81. Does My Neurologist Know What's Causing My Migraines?

You leave your neurologist's office with another prescription.

You thought they'd finally dig into why you're getting migraines. Instead? Another medication to try.

Here's what most people don't understand:

Medical doctors aren't looking for root causes. They're confirming a diagnosis and following a checklist called "standard of care."

Once the diagnosis is made, the doctor follows an algorithm: Try this medication. If that doesn't work, try this one. Keep moving down the list.

They're not trained to believe your body can heal.

Allopathic medicine operates from the belief that once you develop a chronic condition, it's broken and defective. You can only suppress the symptoms.

But you know intuitively that if you could figure out what your body needs, it would heal. And you're right.

Your body needs three things to stop generating migraines: nutrient delivery, waste clearance, and cellular resilience.

The mismatch happens when you expect a root-cause investigation and get a prescription instead.

If you believe your migraines can be healed, work with someone who shares that understanding.

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Episode Transcript

hi there
welcome to the Healing Migraines Naturally podcast
I'm your host Doctor Leslie Caesar
and I am a naturopathic doctor
former chronic migraine sufferer
and I help women all over the United States
who have chronic migraines
stop getting chronic migraines
get off their unwanted medication
and do it all without taking fistful of supplements
so thank you so much for joining me today
today
we're going to answer one of the most common questions
that people
ask when they leave their neurologist appointment
and that question is
does my neurologist actually know what's causing
my migraines or
is he just going to keep telling me to take medication
the inspiration for this question came up
because a member of my free Facebook group
healing migraines naturally with Leslie Caesar and d
posted this question in the Facebook group
after she had returned
back home from her neurologist appointment
so she said funny enough
today I had to go to the neurologist
I had my you know
neurology appointment
and I had a pretty severe migraine
and my neurologist
doesn't think that it's coming from my neck
even though that's where I'm having a lot of the
the pain in my neck
I think it might be related to the lack of sleep
but then she asked this very common question
does my neurologist actually know what's causing
my migraines or
is all he going to do is keep telling me
to take medication and so let's unpack this question
right
because there's a lot going on here with this question
and I resonate so much with this question
because this is the question that I kept asking myself
when I would leave my doctor's appointments
with a prescription okay
when I first started getting migraines
I'll kind of use myself as an example
so I first started getting migraines
when I was a young adult
just sort of starting out in my career
in the working world and I was about hmm 24
I would start to get migraines around 3
4:00 as the end of the work day came about
and then
I had a very long commute through the Chicago land
traffic to get back home
and by the time I would get home
I would kind of just stumble into my apartment
and collapse on the couch
and that would be it for the rest of the day
and like most migraine sufferers
these episodes started out to be not that frequent
and at the beginning I would just sort of
you know collapse
lay on the couch watch TV for the rest of the night
go to bed and wake up the next morning and feel
feel like myself again but again
as is typical because I wasn't doing anything
to address the underlying
root causes
or reasons why my body was generating these migraines
like most people
the migraines continue to get more and more frequent
over time and the severity got more and more severe
worse and worse over time
and so I started using over the counter Advil
because just kind of
laying on the couch and going to sleep
wasn't cutting it anymore
and so I started taking Advil
and then it got to the point where I was
pretty much every other day
this was the routine
and it got to be a pretty old routine
and so I had a primary care doctor who I really liked
and I decided you know what
let me go into her because clearly
you know by this time I was starting to realize
you know there's something driving this right
there's gotta be a reason why this happened to me right
how what
what are the underlying factors that are
the reason why my body is generating these migraines
cause if somebody like
if an expert could tell me what they are
and then I could take the right steps to correct that
I bet you these migraines would go away right
so again I think we all have this intuitive knowing
right like
there's gotta be a reason
why I'm getting these migraines
and so doctors figure out
what are the underlying causes here
and then they recommend that you make some changes
right to address those root causes
