like it made the whole difference in the world. Otherwise, I might have thought it would have been okay to eat a little bit more, you know, because I had incorrectly assumed that it was bloodflow related. Right. But it wasn&#8217;t mad at all. Right. Yeah. So it is so critical to understand the principles, not just the rules.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yeah, I like what you said to you. You mentioned that you put in the work initially to to to learn everything and, you know, to go through as much as you could. But but now that you&#8217;re on the other side of it, not only have you experienced results, but things are a lot simpler with the other side of all that knowledge is is simplified.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">So much of your life is really, really high. Yeah.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And I think that&#8217;s a really important point to make. So you you mentioned that you did go cold turkey. And I know that since that transitional phase where, you know, you were you were faced with this, your daughter saying, you know, you yourself, your borders and yours, I say, now what? For many, that&#8217;s that&#8217;s the most. That&#8217;s the scariest idea. And that&#8217;s the biggest obstacle. How how long was it for you between the time you said, okay, that&#8217;s it and the time you could start seeing some? Measure of progress.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">So this after the first day of my agreeing with the vomiting that followed, like with seven days of headaches. And I would go walk and sometimes it would clear it. In the end, it wasn&#8217;t like debilitating headache for seven or eight days. I could still work. But for me, I&#8217;d often get my migraines in the middle of the night. I&#8217;d we have that tour career and with a migraine and I would take the Excedrin and and I&#8217;d be awake for a few hours and go back to sleep. So when I stopped taking them, I kept getting those headaches in the middle of the night. But I I wouldn&#8217;t take anything. And I think it was like eight days later that I finally woke up one morning and I had no headache for the first time since I stopped.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And I started sobbing like, oh, my God, finally. Right. Right. It has cleared.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">It cleared.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">But, you know, it was a difficult, difficult thing to do. Probably one of the most difficult things I&#8217;ve done. Yeah, but you know. But so worth it. So worth it. What what keeps you motivated? Is it is the hope and the knowledge that other people have gone through this and it works, you know? And I kept thinking to myself, I&#8217;ve been taking a board of medication for twenty five years. Imagine, you know, how toxic this has been to my my body.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">It also I really like your analogy about losing your natural painkilling ability.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">You know, the little firemen, firefighters show up for the firefighters fight.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And I kept thinking, OK, every time I&#8217;d power through my brain, I think, OK, my natural pain killing ability is coming back. Right. And then when it would finally clear, you know, I feel I feel fine. You know, migraines are the most bizarre thing because you can be debilitated and then all of a sudden it passes and you.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Okay. You&#8217;re normal again. Right. And it&#8217;s not visible. It&#8217;s not fatal. Now, you know what? And unless you have had a migraine, if people don&#8217;t get it now, they just don&#8217;t get it. So, you know, the community is everything. And I. And I get that they don&#8217;t get.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And I&#8217;m fine with that. Right. Right on. I&#8217;m sure some people go through things that I have no idea about, but it&#8217;s so helpful to have a community that gets it.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yeah, for sure. Yeah. It&#8217;s it&#8217;s it&#8217;s it&#8217;s hard. I&#8217;ve said this before. It&#8217;s hard for people to relate to. It&#8217;s hard for me to remember just how excruciating my experiences after I&#8217;ve had. I like you. Like I like you. We talked about before. I just want to move on. And I often, you know, can&#8217;t even relate. Doh! Doh! It&#8217;s happened again. Just exactly. Just what it&#8217;s like. And it&#8217;s it&#8217;s not like.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Well, even now. No, it&#8217;s not. It&#8217;s not. And I mean, people are sympathetic and passionate. But yeah. No, you can&#8217;t. And it&#8217;s not visible. You have a cast that you&#8217;re not bleeding. It&#8217;s it&#8217;s it&#8217;s a weird one.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And it&#8217;s it&#8217;s a lonely experience because of that, too.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yes, absolutely. One of the other analogies that I really like is the angry bird one. So I worked in software development for many years. And it&#8217;s this is kind of similar, not quite the same, but kind of similar. So in software or in applications. Right. If somebody if a bug shows off like a defect shows up, the very first step in troubleshooting is recreate the bug. What were the conditions that that brought to us? Right. In fact, that led to it. And then once you you can recreate it, that allows the coders to know where to start looking. Otherwise, they have to read through, you know, thousands of lines of code, which would take hours and hours. So it&#8217;s kind of the same thing. It&#8217;s just more practical, more logical to understand, you know, what conditions brought on. Right. The bugs. So I like that analogy a lot. It made me think of that.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yes. And and the related allergy of being careful when you monkey with the machine language. Yeah. I mean, I have any idea what you&#8217;re doing just yet.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And it&#8217;s not necessary. It is right. Is much more logical to to know what area is messed up.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Right. Sure. Yeah. Well, this has been great. If you know, if you if you could talk to someone who&#8217;s maybe in Europe where you were at before you went down this road contemplating doing likewise, is there anything that you would tell them or say to give them any words of encouragement?</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">For sure. The first thing I would say is this works. This is legit. And, you know, I heard a few people say and I was the same like that day after I powered through the first miring without medication and found you and I saw my great miracle online. Yeah. Right. Right.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Like it is just.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">I know I&#8217;m a pragmatic person, but I&#8217;m not like. But then I was so desperate. Yes. So. That&#8217;s right.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Well, you know, I haven&#8217;t really researched in a while. Maybe there is something out there that could help. And then as soon as I came onto your site and I read a bit about your story and, you know, this was a holistic approach and that you were my greener of like, OK as potential. Right. Yeah, that would be the first thing is this works. You know, you have to put in the work, so you have to follow the plan. But it definitely gets easier. And once you are on the other side of it, you&#8217;ll have a superpower not just for being free of migraines, but just taking the best care possible of you, your own health. Yeah, and I mean focusing on the process. You know, I read that book. Chop wood carrying water. I tell my husband all the time I&#8217;m watering my bamboo.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">I&#8217;m do a really weird thing that I like. I&#8217;m watering my bed when I&#8217;m alone.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">I think I can safely say I&#8217;m in phase three. Like last month I had one migraines. But it&#8217;s because I do have to be still super low carb like under-20. And, you know, I had I had had probably five or six days of feeling amazing.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And yeah, I think I got I got a bit cocky and I probably like 50 grams of carbs, like not bad ones, but it&#8217;s too much. And right. The next day had a horrible migraines. OK. No, I&#8217;m not there yet.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And just those limited times.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yeah. Now I know I&#8217;m getting close to a month without a migraine. Yeah. And I do think eventually I hope that I&#8217;ll be able to go, you know, twenty five grams and 30 grams. And it was just adding some of some of the Whole Foods that I can eat. But for now, I can&#8217;t. And that&#8217;s fine. I&#8217;m fine with that. I feel so wonderful. But you do have to focus on the process. And it is important to spend time learning the principles. You can&#8217;t just. No rules because you have to understand the principles so you can adapt to your different situations. Absolutely. Really understand what&#8217;s happening with you. Love the recipes. Jenny, they&#8217;re fantastic. Thank you. We tried. We&#8217;ve tried several of them. Another important thing for me has been the community in my Green Neverland community and my support network. You know, my my family, my husband has been so supportive and my family and then understanding that I&#8217;m making some significant changes. But they&#8217;re also happy. And I guess even backing up the number one thing is the mindset. First of all, believing that it&#8217;s possible, but also getting rid of some of these limiting beliefs like I can&#8217;t live without sugar. Yeah, I can.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">I haven&#8217;t really cared in life.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">But it is such a limiting, blocking belief. Yes. I mean, I don&#8217;t know if you have to read like to me, I had reached a point of desperation, like I was ready to try anything. Right. To be rid of migraines. So I don&#8217;t know if you have to reach that point or not. I. But changing, you know, accepting that once you know, that you need to do this thing, even if you think you can&#8217;t, you can. Yeah, you can.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">You just have to change your mind and figure out a way to adopt this new method or eating plan or whatever it is you need to change. What was really helpful to me. So I had already a lot of good habits. I had a meditation practice. I do yoga. I do weights. I&#8217;m a power walker. So the medication really was like key. I needed to stop it. Yes. And my diet, which I thought was pretty good other than I&#8217;m not going to lie, I had I had a wicked sweet tooth. Like, other than that, I ate what I thought was a healthy diet. Right. But changing to this diet. It&#8217;s been kind of radical. You know, I eat a lot of fruits and vegetables. Now it&#8217;s the smaller part of my diet for now. Yeah. I hope that with time I&#8217;ll be able to add some back. But right now, I mean, the big part of my diet is meat and fish and eggs and a little bit of produce and not for a little bit of dairy. Sorry and nuts and a little fruit and vegetables. But I feel so satisfied all the time and my energy is so stable and my crazy hunger pangs are gone. I never have those anymore. But you know, it it it takes a while to kind of reprogram your brain. And, you know, the whole fat is bad belief that.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">That&#8217;s a big one. That&#8217;s a big lie. And it&#8217;s funny because I&#8217;ve always loved like the fat on fat on pork chops. Right. And I eat it. I eat it.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">But I oh, I always can still see it. Oh, right. I&#8217;ve done that. But it&#8217;s still delicious. And I actually would feel so good. Right. So when, you know, I started reading this and I&#8217;m like. There you go. That makes sense to me. And now I eat it like consistently.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">There&#8217;s a reason your brain likes it. Yes.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yes, exactly. So the mindset is definitely that&#8217;s the first thing you have to address. For sure. For sure. The major miracle community is is key as well. Yes. Forces the success stories consistently hearing that this works. People can you can do it. And my trainers are tough. So there are a lot of wimpy bunch.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Not at all. We&#8217;ve gone through quite a bit.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Well, yeah, as you as you know, as as someone who was initially skeptical herself and and not for for good reason. These stories are incredibly helpful for, you know, helping others to see that this path can can work and for conquering that initial skepticism, which is pretty much natural for anybody who&#8217;s been in this position for any length of time. So really, really appreciate you taking time to share your story. All the wisdom you were, you filled with great points all the way around us. Thank you. Wonderful to hear.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And it&#8217;s been it&#8217;s totally my pleasure. And I thank you so much to both of you. Thank you. Honestly, it wouldn&#8217;t seem like enough. You have my endless gratitude. I feel like I&#8217;ve gotten my life back.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">All right. Well, thank you again, Josette, for sharing your story with us on the podcast. That was absolutely fabulous. That whole episode, whole interview is music to my ears. You said so many wonderful things and so made so many great points that I hope people will take in anything that stood out for you. Jenny?</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yeah, a few things. I loved how she talked about how you have to have the right mindset and get rid of limiting beliefs and also how she talked about how, you know, eating now she feels so satisfied and she is so happy with the way she eats. Now, even though initially she was really hesitant, which I think is something that all of us go through. Yeah. You know, we all have to make that same transition to experience it before we can believe it. So, again, just hoping that inspires others to give it a shot and and try it out and see how they feel on the other side of that. Right. And then also, I really love the point that, you know, she said you have to put in the work. And that&#8217;s so true. It&#8217;s not we&#8217;re not just going to, you know, hand a list of this and don&#8217;t do that. You got to really understand it. And, you know, like she said, she&#8217;s still commits time to, you know, reinforcing things each day. And, you know, we just started r-tex. Kito blast and she&#8217;s she&#8217;s done it before, but she&#8217;s joined that again, you know, to see, you know, what resonates for her this time. And and I just I like that commitment to the process in that and the continued commitment to the process.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Right. Yeah. I mean, you know, we&#8217;re not done. I&#8217;m all right. You know, this is a cup process for me that&#8217;s lifelong. We&#8217;ll continue to be so because it&#8217;s a important. But B, you know, once you experience what&#8217;s possible, you just want it to keep coming. And I said, what else can I do? That&#8217;s all I know. So you don&#8217;t want to. There&#8217;s plenty of motivation to want to continue to keep learning and seeing what else you can add in. And it just kind of compounds over time. So and not just for migraines, but also for every front office. Yes, absolutely. And this is why, you know, we&#8217;re just so I don&#8217;t really want to convince people that I&#8217;m right. I just want to get people to try it right. Because that&#8217;s all that really takes. You know, once people do it, then then the momentum takes care of itself. And it&#8217;s no longer, you know, having to convince them. It&#8217;s the way. I just want you to give it a shot and experience it for themselves. And so it&#8217;s that is more powerful than anything I could say. Been talking about the way your mindset changes around food. You know, I would have I&#8217;ve said this before, too, that I, you know, enjoy eating now so much more than I used to. But, you know, 10 years ago, a few had said for me to, you know, give up some of the things that I was used to eating out, I thought, what am I going to do? And do, you know, trend changing my diet this way would have seemed, you know, like a huge sacrifice.