I have been asked a few times to describe how my ebook can help you, so I decided to make a short video covering some of the main areas included.
Magnesium for migraines
Those of you who bought my ebook will also have received the bonus free gift, which was the report I produced during my studies about the use of magnesium in preventing migraine headaches. It’s not giving away any secrets to say there’s much positive research into the beneficial effect of magnesium on migraine.
If you were as convinced as I was by all the research, you’ll want to include plenty of magnesium in your diet, and below is a great recipe I found, which is another excellent way to increase magnesium.
Thanks to professional chef Anton Leyland for use of his video above. If you’re looking for a healthy way to shed any Christmas pounds, check out Anton’s smoothie recipes website.
Remedies for Migraines
Stop Your Migraines!
We’re already a few days into the new year; I hope you had a migraine-free holiday and send my good wishes to you for the year ahead.
A new year is often time to recap and evaluate where we are in areas of our life that we want to improve. If you are now determined to make changes, you may find here a new approach for migraines treatment.
This is a quick summary of the main areas where complementary therapy, and especially a nutritional approach to migraine can help. I shall be covering each in blog posts over the next few months, but if you don’t want to wait, you can download my natural migraine relief ebook right away.
- Food intolerance is a major cause of migraine but you would be wrong to just think that chocolate, cheese and red wine cause the problems. For some people, migraines are triggered by foods commonly believed to be healthy.
- Maintaining a steady blood sugar level is vital is you want to stop migraines.
- A deficiency or imbalance of vitamins and minerals is important.
- So is avoiding toxic minerals.
- Hair Mineral Analysis is a simple and cost-effective way to get eliminate guess-work from choosing your supplements. It reports on nutrient as well as toxic minerals.
- Because your brain mainly consists of fatty material, check that you eat plenty of good fats, and avoid eating bad fats.
- Something as common as constipation can cause a problem if circulating toxins aren’t being eliminated quickly enough. Be sure to keep the correct balance of ‘good’ to ‘bad’ bacteria in your intestine. Check out this special offer for a free sample of a natural constipation remedy on my healthy eating blog. The offer has been extended. (It’s NOT a laxative!)
- Acid / alkaline imbalance should be watched. People often imagine that over-acidity is the problem and are surprised when their supplement recommendation includes hydrochloric acid! Learn why.
- Following on from under or over-acidity we must consider correct digestion and absorption of food, without which you will never obtain maximum benefit from your food, however well you eat.
- If stress is a migraine trigger for you but you can’t do anything to calm a stressful life-style, are you making the simple dietary adjustments that can lessen the impact of stress?
- Hormonal health is something else to consider, especially for women. Your liver works hard to remove old hormones, so must be kept in peak condition.
- Because there are non-dietary migraine triggers, remember that many other complementary therapies offer solutions.
- Are you taking too many over-the-counter painkillers? This could actually increase the number of headaches you experience. Check with your GP or pharmacist.
This quick summary shows some of the many different topics you can consider in your search for a drug-free approach to beating your migraines. Tackle them one by one and you should find relief.
For immediate delivery of an ebook with detail about these topics and including recommendations for other natural, alternative approaches to treat and prevent migraine, visit my website:
Chlorella and migraine
Uses of Chlorella
I have been asked if I use a supplement to support the healthy lifestyle that migraine sufferers (and everyone) should aim for.
Yes I certainly do, because I have seen so much evidence showing that even fruit and vegetables and other “healthy” food today is nowhere near as nutritious as it was in, say, the 1950s.
Also the chemical load is so much higher in the modern world, that we are in danger of overloading our body’s natural detox mechanisms.
One school of thought is that this may be a cause of migraine headaches, so more and more people are looking for detox remedies and supplements that will support the body’s detoxification systems.
Chlorella is the supplement I have used for several years now. More specifically, I use Yaeyama Chlorella which is a strain of Chlorella Vulgaris thought to be superior because it is more nutrient dense.
If you decide to buy some Chlorella, I suggest you visit my supplier’s online store.
First, you will want to know a little more about Chlorella, and why you might choose to use it. The nutritional profile and health benefits are on my supplier’s website, where you can also watch a short video to learn mor. Supplementing with Chlorella can be beneficial in treating a wide range of health problems brought about by our modern lifestyle. But don’t just take my word for it, check out these Chlorella user testimonials.
To support my migraine clients I am currently researching an ebook on the specific ways Chlorella can help with detoxification of environmental toxins. I know this will be of interest to many of my readers who have had a Hair Analysis to check for heavy metal toxicity. As I research my ebook and study this remarkable supplement the more applications I discover. When the ebook is ready for release I will make it available as free information here, so keep checking back.
