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THE EMBC NETWORK
"migraine" Discussed on THE EMBC NETWORK
"Empower everyone with headaches and migraines to break free from a life of fear and dependence and thrive in everything you do. So without further ado, let's jump into it. All right, so when we look at headaches and migraines, the stats out there are kind of shocking. I think for a lot of people, they don't really express how debilitating their headache or migraine is. And so I want to start off with just a few stats of how headaches and migraines affect the general population. So 3% of people in the general population actually have a chronic headache. Chronic headache pain. 48% of migraine sufferers report one to four episodes per month. And of those 48% that are getting this one to four episodes per month, half of those people are stating that those migraines are severely disabling. So that means bed rest. These are people that wake up with a migraine or a migraine presents in the pain gets so severe where they can not get out of bed. It's the shut off the lights. No noise, do you just have to avoid anything that would trigger or be sensitive and oftentimes that means you just have to attempt to fall asleep in a dark room. Migraine pain reduced health related quality of life more than osteoarthritis or diabetes. So this is something that is extremely debilitating and reduces people's quality of life. More so than osteoarthritis. So think of your grandma or someone that's really dealing with knee pain, knee osteoarthritis, they're kind of limping around, they have a hard time getting up and moving. So migraines actually reduces health related quality of life. More than osteoarthritis. It actually cost the U.S. economy more than $1 billion in lost time at work and productivity. And so it's estimated that the burden on U.S. employers and the economy is over a $1 billion. So this is significant. This is something that should not be ignored. So when we look at headaches and migraines, we understand the burden it has on society, there's a couple of things that we have to approach this and consider. The first question I have and this is certainly gonna bust a few misconceptions, but the first question I have is, you know, are we approaching this from the get go, the correct way? So there's a few things that are misconceptions that I want to go over first. There's three points here to make. The first is the pain sources in your head. The second is the pain is in your head. It's actually presenting as like a psychosomatic thing or something that you're just making up. And the third is that it's a vascular problem. So those are the three sort of ideas that are flowing through the healthcare system. That are actually somewhat misconceptions. They're not completely false, but they generally lead people down a road that is not the actual underlying source of pain. They're just, they're given as responses to someone with headaches and migrants when the provider doesn't necessarily know what's causing it.
THE EMBC NETWORK
"migraine" Discussed on THE EMBC NETWORK
"And especially in this space, the migraine world, it can be, I guess, it's such a debilitating problem and something that patients really have a hard time finding a solution for. That getting the definitions right and validating that this is a terrible, terrible thing that it encompasses and sort of takes over people's lives in a way that can be very, very frustrating and especially, you know, you go through our healthcare system and you meet with neurologists after neurologist and it seems like they should really be able to provide you with a solution, but one of the major problems is that the why behind these symptoms is not really explained to people. And mainly because it's perceived to not be understood. So if you try to get to the bottom in our healthcare system, if you try to get the bottom of what is happening when someone has a migraine, what they will say, and I'm not disagreeing with this at all. But what's happening is it's almost like a hypersensitivity within the neurological system. That is perceiving pain and other sensory inputs as sort of like alarm bells are going off. So there's a high level of pain that's typically a one sided throbbing sensation, and I'm talking about the migraine category. But then you can also get sensitivities to lights and sounds, a visual disturbance, numbness, tingling. There's all sorts of other symptoms that can accompany a migraine. And usually if you have a list of those symptoms outside of the head pain itself, but the classical sign of head pain that goes with migraines is that one sided throbbing, pounding sensation. But if you have a series of those other symptoms, you will get diagnosed as having migraines or migraine. And so it's seen as this neurological disorder that is really just has to do with the neurological system sort of generating this problem, but they don't know why it's generating this problem.
AP News Radio
Long COVID: Could mono virus or fat cells be playing roles?
"Scientists estimate about 30% of patients infected with COVID-19 will have long COVID, with lingering symptoms of fatigue, lung problems, brain fog, and other neurological issues. Many studies show women in obese people are more likely to develop long COVID. Women's bodies tend to have more fat tissue than men. Emerging research is suggesting the coronavirus may hide in fat after infection. There may also be a link to past viruses like mononucleosis and herpes. A virus expert at the University of California, San Francisco. Since they're finding immune markers that signal the Epstein Barr virus has been reactivated in long COVID patients. Particularly, those showing signs of fatigue. While researchers look for answers, one patient, 50 year old Amy Watson and Oregon who suffers anemia migraines digestive and nerve problems, says she just wants her life back. I'm Jackie Quinn
The Doctor's Farmacy with Mark Hyman, M.D.
"migraine" Discussed on The Doctor's Farmacy with Mark Hyman, M.D.
"And then the other thing that I found on the patient, I'm not really sure because I'm actually still working on that because I was going to deal with that later, is high levels of mercury. Very high levels of inorganic mercury in this particular patient. And then the other thing which is also really interesting is I did genetic testing. I like to do genetic testing because it can really sort of lifting the hood on your car. I can sort of tell you what's going on below the scenes. And the thing about genetics of migraine is there's not really one migraine gene. And we can test for these snips and variations, but this particular patient had a variation in the genetics, the polymorphisms of a G coupled protein, which has to do with serotonin and stress resiliency. So this person's genetic makeup was such that he was more prone towards the effects of stress. It was a particular gene called one a, which is on the testing that we do with a DNA mind test. And I found that really sort of interesting. Otherwise, the patient had good genes and good detox genes, good COMT genes, et cetera, but had problems with stress. And the patient's history was consistent with that stress was one of the big triggers for that particular patient. So stress management is huge for everything that we see in patients who walk through the door. I mean, we're all everybody is affected by stress. You watch the news and you get stressed, right? That's why I don't have a television. Exactly. Anything that we can do to help people to manage and modulate and detoxify the stress goes a long, long way. Huge, huge, huge. I think that's right, but you know, this case brings up something really important about functional medicine because you listed a whole litany of things. It wasn't just magnesium, wasn't just a God. It wasn't just histamine. It wasn't just this and that. It was a lot of different things. Exactly. And functional medicine is really about being a medical detective. And looking for all the various factors, because traditional medicines, okay, you have this one disease that you treat with one drug instead of saying, oh, where are all the imbalances in the system? Let me correct all those. Because if you correct two out of 6, patient might get a little better, but not really. You have to deal with all 6. Exactly. And I think that's really the beauty of functional medicine. We're not treating the disease, we're treating the patient and all their unique variations in their story. And there are no two people who are the same. So when someone comes to the migraine, it's a blank slate. Then I have to figure out what kind of migraine and what are the various factors and is it hormonal? Is it magnesium? Is it the gut? Is it the mitochondria? Is it, is it food out it is? And is it histamine? And maybe all of them. Exactly,
The Doctor's Farmacy with Mark Hyman, M.D.
"migraine" Discussed on The Doctor's Farmacy with Mark Hyman, M.D.