and then you're gonna feel better right
your body's gonna respond to that
and you're gonna feel better
and we assume that that's what doctors do
that's certainly what I assumed
that
my doctor was going to do so I went into her and okay
very nice woman
and I told her I thought I was gonna go in
guess I was just seeing her
you know like once a year for like annual checkups
now I actually had like
a real problem that was bringing me to the office
and so I thought we were going to do a deep dive
I thought we were gonna talk about how
you know these started off intermittently
and then they started getting worse and worse
and I was gonna go through this whole big
you know history and explanation and you know
everything not so much right
because the typical doctor's appointment is less than
12 minutes long right
so they
they're not going to go into that level of detail
with you particularly a primary care doctor
which which this doctor was
because they are getting paid
via my insurance reimbursement
they have to keep the patients moving
or they
won't make enough money to keep the clinic doors open
so I was a little shocked at the
lack of detail that we went into
but what she was looking for right
and this is what doctors are looking for okay
medical doctors when you go in
they're not looking for the underlying root causes
of why your body is generating the migraines
that's not what they're there for hi there
it's Doctor Leslie
if you're a woman having eight or more
migraine days a month let's talk
I'll show you how to drop them to near zero in 90 days
and that's without adding more medication
in fact you can even lower
or possibly even completely
wean off of your medication within 90 days
and that's without any agonizing
cold Turkey withdrawals
so let me tell you about one of my clients Judy
she was nearly bedridden
because she was having to take such strong medications
for her migraines and she could barely function
in fact
she had to close the doors of her small retail business
and she was feeling like a failure
she wondered every day
why was she doomed to suffer from migraines
but just like you
she found this Healing Migraines Naturally podcast
and a spark ignited she knew that
if she could just figure out
why these migraines started
in the first place
she could restore and recover her health again
so she booked a free consult call
and the rest is history now
she reports months in between migraines
and runs her small business full time again
she followed the 12 week plan
and got incredible results
and she's completely
weaned off of all of those preventative medications
that were leaving her feeling doped up
and committing her to being bedridden
I have worked with women just like Judy
from all over the United States
overcome migraines naturally
so if you're serious about healing your migraines
then tap the link in the description and book a
free consult call with me
just like Judy did we do cap new clients monthly
so if the calendar's full
the doors are closed for now
so don't wait to reclaim the life you deserve to live
no matter how hopeless things seem now
with expert guidance your body can heal and recover
so I look forward to chatting with you
click the link now to schedule your call
what a medical doctor is there for
is to listen to the symptoms
and determine the diagnosis
based on those symptoms
maybe some lab work or imaging would need to be run
in addition but with migraines
you can diagnose migraines
just simply based on the symptoms that people describe
any medical diagnosis is done by interpreting
the particular symptom picture
or the symptom pattern and so
the migraine
diagnosis can be made based on the symptoms
that the person experiences
and describes to the doctor okay
and so once the diagnosis is made
then the doctor follows what is called standard of care
so this is almost like an algorithm
or a checklist that the doctor follows
once the diagnosis has been made
if the diagnosis is in question
then additional data is gonna have to be collected
either from the patient
via description of what they experience
or lab work might need to be run or imaging
but once the diagnosis is determined
then the doctor follows standard of care okay
so with migraines once that diagnosis is made okay
this is what we have going on it's migraines
the standard of care would tell the doctor
you're going to prescribe a triptan medication okay
so the standard of care like I said
it's almost like a checklist
it's almost like an algorithm that the doctor
goes through if it's this diagnosis
then it's this medication in medication
it's almost like there's a ranking okay
so you know
if somebody has a diagnosis of migraines and this is
you know right out of the gate
they're not gonna start the patient on you know
Seroquel okay
they're going to start with the first medication
that's on the checklist on the algorithm
and that first medication is going to be
you know the easiest to tolerate medication
the medication with the least amount of side effects
probably the medication that's been around the longest
you know