If you have used Chlorella for migraine (or any other health condition) and found it helped you, please post your story here to encourage others.
Migraine and Food Intolerance Testing
What do parties and migraine have in common? You will probably jump to one of two conclusions (alcohol or late nights) and while you could be correct there is another common link, according to food intolerance specialists YorkTest Laboratories.
Apparently as the party season approaches there is an increase in the number of patients suffering from the symptoms of food intolerance – such as arthritis, IBS and bloating. This could be because people are eating foods to which they are intolerant without knowing the ingredients, or because they are consuming larger amounts of a particular food than usual. Often it can be a previously unsuspected intolerance that is suddenly triggered.
Being aware of any susceptibility to an intolerance could prevent much inconvenience and discomfort. Research in conjunction with scientists at York University shows that chronic inflammatory disease is linked with food intolerance and simply becoming aware of problem foods and excluding them from the diet can bring relief.
It’s well known that there are links between migraine and food intolerances and there are many methods of testing; my preferred method is described in this article on food intolerances and migraine.
Prevention is better than cure, so if you’d like to take a low cost test to check if you have a food intolerance probably the best price is available from Amazon. Click here and go to the bottom of the page that opens for an ordering link.
If the test identifies that you have an intolerance you can look at alternative methods of finding out the particular foods implicated and how to avoid them in future.
Migraine and Reiki
Ever interested in learning something new, I was pleased to receive this message from Lara.
Lara says:
I have suffered from migraines for over a year now. I’ve been to many doctors, specialists, tests, medicines, massage, websites, articles, etc all trying to heal myself.
My new method of trying to heal it is with Reiki. It has been the most pleasant healing process and most effective. I am not attuned to energy healing myself (yet) so I contact healer friends when I have an attack and they are always so happy to send healing energy my way with distance healing.
I woke up this morning and found your blog and knew I had to share my story. Just last night, 3am, I woke up with a migraine I had been trying to shake off for over a day. I went to my computer & emailed everyone I knew to send me healing. I was desperate as the migraine was reaching the point of severe pain & I was desperate for relief.
I sent the email and as I went back to sleep I felt great energy surround me, strong energy, very peaceful & soothing. I woke up this morning and my migraine is completely GONE. I feel 100% myself again. I’m so grateful to have found a source of relief. I highly recommend it to anyone and everyone. It has turned my pain around completely.
Although, I still get these migraines, since starting Reiki as a healing treatment, there have been fewer attacks (as I use to get them 1 or 2 a month) & the pain is weakened significantly.
I’m so so grateful and look forward to the day of when I am attuned to help heal myself and others.
Jessica Miller is who demonstrated Reiki for me & who really informed me about energy healing…
http://www.reikimastery.com/
Thanks for sharing your story, Lara. Please keep us posted on your progress.
Migraine and Hypnotism
Anyone who has bought my migraine ebook will be aware of the section on hypnotherapy, commonly referred to as hypnotism, and migraine. The book mentions some trials where hypnosis was used successfully for migraine.
Hypnosis has been used as one of the oldest healing techniques since the ‘sleep temples’ of ancient Egypt. However, in 1955 the British Medical Association endorsed the practice of hypnosis and since that time it has been recognized as a valuable addition to conventional medical treatment, despite the popular myths of mind control incorrectly suggested by “stage hypnotism”. The therapy is also recognized by the American Medical Association and the American Dental Association.
There are two main approaches someone may take to hypnotherapy – either find a professionally qualified practitioner, or use self-hypnosis. Some people find the latter approach less worrying because no third party is involved.
Your can learn self-hypnosis online, free, with Learn Hypnosis in 5 Days - a professionally created course. The first lesson of the free hypnosis course will be emailed to you immediately and then will then get further hypnosis course instalments every 2 days, and a monthly newsletter ‘Inspired Minds’. Register right away for your free course.
NOTE: Contraindications for hypnosis
Your medical practitioner should always be consulted before you use hypnosis / hypnotherapy for migraine or tension headaches. Any pain is a warning signal from the body, and you should first check out with your physician that the pain of your migraine is not due to any other condition. In particular, hypnosis is contraindicated for anyone suffering from epilepsy, clinical depression, heart or breathing problems, allergies, psychiatric illness or anyone using recreational drugs.
Migraine and corn
Those people who have subscribed to the free migraine mini-course on the right will have seen my article on migraines and corn. If you’d like to see the whole series, please subscribe.
