Author: Josh Turknett, MD

Carbohydrate Counts from The Migraine Miracle Recipes

Carbohydrate restriction and the resultant blood sugar stabilization and ketone production can offer another level of migraine protection – another arrow in your quiver to fire when needed. As promised in the book, here are the carbohydrate counts (listed as grams of carbohydrates) for each of the recipes from The Migraine Miracle for those of […]

Frequently Asked Questions about Migraine

Not too sure about what migraines are? Just started having them? Over the past decade of taking care of patients with migraine, I’ve found certain questions emerge time and again, particularly amongst folks who have just started having them for the first time. Some of these will crop up in our initial conversation, others will […]

What are Migraines, Part 2: Classic Migraine Symptoms

First of all, let’s recap the take home points from part 1: Migraines happen in normal brains Migraines are the result of a malfunction in pain processing, or specifically pain processing in reverse Migraines are weird.    So we’ve established that, with migraine, everything is thrown on its head. Pain doesn’t mean what we normally […]

What are Migraines, Part 1: Migraines are Weird

Right off the bat, I think it’s important that we acknowledge that migraines are a bizarre and perplexing biological phenomenon. As anyone who’s had one knows, they are oftentimes excruciating, agonizing, and debilitating – features that would lead you to believe they serve a very important biological function. Yet, they appear to have no functional […]

Coming December 1, 2013: The Migraine Miracle

Say Goodbye to Migraines Want to end your battle with migraines? Want to wake up in the morning knowing that your plans for that day won’t be derailed by a throbbing head? Want this without having to take expensive, side-effect laden medications every day? Sounds too good to be true, right? Up until a few […]