"Be careful there. I'll work with your doctor about that. I had a patient who came in and his story was that he first developed migraines starting around at the age of 5. Which is interesting. Okay. So when you have a history of somebody who's having headaches, and it's not normal for a 5 year old to have headaches. That makes me sort of think, okay, this person may have a mitochondrial issue. And that may be what's going on early on in their story. Also interestingly, the patient noticed when he was telling me the story that he would get the worst headaches on the weekends. And on further asking him, it turned out that on the weekends he didn't drink coffee. So what he was getting was a caffeine withdrawal at headache. Right. Now this is probably one of those things that because caffeine is a double edged sword. We actually use caffeine to treat migraines. And if a patient's take over the counter medications like et cetera and migraine, guess what's one of the major ingredients in there is. Caffeine. In fact, I had a patient, I'll never forget this. It was a woman who had refractory migraines. And it turned out that she actually was getting rebound headaches from daily use of et cetera, migraine. And so she would have to take the et cetera migraine to prevent the withdrawal effect from the caffeine. So it was like a catch as you can see. That's not great because that's got talent. Well, it's great for the company because they keep selling it, right? Liver problems. Right. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. So this patient was caffeine sensitive. So some of the treatments you can actually abort a migraine with caffeine, but you can also trigger a migraine. So it's this sort of a double edged sword in terms of the effect of caffeine. But typically, if I have somebody who's got migraines, I get them off of all alcohol caffeine and give them some magnesium, just that's what you can shoot from the hip and just do that. And you can make a huge impact. So that was an interesting with the patient. And this particular patient also had a history of developing an egg allergy at age 21. Which was interesting. What's going on? Why did all of a sudden develop an egg allergy? In addition to that, the patient said that they would develop the itching with eggs, and then also add itching with bananas. Oh wow. Right. Which then sort of makes me think about, is there a problem with histamine? And histamine detoxification. There are specific genes in the body that have to do with histamine synthesis and also histamine detoxification. And you can do some esoteric testing on that to see, because histamine, I definitely think plays a big role in migraines. So what is histamine Todd? Well, histamine is the drug or not the drug is the compound that is naturally found in the body. And it is a actually a neurotransmitter. It's also involved in allergies. So when we have spring allergies or allergic rhinitis, we treat that with an antihistamine. Right. All right, now this is sort of interesting, and I'll talk about this one. It's made by your white blood cells. It's also made by gut bacteria. It's found in food. It's made by the white blood cells specifically. The mast cells, exactly. There are certain receptors for histamine. So there's like four receptors for histamine. And interestingly, when you block histamine, what happens to you? You fall asleep. You ever to ever take benadryl, right? That benadryl puts you to sleep. So histamine actually activates the body. It wakes the body up. So it's actually works as a neurotransmitter also, it's involved in allergies and itching and things like that. So a histamine is one of these things or things like that. You can get high. Exactly. Yeah, so histamine definitely plays it's one of the things that can play a role in migraine headaches. And how do you approach a patient with who's got histamine sensitivity? Well, how do you diagnose it first? Yeah, well, you treat it. Well, one of the things that you can do is put somebody on a low histamine diet because a lot of the foods that we that we take in can be high in histamine. And normally our body will just sort of deal with excess amounts of histamine. But when the gut bacteria is out, if you have sibo, you'll have problems with histamine breakdown or histamine degradation or certain bacteria will actually be making high levels of histamine, which in turn can affect the brain and your neurological system. Incredible. Yeah. Yeah, I've seen histamine treatment when you do it in the right patient by both dietary changes, also there's all kinds of supplements that can help us attend even medication like crumbling and the people that take orally his deeds, which is very supplement to help with modifying the response and getting the diet low on his teen. People can really have radical transformations in their health and sense of being most doctors think about or do. And it's tricky to do, but it can be really effective. Yeah. And in this particular patient, when I did the testing on them, lo and behold, he had significant sensitivity to gluten, which he was totally unaware of. And it never really worked with a nutritionist. Sometimes, you know, they would say, well, I worked with a dietitian and a regular dietitian, they're not really all that helpful. Having a nutritionist who's trained in functional medicine can really look at the diet beyond just calories and the macronutrient proteins fat and carbohydrates is very, very important. So in this particular patient, the organic acid testing showed a higher need for the B vitamins, showed some evidence of dysbiosis. Which is imbalances of the gut bacteria. Had significant gluten sensitivity, some leaky gut on testing had low normal magnesium was technically normal, but it was on the low side of normal. So these are all the different things that you can fix. And then on a stress testing had high levels of cortisol. Interesting. It was very, very interesting.
Dishing Up Nutrition
"migraine" Discussed on Dishing Up Nutrition
"Sometimes they need a little extra water than other people do. If you found that as well. Yes. More is more is a good thing. Mmm um. And hydrating yourself. And if you talk a lot, yeah. I have a PhD in the gift for gab. So I have to drink more water because you expel water. That's a great point. And it filtered water is ideal because tap water contains chemicals. Again, chemicals can cause migraines. And then these clients that have switched to a real food diet really avoiding or at least limiting alcohol, especially that wine for migraines. And all those processes and beer packaged foods. And that beer. Yeah. You know, it's a couple of weeks. You can do it. Well, often the cause of a migraine is related to food or possibly lack of sleep.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
It's Election Day in Pennsylvania; Who Holds the Edge?
"Morning, glory, America, don't go high candidate who you at live inside the beltway on this election day in Pennsylvania, Tuesday, may 17th, polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. today in Pennsylvania. I've heard all over the state from Scranton and all the way up in the northern northeastern corner down to Philadelphia. All the way over to Pittsburgh and up to Erie, and I encourage everyone to go and vote for David McCormick for the United States Senate. I also think Lou Bart, let barletta is a much easier to elect candidate. I don't think mister mastriano can win. I know David McCormick can win. I don't think any of the other people can win if you're going to vote for Kathy. Barnett, or Doctor Oz, I think you were throwing your vote away because they can't beat John fetterman. And this election matters so much because if McCormick doesn't get the nomination, we're going to have a very hard time getting the Senate back. In Republican hands and then confirmation of Supreme Court Justices will remain in Chuck Schumer's hands. The opportunity to break the filibuster will remain in Chuck Schumer's hand. It's vitally important to elect David McCormick. The bronze star recipient graduate of West Point grew up outside of Pittsburgh. He built business in Pittsburgh, built jobs in Pittsburgh. He's a Pittsburgh. And so this goes against migraine to say nice things about a Pittsburgh Steelers fan. I mean, steelers forever with McCormick, but Dave McCormick's a great American and when you're a West Point graduate and you receive the bronze star for valor in the 82nd airborne in the first Gulf War, you can trust the character.
Mark Levin
Brian Stelter Spreads Lies About Not Independently Confirming News
"Here he is at the University of Chicago today news busters hat tip cut far go So in September or October of 2020 let me just say this We're all rooting for little brine to eventually Come through puberty He's had the longest period of a pubescence that anybody's ever noted The scientific marvel Start from the top please cut forward Go So in September or October of 2020 when the New York Post has something other outlets can't match it there's this pressure why aren't you confirming this Why aren't you focusing on this Why aren't you leading on this Because we haven't matched it We have a confirmed it Now later matched it and you haven't confirmed it You guys you guys are filled with lies and phony reports Please don't make me go through the history I don't want to get a migraine Lies and phony reports day in and day out and listen to listen to us His tap dancing We couldn't independently confirm it That that stopped them from reporting on the 7 hour gap when it came to Trump's phone call No Russia collusion for two no We couldn't independently confirm anything because it was a lie was dirty tricked by Hillary But now we and by the way now he's sort of the Minnie mouse of CNN and the media Go ahead I was in the post have and that's notable and seen it had a story last week about the federal investigation into hunter Wow You guys are unbelievable Like way after the election
Sandy K Nutrition
"migraine" Discussed on Sandy K Nutrition
"So it can present in so many different ways that tells you or tells me, really. Which area of the brain is kind of misfiring. And aura classically, really only affects maybe about 25% of migraine cases, not everyone has that. It's kind of a thing that tells you there's an episode coming on. It's kind of like a prodrome, something that happens a day or two before. And that tells you that migraine is a cascade of events. It's kind of like the perfect storm. It doesn't just happen and you have an episode. It's already happening by the time you're experiencing that pain. And so the aura and that prodrome happens just right before as the wave of misfiring moves through specific area of the brain. If it's more of a visual symptom, then you know that misfiring is in the visual cortex. And that's kind of how we work backwards to figure out which areas in the brain are involved. Based on those things that you would describe where in your visual field, where on the body, its affected, that's kind of like the little trail of breadcrumbs that I'm following when I'm talking to a patient taking your history. Oh, so interesting. And so I don't know, like I've read some things that say that if you do have aura, you could be more predisposition for stroke, because that true, yeah, there is some data that shows if you have aura, you're more predisposed for certain lesions, other lesions in the brain and then stroke would be one of those types of lesions. But really, the clinically, I don't see a big difference in my practice. The way that I treat a patient with aura isn't going to be much different from the way I treat a patient without. In that way, it's just not as clinically significant for me. I treat what I find. So it's like if I find an area of dysfunction, we try to see if we can make it work better, whether that's one area or three areas. And whether that's the same in one migraine patient, then another, right? So we just fix what we find. Okay, so then really, there really isn't a great explanation as to why some people have aura and some don't, is there. Yeah, not exactly, not exactly. And you know, there's some chatter and stuff. There's a lot of research that's gone on for migraine for a very long time. I think about the 6th most debilitating condition. So there's a lot of people that are affected. There's a lot of money that goes into figuring out what's going on here. But for me, I really work clinically more than on research side. So I can only say what happens with my patients in my practice more so than digging through the theory. Necessarily, which is important and can guide us, but we don't want to just be restricted to only the things that we see and understand about the research because then we don't ever put anything into clinical practice. Okay, so what exactly have you seen are the risk factors of people who have migraine? Whether it's with aura without, we talked about some of the stroke, which is pretty serious. I don't even like to say the word to be honest because I'm like, I just don't even like to go there. But what else is a risk factor if you.
