Natural Options for Headaches with Dr. Meg Mill

Dr. Meg Mill is an online functional medicine practitioner focused on helping women suffering from chronic migraines. Over 50% of the population experience consistent headaches and because they have become so common headaches often go untreated. Since headaches are just a symptom, Dr. Mill teaches her patients to document their eating, sleeping,environmental factors, drinking and headaches to pin down what the root cause is. You may be surprised to find that many healthy foods in your diet can be triggering migraines. 

 

We discuss how building a solid foundation of proper sleep and cellular hydration can determine if your headaches are caused by deeper issues. Through a thorough patient intake and documenting daily habits, Dr. Mill has helped patients suffering from toxic exposure, allergic reactions, estrogen dominance and a myriad of other factors that all lead to the same side effect, headaches. In this episode she teaches you how to break out of the chain of pain and enter into a new calm phase of rest and digest.

 

Takeaways:

[4:00] An overwhelming amount of female patients were suffering from migraines

[6:50] Pharmaceuticals typically mitigate suffering without treating the cause of it 

[7:50] Over the counter drugs carry their own consequences and should be taken with caution

[9:30] Headaches are usually a sign of an imbalanced system that needs to be repaired

[10:00] Healthy foods that Histamine and Tyramine can be triggering headaches

[11:30] You need to find which specific foods are triggers to you

[12:30] Often the foods/ drinks that trigger negative effect contain chemicals and preservatives 

[15:30] Relieving stress and bringing your body back to rest and digestion 

[18:00] Addressing endocrine disruptors: Recognizing patterns of hormonal migraine

[21:30] Estrogen should not stay in your system, it should be turned into metabolites by the liver

[24:20] Lack of sleep is key point of your daily health that can trigger headaches

[26:30] Toxin exposure can affect you years from when the initial exposure happened

 

Mentioned in This Episode:

• Website:https://www.megmill.com/
  
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drmegmill/?hl=en
  
• This 8-Step Guide is a great place to get started in the process of naturally healing your headaches and migraines. Free Gift: 8 Step Guide to Say Goodbye to Headaches Naturally:  www.HelpMyHeadaches.com
• Live Group Program Head Strong: www.HappinessBeyondHeadaches.com
• Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-little-bit-healthier/id1622988198
  
• Facebook Group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/headachehealingclub/about
  

 

Twitter:

"We know there are certain foods that can statistically be higher triggers for headaches, so we're gonna look at things like histamine containing foods and tyramine."   [10:00] -Dr. Mill

 

"Even caffeine, which people use to treat headaches, you get rebound headaches for caffeine."  [11:30] -Dr.Mill

 

"There are a lot of preservatives that go into wine and not just preservatives but chemicals. Various chemicals are used in wine to make it taste buttery or oaky…" [12:30] -Dr Cates  

 

"We process our hormones in the liver, we have detoxification of hormones and we process our estrogen in the liver and the gut actually, so there's a role in the gut."  [21:37] -Dr. Mill

 

"Make sure you're getting hydrated at a cellular level. So I like to tell people to make sure that you're sipping water throughout the day rather than just chugging it all at once." [23:58] -Dr. Mill

 

"You could have had lead exposure as a child  that was stored in the bones, that's now,