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Welcome to the functionalmedicine and natural healing
podcast where we share thesecrets to upgrade your
digestion, improve yourhormones, restore your immune
system and detoxify your body.
I'm your host, Dr. HoustonAnderson. Now let's get started.
The following discussion is foreducational purposes, it is not
intended to diagnose or treat.
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always discuss medicaltreatments or medical
interventions to your personalphysician. Alright guys, welcome
back to part two of my migraineseries just going to be two
episodes I believe for now. Andthen we can answer some more
questions if you go and find meon Instagram. So today we're
gonna talk about the supplementsthat I might use in a typical
migraine patient. Obviously,with every migraine, there can
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be variability, there can bechanges, you can be unique. Of
course that happens. And we allhave our own unique stories. But
before we even get into thosesupplements, I want to remind
you go back to the last episode,and try and listen to kind of
those root causes. Because it'seasy and fun to go and buy a new
supplement, it's going to cureeverything. But it's more
important to know what you'readdressing and why you're
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addressing it. Because that wayyou can understand what
supplement you're taking and howit addresses that. So you can
Google any herb or supplement,you'll find Oh, that helps with
migraines. But the question iswhy. And if you're taking the
same product for the samemechanism over and over, you may
not ever get a result and youthink you've tried 100 things.
And you've really only tried onething. And that's really, really
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common when it comes to patientscoming in the office is that
they think they've triedeverything, but they've tried
everything related to one kindof way that the body works. So
for example, if you're trying tolose weight, maybe you've tried
every way of working out to loseweight, but you've never tried
diet, or vice versa, you'vetried every way to die up,
you've never tried actuallyworking out a new way. So
there's those kinds of things.
And you may feel like you'vetried so hard, but you haven't
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really hit the story or the nailon the head. So just go back and
make sure that you understandsome of these root causes. So
just as a quick reminder, likethe main root cause I covered in
the last episode, immune relatedproblems, which are mostly food
sensitivities, and foodallergens, blood flow related
problems, which we'll cover alittle bit today. And then
nervous system stimulation. Soanything that stimulates the
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nervous system, are the thingsare the categories that we're
going to be looking at. Alright,let's go with a simple
challenge, probably the cheapestone that you can do at home. So
essentially, we call this thebrown bag challenge, what you
can do is take a little lunchbag, a brown bag, or any paper
bag that you happen to have atyour house. And what you do is
you start re breathing into it.
So essentially, you cover yourmouth and your nose and you
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breathe into it, we usually sayeight to 10, maybe 12 or 14
breaths inside that bag. Andwhat you're doing is you're
trying to re breathe the airthat you breathe out, which is
going to increase somethingcalled co2, that co2, if it
makes you feel better indicatesa problem was the what's called
the Krebs cycle, or we couldcall it mitochondrial
dysfunction. Okay, so what youwould do is, is you feel a
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migraine coming on or you seekind of the some of the things
that are going off, you're like,oh, no, I might have one, even
before you go run for yourdrugs. To save your life, you
can read breathe in this badreally quickly, and see if that
decreases the intensity. Nowthis would go for any symptom
that you have with any othercondition too. But we're talking
about migraines today. So if younotice that you have increased
blood and brain clarity or thatthe headache, you know, the
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prodrome, the migraine starts togo away, or you feel an
increased energy or brainclarity with that energy, I'm
going to say mostly, it's goingto be kind of head related. But
if you feel better, then youknow that it's a deficiency of
energy actually getting into thecells. And without going into
too much of the science of thatKrebs cycle or the mitochondrial
health indicates some missing Bvitamins essentially. But the B
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vitamins are not the one thatmost people take. It's this
indicates kind of B ones B twos,befores B fives, which is
Panasonic acid, maybe some alaor lipoic acid and CO q 10. So
in the easy cases, we add someof those B vitamins. But what I
do in the office, it's a littlebit different than what you
might see online or in a lot ofother doctor's offices is i i
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rarely ever use a B complex,those don't seem to work with
patients. So that's a quicklittle clinical tip there. If
you're taking a B complex andlooking for an actual result,
it's unlikely to happen. I'm notgoing to go into why that is
today. But long story short, Imuch prefer if you actually have
a migraine problem and younotice that this test the
breathing into a bag works, thenmaybe you take some b one for a
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while okay, if that doesn'twork, you take some b two, you
can try some B five obviously inour office, we're going to use
frequency testing or muscletesting in order to determine
what the best nutrient is foryou and what B vitamins is going
to help you the most which isyou know, obviously the benefit
of working with a practitionerbut at home, if you're just
going to do that reread test.
You're looking at thisspecifically the B vitamins that
have to do with that Krebs Cyclecycle or citric acid cycle. Big
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words long story short breatheinto a bag. If you don't feel so
awesome, then you might have a Bvitamin deficiency. Okay, so
here's another one you can do athome. So as you kind of feel any
migraine or headache coming onyou can try the challenge is
called a tablespoon per hour.
And that is the tables When perhour of high dose omega threes
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and sometimes omega threes, bothDHA and EPA Fatty Fatty Acids,
so I wouldn't really do overfive tablespoons, and it can
definitely cause loose stools ordiarrhea. So I wouldn't do it at
work or as as my first trial onthis. But it's definitely worth
a try on a day off or a weekend,when you can afford to have you
know, a couple of extra bowelmovements or be stuck on the
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toilet for a little bit of time.
I know it sounds scary. But onceagain, we're choosing diarrhea
and migraines and, and you know,that's your choice to make
there. But oftentimes, you'llfind that in two or three doses,
it starts to kick in. So what wedo is you take a tablespoon of
this high dose of omega omegathrees, and you'll do it every
hour. So essentially, you'lltake one on the first hour, take
one on the second hour, take oneon the third hour and see what
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happens. If you get up to fiveand you aren't having a result,
then I would say okay, that'snot the secret there. But But
what we're looking at here isthat those high dose anti
inflammatory fish oils canactually change the balance of
the fatty acids or inflammationin your body. Okay, so if this
test works for you, you'relooking at probably you're
consuming too many Omega sixes,maybe eating seed oils regularly
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or semi regularly, or just thebuild up over time, you don't
have healthy cells, fat cellsthat surround both your neurons
and your actually yourindividual cells. This can
happen just from eating too manyprocessed and refined foods too.