Sandy K Nutrition
"migraine" Discussed on Sandy K Nutrition
"And lifestyle queen. Today with me, I have special guests we're gonna talk all about my grains. Yes. So I'm gonna give you a little story about why I'm so passionate about migraines. I had my very first migraine, I think. I used to get headaches when I was younger, but you know my very first migraine with aura, I thought I was having a stroke. This would have been at the age of 41. I'm now 52. So it started right around the time of when many women start to experience some perimenopausal symptoms. And I had aura and it was ocular. It was in the eyes, and I lost a little bit of vision like it was like partial vision and then I get the zigzags. Anybody who's got migraines, knows exactly what I'm talking about. Well, I thought I was having a stroke. I was like, what is this? I never knew anything about it. I went to my family physician. I ended up getting a bunch of investigative tests, and it was such a weird thing because, you know, they checked everything. I even had a brain MRI. And it was an incidental finding that they found out I had nodules on my thyroid at that time because they did a carotid artery, ultrasound. Anyway, bottom line is, since then, I've had little bouts of migraines here and there. And they get definitely worse during times where I have hormonal changes, something going on with my body and I really needed to investigate this a little bit further because I knew that migraines for me were not triggered by food, and a lot of people have that as a trigger. Certain foods will affect them. Everybody's got different triggers, right? So really, I found out that it's more to do with the resiliency of your body than the triggers because the triggers were there my entire life. Right? For me, it's hormones, and then any kind of really drastic light in my eyes spotlights, LED lights can just trigger it. And then it's almost like you have to have the perfect storm. So it's the light and then I have some issues with hormones and dysregulation there and boom. I'll have a migraine. However,.
The Mason Minute
Slight Panic (MM #3801)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason yesterday I woke up in a slight panic. I woke up not feeling good. Let's put it that way. And I've had these feelings throughout the years kind of like a migraine but not a migraine. You wake up with a headache you wake up not feeling good feel like you might throw up. It's all my sinuses. They've been bothering me for years and we thought we'd get it knocked out with the outer gist but that never happened. But yesterday I woke up just not feeling right. Feeling a little off a little Spacey and then it hit me. Oh no could this be COVID? And I realized we're all going to have that panic when we feel something we're not used to because what we're going through right now for the record I don't think it was COVID because I'm feeling fine today. I didn't have a temperature but at the same time since I've been vaccinated I don't know what to expect if I do get COVID symptoms. I just had a bad day. I had a sign as day. The weather's been weird here in Nashville and we've had weather coming in and out and I just didn't feel good. I felt off. I think we're all going to have that panic now when we get sick. Could it be COVID? Could it be the big one? That's the scary part. What exactly do I feel? Normally I would think I would know what the answer is.
The Mason Minute
Slight Panic (MM #3801)
"The NASA minute. With Kevin mason yesterday I woke up in a slight panic. I woke up not feeling good. Let's put it that way. And I've had these feelings throughout the years kind of like a migraine but not a migraine. You wake up with a headache you wake up not feeling good feel like you might throw up. It's all my sinuses. They've been bothering me for years and we thought we'd get it knocked out with the outer gist but that never happened. But yesterday I woke up just not feeling right. Feeling a little off a little Spacey and then it hit me. Oh no could this be COVID? And I realized we're all going to have that panic when we feel something we're not used to because what we're going through right now for the record I don't think it was COVID because I'm feeling fine today. I didn't have a temperature but at the same time since I've been vaccinated I don't know what to expect if I do get COVID symptoms. I just had a bad day. I had a sign as day. The weather's been weird here in Nashville and we've had weather coming in and out and I just didn't feel good. I felt off. I think we're all going to have that panic now when we get sick. Could it be COVID? Could it be the big one? That's the scary part. What exactly do I feel? Normally I would think I would know what the answer is.
Chasing Poker Greatness
How Ian Simpson Became a Unibet Sponsored Pro
"Back to twitch. And you bet you mentioned your sponsored by a bit. How did that come about. When did that come about. I'm in my fifth. Year was union. Bet that's the best twitching for four and a half years now and all the united events because they were just fantastic they. I mean obviously. Obviously i have to say let the genuine where all of them before i was known busta because the staff just friendly bubbly happily passionate polka did throw amazing events bodies be amazing tone to be well around by the best end stocks in europe. So because i went to leave lettuce i eventually got to know the staff and the staff wanted to launch a more aggressive plan in the uk. They wanted to gain buses. They want to launch pitching at And so they asked him. I said hell yes it as the other payment cards they keep doing it. Yeah tony told them that. I was doing that anyway. So yet it's worked out great for the community. Like i said it's just the friendliest nicest community just in the world. These little screenings formed relationships with them over the past five years. Been fortunate enough to meet a bunch of them. You've got events some of them. don't go to bentson. it's but it's a screen ended up growing berry fund and just very kind nice people. We have enough community at been following. The the best thing is that it's not just about the following migraine dwelling twitching. I'm playing the supernova on union. You bet saying oh yeah great weldon doll commiserations about that breakout whatever rolling for each other. The rail is for everyone who's in chats so they'll be people who just in the free rose because that's all they can afford and they'll be rallying the guy who's just fearless justice. How does that railing means by baguettes on them. And it's just the most wholesome lovely thing.
AP News Radio
Devers Homers Twice, Bullpen Strong as Red Sox Top Yanks 6-2
"Rafael Devers homered twice including the go ahead blast in the fifth inning of the red Sox fourth straight win six two over the Yankees Devers followed his two run shot with a three run blast in the seventh it was his one hundredth career home run Boston improved to ninety two against the Yankees this season at B. Gerrit Cole at Fenway Park for the second time Cole was reached for three runs over five innings we're sorry you know the finishing blows twice your honor is charged really just good at bats all night the US someone out there made some good pitches but ultimately didn't come through the AL east leaders received eight scoreless innings from their bullpen after Eduardo Rodriguez left due to migraine symptoms I'm Dave Ferrie
Just Between Us
"migraine" Discussed on Just Between Us
"Invisible disorders. You don't see it you'll see it on the x ray. Sometimes it's hard to capture when you're trying to get through everything else like mammograms and breast cancer screening and all these other things so born to be own advocate and to people know that you have your mind and don't wait for someone to ask you about your mind. What are you doing. Can treatment be better. So that's one thing. Another thing is there are a lot of primary care. Doctors that probably could do better job of diagnosing migraine or treating migraine or putting it on that list of important things to do and so again because it's an invisible condition and there's not enough training in medical school. The average medical student probably gets about three hours of lecture for headache sorts. A whole list of headaches many headache migraine until something that we need to do. A better job of educating medical students. But then if you don't go into neurology than if you're an obgyn you're going to have patients that come in with romano migraines michelle migrants. We call it more migrants around that peri menopause. So if you're e doctor you're gonna know that patients coming to you with a migraine and this is not sinus headache and so we need to do a better job. I think to educate doctors so that they're aware of the level of disability not just physicians but the public has well. It's goes for school aged kids. You know school age kids. They're missing school. Because a migraine and sometimes migrant is not paying said it could be all these other things. sometimes it's abdominal migraine. so they have these recurrent tummy and that's a migraine and so we need to do a better job of educating the public educating each other healthcare providers but even loved ones that you want to understand you in care for you i think. Sometimes there's the sense of like there's nothing that can be done anyway so it's better for me to just our that. It's not through the treatment that there's reason one of the reasons why i went in june urology in headache because of all conditions. I thought it was one of the most fireball That's interesting so it goes both ways. Somebody's modifications select changing behaviors. That's harder to do right managing stress. Not al myron is gonna be stress related. But there's some people that how stressful experiences and he needs to deal with that. So are you. Inactive in activity can be associated with more migrants so a lifestyle changes or hurt implementing michaels on condition tend to say are there other neurological conditions. People should look for like if you're having headaches of any kind like when should you seek out on her own so i think first of all if you have any level disability sloan you down have difficult getting out of bed or just brain fog and you're not functioning to the full extent should the over the counter medications are not working. Well you find yourself using more than you should be using an anyone day or anyone week then know that. They're cheaper options mass. Probably a good reason to see care if you have atypical symptom so if you have loss of vision and his prolonged may not be an oral maybe something more concerning maybe glaucoma weakness on one side. You know the gender logical events you lose speech you lose balance and this is something new about a new tab. Headache a worse an abrupt heading thunderclap headaches. Headaches