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">But like but a you know, migraines or no migraines, there&#8217;s no way I would go back to the way. Right. It&#8217;s oh, it&#8217;s a it&#8217;s really just completely transforms your experience of eating and your experience of food. It goes from that. It&#8217;s sort of like short you in the old days, you know, eating was a kind of drudgery. A lot of the time. But when it was pleasurable, it was kind of the short term, you know, a quick little burst of, you know, this tastes good, yummy. And then, you know, then it&#8217;s gone. And then oftentimes you kind of feel lousy for a while or whatever. And now you get this connection to this sort of lasting feeling of satisfaction and nourishment and everything that you connect to eating. And it&#8217;s just an entirely different experience and hard to hard to describe. And you&#8217;ve done it. And that&#8217;s. But we hear that so commonly, you know, that same the same idea that it seems like such a sacrifice in the beginning. And then you look back and you think, what in the world, you know.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">That&#8217;s right. Yes. I also like that she has clearly embraced a concept that this is a holistic approach. Right. That there&#8217;s no single silver bullet. There&#8217;s no single one thing. It is all the things that combination. And as she talked about, you know, the medication, peach&#8217;s was essential for her brand. And we know that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s one of three pillars. Right. One of the things, if you don&#8217;t have that pillar, it&#8217;s the other things that you&#8217;ve done. And she&#8217;d done a lot of great things to strengthen the other pillars, but did without dealing with the medication. p.p.s. wasn&#8217;t able to see this. The benefits from those other things. And now she has. She is. And also another important point to highlight was, you know, that she went cold turkey after a very long period of time with frequent medications. And, you know, eight, eight days into it, she woke up without it, you know, without any head pain and has been doing great since then. Sorry. You know, on the scale, the scope of things. And that&#8217;s a pretty common story. The timeframe is typically shorter than people think it&#8217;s going to be. And it becomes it because it&#8217;s easier every day. It&#8217;s not like, you know, the worst of it&#8217;s in the very beginning and then notice progress over time. So. Right. Another really key thing to keep in mind.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And also with regard to the diet piece, you know, she said, you know, to talking about this is not just, you know, the silver bullet thinking it&#8217;s one thing or another. She. Had already eliminated the gluten in the sugar, right? Then she realized there was more to even just the diet piece. Exactly right. So that she really needed to work on and refine and write tweak for herself.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Right. And she&#8217;s noticed now she mentioned that she now knows it&#8217;s kind of 20 grams a day is her threshold. And, you know, this is pretty another common story. Is it? You know, folks will fall in. A lot of folks will find it at least to get to the get through the earlier phases, you know, area on the lower side of carbohydrates. Most of the bulk of her calories are coming from animal foods. You know, it&#8217;s it&#8217;s hard it&#8217;s hard to stay under that threshold if you with a lot of fruits, vegetables in the diet. So you stick to the ones that are lower carbohydrate, the non starchy vegetables and so forth. And that&#8217;s a very, very common pattern that people, you know, just implementing the same principles. We don&#8217;t really say this is what you have to do. Here are the principles.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And most folks come upon that as their primary solution. I just think it&#8217;s it&#8217;s interesting. It&#8217;s certainly been our experience as well and in common to most most folks we&#8217;ve worked with. That&#8217;s right. All right. Well, I guess we&#8217;ll wrap it up. That&#8217;s right. OK. Thank you. Thank you, Joe, that so much for sharing your story. I know it&#8217;s going to help a lot of people, and that is all for this podcast. So now it is time for you guys to go out, slay the beast.</p>
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<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Hello, Beast Slayers. Welcome to another episode of the Migraine Miracle Moment podcast. Thank you for joining me. We are about to say goodbye to 2019 and we have a lot of exciting things coming in 2020, the first of which you will hear about this Saturday, an exciting announcement that will come also as an episode in this particular episode.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">This is going to be part two of the series on what supplements migrants should take. So in the first episode, we talked about what supplements migrant workers should consider taking that would fall into the category of what I would consider true supplementation. So correcting for a potential deficiency and ones that would be particularly relevant for someone who is prone to migraines. So if you haven&#8217;t listened to that episode, you might want to go back and listen to it first. In this one, we are going to be talking about the other kind of supplementation, which you can think of as therapeutic supplementation. And I think it&#8217;s probably the case that many folks, perhaps even most who take a supplement, are actually doing so for this particular reason rather than to correct a deficiency. So rather than the true idea behind supplementation.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">So in this case, with therapeutic supplementation, you&#8217;re trying rather than trying to correct a nutritional deficiency that we think exists for some reason we&#8217;re using a supplement essentially the same way we&#8217;d use a medication. So to achieve some kind of therapeutic benefit, thinking of the supplement as having some kind of medicinal value beyond just serving the basic needs that of human physiology.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And probably one reason so many people take supplements for this particular reason is because marketers have found it&#8217;s far easier to sell people something, something that they think will solve a particular problem rather than something they should do in the interest of their long term health, which is really the case with most supplementation. So just as a random example, people often take B12 and they do so to help with things like mental clarity or to well, to help with brain fog and someone who&#8217;s feeling tired and sluggish a lot will feel a lot more motivated to spend money on a B12 supplement if they think it will solve that problem. So in these cases, we&#8217;re essentially taking more than we need to meet our basic nutrient required requirements in hopes that it will achieve some particular goal. Yet there are very few instances where this is actually true. And most supplements that are marketed for things like this haven&#8217;t. We have never been shown to do the sorts of things they&#8217;re promoted as doing. Supplements are not under the same regulations as pharmaceuticals, which do have to produce research that backs their therapeutic claims and supplements do not. And this whole concept of therapeutic supplementation plays on our bias that more of something is better. So, for example, continuing with the B12 example, it is definitely true that a deficiency of vitamin B12 will cause cognitive impairments and low energy levels, but it is not true that taking extra amounts of it will give us extra cognitive powers or extra energy.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">But it is this particular cognitive error that most supplement makers capitalize on this concept concept that more is better. Also, it&#8217;s worth pointing out here that no supplement or pill will ever hold a candle to what we can achieve with diet and lifestyle interventions. And it is naive of us to think otherwise. So the magnitude of their effect is going to be substantially less than those sorts of things or anything that we would do to strengthen the three pillars of protection against migraines. And furthermore, the benefits of any therapeutic supplement are likely to be magnified when the three pillars are already in order. And then these things like supplements, can be considered some of the final tweaks that you might make. And the reason I&#8217;m prefacing this discussion with these comments is because there&#8217;s actually only a very small fraction of the total body of supplements out there that are even worth considering as being possibly helpful. So I&#8217;m going to focus here on the ones that at least have some evidence of benefit for migraine prevention. And there are really just two that fall into that category. At one point, there were three that you might could say that about the third one being butterbeer. But because of issues that arose with liver toxicity, that one has been taken off as a recommended supplement for migraine prevention.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">So that leaves two left. The first of those is riboflavin. And so riboflavin is one of the B vitamins. Specifically, it is vitamin B2 like most B vitamins. It has A has many different roles that it plays in the body. One of its most significant roles is in the production of energy at the level of the mitochondria. Now, it&#8217;s always nice when we think about taking something that we have some kind of biologically plausible. PRISM by which it could help. And in this case, there is evidence to think that that something like vitamin B2 could help with migraines. There is evidence that mitochondrial dysfunction plays a role in migraines. It&#8217;s still an area of early research, but there&#8217;s enough there to suggest that there that there could be a link. So riboflavin is an integral part of two COH enzymes S.A.T.&#8217;s and effin in Flavin adenine D-I nucleotide and flavin mono nucleotide that are part of the electron transport chain in the mitochondria. So this is the thing that essentially generates energy from food at the level of the cells. So it is necessary for energy production and defects in that process have been linked to migraines. So again, a reasonable link between taking vitamin B2 and improving migraines. So there are a handful of studies that have been done on riboflavin, as is the case with most supplements. There is not the same level of research that there is in pharmaceuticals since there is less money to be made from them.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">But one randomized placebo study showed that fifty nine percent of subjects achieved greater than a 50 percent reduction in headache days, compared to 15 percent for those taking placebo. Additionally, there has been head to head studies against other pharmaceuticals that are used for Migrante prevention. There have been heads, a head to head studies with riboflavin compared to valproate or Depakote and propranolol or Inderal and those showed equivalency. So the same level of benefit is essentially seen with subjects getting either of those, and both of those are considered first line preventative treatments for migraines. Now, as you probably know, there is nothing available that has a major impact on migraine reduction. But at least we can say that based on the evidence that we have vitamin B to appears to be as good at preventing migraines as the best available pharmaceuticals that we have for doing so. Now, there does remain the possibility that vitamin B to exerts its influence through something known as the augmented placebo effect. And so this is something that I touched touched on a little bit in the book, The Migraine Miracle. So essentially the placebo effect occurs when the expectation that something you were doing or something you were taking, the expectation that it is going to help causes that thing to help. And we know that is a very well established phenomenon enough so that we have to control for it.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Anytime we&#8217;re testing a new drug, we know that there are going to be a percentage of people who will improve simply based on the placebo effect alone. Now, in clinical trials, the subjects and those conducting the trials are supposed to be blinded, meaning that the subjects and the researchers don&#8217;t know who is getting what drug. Yet one of the problems here is that if a drug has side effects, then the subjects may realize that they are actually taking the active form of the drug in most placebo trials, that placebos themselves are entirely inert. So they have no biological effects. So what this means is that if some of your subjects now recognize that they&#8217;ve actually gotten the active drug, that may boost the placebo effect even further. So if you look across all of the studies that have been done on migraine preventives, almost all of them have about the same benefit when compared to placebo. And all of them do have recognizable side effects. So it remains entirely possible that the augmented placebo effect, this effect of realizing that you&#8217;ve actually gotten the active drug and aren&#8217;t being given the placebo is accounting for that extra benefit. Now, it may occur to you that you could control for this by giving a placebo that did have some sort of side effect. So an active placebo, as it would be called. And this was actually done a few decades ago with the anti-depressants where it was speculated that perhaps some of the benefits being seen with antidepressant drugs over placebo was because of this augmented placebo effect, since those drugs had recognisable side effects.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And in fact, what they did show when they tested the available anti-depressants against active placebos was that in most cases the the effects of the antidepressants went away entirely. Now, unfortunately, since then, this has not been done, including in other trials where the augmented placebo effect may be playing a significant role. And this is a major limitation of many of the pharmaceutical studies. So what is the application here, dividing maybe two? Well, if any of you have taken vitamin B2, you know that it turns your urine a very bright yellow or orange color. And in fact, if you don&#8217;t realize that it&#8217;s doing that, it is very alarming at first. So even though these studies that have been done on vitamin. BE2 are supposedly blinded, meaning the subjects don&#8217;t know which medication they took. All they have to do is look in their urine to know whether they are getting the active form of the drug or not. So it remains entirely possible that with vitamin B too. As with all of the other migraine preventives, that the augmented placebo effect is at least accounting for some, if not most of the benefits of the above the placebo. Incidentally, this effect may also explain why the results in clinical trials of preventative medications always seem to exceed our real world experience.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">So and why? The benefits always seem to be so great at the beginning when a drug is first released and when the hype is so high and then diminishes from that point in time, because as you&#8217;d expect, when there is a lot of hype, the expectations are at their greatest. And so you&#8217;re going to see the greatest placebo effects. We&#8217;re already starting to see this trend unfold with the new class of CGP medication. So I think every patient that I&#8217;ve had who went on one right from the start wanted to has reverted back to their baseline. So you can certainly make an argument that the augmented placebo effect accounts for a lot of what we see clinically. And so it may be no coincidence that the supplement that has arguably the best data on it also has a way that subjects can detect when they&#8217;re on it, when they&#8217;re supposedly in a double blinded clinical trial. But the upside is that there is minimal risk with taking vitamin B2 and the standard dose that has been recommended and testing tested is 400 milligrams per day. Also, it&#8217;s worth pointing out that our mismatched diets and lifestyles likely does lead to mitochondrial dysfunction in substantial numbers of people. So it could be that in some folks who are having mitochondrial dysfunction, taking vitamin B may mitigate that to some degree. So in that way, at least addressing one of the root causes here of an increased vulnerability to migraines.