So I like to use an Omega liquidfrom biotics research. And I'll
link it in the show notes ifthis test actually works for
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you. So let's say you do two orthree doses, and once the
officials aren't gonna be badfor you, they're gonna be
healthy either way, whether youwhether you actually do well on
this test or do poor on thistest, it doesn't really help
you, that's okay, the officialsin your system aren't going to
be negative, they will have anynegative side effects to you,
other than maybe some looserstools, but if this helps you,
I'd recommend actually doingfive grams of liquid omegas a
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day for 60 days. So that's areally high dose. A lot of
people don't know that. Most ofthe research on fish oil, when
you actually talk about having aclinical benefit, actually
seeing a change in symptoms in areasonable period of time, you
know, like two, three weeks,you're looking and doing
something like five grams a day,whereas most fish oil pills,
especially the ones that you buyat the store, they're gonna
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have, you know, 23423 400milligrams of EPA and 234 100
milligrams of DHA. And so thoselow doses are equal, usually
about a gram. So if you're goingto go buy the low dose ones,
then you're going to end uptaking five servings essentially
every day in order to get thatclinical benefit for 60 days.
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Yeah, it's a little bitexpensive. But the reason why
you know, it's good for you isbecause you did the challenge,
right? So you know that that'sgoing to be a story there. And
honestly, like, if you'relooking for a benefit with
omegas, you can do high dosefish oil, high dose cod liver
oil, but it really does have tobe at about five grams a day to
see kind of that dramatic shift,rather than Yeah, if you took,
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if you took like one gram a dayof omega threes for like two
years, maybe it would wind upworking, but it just doesn't
work fast enough. And it doesn'tshift the balance, it doesn't
get you back to homeostasis orbalance fast enough that you see
much of a result, maybe a lot ofyou guys are already taking fish
oil, but you don't think itspecifically cures any ailment.
And oftentimes, that's dosageand then then the frequency,
right so just that that totalquantity that you're getting
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into your to your body at aregular interval. So this is
actually very similar to anotherchallenge I was talking about,
which is called the ibuprofenchallenge. The ibuprofen
challenge is simple. If you takeTylenol, ibuprofen, Excedrin,
any of those things for yourheadache, or migraine, and it
actually helps you then you canrest assured that your fatty
acids need to be balanced andyou'd benefit from fish oil
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supplementation at that highdose. Because essentially all
that those do is balance outyour omega threes and sixes and
you kind of have this now ofcourse there's some other things
that they do and especially ifyou're taking the Excedrin, it
has some caffeine in there thatmay be benefiting you with blood
flow and things like that. Butif you're looking at just a
straight like Tylenol oracetaminophen or you're looking
straight ibuprofen,kind of kind of INSEAD that if
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those are helping you then youcan be pretty confident that
your oil balances in your bodyare incorrect. Okay, let's talk
about a few vitamins reallyquick co Q 10 is some really
good research for as well as btwo has some really good
research for it for decreasingthe severity of the migraines
and the frequency. But what youfind is that they don't actually
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make them disappear. But they dohelp about 50%. So I mean, if
you wouldn't mind your migrainesbeing 50% Better, this may be a
possibility for you just kind ofa different family of of, they
really fall back to the originalbrown bag challenge. But even if
you fail the brown bag challengemeaning it doesn't seem to help
your migraine go away. Thisthese are still things that you
can add on they just probablyaren't like the number one root
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cause but you can still get 50%improvement in three months by
using these products regardlessof whether it's like your root
cause or not. So you see somebenefit there even in And, and
people were no root causedetermination was actually done.
But it's just kind of thegeneral population giving these
things and kind of hoping andpraying that something work and
it turns out that they do alittle bit. Okay,
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so the big thing about CO q 10,and b two specifically is that
they address like your bloodflow. So when you're addressing
that blood flow, you'll findthat, that or the I guess, it's
more like the visceralinflammation of your arteries
and your veins that go throughthe brain so it can kind of keep
them pretty calm, which is oneof the reasons why you see
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changes in that blood flow. Sooften, I use a product from
biotics research called Migronx. So am I gr a NX. This has the
b two in it and the CO q 10. Andas well as a few other herbs. So
and it has some butterbur andsome feverfew I've seen both of
those work in patients and bothof those fail in patients. So I
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don't really like them becausethey really are kind of like
anti inflammatories and, andwhile they do kind of support
the cellular health with regardsto migraine, I don't find that
they're like the secret. Now Ihave had a few patients that
butterbur cured everything. Butonce again, those take two to
three months to really kick in.
So it's hard to see that thatbenefit where we're hoping that
in two to three months someone'smigraines are already better
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anyway, to a large degree. Butlet's say that you would just
have like some breakthroughmigraines, like once every
quarter or something like that,that might be something that you
could add in but usually have tobe on those on maintenance. So
if I'm doing a maintenanceproducts, like I said, I use
that migraine x, which I'll linkin the show notes, where it has
those high doses of b two andthe CO q 10. As well as those
herbs kind of kind of put inthere. Now I will say that there
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is a caveat with doing high doseb two. So like I said, the
research on the B two is pretty,pretty stellar, you're going to
find that it helps a lot ofpeople. And b two deficiency is
actually really, really common.
But the main reason why we CBTdeficiency in patients is simply
because your gut, especially thebad guy, guys, or when you have
overgrowth, it doesn't have tobe bad. Once again, you'll hear
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me say that good gut microorganisms or adding probiotics
can often often cause thisdeficiency in people. So if
you've been on probiotics for 10years, you may have a b2c
deficiency caused by yourprobiotic. Now no one talks
about that stuff, because it'scontroversial. And now
everyone's scared to take aprobiotic and you sell them in
your office. It's really acontroversial subject. But
here's what I'd say that B todeficiency, you can take b two,
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anytime you address your gut. Sousually what you do, like I
said, Go listen to one of myother podcasts on gut health,
you address your gut health, youtake some Chinese captives, some
all leave some load somethinglike that, you address a lot of
that, which kills a lot of theexcess gut bacteria. Then with
that, you know, you can takeyour BT without having to worry
about side effects and get allthe benefits. It'll also make
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the beat to work faster. Sothat's an important one there.
In the previous podcasts onmigraines, we talked about
estrogen dominance affecting theliver. The ret main reason I see
that this is a problem withmigrants is a little bit
different than you think it'snot just an estrogen dominance
story. Yeah, that causes lots offun problems. But what estrogen
does is it sensitizes serotoninreceptors on the cells. So if
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you have high estrogen, thenyour body's going to hyper react
to serotonin changes. Soserotonin is responsible for
vasodilation andvasoconstriction of the vessels
in the brain are essentiallyyou're talking about blood flow
once again. So when I talkedabout blood flow is an important
one, that estrogen is correlateddirectly with that as well as
with inflammation. But it's morecorrelated with actually that
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that hypersensitivity isserotonin changes. So when
estrogen is high, the smallestchanges in serotonin can create
a migraine. And let's just talkabout that serotonin really
quick. So So serotonin is goingto be higher low throughout
different activities every day.