that reach maximum intensity within one minute oftentimes within a few seconds now so that half rock onset of headache neurological symptoms. That are persisted that have systemic symptoms. So you have fever loss of taste or smell the a loss and tesa smell and headache. What are we thinking of some warning signs that maybe this is not just a migrant. Wow i really appreciate you coming on. Because i i've had these since i was a kid. My dad has had them. they take me out. I'm like i said the person who starts throwing up. Who is out for days. I also the thing that has constantly plagued me. Is that while it's happening. I'm so frustrated that it's happening that i start crying. And then that's the thing where like my partner. My mom would have to be like you. You can't also be crying. Like actually i can because this is my migraines and some of these would be your fustration but as we said meritas a brain disorder so there's actually been studies showing that when you having that migraine attack. There's a part of the brain called olympic system which is important for emotional processing can be activated during a migraine attack. So some of this could be logical. I'm having pain. Or i miss out on this or something extremely logical but it could also be that. This area of your brain is being activated. And you're more sensitive than you normally would be some people even before the pain starts their emotional their irritable. Or there's some people that have like this bullets of energy right before the migraine attack. That's the brain changes that actually happening and being very emotional and anxious is part of. I'm blanking. i'm just blinking rapidly at you because i'm so taken aback. Holy just let them know anytime nag you to say it's my number system. That's being the ultimate clapback. You're to be activated compassion on my god. Wow this is so helpful in wonderful. Thank you absolutely and so glad that you had me on here and i think there's going to be so many followers that you really hope while we're not letting you go just yet. Would you like to play a game show. But i don't want to edit it out. We'll edit you to look good. Don't worry so we're going to play a game show called kohl's you and gabby are my contestants ivy league give you a series of hypothetical situations could ask any clarifying questions you have and then you tell me what you would do in that situation Good there's no true answer. I just get to choose okay. So our first game is america's favorite game show. Would you stay with this cheater. Koa your partner of five years agrees to sign up as a volunteer at a kissing booth to raise money for charity. But they keep it a complete secret from you and you only find out one of their co-workers tags them on instagram with this cheater. Am i allowed to have more information absolutely so okay so what. What was the charity. That really matters. Is it like people young women that need bikinis or is it like orphans Somewhere it's migraine awareness. Oh what do you care about mortiz. Women can't have it all you care.
Stuff You Missed in History Class
"migraine" Discussed on Stuff You Missed in History Class
"Rather constrictors or one of several drugs used in the twentieth century to treat migraine and before this point drugs to treat migraine included non-steroidal anti inflammatories like aspirin and morphine digitalis. Quinine and cannabis extracts among other things. Or gotta mean is derived from ergot fungus and was first introduced as a drug to treat migraine in one thousand nine hundred eighty five along with other effects this axes of as a constrictor and for the next few decades it really became the primary drug to treat migraine pain in one thousand nine hundred forty four brazilian researcher. Aristide's leo described the theory of cortisol spreading depression basically a complex phenomenon involving a wave of excited and then suppressed brain activity a couple of years before psychologist karl spencer lashley had proposed a similar wave of activity across the visual cortex when describing his own aura. It's possible that this is connected to migraine with aura. Although this is not well understood. In the nineteen fifties researchers discovered a link between serotonin and migraine and they started working on drugs to target specific serotonin receptors and the result was a whole new class of drugs tripton with multiple different tripton on the market by the late. Nineteen ninety s for the most part tripton started replacing ergot derivatives as the primary treatment for migraine. The term migrant. Her made its first appearance. In writing in nineteen seventy. That was in oliver sachs's book on my grain that we referenced a little bit ago today. Some people describe themselves as migrant workers but for others. It's a term to avoid for a number of reasons including its negative connotations. And the idea that it makes migraine into a person's entire identity in the nineteen eighties researchers measured blood flow through the brain and found that in migraine without aura. There's no significant difference in the blood flow during a migraine attack but in migraine with aura. Blood flow is reduced at a rate of about two millimeters a minute and this roughly lines up with the rate of cortisol spreading depression that had been described although again. This connection is not well understood by the nineteen nineties functional. Mri studies were suggesting that migraine was not purely vascular phenomenon and it's been increasingly framed as a biochemical process and a wide range of drugs have been used to treat it often because people who are taking a drug for some other reason reported that it also helped with their migraine attacks. Among other things this is included people taking betablockers for heart issues. Various antidepressants and medicines to treat epilepsy. The fda approved botox talks as a migraine treatment in twenty twenty. The fda also approved a trans cranial magnetic stimulator for migraine treatment in two thousand thirteen. The first device to be approved for that purpose until very very recently the drugs used to treat migraine. Were generally used to reduce and shorten migraine attacks after the attacks had started and in the us. The fda started approving the first drugs developed specifically to prevent migraine attacks in twenty eighteen. So just three years ago these are known as calcitonin gene related peptide or cg rpi monoclonal. Antibodies see drp is related to various pain processes in the body and it also acts as a vasodilator and these drugs blocked that action to wrap it up. There are just so so so many historical figures who are known to have had recurring headaches. Many of which are described as migraine today. Just as examples and countess of conway charles. Darwin thomas jefferson. Virginia woolf and pablo picasso. Some people interpret the entirety of lewis carroll's alice's adventures in wonderland as a literary exploration of migraine. As well as emily dickinson's. I felt a funeral in my brain sometimes can seem a little bit.
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"migraine" Discussed on Stuff You Missed in History Class
"The dr hubert airy had drawn of scintillating scott toma in eighteen seventy side note airy and sir john herschel knew each other and they had discussed their visual disturbances during aries visits. Then in one thousand nine hundred five neurologist sir. William gowers author of diseases of the nervous system gave a lecture at which he displayed a visual representation of a patient's migraine aura. Gowers patient a mr beck had created a whole collection of or a pictures that he'd collected into a book things like hertzel's description and aries and beck's visual re-creations of their own experiences launched just a ton of interest in this quote transient defective vision. Soon migraine with oro is being described as classic migraine with migraine. Without aura described as common migraine with aura became viewed as the most authentic presentation of migraine even though migraine without ro was more common and hubert aries representation of his. Ara became the standard of what looked like an even though women experienced migraine with aura. For the most part they were not the ones going to these medical lectures or seeing artistic interpretations of migraine aura in medical journals. Or discussing all of that at medical society meetings so there was a growing sense that men in particular had these visual disturbances whether they happened with or without headache because of their over-stimulated brains while women's migraine attacks were more likely to be ascribed to things like neurasthenia nervous exhaustion or having too many babies increasingly migraine in men was viewed as a mark of genius especially an intellectual men whether it was connected to pain or not but migraine and women was a mark of neurosis and martyrdom. This is obviously continued to influence. People getting treated for migraine in the years. That has followed all this by the early twentieth century. Multiple medical fields had become more firmly established as fields including neurology. Endocrinology allergy and immunology psychology and ophthalmology and many of them were starting to find potential connections between what they were studying in those fields and migraine. For example george. Bray reported that many of his migraine patients had positive skin. Tests for various food allergies in nineteen thirty-one but the idea of a migraine personality was evolving as well physician. John graham describes this as quote a personality that seeks and creates stress and physiology. That handles it poorly another person to suggest. A personality connection was dr harold g. wolf of cornell medical center who had migraine himself he referenced his own perfectionism and ambition in that of his upper-class friends and colleagues who also had migraine broadly speaking apart from all of this sort of social baggage that had evolved. To general theories had emerged to explain migraine. it either had a vascular 'cause or a nervous system. 'cause the vascular theory gained a lot of support in the nineteen thirties. After physician alfred goldman described the case of a nurse who had experienced recurring severe headaches vomiting at one point a neurosurgeon had done exploratory surgery through a burr hole that hole healed over as a depression in her skull that was full of blood. Vessels goldman noticed that when she had a migraine attack. Those vessels seemed to fill in this depression and swell almost like a tumor doctor. Harold g. wolff worked on the vascular theory of migraine as well. His experiments suggested that migraine aura was connected to vessel constriction and when those vessels dilated again migraine pain followed. This type of work led to the use of vazza constrictors to treat migraine which did help some people..