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And then the second supplement worth considering along the lines of therapeutic supplementation is magnesium. Magnesium is a mineral that is enormously important to human life. We can&#8217;t live without it. And it is involved in virtually every part of human physiology. And for several years now, we&#8217;ve known of some intriguing links between migraines and magnesium. And the studies that have been done appear to indicate that there are low levels of magnesium or ionized magnesium in the nervous system in migrant workers, or at least a subset of miners, including during a migraine attack and maybe specifically during that time. There&#8217;s also some evidence that giving high dose i.v magnesium is an effective abortive treatment, possibly by mitigating this particular effect. We rarely see it used in clinically like in the emergency department, in large part because there is no pharmaceutical companies to promote its use. Additionally, there is also evidence that supplementing with magnesium can help reduce migraine frequency. And again, the numbers that have that we see in trials are in line with what is seen with other preventives in the typical dose that&#8217;s been used is 400 milligrams per day. It&#8217;s worth noting that the form of magnesium that you take matters so you can&#8217;t take plain magnesium. It comes as a salt, meaning it&#8217;s bound up with another element and there are several to choose from here. They&#8217;re things like magnesium oxide, which which is poorly absorbed magnesium glycol 8 like an eight appropriate eight Malé.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">The one that I&#8217;ve taken in that I typically recommend is Magnesium 3 and 8 because it has the best penetration into the nervous system, at least according to the studies that we have. The other good thing about the advantage of my magnesium is that it has minimal downsides. So we&#8217;re actually limited in how much we can absorb through the GI tract. So you can&#8217;t really overdose on it. The excess will be extra excreted and many of you may know that magnesium is also given as a laxative. So once you exceed the amount that can be absorbed, it works as a lacked laxative. So it&#8217;s essentially self-limiting in the amount that you can absorb at any one time. It&#8217;s also worth mentioning that when you are measuring magnesium on an bloodwork, what you&#8217;re getting is the extracellular magnesium and this does not reflect the amount that is stored in the body. So you can have an entirely normal result and still have insufficient stores of magnesium in the body. And in fact, magnesium deficiency is one of the most common deficiencies that people have these days on the standard Western diet. So it&#8217;s possible, I think, that there are two things going on with this link between migraines and magnesium, one being that the migraine process itself results. In reduced amounts of extracellular, magnesium in the nervous system, again, I mentioned that there are studies that show that there are reduced levels during a migraine attack and we know that there are massive shifts in the flux of ions in the brain during migraines, especially during the cortical spreading depression phase.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">So it&#8217;s certainly plausible that the changes seen in magnesium during a mine migraine are a consequence of that flux and then helping the body to restore magnesium equilibrium with an I.V. infusion. Maybe why it&#8217;s helping in that circumstance. And then the other thing that may be going on with this link is that a deficiency of magnesium, which I said is pretty common these days, predisposes folks towards migraines. So in that case, correcting that deficiency by taking a supplement would improve that particular vulnerability. Now, it&#8217;s important to note here that this is still very much an evolving science. So the link between magnesium and migraines still hasn&#8217;t been definitively established, nor do we know with any precision the nature of this particular link in the interaction here. As with most things in biology, especially when we&#8217;re talking about the level of cellular and neuronal action interactions and ion fluxes and so forth, there&#8217;s still far more we don&#8217;t know than we do, but we can still make some reasonable decisions based on the things that we do know and the things that we can&#8217;t be fairly certain of. And so when it comes to magnesium, first and foremost is it&#8217;s best to ensure that you&#8217;re getting plenty of magnesium from the diet. Like I said, I suspect that when it is helpful as a supplement, it&#8217;s helpful because it is correcting for a deficiency.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">So if you&#8217;re getting enough in the diet, you won&#8217;t have that deficiency to begin with. Some of the best places to get it in the diet are organ meats, leafy greens, though it is less bio available in plants than it is in animal foods. Some fish or high magnesium like salmon and halibut. And then nuts are also high in magnesium. Again, less bio available and sometimes a little bit problematic for the migrant or especially depending on what phase you&#8217;re in. On the timeline of migraines, freedom. So again, best to get from the diet, but if you want to hedge your bets and take a supplement, probably not an unreasonable thing to do as well. So getting back to our original question, is there any evidence that there is such a thing as a therapeutic supplement, at least with respect to migraines? In the answer there, maybe, maybe not. So like I mentioned, for vitamin B B2 taking amounts in excess of what you need to meet your normal requirements has been shown to be helpful against placebo. However, it&#8217;s entirely possible that that could be accounted for on the basis of the augmented placebo effect rather than a direct effect of the BE2 itself. And then with respect to magnesium, it&#8217;s entirely possible that in that case what we&#8217;re actually seeing is that magnesium is correcting for a deficiency. Given that we know that magnesium deficiency is very common these days and it&#8217;s not easy to test for.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">So it&#8217;s not something you can just detect on a regular blood test. As I said, the benefits of vitamin B2 could conceivably be accounted for based on the augmented placebo effect alone because it turns your P orange and none of the trials required subjects to pee with blindfolds on. So we don&#8217;t know the answer to that question. So all in all, as I talked about in the beginning of this two part series, most important is going to be building the three pillars of protection against migraine. And I do know with certainty that you can move from phase one to phase four, which is our goal on the timeline of my reign, freedom without having to take any supplements of this nature and by simply building the three pillars of protection. And for me, the main scenario where I&#8217;m recommending people to take these particular things is in someone who is not willing to make diet and lifestyle changes that would build the three pillars. So the same scenarios where I would typically recommend a judicious use of a pharmaceutical. OK. That&#8217;s it for this episode. You will find links to the supplements that I mentioned, including the ones that I&#8217;ve taken myself and you typically recommend in the show notes as well as by going to the Web site and you&#8217;ll find the transcript of the this episode and all others by going to my migraine miracle dot com and clicking on the podcast tab on the top menu.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">I hope everyone has a safe and wonderful New Year&#8217;s and I will be back with you soon this coming Saturday with a very exciting announcement. So don&#8217;t miss out on that. All right. Thanks so much for listening. Now it&#8217;s time to go out, slay the beast.</p>
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<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">All right, welcome to another episode of the Migraine Miracle Moment. So in this episode, I&#8217;m going to tackle a topic that I know many of you are interested in and one that is really challenging to figure out. And that is what supplements should you be taking and specifically what supplements should a migrant or be taking? And there are a couple of different ways you might think about the role of supplements, which I&#8217;ll discuss. I&#8217;m one of those being something that you would take for kind of general health. And then something that you might take for its therapeutic value. And so we&#8217;ll be covering those two different kinds of indications. First off, as a reminder, we are about to start our annual holiday challenge inside of Migrai-Neverland. That&#8217;s where we help our members navigate the issues that emerge around the holidays, around food and and social interactions and parties and so forth. And it&#8217;s an especially helpful challenge, I think, for those who are still relatively new to the migrant miracle plan. After you&#8217;ve done a few holidays in a row, you kind of establish some new habits and routines and it feels easier and easier. But when you&#8217;re first getting started, it can kind of be a difficult time. So the holiday challenges, but really helpful for that.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">We&#8217;ve done it the past few years. We&#8217;re also in the midst of our November month of gratitude in our Facebook group, our big Facebook group. So each day we&#8217;ve been posting a prompt about something to be grateful for. And people are getting, you know, writing their responses in the comments. And the responses so far has been really amazing. So thank you to all of you who&#8217;ve been participating and commenting and sharing your bits of gratitude. It&#8217;s really been a lot of fun and such an important thing to do and helpful in a lot of ways. So if you&#8217;re not part of our Facebook group, please join us and we&#8217;ll be continuing this month of gratitude through the end of November. And once again, if you want to become part of the holiday challenge and if you want to become part of our Migrante Neverland family, you can join sign up at our Web site. And you can learn more about all that, the resources that we have inside of migrant land by going to my migration miracle dot com and just clicking on the resources tab at the on the top menu. Also, I will be sending out a guide to supplementation for the migrant or to the folks who are on our e-mail list.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And it will summarize what I&#8217;ve talked about here and it will include links to the supplements that I talk about here. So if you get the Magary Miracle newsletter, then look out for that. If you&#8217;re not already subscribed, you can go to my library miracle dot com and sign up there from the home page. OK, so now onto the topic of supplements, so I&#8217;m definitely, definitely sympathetic to anyone who is trying to make sense of the world of nutritional supplements and trying to make an informed decision on this topic. It is not easy. And really, the situation here is, is not that all not that different than with pharmaceuticals, where there are just so many forces that are at work that obscure the truth. So, first of all, there&#8217;s just the amount of money involved. So this is an industry that&#8217;s over 100 billion dollars in value. And I think that becomes an even more, more remarkable figure when you consider just how little of of this stuff has been proven to work and more importantly, how much has actually been shown not to work, which I&#8217;ll touch on in a bit. Of course, we could say the same for the pharmaceutical industry. So that&#8217;s over a trillion dollar industry.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And they&#8217;re we&#8217;re spending most of that money on drugs that are either very weak, useless and that are also fraught with risks.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And in both instances, with the both the supplement and the drug industry, a lot of this is because the money involved is such a distorting influence and it makes it really hard to make informed decisions. In some ways, the supplement industry is worse since it&#8217;s unregulated. So whereas a drug company has to at least provide evidence that supports the claims they&#8217;re making. You know, we can debate the quality of that evidence. But the same requirement is not placed on supplement makers. They don&#8217;t actually have to provide any scientific data that supports a claim that they&#8217;d make about a supplement. And furthermore, there&#8217;s actually no requirements that it contains. What it said to contain and many different analysis have revealed lots of variability from one supplement to the next in terms of whether or not it actually contains what&#8217;s what it&#8217;s said to contain. And sometimes in some cases, it contains none of what it said to to contain. So, again, the fact that it&#8217;s not regulated raises some additional issues that you don&#8217;t have to contend with with pharmaceuticals. So I mentioned earlier that there haven&#8217;t been a lot of studies on supplements, especially compared to pharmaceuticals, especially kind of large scale scale controlled studies that we&#8217;d want. And the ones that have been done certainly give us reason for pause. So there was a 2009 study on multi-vitamin supplementation. So they took a little over 160000 post-menopausal women.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And this was part of the Women&#8217;s Health Initiative study. And they looked at the impact of taking a multivitamin and they found, quote, convincing evidence that multivitamin use has little or no influence on the risk of common cancers, cardiovascular disease or total mortality. So, again, taking a multivitamin today, a day had no impact on the primary outcomes that you&#8217;d care about, the reason that you take a multivitamin to begin with. And then there was another big study that made a big splash several years ago looking at the impact of taking antioxidants. And so antioxidants were all the rage for a while after research in the in that area, in that field of aging and elsewhere, show showed the role that oxidative injury had in the aging process. And in related diseases. So people began taking antioxidants to try to help prevent oxidative damage and theory to hopefully slow the aging process and potentially prevent a host of age related diseases. And then in 2007, a large meta analysis in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that not only were antioxidants not helpful, but that actually supplementing with with vitamin A, vitamin E and beta carotene, which are all considered antioxidants that supplementing with those look to increase mortality.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">So, in other words, taking these increased the risk of death. And of course, before these trials came out, it seemed reasonable to take a multivitamin a day. You know, it seemed like you could hedge your bets if you didn&#8217;t know if you were getting your full complement of vitamins, nutrients from the diet, you could just take a pop, a multivitamin and make sure you&#8217;re getting what you needed. Turns out that&#8217;s not true. And then the idea of taking antioxidants seemed kind of reasonable as well. So if these are molecules in our body that can help prevent oxidative damage to ourselves, then ingesting them to make sure that we have enough of them floating around seems like it should be a good idea. But it turns out that it&#8217;s not. And this gets to kind of some flawed thinking that we commonly have about how how the body works. And that fuels a lot of the decisions around taking supplements.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">So why do we keep making this kind of mistake where so many people willing to shell out money?</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">On something that&#8217;s unproven and unregulated, and one thing, as I mentioned, is because of the amount of money that&#8217;s involved and and the marketing behind these things. So most of the promotion of these sorts of things is being done by those with a vested interest in whether you buy it. So, you know, people have been selling other people&#8217;s stuff that doesn&#8217;t actually work. Since ancient times. And this is something that will continue.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And so, you know, good science education, access to good, unbiased information is our best of best defense against being taken advantage of in this way. Another reason is that there&#8217;s a perception that supplements are somehow safer. Which is false. And it&#8217;s often referred to as the naturalistic fallacy, which is the belief that something that&#8217;s natural is inherently better for you. And of course, you only need to demonstrate the effects of something like like snake venom on the human body to prove that notion to be false. But nonetheless, it&#8217;s a powerful bias. And how commonly see people over the years in my practice who refuse prescription medications of any kind, but we&#8217;ll bring in a list of 20 different supplements that they take. Again, reflecting usually that naturalistic fallacy. Another trap that I think we fall into is in thinking that more is better. So we kind of have this natural bias towards thinking that if a little of something is good for us, then a lot of it must be better. But the truth is that virtually everything in biology has what we call a U-shaped curve or or a reverse U-shaped curve where, you know, at the at the if you can imagine the x axis being the amount of something we do or consume and the Y axis being the benefit, you know, at the very low levels, we start getting an increase in benefit and then it hits a plateau.