Once again, now now you'retrying to figure out why you
have a migraine, but yourserotonin is going to drop and
increase, either like a steadyincrease or decrease depending
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on the activity of the day. Soyou may have a lot of stress and
may decrease your serotonin andset off a migraine or you may
have a week off due to theholidays or you get some time
off and that will actuallyincrease your serotonin a lot
and change that blood vesselconstriction or vasodilation.
Also when you're having timeoff, so you find that people are
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like, well, it doesn't matter ifI work or don't work if I have
stress you don't have stress.
And the reason why is becauseour serotonin levels change a
lot. But it's it's anytime youhave estrogen dominance or high
estrogen you're gonna find thatthe changes in serotonin affect
your brain cells and yourmigraine a lot more than if you
didn't so once you get thatestrogen out, then you're going
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to find that the changes inserotonin don't affect you as
much. Now of course a dramaticchange in serotonin and a little
bit of estrogen dominance mightbe a good example of why someone
might have migrainesinfrequently. So but but you
know, if you have a lot ofstress in your life or a lot of
changes in serotonin thathappiness and that satisfaction
chemical, then then you may youmay be extra sensitive as shown
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with regards to migraines. Okay,so how do you know if you have
high estrogen I've covered thisanother app says But long story
short, if you have any PMSsymptoms if you have ovulation
pain, if you have any ovulationsymptoms, really, if you have
irregular cycles, heavybleeding, those indicate excess
estrogen. So you'll find thatlow serotonin or, and or low but
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healthy estrogen levels make youdepressed. But high serotonin
makes you hyper excitable aswell as high estrogen. So you
can actually people are kind ofback and forth. They're like,
well, I need estrogen because ofmy age or my gender or my lab
tests showed low estrogen. Butyour we have to kind of choose
you choose your battle here. Sofirst, you're going to choose to
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get rid of your excess badestrogen, which is really common
in today's society. But afterthat, then you can kind of
address where you know, okay, amI really depressed? Do I really
have a low grade kind ofDysthymic presentation,
essentially, what you're lookingfor here is just getting you out
of the migraine state. So youcan really reassess where in the
world is your brain as far asinflammation right now anyway, a
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good note here is that five HTP,which a lot of people take for
mild depression may be good forpostmenopausal women, because
they have lower estrogen levelsin general, but not so good for
younger females, right. So maybeyou you know, have some mood
changes or mood disorders thatmake you pretend to be more
depressed than someone else,when you're 25 years old. And so
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you read the five HTP might be agreat one to increase your
serotonin. And while it may, itmay actually cause these
migraines. And so if you'resomeone who takes a lot of
supplements, you may have somefive HTP slipped in there
somewhere. And you may find thatanytime that you eat eggs, which
would be high in tryptophan, ortake a supplement that has a
level of five HTP, you actuallyend up getting migraines or you
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get yourself closer to having amigraine at all times. And then
any stimulus can set you off,like a simple light. Okay, a
second note here, just for fun,because obviously men listen to
the podcast to is thattestosterone says it's
sensitizes the cells in themen's brain to serotonin. So if
you're taking testosteronereplacement therapy, or even
natural test boosters, you canactually end up with migraines
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and males. So you have to payattention to what you're adding.
Because once again, you thinkOh, testosterone can only be
good for males. But that's nottrue. I also noticed that men
can have estrogen dominance, itdoes back up the liver does
cause other problems. But it'snot as much about the serotonin,
estrogen and men as much as thetestosterone, estrogen,
testosterone serotonin admin.
Okay, so obviously, as in all myother episodes, I talked about
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how for estrogen dominance, weuse a ton of amgr should extract
in most cases was kind of endsup making this kind of my number
one go to for migraines, as Imentioned in the previous
podcast, but that goes for bothmales and females. So you got to
pay attention to that. Onceagain, I'll put a link in the
show notes if you want to lookat that product if you haven't.
And once again, my goal here isto give you some ideas that you
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haven't tried, or that you maynot be aware of, and today we're
focusing on supplementationspecifically. Alright, the next
thing to pay attention to isblood sugar changes. If you have
hypoglycemia, or you get hangry,right, you get angry when you
get hungry. If you don't eat,you likely have unstable blood
sugar. Okay, so these bloodsugar changes spike
neurotransmitters, which createa rapid change in nerve
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stimulation, which results in amigraine, and those with
diabetes, obviously, your bloodsugar issues are going to be
very sensitive to changes, youknow, a little bit of carbs can
cause a huge, huge dramaticchange. So you have to pay close
attention to those. While a fewcases of hypoglycemia can be
hard, it's really about avoidingprocessed refined foods,
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especially those added sugarsand getting adequate protein. So
in my practice, I require thatwomen get 60 grams of protein
each day, and that men get 75grams of protein each day. So if
you don't know how much proteinyou're eating, then you probably
aren't hitting that numberbecause it does require an
effort. Unless you're eatingsomething like a carnivore diet,
then you probably are hittingthat number. But if you're not
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adding protein to probably twofull meals, whether it's eggs
for breakfast, which once againcould be a problem for
serotonin, or you're adding awhole chicken breast for lunch
and a whole chicken breast fordinner, or whatever your version
of protein is, you probablyaren't hitting that if you're
vegan or vegetarian, you'llnever hit that number without
separate supplementation. Soit's important to know that I
prefer a supplement from acompany called body health was
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once again I'll link down below.
I prefer that supplement overprotein shakes, as the quality
of protein shakes are reallyhard to determine. And you have
to have optimal digestion tobreak these down. So the body
health supplement, it's actually10 tablets a day I recommend you
take five in the morning, fivein the afternoon, you take them
between meals, and it'llstabilize that blood sugar to a
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large degree throughout most ofthe day. Now obviously you still
have to try to eat healthy, butit takes care of that protein
requirement that a lot of peopleare missing that is required to
stabilize blood sugar. The otherproblem with protein shakes
oftentimes the the proteinshakes they like to claim to be
hydrolyzed proteins or likebroken down completely for you.
But whether they're carnivoreproteins or whey protein shakes,
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they can actually act act asglutamate excitotoxins, which
are triggers for migraines,right? So it can actually act as
kind of that MSG story. And thatwould be something that would
once again set you off. Alright,we can't talk about migrants
without talking about magnesium,a lot of people swear by
magnesium for their migraines,but it can actually act both
ways. In general, I would saythat magnesium supplementation
for migraines, I find that mostpeople find a pretty good
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benefit, too. But it's usuallythe people that are more like
mostly headaches and tensionheadaches, severe headaches,
things like that, and then theoccasional migraine, they'll
find a lot of the benefit there.