is now in a generic and it's you know inexpensive right
they're gonna start with the least thing first
and see if you respond and the response is
does this medication alter your biochemistry
well enough that you don't feel the symptoms anymore
right so you know
in this case
if I was given a imitrex prescription okay
I don't remember the specific
you know medication that she gave me that at first
first appointment but I'm
have to assume that it was a triptan medication
so it's like we know out of the gate
right
that the medication that the prescription that we're
receiving that we're gonna take into our body
is not addressing any sort of underlying
root cause deficiency
you know something like that right
we know when we're taking that medication
just like I knew when I was taking the Advil at home
I don't have an Advil deficiency right
I know that I'm just taking the Advil
because it's gonna cut down on this pain right
so assessment then is if I take the imitrex
does the imitrex work well enough
so that I
don't experience the symptoms of the migraine anymore
okay so that's what your doctor is thinking
when you go in there the doctor
the medical doctor is not thinking about okay
what could be deficient in Leslie's body here
what what could be a barrier
a roadblock a missing piece
you know are there any mental and emotional factors
that were at play when these things started
in her mid twenties none of that is a consideration
what the doctor is trying to determine is first
what is the diagnosis
because that's going to drive the intervention
which you know in 99 out of 100 times
is going to be a prescription medication okay
or you know
maybe the recommendation of an over the counter
medication but it's going to be some sort of medication
to alter the biochemistry
so that
the patient can't experience the symptom anymore
and that's considered success okay
if you can take an imitrex and you start to feel better
half hour an hour you can function you can stay upright
that's considered a success right
you're responding to the medication
now intuitively
we know that this isn't really what we're looking for
right I mean
we're looking for relief right
for sure right
like because we can't take it anymore
that's what drove me right
I couldn't get relief anymore from the Advil right
because as I've talked about on this podcast
I have a free training that talks about this over time
when we suppress the symptoms
that our body is generating
with something like Advil
like I was doing at home over time
the body fights that suppression
and it starts generating more of the symptom
so as I I continued to take that Advil
my body was like okay
well here we go
you know the conditions
for the migraine are still flourishing here
inside of Leslie's body and if she's gonna take Advil
I've got to figure out how to generate the migraine
with the Advil on board right
and that's exactly what my body figured out how to do
and I couldn't get relief right
I wasn't satisfied anymore
with the relief that I was getting from the Advil
and that drove me to the doctor right
so again for most people when the migraines start
they're intermittent they're not that severe and we say
well you know
this this was rough right
this was no fun I certainly don't want to take Advil
or Excedrin or aspirin whatever it is over the counter
I certainly don't wanna take it
but I guess if I'm gonna get this
you know 2
3 times a year I guess it's not that big of a deal
right I mean
how bad could it be to take Advil a cup
you know 2
3 times a year right
so you know
for many of us this is how frequent the migraines were
when they started
they were not really a factor in our life right
they were only happening a few times a year
and when we weren't in the migraine state
we forgot about them right
we were just feeling like ourselves right
and we weren't thinking about these migraines
until they hit right
then we really know what we're dealing with here right
then we really get concerned
but then over time right
because we haven't addressed
the underlying conditions
that are generating the migraines
we are taking this suppressive medication
the body starts generating more and more
and what turned into you know what
what used to be two to three times a year
turns into two to three times a month
turns into two to three times a week right
and by that time the over the counter
you know taking some Advil and taking a nap
it's not gonna cut it anymore right
so now we realize okay
there's something going on here right
I can't ignore this anymore
I've really gotta
get to the root of this problem and you know
that's then you think well
I'm gonna go to the doctor'cause that's what doctors do
that's what I thought doctors did
I thought you went there
and you told them what was going on
and they did a detailed investigation and
and they figured out why this was happening
and then they gave you advice
so that you could make changes
and you could turn it around right
that's not what they do and so this post right
it was kind of a venting post in the Facebook group
and you can really appreciate where she's at right