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">You know, once we reached kind of the ideal amount and then if we have too much, that benefit starts going down. That&#8217;s where you get the other side of the you. And that&#8217;s true of so many things. It&#8217;s true of water and it&#8217;s true of every vitamin and mineral. So, too, both too little and too much can be a bad thing. And there&#8217;s typically a kind of Goldilocks zone between those extremes that&#8217;s optimal. This is also true of exercise, but a place where a lot you&#8217;ll make mistakes. People are often astonished when they hear about marathoners dropping dead of a heart attack. But we know that there is too much of a good thing, including exercise. And at some point it becomes a stressor and a net negative. And so the two areas of health where this mistake is probably made the most are in the areas of supplementation and exercise and thinking that, you know, more is better. Another reason is I think that the idea of supplements plays into our desire towards looking for the magic bullet. So that&#8217;s the story in medicine. In the last century or so is really the story of a searching for these elusive magic bullets.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">So looking for a drug that will save us and we&#8217;ve kind of accepted as an established truth that such a thing is even possible, rarely even questioning whether it&#8217;s reasonable to think that we should be able to find magic bullets. But we continue to look for them when we hope against reason that such a thing exists. And then another reason maybe is that they can offer a shortcut of of of sorts. So in the case of something like a multivitamin, you know, it seems easier to just pop a pill rather than to kind of assess the whole scope of our diet and make sure we&#8217;re getting the nutrients that we need. So supplements can sometimes be seen as a helpful shortcut sorts. And I think all in all, the sort of mistakes that we&#8217;ve made in these areas are emblematic of the general absence of holistic thinking when it comes to health, which I think more than anything else explains our failure in finding effective treatments for the last several decades for virtually any chronic disease and why we continue to pursue the same dead end strategies of trying to find a magic drug or a or a magic supplement that will fix things.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And moving away from these biases and starting to think holistically and implementing a holistic approach is really the best thing that any of us can do for our health. And when it comes to supplements, I think there are a few things that we can learn about the story so far. One is that it&#8217;s clearly there&#8217;s clearly a difference between getting something that is in an isolated supplement form and getting it from food. If we take the evolutionary view, you know, our ancestors never would have eaten constituents&#8217; of food in isolation.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">It was always coming, bundled with everything else in the food that we were eating. And it turns out that that matters a whole heck of a lot. There are a whole host of reasons why it matters, some of which we understand, some of which we still don&#8217;t. But we know that it&#8217;s far more beneficial for us to. Consumes something, a vitamin or mineral, whatever part of food rather than isolation. So the take home message from that is that whenever possible, we should be getting our nutrients from food and that supplements are likely to be less effective and have more potential for harm than obtaining the same things from food. So getting our full complement of nutrients from food should always be our top priority. So let&#8217;s reframe this question about what potential supplements we still might consider in terms of what are the particular nutrients that are of special importance to the migrant or and that might be deficient in a typical person&#8217;s diet. So let&#8217;s start that with considering the macronutrients, which our carbohydrates, protein and fat. Now, as some of you probably know, we don&#8217;t actually need any carbohydrates in the diet. So nobody is suffering from any carbohydrate deficiencies or and do not do not need to supplement in that domain with respect to protein. The brain primarily needs proteins for their role in chemical reactions. So as enzymes for chemical reactions, as precursors for new neurotransmitters, which are the signaling molecules that nerve cells use and less so for structure, as is the case for our muscles and connective tissue that are built of protein.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">So if you&#8217;re eating an ancestral diet or the migrant miracle plan, then you should be getting enough quality protein in your diet as meat of any kind or eggs will give you the full complement of amino acids that your body needs. Those who are eating a plant based diet must ensure that they&#8217;re getting the full complement of essential amino acids. So that covers carbs and fat. I mean carbs and protein. And that leaves fat, which is probably the macro noot nutrient of most importance for the brain as it is since it&#8217;s comprised mostly of fat and the ones that are probably most important for the micro nerves are EPA and DHEA, which are a class at work which are part of the omega 3 fats. And those are found in most abundantly in fish, especially the fish skin. They&#8217;re also found in eggs. And this is one of the main reasons that I personally eat sardines at least once a week to make sure I&#8217;m getting plenty of EPA and DHEA. Sardines are a great source, lots of fish, good sources of wild salmon is a good one. Oysters are a great source. And again, a lot of it&#8217;s concentrated in the fish skin. So make sure to eat the skin if you&#8217;re trying to get your omega 3s.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And again, you can also get these from eggs and some eggs are actually fortified or have extra amounts in these. And that usually says that on the box. So once again, this is an area where it&#8217;s super important to get it from food wherever you can. However, if you can&#8217;t do that for whatever reason, then cod liver oil is a good option as it&#8217;s also high and some other things like vitamin A. But once again, these fats are essential for brain function and so are doubly critical for the migrant. Or it&#8217;s also why you want to avoid vegetable and seed oils as the fats that you eat get incorporated into your cell membranes and forever alter their structure and function. So if you&#8217;re eating plant oils that are not appropriate for humans, then they will become a permanent resident in your cell membranes, which we don&#8217;t really want. All right. So those are the macronutrients. Now let&#8217;s talk about the micronutrients that are of particular importance to the brain and that may be deficient in a lot of people&#8217;s diets. So the first one we&#8217;ll talk about is vitamin A, critical for many things, including the function of the brain and the nervous system. And it&#8217;s a common deficiency because it is found in highest quality quantities in organ meats and especially in liver. So, you know, getting enough of this was not a problem for our ancestors who valued organ meats typically above all else.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">So clearly on some level, they recognized that they were nutritional powerhouses. Also, I think some folks are under the impression that you can get this from certain vegetables like carrots. And it is true that carrots and some other vegetables have beta carotene, which is a precursor to vitamin A. But only about 3 percent of the beta carotene that we eat gets conferred. It can be converted into retinol, which is the active form of vitamin A. And then there&#8217;s a significant portion of the population that actually can&#8217;t convert beta carotene to retinol at all. And so in order to get the same amount of vitamin A that you&#8217;d get in a single three ounce serving of liver, you have to eat 40 pounds of raw carrots or you&#8217;d have to eat. 50 cups of cooked kale. So obviously those are completely impractical. So I personally eat liverwurst at least once a week. I get it from U.S. Wellness Meats, which is really good. There&#8217;s also a place you can order online called nose to tail, which sells ground beef with organ meat mixed in. So if you don&#8217;t like the taste, um, it&#8217;s disguises it pretty well. And then I would consider the next best option to be desiccated liver. So there is a supplement company called ancestral supplements that so that makes dried organ meats, including dried liver.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">So my kids actually take this because I&#8217;m still working on getting them to incorporate liver in their diet. Another good source, as I mentioned before, is cod liver oil. So that&#8217;s vitamin A. Then there are the B vitamins. So the B vitamins are a class of eight different water soluble vitamins that have many different functions. Several of them are critical for the function and operation of the mitochondria, which is the part of our cells that generates an energy. And there is an emerging theory that migraines may be related to impaired mitochondrial function, at least in some part. Now, if you&#8217;re eating and ancestral diet, then you should be getting plenty of B vitamins as they are again found most abundantly and in high concentrations in animal foods. The one that you might need to still be mindful of is choline, which is found most abundantly in egg yolks and also in liver. So ensuring that you&#8217;re getting one or the other of those things and Colleen, as you may know, is the precursor to the neurotransmitter acetylcholine which is found throughout the brain. And is important for things like memory and attention focused and so forth. So that was the B vitamins. Next is magnesium. So magnesium is one of the most common mineral deficiencies for people eating a typical Western diet. And there are links between migraines, deficiency and migraines, which I&#8217;ll talk about some in the next episode.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">One reason why it may be more of an issue now is that in addition to people generally consuming less magnesium rich foods in the diet, soil depletion has also reduced the content of certain foods that would typically be high in magnesium. Overall, the best dietary sources are leafy greens. So things like collard greens, mustard greens, spinach, that&#8217;s where I try to get get it primarily from. Nuts are also a good source, but it&#8217;s easy to overdo the nuts. So something best consumed in moderation. The same is not true of greens, which are essentially self-limiting. Another good source are mineral water. So there are certain certain mineral waters that are particularly high in magnesium and you can usually find that on their labels and in the last one is sunlight. So I was going to say vitamin D at first, but I think it&#8217;s better to think of sunlight as being the vitamin. They were not that many of us are not getting enough of. First of all, because sunlight is how we generate vitamin D as the active form of it is synthesized when the sun hits our skin. And we know that a lot of people are deficient in vitamin D because of sunlight deficiency. But I think it&#8217;s a mistake to think that vitamin D is the only reason for getting sunlight. I think sunlight deficiency is a huge problem and one that we&#8217;ve only just begun to understand.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">The health consequences of one of those is clearly mediated through reduced production of vitamin D. But there are likely many other effects that we still don&#8217;t even understand. So I think we should think of the sun itself as a vitamin and being absolutely vital to health. And so it&#8217;s super important to get sunlight on the scan every day and sunlight on our eyes. So getting outside within 30 minutes of waking for a dose of sunlight in our eyes to serve as a cue that morning has arrived is usually helpful for a lot of things, including keeping circadian rhythms aligned, improving sleep and so forth, and then aiming for at least 30 minutes of sun on the scan a day. It&#8217;s probably a bare minimum now. Yes, it&#8217;s possible that too much sun can cause harm. Remember we talked earlier about everything has a use it U-shaped curve, including sunlight. But most of us are on the deficient side of that curve. And really it&#8217;s clear that what we want to avoid in terms of too much sun is sunburns. So as long as you&#8217;re enjoying avoiding sunburns, the more sun you can get, the merrier. All right. So those are the big ones in terms of the nutrients that we might consider of supplementing, given that they. Are not unlikely to be deficient in a typical person&#8217;s diet, though much less likely if you are following the micro miracle plan and that are also of extra importance to the brain.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">And so to summarize what we&#8217;ve said so far. First of all, diet and lifestyle changes are going to be many orders of magnitude greater in their impact than any supplement. And the best place to obtain what you need is from a nutrient dense, species appropriate diet along with a healthy lifestyle that attends to things like sleep and physical activity and stress. And if you&#8217;re eating a nutrient dense Whole Foods diet that includes things like organ meats, especially liver egg yolks and whole fish like sardines, then you have gone a long way towards ensuring that your body has what it needs to thrive and to repair and recover and to solve its own problems. And so supplementing without attending to those things first. It&#8217;s kind of like putting a spoiler on a car with no engine. And supplementation should be reserved primarily for cases where you can&#8217;t get an adequate amount in the diet for whatever reason. Now, as I mentioned, there are kind of two different reasons why we might consider supplementing one being if we&#8217;re not getting enough of a particular nutrient for whatever reason. But the other being what you might call therapeutic supplementation. So taking a supplement kind of as you would a pharmaceutical for a particular benefit for us, a specific issue or problem.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">So some of you may be aware that there are certain supplements that have at least some evidence for benefit and migraines. So in the next episode, which will be part two of this series on supplements, I&#8217;m going to be covering the different supplements that people have tested and taken for migraine prevention. And we&#8217;ll discussed what the evidence is for those and which which ones of those, if any, that folks should consider as part of their migraine prevention strategy. Okay, that&#8217;s it for this episode. As I said in the beginning, I&#8217;m going to be sending out a guide to supplementation to those who are on our email newsletter list. So if you&#8217;re not a part of that. Be sure to do so. You can go to my micro miracle dot com and you&#8217;ll find a place to sign up for that right there on the home page. All right. Thanks so much for listening. Remember to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or whatever podcast player you use. You listen to if you haven&#8217;t already, to make sure you stay up with current episodes. And if you enjoy this podcast, it would be awesome if you let if you left a rating and review in i-Tunes, it really helps other people to find it. OK. Thank you so much for listening. And I will see you in the next episode.</p>
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<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Dr. T: </strong><br />
Welcome to the migraine miracle moment. I&#8217;m your host, Dr. Josh Turknett. I&#8217;m a neurologist, migraine specialist, migraine sufferer and author of the book The Migraine Miracle. In this podcast, you&#8217;ll learn all about how to find your path to migraines freedom without pills. Let&#8217;s get started.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Dr. T: </strong><br />
Howdy, folks. So welcome to another episode of The Miracle Moment. Today we have another amazing, wonderful success story for you from migrant Overland member Kim Yee, who shares tons of great wisdom in this podcast, doesn&#8217;t she, Jenn?</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Jenn: </strong><br />