And then also, for true truemigraine patients, it's really
kind of hit and miss. I likemagnesium citrate as my form of
magnesium. Yes, I know thateveryone in the world thinks
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that magnesium glycinate is justfor the brain and anxiety and
stress and all these things. ButI still find that magnesium
citrate gives me a betterclinical benefit as far as long
term health. The other reason Ilike it, because magnesium
glycinate still falls in thatglutamate pathway. So it
actually can once again be amigraine trigger, if you use
that glycinate. Now, obviously,any magnesium can go and
stimulate that that cyclemagnesium could bind with the
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glycine molecule inside yourbody and create that same
problem, but I prefer to addressmigraines. What I like to say is
actually indirectly if you'reusing brain supplements for
migraines that only affect thebrain, you're going to have a
very aggressive response, it'seither going to be a horrible
migraine or complete relief,most often or alights really
results in a horrible migraine.
So I don't really like toaddress it that directly what we
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do is we get the body healthy,and then the migraine slowly but
surely go away. Another way toadd magnesium is just to do
Epsom salt baths. I do likethose, that's a form of
magnesium sulfate. The benefitof the magnesium sulfate, which
I've always told patients Iliked the sulfate specifically
helps liver detox more than anyother form of magnesium. So in
the liver, when we're talkingabout migraines, you're really
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talking about two majorpathways. Honestly, 90 99% of
all detoxification is going tohappen between two pathways,
which is sulfation andglucuronidation. The
glucuronidation pathway isrelated to blood sugar, and the
nut I mean, that's that's prettymuch taken care of with
artichoke, the sulfur productsare a little bit harder to get
into the body. So I do like someMSM. I like the magnesium
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sulfate because once again,you're absorbing it through the
skin. So it's not as direct. Youhave MSM products. And then I
also like some of the broccoliproducts out there. Right. Some
of the some of the broccolisprout products out there are
doing pretty good, you'll findthat people can be
hypersensitive, those two. Sojust Just a note right there.
Now, kind of one of the myths isperpetuated right now in
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functional medicine is thateveryone needs magnesium. This
is 100% not true, but it's thatit's not that they don't need
magnesium is that if we were tolab test every one for sure, we
have the research that says mostpeople are magnesium deficient.
But the question is, why doeseveryone need magnesium, I mean,
20 years ago, and it wasn't athing, but but I'll say, you
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know, everyone wants to blame iton soil quality and things like
that. And I just don't find thatthat's really the truth. Really,
it comes from cortisol issues,you'll find that if someone can
manage their stress and theirblood sugar, so cortisol is also
going to be highly correlatedwith blood sugar, that they're
not going to need magnesium. Theother thing is, you'll find that
the epinephrine andnorepinephrine stimulation, aka
also known as adrenaline, iswhat makes them deplete their
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magnesium. So this is your Dailycaffeine and coffee. So
essentially, you have poorsleep, you have excess stress,
which then makes you tired, youdon't eat correct, which then
makes your blood sugar off. Andthen to compensate for the fact
that you didn't sleep becauseyou have bad blood sugar. Now
you're stuck drinking caffeineor coffee in the morning, which
is then depleting yourmagnesium. Now that would be too
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hard to tell most people solet's be honest here, most
people are just going to taketheir magnesium supplement, but
I will tell you that thatmagnesium supplement will never
overpower those stressors inyour lifestyle. So that's
important. Important there.
Okay, so the other thing I wantto kind of give you kind of the
scenario because with allsupplements, migraines, it's a
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little bit more complex than youactually think because migraines
people are sensitive, right?
When you have that over hyperexcitable nerve that we talked
about in the last episode. Andso like magnesium, technically
adding magnesium to a neuronitself just to the brain will
actually cause a migraine. Okay,so but if you look at the actual
just sodium ions, potassiumions, what it actually does to
the to the nerve, it makes itfire, it creates pain,
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essentially, in the brain fromadding magnesium. Now, I don't
see that people come in and say,Hey, I'm taking magnesium and
now I've got migraines that'snot so it's not really a root
cause there but it is possible.
On the flip side, magnesium alsodecreases CGRP and that was in
the q&a from last episode. Sothe calcium is thought to
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actually create the pain for themigraines and so it will
decrease the calcium. Eventhough you have more firing
neurons, you'll have less pain.
So like I said, you can you canactually have a supplement that
could help some people in herother people Um, but in like
traditional models, they can'thave things like that you can't
have a drug that makes people'smigraines worse in some cases
and cures it in others, you needone that has a consistent
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mechanism. But in holisticmedicine and functional
medicine, when we're addressingreal patients, we're able to,
you know, have both scenariosand accept that two people can
be different from each other. Sowhat works for your friend next
door doesn't have to work foryou. And at the same time, it
could work for you. So it'sdefinitely worth trying out. If
you know someone that has amiracle cure for migraines and,
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and it worked for them. It couldbe local, right? So maybe people
in Arizona where I'm at, maybethey won't respond to magnesium,
but every one in northern Alaskais magnesium deficient. Because
of the cold and the stress, Ihave no idea how that's gonna
work. But every area can alsohave different triggers for
their migraines, obviously,seasonal allergies, things like
that. The only thing I didn'tcover here is gut health. I will
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say that, like we talked alittle bit about that b two and
gut health. But by far, like, ifyou look at the functional
medicine, doctors that teachmigraines are talking about
migraines, you're gonna findthat they do gut and food
allergies and get great results.
So let me just go back to thatthey'll do gut and food
allergies and get great results.
What the one thing I think thatthey're usually missing is that
estrogen dominance piece, whichthen desensitizes the serotonin,
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and it leaves you in kind oflike a better place. But I would
say that those are your mainthings that you're looking at
here. So that's it forsupplements for migraines today.
You probably need to listen thisepisode again, I guess I was
talking a little bit fast. ButBut once again, if you have more
questions like I'm going to do Qand A's on this on Instagram, so
if you listen to this in thenext week, you might find that
post up there. So you want tostay up to date with like the
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you need to work with apractitioner, I don't do
telephone consultations thismoment, you can always check on
my website and see if I'm doingthem. But we're just a little
bit behind locally. So I want tomake sure that those people get
taken care of. But Dr. Donahoein my office, he is doing those
telephone consultations. Heknows all this information too.
If you need to work with apractitioner, reach out to us,
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or in person. Or you can workwith Dr. Donahoe. He's not
booked out too far right now,but we expect him by May this
year, just because he's new toArizona, we expect by May this
year, he's going to becompletely slammed, he's gonna
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doctors, a lot of people end upcoming to them. So go ahead and
get on the waitlist if you needto. Otherwise, go ahead and find
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cool information in 2023 and wewill see it in the next year.