I I don't know anything
about the medical history of the woman that posted this
but just sort of reading between the lines here right
it it would be a reasonable Assumption that
since she was returning from a neurology appointment
she probably went to her primary care doctor first
just like I did right
that's what most people do
they go back to their primary care doctor
and they start with you know
the imitrex just sort of
like the front line medications
that a primary care doctor
would feel comfortable prescribing
and then as you take the imitrex right
for most people at first
usually the imitrex works pretty well right
and so again
it's the same sort of thing that we tell ourselves
alright well
I certainly don't want to have to take imatracs
I don't want to have to take any medication
that's the last thing I want
but I guess you know
if I have to take something to function a few times
right I guess I'll have to do it right
we kind of go down that road mentally
but just like what happened with the Advil
the same thing happens with the imitrex
and then the imitrex isn't giving us relief anymore
and so we're having more and more migraines
the severity is getting worse and worse
and now we're maxed out on our imitrex right
you're only gonna get nine to 12 a month
because if you take more you're gonna go into rebound
right this is why insurance doesn't cover
more than 9 to 12 imetrex per month
because your insurance company
doesn't want to enable you
or pay for medication that's gonna put you in rebound
which is gonna require additional medical care
to get you out of so now
right now I'm taking you know
9 to 12 imitrex per month and I'm really suffering
the Advil's long gone that doesn't work at all right
so you
your primary care doctor at that point is going to say
okay we're gonna need to do a preventative
add on additional medication
I'm a primary care DOC
I got a ton of people in the waiting room
I gotta keep people moving
let's send her to the neurologist right
and so we get the neurology referral right
this is where a lot of heartbreak really comes in
I have had so many clients
where they have suffered like this
they've been going to their primary care doctor
and again
this is not a critique of primary care doctors
most people really
really like their primary care doctor
primary care doctors are doing their best and they're
they got into medicine in the first place
because they want to help people
so this is not a criticism of primary care doctors
or any medical doctor the primary care doctor
they've gotta they've gotta keep things moving
and you get that neurology referral
and this is where a lot of heartbreak happens
I can't tell you how many clients I've had
that they've exhausted all of their options
that their primary care doctor
feels comfortable doing for them
they've probably had to wait 3
6 months for the neurologist appointment
and the expectation going in to seeing the neurologist
is that the neurologist okay
finally
I'm gonna get the work up that I've been expecting
right with you know
the primary care doctor okay
you know it was a 12 minute appointment it was you know
quick quick quick it wasn't a lot of detail okay
now I'm going to the specialist
this is where
I'm gonna be able to tell the whole history of this
certainly the neurologist
is going to figure out what's causing these migraines
and then help me make the changes that I need to make
to feel better right
so so many times
people have waited so long for this neurology referral
and in the meantime they're really suffering
and then they go in with this expectation
and that expectation is not met
because again the neurologist
as a medical doctor is operating under the same
sort of checklist or algorithm
that your primary care doctor
is operating under the difference is
the neurologist is more used to prescribing
some of the if you want to call them
stronger drugs that are used for migraine prevention
that maybe your primary care doctor
maybe they don't prescribe that often
they're you know
not that up to date on the dosing
they're not that knowledgeable
on how to evaluate the medication response
increase dosages over time right
so they said well
you know just go to the neurologist for that right
that's that's what they do on a day to day basis
but it's still going to be medication
it's still the same sort of checklist
so what might happen with the neurologist is
they might do a little bit more digging to confirm
the diagnosis right
so this okay
I've got a new patient
they're coming in with a chronic migraine diagnosis
well let's rule out a few other possible
things that could be going on right
so they might send you for the imaging
you know for the first time
they might be doing more
neurological testing in the office
as part of the physical exam
just to rule out other neurological conditions
but you know most people are not
misdiagnosed by their primary care physician right
but at the neurology office it's sort of like okay
we're just going to really
really make sure that the medical diagnosis is correct
which it usually is and then it's the same checklist
