Category: hypothalamus and migraine

AHS 2014 – Looking Forward to the Past

This past week I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the Ancestral Health Symposium at UC Berkeley. This was the fourth incarnation of this annual event, one designed to foster collaboration amongst scientists, healthcare providers, and laypersons across disciplines. It’s a great event. It’s also the fittest, leanest, and most vibrant looking crowd […]

Migraines and the Hypothalamus, Part Two: From an Ancient Place

Sparkling, half moon shaped objects. Expanding radiant blobs. Tingling fingers and lips. Even garbled words and sentences. This is the stuff of migraine auras, those bizarre, temporary neurological disturbances that often precede your throbbing head pain. People have been documenting their auras for nearly a millenia, though it’s likely we humans have been experiencing them […]