One 19 year old reader (Sally – name changed to protect client anonymity) contacted me to tell me that she’d been baffled by the migraines she had been getting for as long as she could remember. Her Mum was a migraine sufferer and had discovered that hers were coming from spicy foods and chocolate. However Sally can eat all those things without getting any problem.
After some excellent detective work, Sally discovered that on eating certain cereal based foods and pies she always get a headache but didn’t when she excluded those foods. Reading the ingredients in both foods one common ingredient was corn starch.
Sally checked all her food to see what had corn starch in them, and found out pretty much everything contained starch. She says: “I don’t know any foods to eat without corn starch, and without cutting out half my diet. I am petite and also trying to gain weight. How am I suppose to do that when I have to cut out pretty much all my food?”
This is a common problem. My first suggestion would be to confirm that corn starch IS the problem, by following a diet that excludes it completely for three weeks, and see what effect this has on the migraines.
Sally – you can still eat a healthy and varied diet for such a short time, following a plan such as this No Starch Diet on an Internet forum. (Any-one who is in under medical care, pregnant or breast-feeding should consult their health-provider before changing their diet.)
Follow the above plan for three weeks and see what happens to the migraines. (Be aware that any intake of starch in the exclusion period will put you at risk of a migraine.)
If you decide that corn starch IS the culprit you can decide whether the corn based products are worth the migraines!
Another thing to try is re-introducing individual culprit foods one at a time, to see if it is one food in particular or just corn starch in general that triggers your migraine. It may be that eating the same cereal based product every day is the problem, and rotating them with different cereal bases (say wheat, corn, rice, soya) over several days can remove the problem. If you eat these foods only occasionally, the problem may go.
Hope that helps, Sally.
Reflexology and Migraine
Reflexology is a safe and effective therapy for migraine sufferers. For anyone unfamiliar with reflexology, it is the practice of applying pressure to reflexes in the feet and hands that correspond to specific body organs. By stimulating nerves on specific areas of the feet and hands, we can stimulate blood flow, lower stress and eliminate accumulated toxins in the corresponding organs and systems of the body. By this means, many forms of sickness and disease can be reversed or at the very least, the symptoms can be effectively treated.
One of the most common uses for reflexology is for stress relief. In our fast paced society today, everyone is looking for a way to unload the stress of everyday life and for good reason. Stress is a silent killer. The effects of stress have been studied for quite some time and it is known that if you do not release stress from your body on a regular basis, it will eventually wreak havoc on your body in the form of one of many different sicknesses or diseases. Furthermore, stress can definitely be a factor in migraine headache development. Relieving stress is an important step in becoming well.
Although reflexologists cannot diagnose or claim to cure a sickness or disease, the results speak for themselves, making it one of the most sought after treatments today. Many celebrities have regular reflexology sessions. Not only is it beneficial as a tool for relaxation and stress management, but it is also an effective tool for improving circulation; relieving pain, and as an immune and nervous system stimulator. Many people suffering from migraines have benefited from reflexology.
To learn more about reflexology, this website considers itself the “most popular reflexology site for foot and hand reflexology information on the Internet”. The site is impressive with some well known reflexologists presenting a good selection of reflexology charts, books, newsletters and research that is useful to therapists and patients alike.
If you plan to use a professional reflexologist, always check that they are fully registerd. Here is an information website provided by the Association of Reflexologists. It provides the latest information, useful links and contacts to the general public while a separate category has been made available especially for those that are trying to qualify as a therapist.
Migraine and magnets
Magnotherapy for migraines is a topic covered in my ebook, so it’s good to find reports of a study testing a pain-free, hand-held device that sends a magnetic pulse into the head.
The noninvasive device delivers a therapy known as transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS.
It appears, from the results, described here, that this may bring relief to some migraine sufferers.
Dr. Yousef Mohammad, of The Ohio State University in Columbus, reported the findings at the annual meeting of the American Headache Society in Boston. In the study, researchers recruited 201 patients suffering from migraine with aura, then randomly assigned them to use either the device being tested or a “sham” device that was being used for comparison. Patients were instructed to apply the device over the site of the migraine, when symptoms were first noticed. It was found that two hours after treatment, 39 percent of the TMS patients were pain-free, versus 22 percent of patients using the sham device. Read more at the full article.
The 39 percent result is somewhat better than the usually expected placebo effect, and is also better than the 22 percent of patients who used the sham device.
If you’d like to try a magnetic bracelet (such as the one I use) please visit my magnotherapy website.