right because the standard of care for migraines
is the same for primary care physicians
as it is for neurologists
it's not a different standard of care
there isn't a different set of drugs
so
the neurologist then goes through and asks the patient
have you tried imitrex yes okay
have you tried anti nausea meds
yes have you tried CGRP antagonists
yes right
OK so
the neurologist is gonna run through the checklist
and confirm OK
you've already tried
these things that are first on the list
now we're gonna keep moving down the list right
and so now we're gonna get into Topamax
a daily preventative
using the CGRP antagonist as preventatives
like neurtec as a preventative
not just an abortive right
and if you aren't going to
respond to something like Topamax right
OK we're gonna keep going down the list
we're gonna try nortriptyline
we're gonna try to get you approved for Botox right
we're gonna just keep moving
moving moving down that list
but it's still always going to be medication
because the medical doctor
is not looking for the same root cause
that you are looking for I think intuitively
most of us know that if we give our body what it needs
it's going to feel better
I just need help understanding what my body needs right
and and if I'm at point a
how do I get to point Z right
somebody help me I don't know right
and then also with migraines
because any little thing can make us
tip into a migraine right
we have to be so careful and so a lot of times
we're afraid to even make positive changes right
because we're afraid
that it's gonna tip us into a migraine right
when we're struggling with chronic migraines
just go going to bed earlier
waking up a little bit earlier right
like try well
I'm gonna I'm gonna do better with my sleep
so I'm gonna go to bed a little earlier
and wake up a little earlier
well
that that could be a great way to get a migraine right
even making a health supporting change like that
so it's like somebody help me right
tell help help identify what my body needs
and then help me make the changes that are necessary
because I want my body to feel better
and I know intuitively that if I do that
my body is going to respond and feel better
that's what most of us intuitively
understand about our body
but the medical doctor
doesn't think about health and disease that way
I can imagine that a lot of medical doctors
when they went into medical
school and decided to dedicate their life to helping
people who are suffering again
this is not a criticism of medical doctors
I have the utmost sympathy for medical doctors because
you know any interview that I've heard of
you know a
a young person a college student that's a pre med major
they are you know
it's it's no joke being a pre med major
I was not a pre med major
and before I went to naturopathic medical school
I spent two and a/2 years working full time
and going back to school at night
to do all of the pre medical education
it's it's it's tough it's no joke
so you know
young people that are interested in medicine
they they have a good heart
they have compassion for humanity
they wanna help ease suffering
I totally get it I couldn't be more sympathetic
but unfortunately allopathic medicine
or what we might call conventional medicine
the type of medicine that medical doctors are trained
to practice doesn't believe
that your body can heal and recover itself
allopathic medicine believes that
once your body starts generating symptoms
your body is broken and defective
and there's really nothing you can do about it
I was just listening to a podcast this morning
when I was getting ready for my day
a dermatologist was being interviewed
a conventional dermatologist
and there was a question about rosacea
what what can you do for rosacea
and the dermatologist said well
there's really nothing you
can do for rosacea because it's a chronic
inflammatory skin condition
so the best you can hope for is to sort of like
cover it up with like
green tinted concealers and things like that to
to kind of color blend the
the redness on the face oh boy haha
I have clients with rosacea
rosacea is a symptom
that there's a toxin overload in the body
and when we lower that load
the rosacea gets better I've I've seen this repeatedly
but the medical doctor the expert dermatologist
New York City dermatologist right
so she's on the podcast because she's you know
an esteemed dermatologist oh
there's nothing you can do for rosacea
that's a chronic condition of the skin
they don't believe that
if you develop a chronic condition
you can recover from it
they don't believe that the chronic condition
whether it's migraines or rosacea
they don't believe that those are symptoms that
that your body will stop generating
when it has what it needs to function properly
medical doctors allopathic medicine
believe that once you have that diagnosis oh
we've got rosacea oh we've got chronic migraines
once you have that diagnosis
you're gonna have it for the rest of your life
your body is now stuck it's defective
it stopped working properly
and there's really nothing you can do about it