She sure does. And particularly addressing the topic of rebound headache and getting off the medications is something that we get a lot of questions about. We&#8217;ve talked about how critical it is, a part of the plan, how it&#8217;s one of the three pillars of migraine freedom. But we know there are lots of people who struggle with that particular part. And it&#8217;s oftentimes the big breakthrough that many people make. And that&#8217;s certainly the case for Kim.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Dr. T: </strong><br />
And she&#8217;s certainly a wealth of great wisdom on how to think about going through that process and how she got through it at an incredibly challenging time to do so. So if that if you have struggled any way with the medication piece, this is definitely a conversation not to be missed. All in all, this interview is chock full of wisdom, which is so often true with our conversations with our Migrai-Neverland members. You&#8217;ve probably heard me say before that I think that our members are one of the greatest resources of being part of Migrai-Neverland. So if you want to follow in Kim&#8217;s footsteps and take advantage of all the resources inside of Migrai-Neverland, you can learn more by going to my my gray miracle dot com and clicking on the resources tab at the top menu, which will take you through all of our nine primary resources, including Migrai-Neverland. So without further delay, here is our interview with Kim.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Dr. T: </strong><br />
So I am delighted to have on the podcast today Kim Yee. Hi, Kim. Good morning. So Kim is one of our beloved Migrai-Neverland members who not long ago shared a pretty significant victory with us on our forum that we were all very excited about and has been generous enough to share her story with us on the podcast today. So, Kim, maybe can you start by just telling us a little bit about yourself and who you are?</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
Yeah. So I&#8217;m a lawyer and a mom and I have a very busy, active life. I&#8217;ve had migraines since I was I had headaches starting when I was a child. And looking back, I think sugar was probably a big trigger. I would often get them after I would eat things like apples. At one point, we thought I actually had an allergy to apples in my teens. I started to get menstrual migraines and I wasn&#8217;t diagnosed with migraines until I was in my very early 20s. I didn&#8217;t get an aura or anything with them. And so it took a while for my doctor to suggest my green medication. And once I took it, it worked instantly. I was given a sample of his romig. And when Tollman next Migrante, I got I took it in it. Within half an hour, I was back on my feet again.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
Right. Magic, which, of course. Yes. Seemed like magic at that time. And then through I was really just getting them around my cycle to begin with.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
And then after I started taking this, I started getting them more frequently. But I attributed that to my was in law school at the time and thought it was just, you know, additional stress. And I started to become more sensitive to things like chocolate and wine and caffeine, and I never had been before. And so slowly, those things, I started having to eliminate those things from my diet. And then it became I started to get migraines when the weather would change. And migraines when I had a cold and or, you know, sinus congestion, all sorts of different things started to trigger them. And I&#8217;ve tried a variety of different medications over the years from, you know, blood pressure medication to Topamax seizure medication. The only thing that really worked for me was nor Tripp Darling for a period of time. But it was very brief. It was just in the beginning of taking that medication. Right. As you know, with a lot of these medications, physicians will tell patients to keep increasing. And so I would do that for a period of time and then wouldn&#8217;t drive any benefits. We tried something else. I had Botox over the years, like a sort of variety of other medications, you know, including things to treat the migraines like acute attacks. So anti-inflammatories and things really, you know, were sort of up and down through my 20s and 30s.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
And then when I got pregnant with my first son, they improved quite a bit. But during that pregnancy, my doctor had prescribed Imtech to take instead of taking his own. It was typically the medication I would take right when I had a migraine and would work fairly well. Although I do know now over the years the amount of that medication certainly increased over time. And so during that pregnancy, I took em tack and I only had a couple of migraines throughout the whole pregnancy, which was great. But as soon as my son was born and they returned and were even worse, I would say for a period of time, probably due to, you know, hormonal changes and that sort of thing. Then when I was pregnant with my second son, I had many more headaches during that pregnancy. Men had to use the tech more regularly. And after he was born, it really is when the real sort of came off in terms of my migraines being, I would say, out of control. And I think, you know, it was partly the use of Imitrex. As you know, it&#8217;s a combination of Tylenol and codeine. Right. And I think it was probably, you know, just lack of sleep, stress hormones, the use of attack. And it just like I said, they were really quite out of control.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
He&#8217;s three and a half now. So the last few years, I&#8217;ve really tried a number of things to get them back under control. And at times they were better than others. When I discovered your program, I had actually been doing a whole 30 and was doing some reading about migraines and nutrition. I had been eating paleo for a while before that, or mostly paleo. I would still be on time, eat bread and things like that, but mostly eating a paleo diet. And then I did a whole 30, which led me to Google Paleo and migraines. And your book came up and I gave it a read and it just made a whole lot of sense. Me, I was already eating quite healthy, and so in terms of change of the diet part was probably the easiest for me. Right. And then the lifestyle changes. You know, I read a lot of books on optimal performance and things like that. The principles in your book were so consistent with things that I already really believed in and changes that I already had made I wanted to make. So it all made a lot of sense. But it was it was great because it was talking about all of these things with a specific focus on migraines. And so as you know, you know, not all Keto is ideal for my Grainer Keto meals, but people would absolutely consider to be Keto.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
Not all of that is good for a person who suffers from migraines. So it was really nice to have to be able to look at your program. And then I became a member of your website and I think fairly quickly because it was just, you know, the cost in terms of what the way I looked at it was like, you know, the cost of one Botox treatment essentially here. You know, that was the membership for the year for your Web site. So for me, it was just a very small investment with potentially large upside. And so I signed up immediately and did a lot of reading and, you know, implemented most of your plan except for addressing the rebound part. I just couldn&#8217;t imagine not taking. Megan being able to function. As I mentioned, I&#8217;m a lawyer and I have a full time practice. And I have two young kids, three and five. And just the pace of my every day. I just really couldn&#8217;t imagine not being able to take Romig for migraines. Sure. And so I went I did most everything in your program and even went Kito for the first time last summer, which I was actually amazed when I went to Kito and I felt the changes. Amazing. Your body can do this and shift gears that way.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Dr. T: </strong><br />
Yeah, it is cool.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
Yeah. And I know the day that I sort of slipped into ketosis and I I had done the test strips just to kind of confirm and you know, I definitely felt, you know, a difference physically. And my headaches did improve. You know, I was still getting migraines, but a lot of the little sort of headaches I was getting got much better. And I just felt better eating Kito. So I remained on keto for for several months and then sort of gave it a break around Christmas. And this January I started doing some interval training and was found not to be such a huge trigger for migraines.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
And which was odd to me because I&#8217;ve always been quite active and never before have I had issues with getting back to being active. As soon as I would work out later in the day when that sort of muscle inflammation would set in, I would get horrible migraines. And by March, this, I thought, oh, I&#8217;m going to exercise my way through this and I&#8217;ll get back to it, because exercise has been one of the things.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">It&#8217;s been very good for my migraines over the years.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
The times when I&#8217;ve had most control over them have been when I&#8217;ve been most active. So I thought, you know, I&#8217;m just going to push through this and it just got worse. And by March, the beginning of March, I just really felt like I was visiting the pharmacy more than I ought to be in terms of getting a refill for the Zomig. I found that the medications weren&#8217;t working as well. You know, it went from needing to take a Zomig to as I&#8217;ll make with a Tylenol to, you know, with the Tylenol and an anti-inflammatory. Sometimes caffeine as well would be something that would help in a real pinch. So those were sort of the things I was using most often. I stopped using the Imitrex quite a long time ago because of its propensity for a rebound headache. And reading your book really solidified that for me, the importance of not taking those medications at all. And so, yeah. But even the zone stopped working. Some of the time. And so I just really felt like the only path to wellness was to start taking this medication. So at that point in mid-March is when I stopped taking Zomig altogether. And so I&#8217;m coming up on 90 days. I had to take one tablet in the whole 90 days. Just I had a work commitment that I couldn&#8217;t I couldn&#8217;t work around. So it was sort of an emergency situation. But the changes have been incredible. I&#8217;m still really struggling with menstrual migraines around the time of my cycle. Those are essentially the only migraines I&#8217;m getting now prior to addressing rebound headaches.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
I was getting very frequent. It was almost daily headaches. I would wake up with them if it wasn&#8217;t in my brain. It was certainly a headache. And after, you know, going off, trip to. Completely. Those headaches have gone away completely. And the good days. You know, the days where I&#8217;m migraines free are you know, many of them are sort of 10 out of 10 in terms of being pain free. Right. So it&#8217;s really I&#8217;ve noticed such a big difference. The first I would say week was rough. I had quite a few sort of rebound headaches the first week and then I think I had some in the second week, but it really tapered off. And then I&#8217;ve sort of settled into this. I don&#8217;t want to say routine, but, you know, cycle of where I&#8217;ll be fine for two weeks or so. And then around the time of observation, I&#8217;ll have a migraine and then again around the time when I&#8217;m supposed to have my period. So it&#8217;s really those are the pesci&#8217;s sort of stubborn migraines and I&#8217;m still working on. Yeah, but the days in between have been great. I just feel so much more clear and being I don&#8217;t even think I realized how much of a drag it was on my systems, so to speak. Right. To have this constant pain and be trying to work around it. And before I stopped taking the trip down. The migrants were much more severe. Like now I can definitely say that they&#8217;ve improved in terms of the length of time that I have them for. And the severity. So things have improved significantly.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Dr. T: </strong><br />
That&#8217;s a really great story that there&#8217;s so many things that I get to go back to there. I want to go back to when you kind of reached a point or you made the decision to really tackle the rebound issue of the medication issue, because you&#8217;re in a scenario that I know a lot of people get into. You know, you&#8217;re a full time job, a lot of responsibilities taking care of kids. You don&#8217;t see how you&#8217;re going to like the idea of not taking anything like you said. Seems, you know, I can&#8217;t figure out how that&#8217;s going to work. So what do you think? Got you to the point where you finally decide. I&#8217;ve got to do something. And then how did you actually navigate it once you did?</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
Like I said, I think it just because the medications were working anyway. I felt like I really had nothing to lose. Uh-Huh. And, you know, I&#8217;ve been listening to your podcast for a long time and just hearing the stories of other people who were like me, who had jobs and kids. And even just listening to your story that, you know, even as a physician, you were able to to make that transition from using a board of medications.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
And so it was really just, I think, frustration and having just felt like it was enough. And I really felt like there was this real paradox between, you know, other than having migraines.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">I&#8217;m healthy. I agree. And I felt like I was.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
Each day I felt like I was just so uncomfortable and not myself. And the fact that I was unable to do things that were, you know, relatively easy before and would never give me a migraine. The fact that just even working out consistently gave me issues, you know, told me that something really changed, you know, in terms of getting rebound headaches. And I fully you know, when I read through the checklist of things or symptoms that point to the fact that a person is suffering rebound, I had essentially all of them. And so there was no denying that that the medication was contributing. And certain things like the medication, I would take it and it would make my headache worse. You know, taking it. Yes, I was experiencing that as well. I&#8217;ve always functioned at a high level despite having this condition, which has been, you know, quite a big part of my life since my 20s, for sure. Right. And managing it has been this constant, whether it be through pregnancy or through, you know, navigating law school and articling and all of that. I&#8217;ve always had to manage this condition. And it just it was becoming more complex. And the real sort of Eye-Opener for me is how often I was having to refill the medication. And that&#8217;s just felt again, like such a paradox because I felt otherwise so healthy. Right. And so. And your book really had the roadmap plan for the way out of that. And so it just the more I listen to other people&#8217;s stories and the more I read, the more I realized that that&#8217;s what I needed to do.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
And there was no doubt about it. You know, I was having these days where I was finding myself in bed a lot more, which was, you know, when I used Zomig before, it worked quite well. And sort of that was sort of the key to me being functional. And I&#8217;ve missed in the past very little work or had very little downtime as a result of migraines, even though I suffered quite a bit with them. There&#8217;s no doubt about that. But it was becoming more and more that I would find myself at that, which was really hard because I like it. So they have kids and I certainly didn&#8217;t want to end. It would be, you know, come on, suddenly we would be doing something and then I would find myself up in bed for a day. And that certainly wasn&#8217;t the way that I wanted to be. So I just decide to make some really consistent changes in my husband. Has been extremely supportive throughout this whole process and really, you know, sort of created the support system, I needed to be able to take some time to just address this. Right. And like I said, the first couple of weeks, I spent a fair bit of time in bed. But I just decided to take it one day at a time when my brain at a time and told myself that if I needed to take this, I&#8217;ll make, you know, to manage work and family commitments, that I would do that, but that the goal was to really just reduce the amount of medication. And so when I set out to reduce the amount of medication I was taking, wasn&#8217;t the plan that I was going to start taking the trip down completely.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