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"migraine" Discussed on Stuff You Missed in History Class
"Blood flow in the membrane surrounding the brain by the early seventeen. Hundreds more and more migraine drugs and other preparations are being sold premade rather than people mostly making their own from herbs and other ingredients that they had bought are grown. And this is also when english-speakers started to shift more from the word megrim to migraine. Although there were some doctors who argued that megrim has described in. Britain was a difference but similar condition to migraine as described in france in seventeen fifty eight. John ford is published mccranie. Ah which was based on his own migraine attacks and in seventeen seventy eight. John father gill wrote about food as a cause of migraine. He wasn't quite onto the idea. That specific foods could trigger an attack though it was more that butter fatty meat and black pepper. Were all part of a poor diet which meant that popular foods. Like meat pies. Were particularly bad father. Gill recommended a healthier diet combined with drinking lots of mineral water. Swiss physician. Samuel abused andrei david too so researched migraine. In the late eighteenth century and his treatise on the nerves and nervous disorders included a clinical overview of migraine. This was based on previous writing on his own research and it included a lot of elements. That still really hold up today. He described migraine as recurring with pain. Often accompanied by vomiting and vomiting sometime signaling. That the headache is coming to an end. He also described migraine aura and other visual disturbances and that specific factors could trigger an attack. One thing from this. That didn't really hold up. Was his idea that migraine had gastric causes. That was a commonly held view around this time. Like going all the way back to the first definition of of him mccranie was his idea of like vapors arising from the gut so that was a long held idea. I work on. Migraine was really influential for at least the next century but even as medical science was making some more concrete progress on consistently describing the condition migraine was starting to pick up a lot of negative connotations in britain migraine became increasingly connected to stereotypes of french. Delicacy an excess caricatures and satirical publications depicted foppish seemingly high maintenance doctors who minced around was snuff and.
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"migraine" Discussed on Stuff You Missed in History Class
"Of migraine aura. We don't actually know whether hildegard was involved with making those illustrations and if she was what her intent was with those illustrations. Yeah i mean they also have similarities to lots other medieval artwork. That you know has repetition and the same rate way in the pictures so we just we just don't really know at about the same time as hildegard was living persian. Physicians were also writing about migraine. This included past podcast subject evanston a- as well as banal czar. Persian medicine at this point had parallels to the greek girl medicine system but encina also described migraine as originating from membranes under the skull and from various parts of the brain which then caused pain in the muscles even seen described two types of migraine hot and cold with treatments meant to cool or warm depending bloodletting animas were part of the regiment as well even seen a recommended that patients take a bath when they felt a migraine coming on induce sneezing with pistachio oil. Massage the vein on the side of the head that hurt with opium eboni. Algesiras work on migraine was translated by. Constantine the african and from there it influenced the thirteenth century medical compendium on the properties of things this was compiled by franciscan monk bartholomew's anglican and the treatments that it recommended for migraine included. Scarfing the shins to try to draw bad humors out of the head also around the twelfth and thirteenth centuries chinese physician wife sue also wrote a book of medical formulas and one of them described the treatment of migraine using to specific chinese herbs. We have mentioned the use of bleeding to treat migraine and in the fifteenth century. The guild book of the barber surgeons of the city of york included a diagram of bleeding sites for treating various illnesses. Appoint for megrim was marked between the thumb and index finger. On the right hand this is actually close to the acupuncture point large intestine four which is one of the points commonly used for headaches along with other pain and stress other sources recommended bloodletting using the vein in the middle of the forehead or on the temporal vein. On whichever side the pain was happening on. There are a lot of recipe books and medical texts from the medieval and early modern period. That include different treatments for migraine. They include herbs to be ingested inhaled held in the mouth or worn as police or a plaster one ingredient. That makes multiple appearances. That's not a plant. Is earthworms the idea being that if earthworms speed on rotten madder out in the world than if you pound them into a pulse and where that on your head it might drop putrid elements out of your head. One person who documented in such a recipe was a mrs coralline. Who's sixteen o. Six recipe book belonged to alpha talbot countess of arndale and surrey. Mrs coralline included multiple recipes for migraine treatments. As did jane jackson whose recipe book dates to sixteen forty two. These are on a whole spectrum from like really simple. Here's a couple of herbs to try to really involved setups. That would require like a long period of time to create a medicine or just you know get some earthworms we gonna move onto the early modern world particularly in europe after we pause for a sponsor break..
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"migraine" Discussed on Stuff You Missed in History Class
"This as quote an illness by no means mild even though it mitts and although it appears to be slight for if at any time it set in acutely it occasions unseemly and dreadful symptoms spasm and distortion of the countenance take place. The is either fixed intently lake horns or they are rolled inwardly to this side or too that vertigo deep. Seated pain of the is as far as the meninges irretrievable sweat. Sudden pain of the tendons as of one striking with the club nausea vomiting of. Billy's matters collapse of the patient. But if the affection be protracted the patient will die or if moore slate and not deadly it becomes chronic. There is much torpor heaviness of the head anxiety and on wean for they flee the light. The darkness sues their disease nor can they bear readily to look upon or hear anything agreeable. Their sense of smell is vitiated. Neither does anything agreeable to smell delight them and they have also an aversion to feted things. The patients moreover are weary of life and wished to die. Okay so two things here one is that. There's been some speculation that when he talks about this being fatal those might not have been migraine cases. That might have been something else. Going on because migraine does not typically cause people to die because of a migraine attack. The other is of all the things that are included in this episode. This is really the one that i i feel like says. The most about how anxiety producing having migraine can be because it is a recurring condition and a lot of times. People just don't know is today. The day of migraine is going to happen. Like there's a sense of like anxious waiting and a lot of people not really knowing whether their life is going to be suddenly disrupted by a migraine attack in about the second century roman physician galen coined the term mccranie a- and he called this quote a painful disorder affecting approximately one half of the head. Either the right or left side. And which extends along the length of the longitudinal suture. It is caused by the ascent of vapors either excessive in amount or too hot or too cold. it's likely that at around the same time as galen coined the term cranium. People in china were using acupuncture to treat migraine. Han dynasty physician wa toe is credited with successfully resolving the emperor's migraine attacks by treating an acupuncture point on the sole of his foot jumping ahead to the twelfth century past podcast subject. Hildegard of bingen is often credited with writing the medical texts causing at curie. This text describes migraine as stemming from bad humor especially melancholy or black bile and it also explains the pain occurs only in half the head because if it was experienced across the whole head at once it would be simply unbearable. There's been some speculation that hildegard herself had migraine attacks and even that these offer some explanation for her religious visions. Her illustrated works giving us details. These visions in nineteen thirteen scientist and historian charles singer wrote a paper about hildegard in which he interpreted some of the illustrations. As depicting scintillating scotto mma oliver sacks revived this idea in his book migraine which was first published in nineteen seventy and while it's possible to see some similarities between these illustrations and descriptions or depictions.