so if that were true
what the medical doctors are doing makes perfect sense
right I'm going into my primary care doctor going okay
yeah there's gotta be something here right
it's it's gotta be something
you know that I'm inadvertently doing you know
something that can be turned around and corrected
I'm willing to make changes
my medical doctor is not looking at my migraines
from that perspective at all
my medical doctor's going okay
so this is happening she's saying intermittent
she's saying it's predominantly on the right side
saying she has a lot of nausea fatigue right
she's she's just going down the diagnosis checklist
and saying yeah
migraine yeah yeah 24 defective right
another tragedy nothing we can there's nothing to do
now if that were true
it would make perfect sense to give me an imatrix
if that were true
you don't need more than 12 minutes in the appointment
that's why the insurance companies don't pay them
to spend more time with you okay
because you don't need a lot of time to
make a diagnosis for most health conditions right
there are some sort of you know
uncommon health conditions
where you're gonna have to spend a lot of time
and do more of a work up
but migraines are one of the most common
chronic health conditions that people suffer from
worldwide right
so it's pretty easy to determine the diagnosis
you don't need a lot of time right
it's not a health condition
thank goodness that you know
you're gonna have kidney failure with
you're gonna have blood work that's totally off
and we need to put you in the hospital right
thank goodness it's not that severe right
so it's not something that takes a lot of time to make
the diagnosis and once the diagnosis is made
all they do is move through the standard of care
checklist and move through the drugs in order of
sort of you know
most likely to be effective
and most likely not to have side effects right
and they just run through that list
until they find something that
quote unquote works for you
what works for you is suppressing the symptoms okay
so this is the fundamental mismatch that we have
when we go into the doctor
and this is the mismatch that I got
slapped in the face with when I went in
because I was dumbfounded
I cannot tell you how dumbfounded I was when I was
you know in I felt like I was just rushed out of there
right cause I'm like
ready to tell this whole big story and then boom
boom boom right
and this was back in the 90s
when you actually left the office with a paper
prescription but this
my emotional response
was so significant when this happened
that I can still like
picture myself holding the prescription
note in my hand and feeling the
just the feeling of being dumbfounded right
like what just happened here
I I don't want a prescription
I want I
I thought doctors told you what was wrong so that you
could fix it right
you could make changes and fix it
so
I was just completely shocked that this happened to me
hi there it's Doctor Leslie
if you're a woman
having eight or more migraine days a month
let's talk
I'll show you how to drop them to near zero in 90 days
and that's without adding more medication
in fact you can even lower
or possibly even completely
wean off of your medication within 90 days
and that's without any agonizing
cold Turkey withdrawals
so let me tell you about one of my clients Judy
she was nearly bedridden
because she was having to take such strong medications
for her migraines and she could barely function
in fact
she had to close the doors of her small retail business
and she was feeling like a failure
she wondered every day
why was she doomed to suffer from migraines
but just like you
she found this Healing Migraines Naturally podcast
and a spark ignited she knew that
if she could just figure out why these migraines
started in the first place
she could restore and recover her health again
so she booked a free consult call
and the rest is history now
she reports months in between migraines
and runs her small business full time again
she followed the 12 week plan
and got incredible results
and she's completely
weaned off of all of those preventative medications
that were leaving her feeling doped up
and committing her to being bedridden
I have worked with women just like Judy
from all over the United States
overcome migraines naturally
so if you're serious about healing your migraines
then tap the link in the description
and book a free consult call with me
just like Judy did
we do cap new clients monthly so if the calendar's full
the doors are closed for now
so don't wait to reclaim the life you deserve to live
no matter how hopeless things seem
now with expert guidance
your body can heal and recover
so I look forward to chatting with you
click the link now to schedule your call
and unfortunately right
this is a recurring experience for people and you know
tragically by the time someone is
given that referral to the neurologist right
their hopes are now so high right
but finally somebody's gonna listen to me right
finally somebody's gonna take a detailed case
finally somebody's gonna dig into this