But I ended up doing that. You know, as you&#8217;ve talked about on your website and in your book, mindset is so important that I think just looking at it that way that it wasn&#8217;t you know, I wasn&#8217;t committed to doing this forever. I was just going to do it for a small period of time, kind of looking at it that way in smaller chunks. I think made it manageable. And so I really decided to just take it one migraine at a time. And at the time in mid-March, I was in the midst of preparing for a trial. And so it was a stressful period. But I literally thought it&#8217;s never gonna be the right time or the perfect time to do this. So I&#8217;m just going to do it. And like I said, within two weeks I was feeling so much better. And I when I look back on it now, I think to myself, why didn&#8217;t I do think of it? Like I said, I discovered your book about I would maybe two years ago and I&#8217;ve come back to it over and over again, you know, and now that I look back at it, you know, rebound is the I mean, it&#8217;s all the way you describe it as pillars. Right. Is a very accurate analogy. But the rebound piece is like the key to all of it. You know, having gone through all of this now, I can see that that is been the biggest piece for me.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
I was very different with all the other things. Right. You know, I really fully committed to all the other things. And being on a ketogenic diet wasn&#8217;t difficult for me. And I actually really gravitated towards that way of eating in the first place. So it just the rebellion, though, was the last sort of peace that needed to fall into place for me. And I know it&#8217;s a hard peace for so many people, but in my mind, I had actually thought it was going to be worse than what it was. And it was difficult. And it does take you know, it has been my whole family has been really supportive and even friends as well. Understanding the fact that I&#8217;m on this diet, you know, and that I need to sort of manage stress and sleep and all of those things.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
But, you know, I think, you know, the biggest thing, the biggest part of it, biggest change that had the greatest affect for me was certainly reducing the amount of medication my husband and I joke my services, probably wonders where I lived or died of asthma or or whatever happened, because I was literally I felt like I was I would always get twelve so big at a time.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
And for example, in the first couple of weeks of March, I had used 14 tablets of those making the first two weeks. And that when I when I started tracking things, I was like, this is just, you know, crazy. And it wasn&#8217;t that I had used them every day. It was more like on the days that I had migraines. It would take two, three, four tablets to make it through the day. Yeah. And then I still had days that were better, but I would commonly wake up with a dull ache in my head that would sometimes progress to a migraine over the course of the day. And so it wasn&#8217;t uncommon for me to take Tylenol or Advil even on the days when I didn&#8217;t have migraines. And it just felt like I really don&#8217;t like taking medication at all. And so I just felt again, like it was this paradox. I was becoming more and more version of myself that was, you know, not recognized or not the way I wanted to live my life. So the commitment to doing this was just I really, really, truly had had enough of taking the medication. And so, yeah, just one day decided today&#8217;s the day I&#8217;m not going to I&#8217;m just going to take out the migraines. And I hadn&#8217;t done that for a long time since I was pregnant, probably. And it&#8217;s not that I had just the mountain pregnancy because I had the Imtech. So I truly hadn&#8217;t sort of ridden a migration out for probably since my early 20s. You know, prior to being prescribed this Olmec doesn&#8217;t make had become such a part of my day to day.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
Like I wouldn&#8217;t leave the house without it. I had some in my nightstand that had some of my bathroom, like, you know, and then, you know, as the migraines got worse, I started to notice the wrappers. You know, I was just again, like this realization that this was not at all with my control any longer. Yeah. So toughing it out was hard. But the strategies, you know, I used a lot of the strategies that you talk about in your book and on your Web site, things that you can do that don&#8217;t involve medication. And they were really, you know, helped me to get through that. And then just telling myself that this was once I made it through the first migrate, it was actually quite liberating. Yes. That I had done it without medication. I think I had taken Tylenol just to take the edge off the pain. But other than that, I let the migraines sort of subside on its own. And then that happened started to happen more and more quickly. They wouldn&#8217;t last as long and they weren&#8217;t as painful. And so I started to see improvements pretty quickly, which was motivating. I realized that the longer I went without taking a trip down, the better it would be. And that if I took one, I would be sort of, you know, taking a few steps back by doing that. And so I really just did my best to stop taking them altogether. And like I said, I only took one tablet in the 90 days. And that&#8217;s been now.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
Yeah, that&#8217;s fantastic. So one of the things that I would like to see happen is for more folks to not have to get to that point where you reached toward finally kind of just decided to do this and read and get people earlier. Is there anything that you can think of that if you were to be able to go back and talk to yourself maybe a year ago or talk to someone else who&#8217;s in this similar situation that you were in? Anything you think you could have said to yourself, then you are knowing what you know now that would have maybe could have motivated you to go down that path even sooner.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
I think just realizing that there is this course of events that most of your readers and patients go through and realizing it&#8217;s not a matter of if it&#8217;s going to happen, you know, the improvement. Right. It&#8217;s a matter of when. And so it does involve tweaking certain here. As I mentioned earlier, I&#8217;m still getting migraines and I&#8217;m still getting them about twice a month. And so it&#8217;s not an all or nothing sort of thing. I mean, it takes tweaking and figuring out what&#8217;s going to work. But I definitely followed a certain course when I started. But when I stopped taking the trip down, I there was as so many of your readers described, and that&#8217;s why having the community of people that have gone through this. Yeah, it&#8217;s so helpful. Many of the other resources online that I have looked at before were really negative and pain focused. Yes. And we&#8217;re not. Wasn&#8217;t a physician and I follow migraines sufferer. You know, it was the focus of your group is so different, so much different and very positive compared to a lot of the other things that are online out there. And frankly, there&#8217;s there&#8217;s a lot of misinformation out there just about how to manage migraines.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
And, you know, I&#8217;ve been to many doctors over the years and I&#8217;m sure they had the best of intentions. But, you know, when I was first diagnosed with migraines, I remember I was in university at the time and the neurologist gave me an entire sample box of Domanick, and that was all. You know, you have migraines. Here are these medications. Right. And he knew I was a student, that they were very expensive at that time. So he was just being helpful for sure. But it set me off on a course that led to this trajectory over time that, you know, I have there have been times when I have used much less, though, making my migraines are really under control. But, you know, for the most part, it was increasing use over time. And just my migraines evolved. I would say, like I said in the beginning, they were just, you know, mainly hormones. Was were the big trigger. And then it became all sorts of things and food. And then, you know, sitting in the sun for too long or just everything seemed to become a migraine trigger. Right.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Dr. T: </strong><br />
And then we did. It&#8217;s so common not to recognize that the medications are playing any role in that. You think it&#8217;s the common conception is it&#8217;s there that they&#8217;re helping you through it and then you need them. But we don&#8217;t realize it. It&#8217;s kind of sets you up for this endless cycle of becoming increasingly sensitive with more and more environmental triggers adding up because they&#8217;re ultimately making you more vulnerable over the long run. So really an absolute or important concept to understand.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">You know, I wanted to say I&#8217;m sorry.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Jenn: </strong><br />
I was going to say I&#8217;m so excited for you because you are only 90 days in and you&#8217;re already experiencing so much progress. It only gets better from here. So, you know, the longer your body. To heal, so I&#8217;m so excited for you.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Dr. T: </strong><br />
Yeah. You mentioned the the menstrual migraines and we also mentioned that this progression. One of the things that&#8217;s been so remarkable, like you talked about, was that we see the same sort of progression from every person who kind of goes down this road. And that was one of the reasons for creating the phases. But that includes we minster migraines being kind of the last thing that we see fall. And that was one reason we added the menstrual migraine protocol to the Beast Slayer Training Academy because it was so consistent. People would make the progress and then this would be the last little piece to fall. So we wanted to take care of that. But I think the. You mentioned that that hearing that there was this typical progression was important for you. And I agree. I think that&#8217;s a really important point to make, is that we just see that time and again happening. And what you mentioned about one of the things we often commonly here is when someone has taken made the decision, you know, OK, I&#8217;m going to do it. We&#8217;ll do what I can to minimize the abortive. Is that things while they&#8217;re, you know, not fun initially, the improvements tend to happen a lot faster than expected. Yeah, it was it was quite quick. Yeah. Got a lot of great information from your story. And I know it&#8217;s gonna help a ton of people like you say that, you know, you hearing others sharing this kind of story helped you. And I&#8217;m absolutely certain this hearing your story is going to help a lot of folks, you know, finally make the progress, those who have put in the effort for the diet lifestyle stuff that you&#8217;ve already done. We see that commonly folks make really rapid progress after when it&#8217;s addressing the medication piece because those other elements are in place. So you&#8217;re already kind of poised to reap those benefits.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
So really, I had stopped Keto around Christmas, but then I know I was still very much eating a paleo diet until March. And then I realized that going Keto for me was probably going to be something that would really help me through the initial period of rebound. And it did. Yeah, because for the first couple of weeks I really felt like I was teetering on the edge of a migraine at all times. And being on a Keto diet during that period I think really helped. But I had like I said, I&#8217;d been on it for a long time. So it wasn&#8217;t another stressor for my body, so to speak. eOne that type of an eating plan and I have to say, I really the meals on your Web site are amazing.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
Some of them have become our family favorites and go to meals for sure. My kids eat a lot of the meals that are on your plan and enjoy them. That&#8217;s great.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
And my husband, like I said, has been really incredibly supportive.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
And, you know, just having a supportive family involved in the process is so helpful to them. The other thing I would say for sure, for people that are making that change to really involve your family members and so that everybody is aware of what you&#8217;re going through and what the progression is going to look like. And everybody is aware of the things that you need to do to make that work. And there have been times where, you know, if I felt discouraged and wanted to have a cheat, me and my husband would go to give me a nudge.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
Just remind me of how important it was to stay on track. Right. And that&#8217;s important.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
And there were moments, too, where I was just in so much pain and felt like taking a trip down so badly, because I knew, you know, I felt like if I did, I&#8217;d be able to get back to my life and within 50 minutes. But I know that that&#8217;s not always the case because the medications weren&#8217;t working as well. So that I think, as I said, was a key piece for me is just feeling like I really had no other choice. I knew that if I kept taking the medications that, you know, it was joyous, just going to get worse and worse and I was going to have to take more. And I certainly don&#8217;t want to do damage to my body, you know, because of this condition, which is not something that needs to be. It&#8217;s a very odd condition to have because it can make you feel so awful, but otherwise you can be perfectly healthy, right? Exactly. And yes, it&#8217;s something that obviously takes a concerted effort to manage. But it is, I would say to others that are thinking about taking that step, it&#8217;s definitely doable. And baby steps are the key. And, you know, one migrate at a time committing for a small period of time, but yet giving it a chance because, you know, it does take several weeks for sure to see significant changes and to break rebound. But once that happens, it&#8217;s definitely I&#8217;ve experienced that many of the things that your other readers have. And people on your podcast have experienced and the podcasts are extremely helpful. That was probably one of the biggest motivators for me is just listening to other people who I would listen and hear people talk.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">I think that is exactly me, right?</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
So many times when I&#8217;ve been listening, I&#8217;ve related to so much. About what people have said and what they&#8217;d gone through. And that really convinced me that it was something that was going to be doable. But even then, like the thought of going 90 days, taking only one trip down for that entire period was inconceivable to me because of how, you know, reliant I had become on the ZOMG in particular. It was really, truly inconceivable to me, but I thought, OK, I&#8217;m going to give this a go and really committed to it. And then once I had made it through one my brain without medication, I didn&#8217;t want to take the medication. So I didn&#8217;t want to set myself back. So I think getting started is one of the biggest steps. Just making the decision to commit to it and to do it is is one of the biggest hurdles to overcome. And then once I was down that path, I just was really motivated to continue. And when the migraines started getting shorter and shorter, it felt like sort of the light at the end of the tunnel because I knew that it wasn&#8217;t going to be three days in bed. Typically now about my ring will be, you know, one day and the pain is much less significant. I can go about my usual activities. It&#8217;s not fun. But, you know, it&#8217;s not it&#8217;s not always the case that I find myself having to lie down. Yeah. And I do take the occasional Tylenol if it gets bad, I sort of give myself the the freedom to do that. Right. I know that it&#8217;s better than taking a trip down for me. Right. And that, you know, I I need to also balance life. Right.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
