Welcome to the Monday Migraine Miracle Minute, where we’ll catch you up on the happenings of the past week!

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Primal Provisions Recipe Pick of the Week:

French Onion Pork Chops – Get the recipe here

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Facebook Group Discussion

One of our members requested travel tips for keeping the migraine beast at bay. Here are the ideas that our group shared for strategies that have worked for them:

*Fasting
*Drinking LOTS of water, and salted water
*Pickle juice for a quick hit of salt and electrolytes
*Bulletproof coffee and/or taking MCT oil
*Keeping keto snacks and other migraine-friendly foods readily available
*Seeking out protein-topped salads
*Taking magnesium at bedtime and using a white noise app

Read more in our Facebook group!

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Beast Slayer of the Week

We’d also love to share a great story by someone who has made the commitment to find the path to Migraine Freedom! This great news was posted in our Facebook group this week by Beast Slayer Tracy V.:

“Hey Everyone!
It’s been a bit, but I wanted to give an update! I am 13 weeks migraine free!!! And, wouldn’t you know it, today is 13 weeks since I started eating this way! I have also lost 19 pounds!
I am so grateful that I found this page and the book! I have already loaned my hard copy out, and have recommended, and purchased extra copies for friends!”

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An excerpt from a recent issue of The Chatter:

Q: I was wondering, if we have boffee for breakfast, does this break our fast? After all, cream, butter, and coconut oil do have calories, so I’m a little confused why we’re told drinking these does not affect our fast?

A: Excellent question. It does seem like this would break the fast, since it is food! However, it doesn’t.

So the reason here has to do with hormones, specifically those that regulate metabolism. Insulin is considered to be the hormone that’s secreted in the “fed” state, and it governs the metabolic processes that are active when we’re in the fed state (breaking down sugar, storing fat, etc.).

On the other end are the “counter-regulatory” hormones, which oppose the action of insulin, and govern the metabolic processes that happen in the fasted state. So essentially, if we keep these hormones around, and keep insulin suppressed, our metabolism will remain in the “fasted” state.

Insulin is secreted when we digest carbohydrates or protein, but not fat. So we can essentially maintain the fasted metabolic state by consuming only fat as our food, which is the case with Bulletproof coffee (boffee).

This is also the reason why ketosis in many ways “mimics” the fasted state; since with a high fat diet, insulin stimulation is greatly reduced. There are a host of conditions (cancers included) thought to be connected to excessive insulin release, and so this is one means by which a ketogenic diet could be an effective tool for treatment or prevention.