Welcome to the functionalmedicine and natural healing
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always discuss medicaltreatments or medical
interventions to your personalphysician. Alright guys, welcome
back to part two of my migraineseries just going to be two
episodes I believe for now. Andthen we can answer some more
questions if you go and find meon Instagram. So today we're
gonna talk about the supplementsthat I might use in a typical
migraine patient. Obviously,with every migraine, there can
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be variability, there can bechanges, you can be unique. Of
course that happens. And we allhave our own unique stories. But
before we even get into thosesupplements, I want to remind
you go back to the last episode,and try and listen to kind of
those root causes. Because it'seasy and fun to go and buy a new
supplement, it's going to cureeverything. But it's more
important to know what you'readdressing and why you're
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addressing it. Because that wayyou can understand what
supplement you're taking and howit addresses that. So you can
Google any herb or supplement,you'll find Oh, that helps with
migraines. But the question iswhy. And if you're taking the
same product for the samemechanism over and over, you may
not ever get a result and youthink you've tried 100 things.
And you've really only tried onething. And that's really, really
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common when it comes to patientscoming in the office is that
they think they've triedeverything, but they've tried
everything related to one kindof way that the body works. So
for example, if you're trying tolose weight, maybe you've tried
every way of working out to loseweight, but you've never tried
diet, or vice versa, you'vetried every way to die up,
you've never tried actuallyworking out a new way. So
there's those kinds of things.
And you may feel like you'vetried so hard, but you haven't
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really hit the story or the nailon the head. So just go back and
make sure that you understandsome of these root causes. So
just as a quick reminder, likethe main root cause I covered in
the last episode, immune relatedproblems, which are mostly food
sensitivities, and foodallergens, blood flow related
problems, which we'll cover alittle bit today. And then
nervous system stimulation. Soanything that stimulates the
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nervous system, are the thingsare the categories that we're
going to be looking at. Alright,let's go with a simple
challenge, probably the cheapestone that you can do at home. So
essentially, we call this thebrown bag challenge, what you
can do is take a little lunchbag, a brown bag, or any paper
bag that you happen to have atyour house. And what you do is
you start re breathing into it.
So essentially, you cover yourmouth and your nose and you
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breathe into it, we usually sayeight to 10, maybe 12 or 14
breaths inside that bag. Andwhat you're doing is you're
trying to re breathe the airthat you breathe out, which is
going to increase somethingcalled co2, that co2, if it
makes you feel better indicatesa problem was the what's called
the Krebs cycle, or we couldcall it mitochondrial
dysfunction. Okay, so what youwould do is, is you feel a
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migraine coming on or you seekind of the some of the things
that are going off, you're like,oh, no, I might have one, even
before you go run for yourdrugs. To save your life, you
can read breathe in this badreally quickly, and see if that
decreases the intensity. Nowthis would go for any symptom
that you have with any othercondition too. But we're talking
about migraines today. So if younotice that you have increased
blood and brain clarity or thatthe headache, you know, the
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prodrome, the migraine starts togo away, or you feel an
increased energy or brainclarity with that energy, I'm
going to say mostly, it's goingto be kind of head related. But
if you feel better, then youknow that it's a deficiency of
energy actually getting into thecells. And without going into
too much of the science of thatKrebs cycle or the mitochondrial
health indicates some missing Bvitamins essentially. But the B
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vitamins are not the one thatmost people take. It's this
indicates kind of B ones B twos,befores B fives, which is
Panasonic acid, maybe some alaor lipoic acid and CO q 10. So
in the easy cases, we add someof those B vitamins. But what I
do in the office, it's a littlebit different than what you
might see online or in a lot ofother doctor's offices is i i
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rarely ever use a B complex,those don't seem to work with
patients. So that's a quicklittle clinical tip there. If
you're taking a B complex andlooking for an actual result,
it's unlikely to happen. I'm notgoing to go into why that is
today. But long story short, Imuch prefer if you actually have
a migraine problem and younotice that this test the
breathing into a bag works, thenmaybe you take some b one for a
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while okay, if that doesn'twork, you take some b two, you
can try some B five obviously inour office, we're going to use
frequency testing or muscletesting in order to determine
what the best nutrient is foryou and what B vitamins is going
to help you the most which isyou know, obviously the benefit
of working with a practitionerbut at home, if you're just
going to do that reread test.
You're looking at thisspecifically the B vitamins that
have to do with that Krebs Cyclecycle or citric acid cycle. Big
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words long story short breatheinto a bag. If you don't feel so
awesome, then you might have a Bvitamin deficiency. Okay, so
here's another one you can do athome. So as you kind of feel any
migraine or headache coming onyou can try the challenge is
called a tablespoon per hour.
And that is the tables When perhour of high dose omega threes
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and sometimes omega threes, bothDHA and EPA Fatty Fatty Acids,
so I wouldn't really do overfive tablespoons, and it can
definitely cause loose stools ordiarrhea. So I wouldn't do it at
work or as as my first trial onthis. But it's definitely worth
a try on a day off or a weekend,when you can afford to have you
know, a couple of extra bowelmovements or be stuck on the
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toilet for a little bit of time.
I know it sounds scary. But onceagain, we're choosing diarrhea
and migraines and, and you know,that's your choice to make
there. But oftentimes, you'llfind that in two or three doses,
it starts to kick in. So what wedo is you take a tablespoon of
this high dose of omega omegathrees, and you'll do it every
hour. So essentially, you'lltake one on the first hour, take
one on the second hour, take oneon the third hour and see what
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happens. If you get up to fiveand you aren't having a result,
then I would say okay, that'snot the secret there. But But
what we're looking at here isthat those high dose anti
inflammatory fish oils canactually change the balance of
the fatty acids or inflammationin your body. Okay, so if this
test works for you, you'relooking at probably you're
consuming too many Omega sixes,maybe eating seed oils regularly
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or semi regularly, or just thebuild up over time, you don't
have healthy cells, fat cellsthat surround both your neurons
and your actually yourindividual cells. This can
happen just from eating too manyprocessed and refined foods too.
So I like to use an Omega liquidfrom biotics research. And I'll
link it in the show notes ifthis test actually works for
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you. So let's say you do two orthree doses, and once the
officials aren't gonna be badfor you, they're gonna be
healthy either way, whether youwhether you actually do well on
this test or do poor on thistest, it doesn't really help
you, that's okay, the officialsin your system aren't going to
be negative, they will have anynegative side effects to you,
other than maybe some looserstools, but if this helps you,
I'd recommend actually doingfive grams of liquid omegas a
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day for 60 days. So that's areally high dose. A lot of
people don't know that. Most ofthe research on fish oil, when
you actually talk about having aclinical benefit, actually
seeing a change in symptoms in areasonable period of time, you
know, like two, three weeks,you're looking and doing
something like five grams a day,whereas most fish oil pills,
especially the ones that you buyat the store, they're gonna
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have, you know, 23423 400milligrams of EPA and 234 100
milligrams of DHA. And so thoselow doses are equal, usually
about a gram. So if you're goingto go buy the low dose ones,
then you're going to end uptaking five servings essentially
every day in order to get thatclinical benefit for 60 days.