And this condition is so and so much of this is about being able to make these decisions with the right information. Right. I mean, it&#8217;s we are always navigating these kind of things where we&#8217;re trying to balance, you know, what we need to do today with what we do is tomorrow. And it&#8217;s really just about, you know, being able to make that decision, an informed one. And now that you&#8217;ve had this reframing of, you know what that means with respect to medications, you can make it much more informed decision and make one that really, truly fits with what your needs are at the moment, for sure.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
And it wasn&#8217;t your progression over time. I initially when I first read your book, it was I realized like the Imitrex certainly had to go. And I realized that probably before I just didn&#8217;t like taking it. It made me feel really drowsy and blah. And I also realized that it was making my migrants&#8217; worse. There was no doubt that I took the, um, tact. It was making things worse. And the migrants were becoming so severe. Yes. When I was taking that medication that things drastically improved, just making that change initially. So even if people aren&#8217;t ready to make, you know, take the full leap in terms of addressing rebound for me, the I&#8217;m checklist first and then I was taking I had been on your trip to lean with the last preventative medication. I tried. And I just slowly tapered myself off of that. That was sort of the next step. And then, you know, just reducing my consumption of Advil and Tylenol before, you know, on the advice of my doctor, I would always take the medication very early on when I would feel like I would feel like the slightest twinge of a headache or a migraine.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
And I would immediately take pain medication. I would maybe start off without delay or Tylenol and then not use the ZOMG until I was pretty sure it was going to be a migraines. Right. But that, you know, once I even changed that and stopped doing that, you know, things did improve to a certain extent. But the triptans were such an important piece for me. And I&#8217;ve seen the greatest the biggest change as a result of that. So it&#8217;s I definitely would urge people to sort of rip the Band-Aid off.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
And for me, like I said, there wasn&#8217;t going to be a good time. I thought, well, right, if I&#8217;m on holidays, I&#8217;m not going to want to spend my holidays in bed.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
And, you know, during the times that I&#8217;m working or busy with kids. I mean, that&#8217;s always going to be the situation. Right? So I think it was just I got fed up, I think was probably the final piece. And I said, you know, this is really not I don&#8217;t feel as though I&#8217;m living the way that, like, this condition was dominating or controlling me, right? Yeah, most certainly. And just there was just so much about my day that I didn&#8217;t like having to carry the medications and always be cognizant of whether I had them. And then having to go to the pharmacy and, you know, make sure if I was going away for the weekend or something, that I had enough. And this constant anxiety about managing this was just I truly thought it would be very liberating if I didn&#8217;t have to worry about that any longer. And it has been you know, I still have Romig in the house.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
But I just I couldn&#8217;t. Tell you how many I have or right now it&#8217;s just become a very different way of thinking about it.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
And I can&#8217;t say that I&#8217;ll never take another trip down again. Right. But I certainly will not go back to I can say that without a doubt. I will not go back to the place that I was in right prior to this where, you know. Yeah, we&#8217;re just getting through progressively worse over time.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Dr. T: </strong><br />
Right. Yeah. You know how not to get back there and you know how to get out of there. Which is both are huge. Well, thank you so much for joining us and sharing your story and being so generous. There&#8217;s tons of wisdom you&#8217;ve given and throughout this episode. So trying to say is gonna help a lot of people. And we really, really appreciate it. Thank you.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
Oh, thank you very much for having me. And thank you for creating this space.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
It&#8217;s amazing to me that this type of resource exists for my condition. And I read a lot of books and things on migraines over the years. And this has been this roadmap that you&#8217;ve created based on your own experiences and the experiences of others. Has been so helpful. Just really appreciate that you&#8217;ve created this. And then it&#8217;s an evolving sort of community where other people&#8217;s experiences are, you know, contributing to the knowledge base over time. Right. And I have to say, you know, the chatter archives, when I first started to read through them, I couldn&#8217;t believe the wealth of knowledge that&#8217;s in there.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
I mean, every every archive has that.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
I&#8217;ve always wondered as to be able to have the opportunity to ask someone about all of these things that&#8217;s knowledgeable. You know, I had a really great neurologist for the last several years, but just I&#8217;ve read a lot of the focus is still on the use of medication for migraines. And many doctors still prescribe medications that do make the situation worse. And that&#8217;s not always recognized. You know, certainly in my case, I don&#8217;t think it was recognized by the physicians involved in my care that I was in rebound. I sort of had to sort that out on my own. And having a resource like this was integral to that process. And I would just really encourage people to go and read through those, because the old archives, because there&#8217;s just a wealth of knowledge in there on specific topics that are highly relevant to people who suffer from migraines. So, again, thank you for that. And thank you for the amazing recipes. And just the whole thing has been really a lifestyle for me rather than just reading a book. And like I said, a lot of it was in line with principles. I already made so much sense to me already. Right. So it&#8217;s the way that it set out is just really helpful. Sort of bite-size pieces. Again, the way that the you know, your training program is set out in sort of chapters or things that you&#8217;ll work on. And I often go back to that, although I&#8217;ve done it before or read it before at certain points in time. I think information sinks in just a bit differently when you&#8217;re dealing with it.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Yeah.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
Yeah. And certainly with respect to rebound, when I read through it again, you know, when I was ready to receive that information, fully, receive that information and implemented it, I read it in a different way. So I would encourage people to go back through and give things a second read because I always learn something new when I go back. Like I said, even though I&#8217;ve done it before and the menstrual migraines protocol, I I read that probably five times, having to keep it, you know, at the forefront of things that I need to be doing.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Dr. T: </strong><br />
Yeah. Yes. Well, thank you. That really means a lot to hear. You hear all that. We you know, we&#8217;ve been quite a bit of time building those resources. And the greatest gift to us is to see people like really using them and really putting in an action. And that&#8217;s it means a lot. It&#8217;s also humbling. And I appreciate that. So thanks again and really enjoy talking. You did. I can. Yes, think.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Kim: </strong><br />
Yes. You, too. Thanks for having me. All right.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;">Bye.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Dr. T: </strong><br />
Well, that was fantastic, wasn&#8217;t it, Jenny? It was so. It&#8217;s. I made a lot of notes as she was talking because there was so much wisdom that she shared. So you&#8217;d have to try to edit myself. But anything that stood out for you in particular, Jane?</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Jenn: </strong><br />
Yes. One of the things that I really hope people will hone in on from her message is that there is no perfect time to approach breaking rebound. And she did that while she was in the midst of a trial. I think that&#8217;s pretty significant.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Dr. T: </strong><br />
No question. Like it&#8217;s really hard. That&#8217;s like not the point. The point is like the other side is so much better. Right. And as you know, as so many people have said before, that you know it. It was. Yes. You know, not fun at first, but. Right. But they started seeing signs of improvement and significant improvement pretty quickly. And and then I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ve had a single person who&#8217;s who didn&#8217;t say, why didn&#8217;t I do that sooner? Right. Right. So like she said, there&#8217;s never gonna be as a great message. There&#8217;s never gonna be more every time. And it&#8217;s so true. And she talked about taking just taking action. Right. Just start. Yes. And that&#8217;s and because the feedback, you know, we see time and again, these are these critical little pieces of feedback. Right. The first migraines that you go through without taking anything huge milestone. Yeah. Everybody, that&#8217;s always a victory. And then and because then it&#8217;s like, well, I can do it. I can do this, you know. And then the second being that they start lessening in intensity. That&#8217;s right. That, you know, you start seeing these signs of recovery pretty quick. And once you get those when you get that initial pieces of feedback, then it makes it a whole lot easier to stick with it. So, yeah, just getting just getting started and hopefully hearing her will motivate some other folks to just get started. Let&#8217;s also, you know, for her, another thing that we oftentimes see is that folks, when they get when they have all the other pieces in place, you know, really make rapid progress once they get the medication peace out of the way. I just did the an interview for the Kicking Sugar Summit. And the host asked me, you know, what about someone who has, you know, is implemented and ancestral diet and still getting migraines? You know, we&#8217;re going to see ads that said, you know, almost every single one of those situations, it&#8217;s going to stop using new medications. That&#8217;s right. And it&#8217;s, you know, consistently true.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Jenn: </strong><br />
Right. And I think that that&#8217;s something that is important about her message. She really tried to do what. And frankly, a lot of people do when they come to us as they try to, you know, work on the diet and even the lifestyle pieces without really addressing that rebound issue. And that&#8217;s really just sort of the first key issue you have to take care of first.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Dr. T: </strong><br />
That&#8217;s why I refer to it as a zero multiplier. It&#8217;s like so if you multiply any number by zero, you still get zero or it&#8217;s just like if you you can you can have the best car in the world. All the best parts, you know, everything else. It doesn&#8217;t have any gas. Not going to go anywhere. It&#8217;s the same thing with, you know, you can work on all these other elements that will pay tremendous dividends if that rebound stuff. If the medications are out of picture and you&#8217;re not having that zero multiplier in the picture. That&#8217;s right. I also was glad to hear recognize that not all Kito is the same. In this. Yes. Plenty of ways to go. Another thing we try to get out there is it is there? There are plenty of ways to go Kito that are not migraine friendly at all.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Dr. T: </strong><br />
We know. Wow, how helpful it can be. So we want to be able to get people to experience that. And that was a big reason why we started the Keto blast so that we could give folks an idea of what the migraine miracle version of it looks like. I also really appreciated her pointing out that our community felt different than a lot of what she&#8217;d encountered in the migraine world. Certainly that was a big motivation as well as trying to find a place that had a positive community and a positive message, because we know that that that alone makes a huge difference. And there&#8217;s unfortunately a lot of negativity and a lot of misinformation out there in the migraine world. A lot of people trying to capitalize on what is a vulnerable population, who is kind of ready to do anything. And that&#8217;s an opportunity for opportunists to take advantage of. And hopefully that more folks will be steered away from those sorts of things and find find their way to a more positive place. That&#8217;s right. All right. Well, thanks again to Kim. If you want to become part of this community, including people like him and all the others who, like she said, are great sources of encouragement, then we&#8217;d love to have you in my ever land. You can find out more by going to my micro miracle dot com. Clicking on the resources tab on the top menu.</p>
<p style="font-size: 14px; color: #3e3e3b; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Dr. T: </strong><br />
And if you enjoy this podcast, it be awesome if you left a rating and review in i-Tunes. Now, Jenny, what time is it? Time to slay the beast.</p>
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This transcript may contain errors. <a href="https://sonix.ai/?utm_source=embedplayer" style="text-decoration:none;color:#3E3E3B;" target="_blank" title="Sonix is the best way to convert your audio to text in 2019." rel="noopener noreferrer">Sonix is the best way to convert your audio to text in 2019. </a></p><p style="font-size: 14px;color: #3E3E3B;text-decoration: none;">Welcome to the migraine miracle moment. I&#39;m your host, Dr. Josh Turknett. I&#39;m a neurologist, migraines specialist, migraines suffer and author of the book The Migraines Miracle. In this podcast, you&#39;ll learn all about how to find your path to migraines, freedom without pills. Let&#39;s get started.</p><p style="font-size: 14px;color: #3E3E3B;text-decoration: none;">Howdy, folks. So recently there was a study published on the link between migraines and Alzheimer&#39;s disease. And I know it was a study that sparked some anxiety amongst some of you. Some of you told me about it. And in this episode, I&#39;m going to discuss that study, the results of it. What it means for migraines sufferers and in particular, what I as a neurologist and a migrant myself and someone who is concerned about doing all that I can to protect myself against things like Alzheimer&#39;s disease, disease. What I am doing about it. So before we get into that, just a reminder that our last Hilo blast of the year is launching October 5th. Hard to believe we&#39;re so close to the end of the year, but another one is is soon coming to a close. Once again, all of our 30 day challenges are available as part of membership to migrate Neverland. You can participate as many times as you like. We are currently wrapping up our first ever mindset and mindfulness challenge, which has been fantastic. So anyways, Kita Blast launches next and we love to have you on. It is certainly something that is also very relevant to our topic today, as you&#39;ll hear about in a minute. Okay. So as I said in the introduction recently, a new study came out that explores the link between migraines and also Alzheimer&#39;s. So what was the study? Well, the study was part of the Manitoba Study of Health and Ageing. So it took place in Canada and was published in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.</p><p style="font-size: 14px;color: #3E3E3B;text-decoration: none;">So the Manitoba study is one where a certain population in Canada is followed over a long period of time and various health metrics are made or monitored along the way with the goal of identifying associations between certain risk factors, lifestyle habits and certain diseases. And one of the metrics that was used was a cognitive test known as the modified mini mental state exam. So this is a screening tool for cognitive impairment. And so what they did was first screened people with this test to look for people who had normal cognitive function and ended up putting in six hundred seventy nine people who initially scored normal on that test. And then five years later, those people were re-evaluated. With respect to their cognitive function, they also asked these folks when they were first tested whether they had any history of migraines. So six hundred thirty nine people, the average age was about 60. Seventy six years old and 62 percent were women and men. So they looked at five years and found that 34 of those people out of the six hundred seventy nine went on to develop Alzheimer&#39;s disease or a diagnosis of Alzheimer&#39;s disease. And they found that eight of those people had a history of migraines. So eight of the 34 people who developed Alzheimer&#39;s over this five year period had a history of migraines and running the numbers. They found that those who developed a diagnosis of Alzheimer&#39;s over the course of the five year study, or about two times more likely to have had a history of migraines.