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"migraine" Discussed on Stuff You Missed in History Class
"There is some data to suggest that this isn't about the actual prevalence of migraine. No but it's more connected to a whole set of social and economic factors involving medical bias. Racism and access to care migraine is prevalent in children. And there's not a huge difference in its prevalent space on children's sex but that starts to really shift as people reach puberty and adult migraine is significantly more common among women including transgender women. If they're taking estrogen as many as one in seven people have migraine but as many as one in five women. For many years this disparity in the prevalence of migraine has been largely explained by hormonal differences. But there's also research that suggests that migraine is not only more prevalent but also worse among women involving more severe pain and longer-lasting attacks so it's possible that women are diagnosed more often because they're generally more severe attacks make them more likely to seek treatment although this again folds into all kinds of expectations and bias related to gender like. There's a lot of research at this point backing up the idea that women have a harder time getting accurate diagnoses especially for chronic diseases and that women's reports of pain are just not taken seriously but at the same time at least here in the. Us men are generally expected to shake it off or tough it out when it comes to pain so exactly what all of these social and cultural effects have on the rate of migraine. Diagnosis is again super obligated. It also varies across the world. If you look at a map of wear migraine is most prevalent at surely complicated. Social and economic factors are playing into that in addition to just whether it's more prevalent among different groups so as we said this is just the basics of migraine there are other ways that migraine can presents and other symptoms that people can experience. There are also other types of headache and other neurological disorders. That can have some overlap with migraine but the idea that there are gender. Disparities related to migraine is not new nor is this baggage. That's related specifically to women's experiences with migraine. A lot of that baggage came about during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. And we're gonna get into that. But after the break we'll start with migraine in the ancient world in medieval europe. This episode is brought to you by american giant. We often talk about how every inventor in history is building on what came before them and then trying to improve it. And that's exactly what led bayard winthrop. Ceo and founder of american giant to make a great t shirt american giant's best-selling premium slug t- iconic silhouette is made the right way. It's made.
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"migraine" Discussed on Stuff You Missed in History Class
"Some people describe it as an early warning sign. That an attack is incoming. The next phase is the although this doesn't happen in every case about one in five people with migraine have migraine with aura. But not necessarily with every attack. The aura usually involves visual disturbances like flashing lights or blind spots in person's vision often in an archiving zigzagging pattern in medical terms. These are often called scintillating ska toma visual representations of what people see what their aura can look a bit like the patterns used in dazzle. Camouflage which we've talked about the show before migraine aura can also involve strange sensations in the body like pins and needles or a sense of heaviness vertigo or a ringing in the ears. If you've ever heard the term classic migraine that came around in the nineteenth century to describe migraine with aura. But it's less common in medical literature today. In saying nineteenth century terms migraine without ro was common migraine. We will get more to the reasons behind that later for people who experience ara it typically starts somewhere between a few minutes an hour before the migraine pain begins. The third phase is the headache itself in most people. The headache lasts at least six hours. And in some cases it can last for three days or even more. This headache is typically severe throbbing often so acutely painful that it's impossible to sleep or it wakes person up from sleep and in some cases people can also experience silent migraine which involves the other physiological and visual disturbances associated with my green. But not pain. Sometimes this is mistaken for transient shark. Attacks also known as many strokes particularly in older people noise and bright light can both worsen a migraine attack and attacks can also be accompanied by nausea vomiting and some odors can make this worse in some people. Specific smells can trigger a migraine attack. Smells are just one possible. Trigger others include specific foods alcohol drugs and hormone levels in the body including hormone levels connected to the use of hormonal. Contraceptives this is why. Some people have a migraine attack. That coincides with the same phase of their menstrual cycle. Every month stress interrupted sleep and hunger can all trigger migraine attacks as well and so can caffeine or caffeine withdrawal but in some people caffeine helps relieve the symptoms so this is complicated and it can vary a lot from person to person beyond what we just said here. The fourth phase of a migraine attack is known as the post drome which begins after the headache has ended. Although in some people this can bring on a sense of euphoria often. It's marked with muscle aches fatigue. An inability to concentrate or a sense of just feeling drained. Some people call this as a migraine hangover so as we said earlier. Migraine is extremely prevalent. At least a billion people around the world habit but that number might actually be pretty low by some estimates. Migraine goes undiagnosed as much as half the time. Symptoms can vary tremendously. And in some cases people might not think they're severe enough or frequent enough to seek medical treatment. People may also avoid seeing a doctor for all kinds of reasons including money time. Fear and the stigma involved with migraines specifically or with seeking medical treatment for pain more generally research in the us suggests that people experienced severe headaches at about the same rate regardless of race or ethnicity but white people in the united states are far more likely to be diagnosed with migraine than people have any other race..
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"migraine" Discussed on Stuff You Missed in History Class
"I'm tracing wilson and i'm holly fry. I have a family history of migraine I remember my grandmother talking you about what. She called her sick headaches And i know a lot of people outside of my family who have migraine as well and some of them started dealing with migraine attacks really quite recently. So i've been thinking about doing an episode on the history of migraine for a while because of all these different personal connections. And then after our recent episode on the nelson pill hearings. We got a lot of e mail from listeners. Who mentioned their experiences with migraine. So that moved this topic up to the top as what note. This isn't an can't possibly be comprehensive. There is just a wealth of historical writing about migraine. But i also didn't expand this into a two part episode because at least in terms of what's available in english a lot of that writing is really similar. I had a whole lot more quotes from historical sources. And i felt like i was reading the same thing over and over again so i paired it down a bit and my green is really prevalent. According to the world health organization. It is one of the three most prevalent conditions in the world along with anemia and hearing loss but in spite of that prevalence migraine is widely misunderstood. Really at every level one reason is that the vast majority of people in the world have headaches at some point so it's easy for people who have headaches but not migraine to think of a migraine attack. As just a headache. I know in my family to it was also like if it's a bad headache they would just call it a migraine and that's not accurate true. Yes yes a lot of the historical writing about migraine really does focus on the head pain. Though the word migraine even comes from this in english. It was originally megrim which could also mean vertigo or dizziness. Especially if that was accompanying headache megrim was first used in writing in fourteen forty. And it's been spelled so many different ways like when. I looked oxford english dictionary. And it had the other versions and like click to open for more and it was like eight lines of different spellings of this. The first use in writing was m. y. g. r. e. y. m. e. and there's just a whole assortment of spellings that generally combine a couple of 'em's energy with every vowel that exists in english. Megrim was derived from the old french word. Me claim that french term and the word for migraine in most of the romance languages was derived from the greek word. Heh mccranie a- meaning half of the head does because often but not always the pain associated with a migraine attack occurs on one side of the head but head pain which to be clear can be severe and disabling is really just one piece of how migraine is understood today. So to level set on that today a migraine attack is often described as a four phase process. The first is the pro dome which can start twenty four hours or more before the pain begins and this can involve changes in a person's mood energy level perception or appetite..