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Yeah, it's a little bitexpensive. But the reason why
you know, it's good for you isbecause you did the challenge,
right? So you know that that'sgoing to be a story there. And
honestly, like, if you'relooking for a benefit with
omegas, you can do high dosefish oil, high dose cod liver
oil, but it really does have tobe at about five grams a day to
see kind of that dramatic shift,rather than Yeah, if you took,
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if you took like one gram a dayof omega threes for like two
years, maybe it would wind upworking, but it just doesn't
work fast enough. And it doesn'tshift the balance, it doesn't
get you back to homeostasis orbalance fast enough that you see
much of a result, maybe a lot ofyou guys are already taking fish
oil, but you don't think itspecifically cures any ailment.
And oftentimes, that's dosageand then then the frequency,
right so just that that totalquantity that you're getting
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into your to your body at aregular interval. So this is
actually very similar to anotherchallenge I was talking about,
which is called the ibuprofenchallenge. The ibuprofen
challenge is simple. If you takeTylenol, ibuprofen, Excedrin,
any of those things for yourheadache, or migraine, and it
actually helps you then you canrest assured that your fatty
acids need to be balanced andyou'd benefit from fish oil
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supplementation at that highdose. Because essentially all
that those do is balance outyour omega threes and sixes and
you kind of have this now ofcourse there's some other things
that they do and especially ifyou're taking the Excedrin, it
has some caffeine in there thatmay be benefiting you with blood
flow and things like that. Butif you're looking at just a
straight like Tylenol oracetaminophen or you're looking
straight ibuprofen,kind of kind of INSEAD that if
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those are helping you then youcan be pretty confident that
your oil balances in your bodyare incorrect. Okay, let's talk
about a few vitamins reallyquick co Q 10 is some really
good research for as well as btwo has some really good
research for it for decreasingthe severity of the migraines
and the frequency. But what youfind is that they don't actually
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make them disappear. But they dohelp about 50%. So I mean, if
you wouldn't mind your migrainesbeing 50% Better, this may be a
possibility for you just kind ofa different family of of, they
really fall back to the originalbrown bag challenge. But even if
you fail the brown bag challengemeaning it doesn't seem to help
your migraine go away. Thisthese are still things that you
can add on they just probablyaren't like the number one root
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cause but you can still get 50%improvement in three months by
using these products regardlessof whether it's like your root
cause or not. So you see somebenefit there even in And, and
people were no root causedetermination was actually done.
But it's just kind of thegeneral population giving these
things and kind of hoping andpraying that something work and
it turns out that they do alittle bit. Okay,
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so the big thing about CO q 10,and b two specifically is that
they address like your bloodflow. So when you're addressing
that blood flow, you'll findthat, that or the I guess, it's
more like the visceralinflammation of your arteries
and your veins that go throughthe brain so it can kind of keep
them pretty calm, which is oneof the reasons why you see
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changes in that blood flow. Sooften, I use a product from
biotics research called Migronx. So am I gr a NX. This has the
b two in it and the CO q 10. Andas well as a few other herbs. So
and it has some butterbur andsome feverfew I've seen both of
those work in patients and bothof those fail in patients. So I
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don't really like them becausethey really are kind of like
anti inflammatories and, andwhile they do kind of support
the cellular health with regardsto migraine, I don't find that
they're like the secret. Now Ihave had a few patients that
butterbur cured everything. Butonce again, those take two to
three months to really kick in.
So it's hard to see that thatbenefit where we're hoping that
in two to three months someone'smigraines are already better
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anyway, to a large degree. Butlet's say that you would just
have like some breakthroughmigraines, like once every
quarter or something like that,that might be something that you
could add in but usually have tobe on those on maintenance. So
if I'm doing a maintenanceproducts, like I said, I use
that migraine x, which I'll linkin the show notes, where it has
those high doses of b two andthe CO q 10. As well as those
herbs kind of kind of put inthere. Now I will say that there
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is a caveat with doing high doseb two. So like I said, the
research on the B two is pretty,pretty stellar, you're going to
find that it helps a lot ofpeople. And b two deficiency is
actually really, really common.
But the main reason why we CBTdeficiency in patients is simply
because your gut, especially thebad guy, guys, or when you have
overgrowth, it doesn't have tobe bad. Once again, you'll hear
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me say that good gut microorganisms or adding probiotics
can often often cause thisdeficiency in people. So if
you've been on probiotics for 10years, you may have a b2c
deficiency caused by yourprobiotic. Now no one talks
about that stuff, because it'scontroversial. And now
everyone's scared to take aprobiotic and you sell them in
your office. It's really acontroversial subject. But
here's what I'd say that B todeficiency, you can take b two,
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anytime you address your gut. Sousually what you do, like I
said, Go listen to one of myother podcasts on gut health,
you address your gut health, youtake some Chinese captives, some
all leave some load somethinglike that, you address a lot of
that, which kills a lot of theexcess gut bacteria. Then with
that, you know, you can takeyour BT without having to worry
about side effects and get allthe benefits. It'll also make
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the beat to work faster. Sothat's an important one there.
In the previous podcasts onmigraines, we talked about
estrogen dominance affecting theliver. The ret main reason I see
that this is a problem withmigrants is a little bit
different than you think it'snot just an estrogen dominance
story. Yeah, that causes lots offun problems. But what estrogen
does is it sensitizes serotoninreceptors on the cells. So if
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you have high estrogen, thenyour body's going to hyper react
to serotonin changes. Soserotonin is responsible for
vasodilation andvasoconstriction of the vessels
in the brain are essentiallyyou're talking about blood flow
once again. So when I talkedabout blood flow is an important
one, that estrogen is correlateddirectly with that as well as
with inflammation. But it's morecorrelated with actually that
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that hypersensitivity isserotonin changes. So when
estrogen is high, the smallestchanges in serotonin can create
a migraine. And let's just talkabout that serotonin really
quick. So So serotonin is goingto be higher low throughout
different activities every day.
Once again, now now you'retrying to figure out why you
have a migraine, but yourserotonin is going to drop and
increase, either like a steadyincrease or decrease depending
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on the activity of the day. Soyou may have a lot of stress and
may decrease your serotonin andset off a migraine or you may
have a week off due to theholidays or you get some time
off and that will actuallyincrease your serotonin a lot
and change that blood vesselconstriction or vasodilation.
