There’s a common perception that weather systems, or changes in barometric pressure, are a strong migraine trigger. In this episode, learn the 3 key things to know when it comes to the weather and migraine connection. LINKS MENTIONED: MIGRAI-NEVERLAND, our premier resource for those who want to find their pill free path to migraine freedom […]
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 […]
Migraines and the Hypothalamus, Part One: Towards a Grand Unified Theory
If you’d told me five years ago I’d be writing a book about migraines in the future, I doubt I would’ve believed you. Not that I wasn’t keenly interested in the subject, mind you. It’s just that at that time, though I knew there was still much to learn about migraines, I thought that […]