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Pulling Back the Curtain on the Female Orgasm
"Briefly go over some issues women face when it comes to difficulty orgasm. We've discussed before psychological issues like low self esteem poor body image or something like anxiety or an eating disorder at can affect sexual performance ability to orgasm. There are medical issues. Like denia niceness and difficulty producing lubrication to name a few a at twenty t analysis identified some top factors in sexual dysfunction relationship problems stress mental health issues. Poor physical health. Genetic urinary issues. Such as pelvic pain a history of abortion a history of female genital mutilation sexual abuse being religious. Perhaps due to sexual shame and stigma so the nelson's found that things like communication positive body image exercise. Masturbation can help improve sexual dysfunction. Some people experience depression sadness shame irritability crying self-loathing etc after orgasm achieved consensual pleasurable sex things. Like post-coital trustees or coil destroyer. Some studies suggest over half of women have experienced post-coital foia or cd at least once in a recent survey found that it often is linked more to one realistic expectations than underlying medical condition. Yes And this is kind of related to the petite more or the little death which is used to describe the unconsciousness people. Some people experience after orgasmic. Likening it to death and something. I've just learned about an experience and foolishly did an experiment to test for research for this episode and it took me out a whole day are sex are orgasm but overall i am so these intense headaches that occurred during or after sexual arousal. They can be short-lived or lasts a few hours a couple of days about three days. They're pretty rare and men are more likely to experience them than women. If you are someone who suffers from migraines you're more likely to experience them as well. There are two types orgasmic headache. Which is intense throbbing pain during her after orgasm or sexual benign headaches. Which are these headaches. That build during sexual arousal the kinda guy come from the and then go up some experience both at once and they can be A one time thing or happening clusters of risk six. Twelve month period. Some people have said they're around for life They happen because of muscle contractions and or a spike in blood
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"migraine" Discussed on The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
"Let's talk about headaches here on the exam room. Podcast brought to you by the physicians committee and not just any headache. We're about the mother of all headaches. Today we are going to be talking about migraine headaches. What exactly they are. And then how your diet may be affecting whether or not your head is pounding or not and so. We have a gentleman with us here today. Who knows all about this matter. Fact did a comprehensive study on this very topic not too terribly long ago and with that we welcome. Dr neil barr back to the exam room. Thank you so very much for being here. Sir hijack great to be with you. Let's start with the surface level question. What is a migraine. And how does it compare to those day to day headaches that we all get great question. A migraine is not just a bad headache. untypical tension headache. That a lot of folks get is a dull ache lasts an hour or two. It's gone that's of beds. That's about it now. it can be intense. But the differentiates a migraine is that migraines are usually one-sided. They're often pounding and throbbing with your pulse. And along with it. You get lots of other things to. You're really sensitive to lights and sounds and sometimes you'll feel sick. You might even actually throw up. So it's it's a whole physical thing. as opposed to just Attention headache some people will get an aura beforehand. Not everybody but sometimes you'll see changes in your vision. That will warn you that the migraine is about to hit and we talk a lot about chronic illness on the show. Is there any research showing whether or not migraines can be genetic at all they can be and they can also strike at any time of life. Unlike so many conditions where you've got to kind of be middle aged for to happen You'll see them in kids. And i have to tell you check. There is nothing sadder than a kid. Who's got a migraine because they last a long time. They can last overnight the next day kids aren't in school They're just waiting in the dark and what they're hoping for is that they will fall asleep. Sometimes the sleep will arrest the migraine and they can function again but there are kids who have them a few times a week and it can be just really
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
What Differentiates a Migraine From a Headache
"Let's talk about headaches here on the exam room. Podcast brought to you by the physicians committee and not just any headache. We're about the mother of all headaches. Today we are going to be talking about migraine headaches. What exactly they are. And then how your diet may be affecting whether or not your head is pounding or not and so. We have a gentleman with us here today. Who knows all about this matter. Fact did a comprehensive study on this very topic not too terribly long ago and with that we welcome. Dr neil barr back to the exam room. Thank you so very much for being here. Sir hijack great to be with you. Let's start with the surface level question. What is a migraine. And how does it compare to those day to day headaches that we all get great question. A migraine is not just a bad headache. untypical tension headache. That a lot of folks get is a dull ache lasts an hour or two. It's gone that's of beds. That's about it now. it can be intense. But the differentiates a migraine is that migraines are usually one-sided. They're often pounding and throbbing with your pulse. And along with it. You get lots of other things to. You're really sensitive to lights and sounds and sometimes you'll feel sick. You might even actually throw up. So it's it's a whole physical thing. as opposed to just Attention headache some people will get an aura beforehand. Not everybody but sometimes you'll see changes in your vision. That will warn you that the migraine is about to hit and we talk a lot about chronic illness on the show. Is there any research showing whether or not migraines can be genetic at all they can be and they can also strike at any time of life. Unlike so many conditions where you've got to kind of be middle aged for to happen You'll see them in kids. And i have to tell you check. There is nothing sadder than a kid. Who's got a migraine because they last a long time. They can last overnight the next day kids aren't in school They're just waiting in the dark and what they're hoping for is that they will fall asleep. Sometimes the sleep will arrest the migraine and they can function again but there are kids who have them a few times a week and it can be just really
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All Disease Begins In the 'Leaky Gut'
"We know that diseases are inflammatory diseases. Practically every disease is a disease of inflammation at the cellular level. The cell is on fire. So it just depends. Is it a brain cell or a kidney. Cell is a gasoline or kerosene. But it's always a fire. So that's inflammation so. The goal is to live in anti-inflammatory life with all of what that means and it takes a long time to really dial that down completely for an individual but you just get started. Professor fasano and his team published this year. He said and this is the quote on the the title of the article. These guys don't exaggerate. You know because people would love to take him down and say look with this guy cena but he's so careful. in his language. The title of his article all disease begins in the parentheses leaky gut. All disease begins in the leaky gut. Well what about alzheimer's all disease. What about rheumatoid arthritis all dizzy. What m s ought psoriasis eczema. Migraines all disease begins in the leaky gut and this is what they're teaching our cutting edge physicians at the top medical school in the country. Right now is that there are five pillars in the development of all chronic inflammatory diseases and if your listeners understand that there are five picture that this is the big kahuna concept. If you understand this concept than all of the information that you pick up in podcast like yours or in books that you read like mine or in summits and things you're able to compartmentalize that information into one of the five pillars so that you can hold it because there's so much information our world today we get overwhelmed really easily
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Author Of 'Mastering Migraine' Discusses the Causes Of Migraines
"We're talking to dr adam hartford. We're gonna talk a little headache Dot harcourt has a book. Mastering migraine and is yes. That's the book mastery migraine. We're talking about some of the means to go after it darker welcome. Thanks so much for having me. So let's talk about the multiple causes of migraine. What a what a mess it can be for people. It's sure can where do we start. what what i can say is By book is kind of based around in in my program is based upon the reality. That migraine is ultimately genetic. Which means you either have or you don't and you're prone to it forever and the interesting thing. Though is the fact that it can be tons of different genes which is why we haven't nailed it down to one thing. So for example the on the extreme end something like hemiplegic migraine which mimic stroke and things like that has three distinct genes that we know that that causes it but for everything else. We know that it has to do with ionic transport which is basically saying that is the healthy Healthiness of neuron is impacted on migraine. And depending on which area of the brain it affects. That determines your symptoms so the most common head pain but it can also be dizziness. It can be stroke like symptoms. It can be ocular. Symptoms all that kind of
All Things Considered
CIA to Expand Havana Syndrome Inquiry
"Says it's established a task force to look into the so called Havana syndrome, the mystery ailment that's had dozens of U. S officials abroad in recent years. NPR's Greg Marie explains. Officials have suffered chronic migraines, dizziness and memory loss. The CIA said the task force will work with other government agencies to further investigate the cause of ailments so severe they forced some officers to retire. A report commissioned by the State Department said last December that microwave radiation is the most plausible cause. More than 40. Diplomats and a smaller number of intelligence officers have suffered symptoms in Cuba, China and Russia and suspected foreign spy agency is to blame. President Biden's nominee to lead the CIA. William Burns said it is confirmation hearing last week that he would make it a priority to find out who was responsible. Greg my RE NPR NEWS Washington
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Avoiding Weight Gain During Stressful Times