Also when you're having timeoff, so you find that people are
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like, well, it doesn't matter ifI work or don't work if I have
stress you don't have stress.
And the reason why is becauseour serotonin levels change a
lot. But it's it's anytime youhave estrogen dominance or high
estrogen you're gonna find thatthe changes in serotonin affect
your brain cells and yourmigraine a lot more than if you
didn't so once you get thatestrogen out, then you're going
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to find that the changes inserotonin don't affect you as
much. Now of course a dramaticchange in serotonin and a little
bit of estrogen dominance mightbe a good example of why someone
might have migrainesinfrequently. So but but you
know, if you have a lot ofstress in your life or a lot of
changes in serotonin thathappiness and that satisfaction
chemical, then then you may youmay be extra sensitive as shown
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with regards to migraines. Okay,so how do you know if you have
high estrogen I've covered thisanother app says But long story
short, if you have any PMSsymptoms if you have ovulation
pain, if you have any ovulationsymptoms, really, if you have
irregular cycles, heavybleeding, those indicate excess
estrogen. So you'll find thatlow serotonin or, and or low but
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healthy estrogen levels make youdepressed. But high serotonin
makes you hyper excitable aswell as high estrogen. So you
can actually people are kind ofback and forth. They're like,
well, I need estrogen because ofmy age or my gender or my lab
tests showed low estrogen. Butyour we have to kind of choose
you choose your battle here. Sofirst, you're going to choose to
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get rid of your excess badestrogen, which is really common
in today's society. But afterthat, then you can kind of
address where you know, okay, amI really depressed? Do I really
have a low grade kind ofDysthymic presentation,
essentially, what you're lookingfor here is just getting you out
of the migraine state. So youcan really reassess where in the
world is your brain as far asinflammation right now anyway, a
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good note here is that five HTP,which a lot of people take for
mild depression may be good forpostmenopausal women, because
they have lower estrogen levelsin general, but not so good for
younger females, right. So maybeyou you know, have some mood
changes or mood disorders thatmake you pretend to be more
depressed than someone else,when you're 25 years old. And so
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you read the five HTP might be agreat one to increase your
serotonin. And while it may, itmay actually cause these
migraines. And so if you'resomeone who takes a lot of
supplements, you may have somefive HTP slipped in there
somewhere. And you may find thatanytime that you eat eggs, which
would be high in tryptophan, ortake a supplement that has a
level of five HTP, you actuallyend up getting migraines or you
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get yourself closer to having amigraine at all times. And then
any stimulus can set you off,like a simple light. Okay, a
second note here, just for fun,because obviously men listen to
the podcast to is thattestosterone says it's
sensitizes the cells in themen's brain to serotonin. So if
you're taking testosteronereplacement therapy, or even
natural test boosters, you canactually end up with migraines
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and males. So you have to payattention to what you're adding.
Because once again, you thinkOh, testosterone can only be
good for males. But that's nottrue. I also noticed that men
can have estrogen dominance, itdoes back up the liver does
cause other problems. But it'snot as much about the serotonin,
estrogen and men as much as thetestosterone, estrogen,
testosterone serotonin admin.
Okay, so obviously, as in all myother episodes, I talked about
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how for estrogen dominance, weuse a ton of amgr should extract
in most cases was kind of endsup making this kind of my number
one go to for migraines, as Imentioned in the previous
podcast, but that goes for bothmales and females. So you got to
pay attention to that. Onceagain, I'll put a link in the
show notes if you want to lookat that product if you haven't.
And once again, my goal here isto give you some ideas that you
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haven't tried, or that you maynot be aware of, and today we're
focusing on supplementationspecifically. Alright, the next
thing to pay attention to isblood sugar changes. If you have
hypoglycemia, or you get hangry,right, you get angry when you
get hungry. If you don't eat,you likely have unstable blood
sugar. Okay, so these bloodsugar changes spike
neurotransmitters, which createa rapid change in nerve
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stimulation, which results in amigraine, and those with
diabetes, obviously, your bloodsugar issues are going to be
very sensitive to changes, youknow, a little bit of carbs can
cause a huge, huge dramaticchange. So you have to pay close
attention to those. While a fewcases of hypoglycemia can be
hard, it's really about avoidingprocessed refined foods,
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especially those added sugarsand getting adequate protein. So
in my practice, I require thatwomen get 60 grams of protein
each day, and that men get 75grams of protein each day. So if
you don't know how much proteinyou're eating, then you probably
aren't hitting that numberbecause it does require an
effort. Unless you're eatingsomething like a carnivore diet,
then you probably are hittingthat number. But if you're not
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adding protein to probably twofull meals, whether it's eggs
for breakfast, which once againcould be a problem for
serotonin, or you're adding awhole chicken breast for lunch
and a whole chicken breast fordinner, or whatever your version
of protein is, you probablyaren't hitting that if you're
vegan or vegetarian, you'llnever hit that number without
separate supplementation. Soit's important to know that I
prefer a supplement from acompany called body health was
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once again I'll link down below.
I prefer that supplement overprotein shakes, as the quality
of protein shakes are reallyhard to determine. And you have
to have optimal digestion tobreak these down. So the body
health supplement, it's actually10 tablets a day I recommend you
take five in the morning, fivein the afternoon, you take them
between meals, and it'llstabilize that blood sugar to a
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large degree throughout most ofthe day. Now obviously you still
have to try to eat healthy, butit takes care of that protein
requirement that a lot of peopleare missing that is required to
stabilize blood sugar. The otherproblem with protein shakes
oftentimes the the proteinshakes they like to claim to be
hydrolyzed proteins or likebroken down completely for you.
But whether they're carnivoreproteins or whey protein shakes,
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they can actually act act asglutamate excitotoxins, which
are triggers for migraines,right? So it can actually act as
kind of that MSG story. And thatwould be something that would
once again set you off. Alright,we can't talk about migrants
without talking about magnesium,a lot of people swear by
magnesium for their migraines,but it can actually act both
ways. In general, I would saythat magnesium supplementation
for migraines, I find that mostpeople find a pretty good
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benefit, too. But it's usuallythe people that are more like
mostly headaches and tensionheadaches, severe headaches,
things like that, and then theoccasional migraine, they'll
find a lot of the benefit there.