</p><p style="font-size: 14px;color: #3E3E3B;text-decoration: none;">Now, you can run the numbers another way, which they didn&#39;t do in the study, but which you can use the data to do. And another way of saying this is that a diagnosis of migraines amounted to around an 11 percent five year risk of being diagnosed with Alzheimer&#39;s. And no diagnosis of migraine was associated with about a 5 percent five year risk. So while the relative risk of developing Alzheimer&#39;s in these two groups was double for the migrant years, the absolute risk increase associated with migraines was 6 percent. So that also means that if you had migraines, you had about a 90 percent chance of not developing a diagnosis of Alzheimer&#39;s over the course of these five years and not having migraines was associated with about a 95 percent chance of not developing a diagnosis of Alzheimer&#39;s. I remember that these folks were at an average age of 76 at the start of the studies. This at the time of increasingly higher risk of Alzheimer&#39;s disease. So about half of people at the age of 85 will actually meet diagnosis diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer&#39;s disease. It&#39;s also worth noting that the lower end of the 95 percent confidence interval for this association between migraine history and Alzheimer&#39;s was one point to two, which means that the data barely passed. The criteria for even having statistical significance. Had that number then less than one, it would not have, and this would been have been reported as a negative study, meaning no association.</p><p style="font-size: 14px;color: #3E3E3B;text-decoration: none;">Now, the authors did go on to perform additional analysis in an attempt to try to correct for other things that are associated with a risk of Alzheimer&#39;s and things like hypertension, diabetes, age and so on. So trying to remove other things that could have accounted for some of the differences between these two groups and skewed the results in one way or another. So to try to ensure that any association is only due to the particular risk factor being studied, which in this case is migraines rather than into something else. And when they did that, they found that the risk association with migraines increased to being about four times as likely. Now, that said, these kind of corrections are a personal pet peeve of mine and a lot of other people, too. And the reason for that is because here we have a study that&#39;s openly asking the question of whether there&#39;s any possible link between migraines and Alzheimer&#39;s disease, which of course, implies that we don&#39;t know the answer to that question. And that also applies to a great many other things as well. There are likely all sorts of other factors that are associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer&#39;s that we&#39;re entirely unaware of. So it&#39;s entirely impossible to correct for those things because we don&#39;t even know what they are. Furthermore, even for the ones that we have identified, we really don&#39;t have any clue about how to correct what the actual risk is for each particular risk factor in each particular individual.</p><p style="font-size: 14px;color: #3E3E3B;text-decoration: none;">So it&#39;s delusional to think that we can actually perform these kinds of precise corrections. Yet this is routinely done using these fancy statistics with logistic regression, which kind of gives the illusion with fancy mathematics that you&#39;ve uncovered some truth. But I don&#39;t put much weight into these sorts of things at all, nor do a lot of other folks. A better study of this kind would be where you were to ask this question and prospectively. So you set up a trial from the outset where you divide groups from the start based on the presence or absence of my grain. And then you try to control for every other at least known factor that&#39;s a risk for Alzheimer&#39;s. And then you don&#39;t end up having to do these statistical corrections to try to remove bias, which, as I said, you can&#39;t really ever do. So doing and designing a trial that way at least gives you a slightly better chance of ensuring that the factor of interest is accounting for your differences between groups. And what&#39;s kind of frustrating here is that the conclusion in this study mentions the fourfold increase, which of course was only generated after this statistical manipulation, not the two fold increase, which is just using the raw data. And of course, the fourfold makes for better headlines. OK, so I could go on all day about the limitations of various types of research studies, but I think you get the point.</p><p style="font-size: 14px;color: #3E3E3B;text-decoration: none;">So those were the findings. Again, possibly a small association between migraines and Alzheimer&#39;s disease risk, nowhere near the risk that&#39;s associated with age, which remains the number one risk factor for Alzheimer&#39;s, but nonetheless an association. Now, it is important to point out that there have been other studies that didn&#39;t show a link between Alzheimer&#39;s and my brain. And as I&#39;ve already pointed out, this study does have its limitations. One of which I&#39;ve described is the fact that it&#39;s retrospective, not prospective, which makes it harder to find true associations. But let&#39;s go ahead and assume for the sake of argument that there is a real association here. So what might that mean and what can we take away from it? So first things first. This is an association or a correlation between two factors. So a study like this, even taken at face value, is not saying that migraines cause Alzheimer&#39;s disease or that there is any type of direct link. That&#39;s just one of many potential explanations for the association. So that association could easily, easily be explained by other variables that are linked to both of these conditions. Now, all this being said, I personally wouldn&#39;t be at all surprised if this association was indeed real, because as I&#39;ve often talked about on this podcast, the factors that confer a higher likelihood of migraines are also ones that are associated with a heightened risk of Alzheimer&#39;s.</p><p style="font-size: 14px;color: #3E3E3B;text-decoration: none;">So most significant here is the fact that both Alzheimer&#39;s and migraines are diseases of civilization, meaning that they are seen in far greater numbers in civilized industrialized societies and are nearly or completely absent absent in indigenous hunter gatherer populations. And that implies that there are common pathway genetic factors between those conditions, meaning the same set of things that can lead to both and said that the same kind of environmental factors in our modern world that increase the likelihood of migraines also increase the likelihood of Alzheimer&#39;s. And if you recall my own personal story, I didn&#39;t initially change my own diet lifestyle to end my migraines. I started it in large part because of the research that I&#39;d done on the foundations of human health, including nutrition, especially the research on indigenous human populations still leading a largely hunter gatherer type of lifestyle, where the conditions that we see routinely as a physician are virtually absent things like diabetes, heart disease, stroke and Alzheimer&#39;s. So reducing the mismatch between our modern habitat and our ancestral one, including the food that I eat, became a foundational strategy for protecting myself against the chronic diseases that have reached epidemic proportions in our current world. And the reason I was surprised by the impact this change had on my migraines and then on my patients migraines was because migraines hadn&#39;t traditionally been lumped as one of the diseases of civilization, which is part of why I didn&#39;t expect any benefit. Now, if we look more specifically at the disease mechanisms of Alzheimer&#39;s and migraines, there are also similarities in the path of physiology.</p><p style="font-size: 14px;color: #3E3E3B;text-decoration: none;">Again, these are commonalities that are seen across the diseases of civilization and we can identify very direct links between environmental mismatches and the pathology we see in all of these various conditions. One of those common factors is inflammation. So inflammation is a signature feature and essentially every chronic condition, including migraines and Alzheimer&#39;s. So some of the key mismatches here that drive inflammation when it comes to food are, number one, the huge increase in our consumption of processed vegetable and seed oils. So things that would not have been available to our ancestors. That includes things like canola, corn, sunflower, saff, flower, owl, oil. All of these are pro inflammatory, especially when consumed in the amounts in the typical Westerners diet, since they are in virtually every packaged convenience food. So a typical western westerner consumes up to 20 times as much of these kinds of oils than our ancestors would have. A second food mismatch that drives inflammation would be things that disrupt the integrity of the gut barrier. So things like gluten grains, especially in those who are vulnerable and sugar. So I discussed on a previous podcast on the connections between gluten and migraines, where I reviewed the evidence that the white matter spots commonly seen in the brain of migrant workers can be linked to impairments in the gut and blood brain barrier. And in that episode, I mentioned that those spots have also been linked to an increased risk of dementia.</p><p style="font-size: 14px;color: #3E3E3B;text-decoration: none;">So here we have something that&#39;s associated with leaky gut that&#39;s seen in migrant hours and is known to increase the risk of dementia. And so based on that alone, you&#39;d predict migrants to have a heightened risk of Alzheimer&#39;s disease. They are, though, another food mismatch that leads to inflammation is our increase in consumption of refined carbohydrates, including sugar. We know that hypoglycemia, elevated blood sugar and diabetes are significant risk factors for Alzheimer&#39;s disease. And furthermore, we also know that diets high in refined carbohydrates increase the risk of migrants at. Leased in part by its impact on suppressing or impairing metabolic flexibility, which I&#39;ve talked about on prior episodes. And so once again, the risk of both migraines and Alzheimer&#39;s are increasing. With impairments in the control of blood sugar. And then we have all the lifestyle mismatches as well that also increase inflammation worse in our glycemic control and so on. And so, again, these things would be predicted to lead to both an increase in the risk of migraines and an increase in the risk of Alzheimer&#39;s, which means we should see a higher incidence of Alzheimer&#39;s and those with a history of migraines. So the overall take home message here is that given the abundance of evidence indicating that these are both mismatched diseases, meaning they are driven by the home use static stress produced when there is a mismatch between our present habitat and our ancestral habitat, we would predict an association between these two conditions.</p><p style="font-size: 14px;color: #3E3E3B;text-decoration: none;">So from a practical perspective, what does this what does identifying this association change for me? Absolutely nothing. Like I said, I already assumed that my migraine history makes me at higher risk of Alzheimer&#39;s. Just that one factor alone in isolation, which just gives me all the more reason to reduce mismatch in my diet lifestyle. And it gives me all the more reason to ensure that I avoid non-human foods that disrupt the gut barrier and favor ones that promote a healthy and robust one and healthy and diverse populations of gut microorganisms. It certainly gives me all the more reason to regularly cycle in and out of nutritional ketosis. Again, the evidence continues to build that ketosis can be a powerful tool for Alzheimer&#39;s prevention and treatment. And certainly if I or one of my family members were to be given a diagnosis of Alzheimer&#39;s tomorrow, I would be ketogenic from there on out and I would strongly urge them to be as well. So all in all, this data just gives me all the more reason to continue to strengthen the two of the three pillars of protection. So remember, the three pillars of protection for migraine are eliminating rebound, which wouldn&#39;t apply in the case of Alzheimer&#39;s. But the other two are minimizing mismatch in diet and lifestyle. And the third is establishing metabolic flexibility. So two of these three are what I would consider to be the foundations of a protection plan for Alzheimer&#39;s disease and the ways to optimize the health of the brain.</p><p style="font-size: 14px;color: #3E3E3B;text-decoration: none;">And in fact, I work with clients who come to me with a heightened risk of Alzheimer&#39;s disease. And this is the foundation of their plan. And as I&#39;ve said before, I consider it a very happy coincidence that the my great miracle plan is also the best plan for minimizing the chances of almost every chronic disease, including Alzheimer&#39;s. And you&#39;ve heard many people in our community now talk about the hidden blessing of migraines meetings that they were prompted to make changes in their diet lifestyle way earlier than they would have otherwise. So by the time a condition like Alzheimer&#39;s starts to declare itself, it&#39;s way too late. Yet in the case with migraines, many people are starting on this plan decades in advance of when something, a condition like Alzheimer&#39;s would strike. So all in all, the results of a study like this showing a possible link between migraines and Alzheimer&#39;s makes me all the more thankful to have discovered this plan when I did. It&#39;d be one thing if Alzheimer&#39;s was some inevitable thing that we were powerless over and we could do nothing to modify our risk. But that is absolutely not true at all. There is clearly an enormous and necessary environmental component to Alzheimer&#39;s disease, and there&#39;s so much that we can do to modify our risk. Okay, so those are my takeaways from this recent study. Just as a reminder, again, our last Q2 blast of the year launches next week, October 5th.</p><p style="font-size: 14px;color: #3E3E3B;text-decoration: none;">So if you&#39;re interested in utilizing nutritional ketosis as a means of protecting your brain over the long haul from things like Alzheimer&#39;s disease, you want to know how I do it so that it also boosts my protection from the beast. Then we&#39;d love to have you as part of our next one, as always. Thank you so much for listening. If you join, this podcast could be awesome. We left the. I tuned really helps other people discover it. 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<p>The Study &#8211; <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31486140" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Migraine and the risk of all-cause dementia, Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, and vascular dementia: A prospective cohort study in community-dwelling older adults</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.851.9874&amp;rep=rep1&amp;type=pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Western Diet &amp; Diseases of Civilization</a></p>



<p><strong>MIGRAI-NEVERLAND</strong>, our premier resource for those who want to find their pill free path to migraine freedom (including the Beast Slayer Training Academy): <a href="https://www.mymigrainemiracle.com/endofmigraine">mymigrainemiracle.com/endofmigraine</a></p>
<p>The <strong>9 Primary Migraine Miracle RESOURCES</strong>: <a href="https://www.mymigrainemiracle.com/how-we-can-help/">mymigrainemiracle.com/how-we-can-help/</a></p>

<p><strong>The Jump Start Challenge: </strong><a href="https://www.mymigrainemiracle.com/jumpstart">mymigrainemiracle.com/jumpstart</a></p>





<p>The 2019 Schedule of <strong>Migrai-Neverland Challenges</strong>: <a href="https://www.mymigrainemiracle.com/schedule">https://www.mymigrainemiracle.com/schedule</a></p>



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<p><strong>The book</strong> that started it all &#8211; The Migraine Miracle: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Migraine-Miracle-Sugar-Free-Gluten-Free-Inflammation/dp/1608828751"> https://www.amazon.com/Migraine-Miracle-Sugar-Free-Gluten-Free-Inflammation/dp/1608828751</a></p>
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