"If you're worried that you have gained or are gaining way during the stressful time. We're definitely so stressful brittany with this pandemic and the ongoing at home and working from home and you're not the only one i'm hearing it more and more in clinic in fact a survey of eight thousand. Us adults published in the journal of obesity. Found at least a third of adults in the us reported. The corona virus pandemic has led to dramatic changes in their good health habits. Today we want to talk about some of these behaviors and ways that you can avoid weight gain during the pandemic or during any other highly stressful time in your life. Now that you know what we're going to be discussing this morning. I want to myself and our co host. I'm melanie beasley and have been a registered dietitian for the past thirty years one of the joys of my life is sharing the benefits of eating real food with as many of you as possible. I can speak to the benefits of eating real food both professionally and of course personally as well if you read my bio on weight and wellness dot com. You'll see that. I've had some very serious health problems over the years myself. So i truly know the value of eating real food for my own health at nutritional weight and wellness. We all believe health is so much more than the number on the scale does so true. It's so much more we have to feel good. You have to feel good. Everywhere had shoulders knees and totally. It's sad to say but is true. That many people just focus on their weight and now their overall health. Well i know that for me for years and years. This was really important. So i was always looking at what was the scale. What was on the scale now. What was going on internally. Well joining me this morning as you can hear. A voice is brittany. Vincent who's also a registered dietitian britney. You also have had some health problems that went away when you switch eating real food. Yes very transformative. I understand so share with us. Some of your pass health struggles with the listeners and how you overcame them well good morning everybody. You know I was in my early twenties and after finishing while towards the tail end. Finishing school to become a dietitian started having insomnia migraines. I was really tired. i will never forget. I was at a bar with a group of friends. And i like conked out in the in the booth because i was so tired. Oh no and i. It was not from partying. It was just ringing so tired. Exactly as like oh i know. That's when there's something going on. And i always say i saw the light finally an eating real food. I was looking at what i was eating and it was really just processed low fat. I mean everything that i was taught in two and so i made an overhaul of eating more fats Real vegetables purchasing better quality foods and then all of a sudden. My energy got better. I was sleeping better Eliminated gluten as well. My magazines basically disappeared and hers. Feeling great feeling as you should as a young adult and i think that a huge huge Switch that. I made was really the fat really because i was not eating those healthy fats. So making sure and getting that tablespoon of butter or olive oil avocado oil. Some not some avocado. I think really made made a huge difference for me. Plus just tastes delicious. Oh right so much. Easier to eat your veggies with some delicious fat on it and you know i think that For everybody listening that you can definitely be touched in many different ways of just changing changing your diet. Some just curious did you have anxiety that is sort of resolved. I did not do not while the insomnia would be racing thoughts but other than that. No no no. But i'm happy. That's that's over. That is not fun So you know. Understanding the science of nutrition to help to solve a personal problem is so powerful. I think that Experiencing these things ourselves just allows us to better help. Our clients visits us mercy and compassion for everyone who's walking through door or through zoom. Yeah right so you know britney when you were talking about that. I got to thinking. Let's discuss getting back to our topic. We're discussing ways to avoid weight gain during stressful times and certainly living in the midst of the pandemic has its own unique and unpredictable. Stressors right but many of us have had other times in our lives that we have also had highly stressful times so when i was going through cancer and treatments and all surgeries. I was stressed and my family was stressed. In lots of scenarios we can have tremendous stress. I think the most important thing that we can learn during these stressful times is how we manage our stress so true that we have some. We can develop some tools today. We wanna focus not on the stress but on how how each of us can increase our stress management skills. I want us all to focus on the foods and behaviors that increase our stress management skills. The first step is to to see that we have the ability to improve our bodies ma- how it manages that stress. Think of it as adding some tools to your tool box that you can pull from that. You have some control in how your body manages stress. Yeah and i hear that from clients who really are dedicated to eating real food throughout a stressful time and they comment. I am handling this a lot better than i. otherwise would be. It really is about chemistry. And i know people's character. It is in our survey reported in the journal of obesity included peop- people from different counties but also from different states in the in the us in the study found that the corona virus pandemic for many adults has led to a major decrease in their healthy habits and that they had that they had practiced prior to the pandemic and the study found two thirds of people eight more junk food well only a third eight healthier meals cooked at home again about two-thirds exercise less because gyms were closed but many rescue dogs and consistently walked their new dock. Some have more anxiety slept less where others were able to sleep longer to to less commuting time some people viewed the pandemic as a time to cook more healthy meals at home sleep longer also to have time for a pet. The sussex study also broke down the results by the different bmi classification such as normal weight overweight and obese ir that study in the study i noted to the study found the stay at home. Order had the most negative impact on the individuals in the obese category actually found. They found the anxiety. Scores increased most dramatically in people with obesity. The people with obesity also gained the most weight during the stay at home order so from results of the study. There are many different questions we could ask now number one do people of normal weight. In general practice better healthy habits for number two d normal weight people have fewer cravings. Find it easier to maintain a healthier eating plan number three to overweight and obese. People have more stress in their lives. Very good questions. Yeah do you have the answers necessarily but we're gonna talk. We're gonna right so to answer some of those questions. We want to share some basic lifestyle and eating habits to help you avoid weight gain during stressful times. Because i am seeing in clinic. I do see clients who've gained weight who've had a weight problems stressful and if it's a chemical chemical process and perhaps another way to live at this time is to find ways you can increase your stress management skills those tools in your toolbox that may be a new thought for you and yes you can learn and practice certain tricks to manage your stress whether it's during the pandemic or taken high school or college exam whether you're going through health crisis and i think time to dig into a demystify these tricks and the first trick to come out of the magical hat is eat breakfast every day. Not a sundays days. Breakfast is in spat especially important if you have stressful meeting or Chemistry exam or presentation or you studied all night absolutely. We're going to get back to eating breakfast but we have to take a break. I you are listening to dishing up nutrition and we are discussing how you can avoid weight gain during stressful. Times will be right back. Welcome back for dishing other for many of our clients. Tell us they need healthy new snack ideas so we decided to share a couple with you today. Make an egg. Salad with celery and expel or pressed. Safflower may or avocado mail. Then place a scoop of the egg salad and a half of a red pepper love I love deviled eggs as well. So my favorite is our salmon patty recipe that's in the weight and wellness way. Cookbook and nutrition guide. It's also on our website weight and wellness dot com ad and variety of raw vegetables. The vegetables to and you can Dip in some mayo at that. And then you've got this nice balanced out snacks so stay tuned and we will give you additional snack. Ideas have to say i love that I never tried it until pre pandemic one of our front desk staff gals was eating it. And i thought oh. I want to try this and she goes. Oh get a fork. I tried it. I was like it so delicious but when looking at the ingredients. I thought me when i wanted to make now i make it. You just plop it. Cook it and then take those patties and freeze them. They freeze great. Yeah so easy. It's awesome so stay tuned because we're going to have more of these ideas we are and i think it's time to dig into and demystify these tricks that we have the first trick to come out of the magical hat was eat breakfast every day. So fringy have for breakfast. I had leftover hamburger patty at six thirty. This morning did in samantha's and For something quick. I had part of an apple. Yeah wonderful e you got a gun. It wasn't gone. My husband always makes a eggs for me. He always gets up. When i have the radio show and So a couple eggs. And i also do half of an apple with sunbutter easy. Yeah got it done early in the morning forest feeling good for the radio show feeling over the radio show and you don't take out your energy you know and i always tell my clients breakfast really Tone for the day. You are going to feel better having a balanced breakfast. And then you're naturally going to make healthier choices because you're starting the day with a balanced blood sugar. It really makes the world of difference. And i the key to that balanced blood sugars like i had the eggs the protein and you had the hamburger patty protein and that kind of anchors not only your blood sugar but also begins the process of making those rain chemicals. The neural transmitters us that helps us with our day. Yeah yeah. I have absolutely recognized. I need enough protein in the morning just to feel good the entire day so i need at least three ounces. Good to to get me started. And i think that you know. A lot of people aren't in the habit of taking the time to make breakfast Your after something easy so you might sit down. Pour your favorite dry cereal in a bowl until the bolas fall. Always you know not a cup of cereal. Several cups of syria but that may be inviting obesity earnings -iety to come visit. There's been many studies. Demonstrating that high carb. High sugar diets often lead to anxiety and obesity. So what could be happening when you eat a big bowl of breakfast cereal which could easily have eighty one grams of carbs. When you consider how high carb that is in how high sugar foods affect your brain chemistry. It's very likely this unhealthy breakfast is causing a reduction in your serotonin. Level and serotonin is one of our. Most important are transmitters. You can think of neurotransmitters feel brain chemicals and serotonin helps to make us happy calm. Less anxious more focused all things that we that we need right. If you could just have a cup of serotonin But the next step we can just buy a coupla. Serotonin is that protein xactly so importantly we know a diet. High in processed carbs raise blood sugar level above normal and then the pancreas produces excess. Insulin leading to people being overweight or obese So when we say process carbs pathetic of the foods that come from a factory versus a farm Cereal is one. there is no serial bush. No there's not another interesting fact. Is obesity associated with having more anxiety one study found at the obesity. People have a twenty five percent increased risk of suffering from mood and anxiety disorders. Additionally chronic stress can also increase the fat stored in the abdominal area. And around our organs it is also an increased risk for type two diabetes heart attacks. High blood pressure so many risk factors we want our clients to avoid absolutely. And that's often a question i ask A new client. If weight loss's one of their goals asking them whereas there where they have gained weight where they're storing it can indicate to us. Hormonally what could be going on. And i'm sure you can agree. But i'm hearing more and more. People are starring in their abdomen that stress. And then also you know. Eating more processed carbs increases insulin resistance so can really be twofold mentioned earlier. We talked about if you have that bullet cereal and maybe skim milk. Possibly sugar sprinkled on. Tom It raises that blood sugar. And when your blood sugar goes higher than the body once it to It really is a stressful event entirely. Yup and when we have that stressful event internally we're increasing our stress levels yep so that's a simple tool really it is and you know. Our body doesn't know the difference between that stressor of eating cereal or the stress from covid. No good point. We respond to it the same way So keeping that in mind and again we have control of everything. We're putting in her mouth. So if that can impact stress that much We really need to take control of that is that is to have control over few things and that is one of i
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