And then also, for true truemigraine patients, it's really
kind of hit and miss. I likemagnesium citrate as my form of
magnesium. Yes, I know thateveryone in the world thinks
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that magnesium glycinate is justfor the brain and anxiety and
stress and all these things. ButI still find that magnesium
citrate gives me a betterclinical benefit as far as long
term health. The other reason Ilike it, because magnesium
glycinate still falls in thatglutamate pathway. So it
actually can once again be amigraine trigger, if you use
that glycinate. Now, obviously,any magnesium can go and
stimulate that that cyclemagnesium could bind with the
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glycine molecule inside yourbody and create that same
problem, but I prefer to addressmigraines. What I like to say is
actually indirectly if you'reusing brain supplements for
migraines that only affect thebrain, you're going to have a
very aggressive response, it'seither going to be a horrible
migraine or complete relief,most often or alights really
results in a horrible migraine.
So I don't really like toaddress it that directly what we
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do is we get the body healthy,and then the migraine slowly but
surely go away. Another way toadd magnesium is just to do
Epsom salt baths. I do likethose, that's a form of
magnesium sulfate. The benefitof the magnesium sulfate, which
I've always told patients Iliked the sulfate specifically
helps liver detox more than anyother form of magnesium. So in
the liver, when we're talkingabout migraines, you're really
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talking about two majorpathways. Honestly, 90 99% of
all detoxification is going tohappen between two pathways,
which is sulfation andglucuronidation. The
glucuronidation pathway isrelated to blood sugar, and the
nut I mean, that's that's prettymuch taken care of with
artichoke, the sulfur productsare a little bit harder to get
into the body. So I do like someMSM. I like the magnesium
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sulfate because once again,you're absorbing it through the
skin. So it's not as direct. Youhave MSM products. And then I
also like some of the broccoliproducts out there. Right. Some
of the some of the broccolisprout products out there are
doing pretty good, you'll findthat people can be
hypersensitive, those two. Sojust Just a note right there.
Now, kind of one of the myths isperpetuated right now in
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functional medicine is thateveryone needs magnesium. This
is 100% not true, but it's thatit's not that they don't need
magnesium is that if we were tolab test every one for sure, we
have the research that says mostpeople are magnesium deficient.
But the question is, why doeseveryone need magnesium, I mean,
20 years ago, and it wasn't athing, but but I'll say, you
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know, everyone wants to blame iton soil quality and things like
that. And I just don't find thatthat's really the truth. Really,
it comes from cortisol issues,you'll find that if someone can
manage their stress and theirblood sugar, so cortisol is also
going to be highly correlatedwith blood sugar, that they're
not going to need magnesium. Theother thing is, you'll find that
the epinephrine andnorepinephrine stimulation, aka
also known as adrenaline, iswhat makes them deplete their
(23:17):
magnesium. So this is your Dailycaffeine and coffee. So
essentially, you have poorsleep, you have excess stress,
which then makes you tired, youdon't eat correct, which then
makes your blood sugar off. Andthen to compensate for the fact
that you didn't sleep becauseyou have bad blood sugar. Now
you're stuck drinking caffeineor coffee in the morning, which
is then depleting yourmagnesium. Now that would be too
(23:39):
hard to tell most people solet's be honest here, most
people are just going to taketheir magnesium supplement, but
I will tell you that thatmagnesium supplement will never
overpower those stressors inyour lifestyle. So that's
important. Important there.
Okay, so the other thing I wantto kind of give you kind of the
scenario because with allsupplements, migraines, it's a
(23:59):
little bit more complex than youactually think because migraines
people are sensitive, right?
When you have that over hyperexcitable nerve that we talked
about in the last episode. Andso like magnesium, technically
adding magnesium to a neuronitself just to the brain will
actually cause a migraine. Okay,so but if you look at the actual
just sodium ions, potassiumions, what it actually does to
the to the nerve, it makes itfire, it creates pain,
(24:22):
essentially, in the brain fromadding magnesium. Now, I don't
see that people come in and say,Hey, I'm taking magnesium and
now I've got migraines that'snot so it's not really a root
cause there but it is possible.
On the flip side, magnesium alsodecreases CGRP and that was in
the q&a from last episode. Sothe calcium is thought to
(24:45):
actually create the pain for themigraines and so it will
decrease the calcium. Eventhough you have more firing
neurons, you'll have less pain.
So like I said, you can you canactually have a supplement that
could help some people in herother people Um, but in like
traditional models, they can'thave things like that you can't
have a drug that makes people'smigraines worse in some cases
and cures it in others, you needone that has a consistent
(25:08):
mechanism. But in holisticmedicine and functional
medicine, when we're addressingreal patients, we're able to,
you know, have both scenariosand accept that two people can
be different from each other. Sowhat works for your friend next
door doesn't have to work foryou. And at the same time, it
could work for you. So it'sdefinitely worth trying out. If
you know someone that has amiracle cure for migraines and,
(25:28):
and it worked for them. It couldbe local, right? So maybe people
in Arizona where I'm at, maybethey won't respond to magnesium,
but every one in northern Alaskais magnesium deficient. Because
of the cold and the stress, Ihave no idea how that's gonna
work. But every area can alsohave different triggers for
their migraines, obviously,seasonal allergies, things like
that. The only thing I didn'tcover here is gut health. I will
(25:49):
say that, like we talked alittle bit about that b two and
gut health. But by far, like, ifyou look at the functional
medicine, doctors that teachmigraines are talking about
migraines, you're gonna findthat they do gut and food
allergies and get great results.
So let me just go back to thatthey'll do gut and food
allergies and get great results.
What the one thing I think thatthey're usually missing is that
estrogen dominance piece, whichthen desensitizes the serotonin,
(26:11):
and it leaves you in kind oflike a better place. But I would
say that those are your mainthings that you're looking at
here. So that's it forsupplements for migraines today.
You probably need to listen thisepisode again, I guess I was
talking a little bit fast. ButBut once again, if you have more
questions like I'm going to do Qand A's on this on Instagram, so
if you listen to this in thenext week, you might find that
post up there. So you want tostay up to date with like the
(26:33):
latest changes, go and follow methere. And then once again, if
you need to work with apractitioner, I don't do
telephone consultations thismoment, you can always check on
my website and see if I'm doingthem. But we're just a little
bit behind locally. So I want tomake sure that those people get
taken care of. But Dr. Donahoein my office, he is doing those
telephone consultations. Heknows all this information too.
If you need to work with apractitioner, reach out to us,
(26:54):
let us know you can either geton my waitlist for either phone
or in person. Or you can workwith Dr. Donahoe. He's not
booked out too far right now,but we expect him by May this
year, just because he's new toArizona, we expect by May this
year, he's going to becompletely slammed, he's gonna
be on a waitlist to this happensa lot. When you find good
doctors, a lot of people end upcoming to them. So go ahead and
get on the waitlist if you needto. Otherwise, go ahead and find
(27:18):
me online. And I'll keeppresenting you guys some of this
cool information in 2023 and wewill see it in the next year.
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