and they're not going to because again
if what they think were true
their actions are logical right
if you have if you're coming in and you have migraines
and that means that there's something defective
you know you've got a neurological defect
and it's never gonna recover
it makes sense that we're gonna
try to give you something
that's going to prevent you from feeling the symptoms
that's gonna suppress those symptoms
knock out the symptoms right
so like I say
it's it's logical when you understand the point of view
that they're coming from because we intuitively
know that this is not actually true
it's very upsetting it can be very demoralizing
people will leave doctors appointments in tears
absolutely
they will leave in tears because the shock is so great
and the dissonance between our intuitive knowing
and the doctor's mindset around chronic disease
it's a total disconnect
and it can be very demoralizing and upsetting
so this is why
it's very important that you see a healthcare provider
that is coming at your migraines
from the same perspective
that you're coming at them from okay
now there are some people
who believe that chronic migraines are an incurable
neurological condition and so for them
it wouldn't make sense
for them to work with somebody like me
it would make sense for them to go to a neurologist
and get medication
that is suppressing the symptoms of the chronic
incurable neurological defect condition that they have
right that would make sense for that particular person
their sort of world view their mindset
their understanding of their migraines
is congruent with their medical provider right
and so that person there
I I feel for that person because unfortunately
I know that they're going to go from medication
to medication to medication
the migraines are going to get worse and worse
over time every drug that they take is going to
become less and less and unfortunately
migraines it's
not only is it
one of the most common health conditions worldwide
it is
one of the biggest reasons why people become disabled
worldwide right
so I feel for people that have that understanding
that mindset unfortunately
it's not it's a false understanding
but I understand that
millions of people have that understanding
why wouldn't they right
we are told that this is true
that this is the case and the doctor believe it
believes it to be true right
so I understand why people have this mindset
around their migraines unfortunately
when we believe something that's false
we're going to suffer the consequences of that
and it's it's very unfortunate
but I understand it and like I say if
if someone has that understanding of their migraines
they should work with a provider
that has the same understanding
but if we have again
a lot of people have more of an intuitive understanding
right that's counter to the dominant mindset
within our culture around health and disease
and around their migraines
and so when those people go into the medical doctor
they come out like I did right
they come out shocked they might come out in tears
right and so you want to sort of do that internal check
that gut check what
what is my intuitive knowing
what do I think is the case about my migraines
and if I think that there's actually a
a real underlying root cause
right that if I knew what it was
and I could take the right steps to give my body
what it needs
my body is gonna respond and I'm gonna feel better
and these migraines are gonna start to
become less and less frequent
and less and less severe
if that's your intuitive understanding
then you wanna work with somebody that is coming at
your migraines from the same perspective right
and so you know of course
as I said at the opening
I do work with women around the country
who have that same intuitive understanding
that is actually true right
because the body can heal and recover itself
if we give the body what it needs
it's going to respond to that
and it's going to improve
it's going to get closer and closer
back to a state of health
and it's that's not just the case for us humans
it's the case for all life on the planet
all life on the planet has a self healing
a repairing mechanism and we are no exception
but we are very complex we have a physical body
and we have a mental and emotional component
so we're is as complex as like a a tree is
we are even more complex than a tree
but if a tree gets hit by lightning
or gets burned in a in a fire
the tree has a healing mechanism right
it it can repair and recover from that injury
and it can continue to function
and we are much more complicated than a tree
but if there is some sort of injury
if there's something that's lacking
if there's some missing pieces that are required
if we've had a traumatic event happen to us
we may be injured but if we take the right steps
and take the right actions
our body can heal and recover and repair itself
and I'm sure you've experienced this phenomenon
in other areas right
every time right
how many times have you cut your finger
chopping vegetables right
your finger is still not cut right
it the skin recovered and repaired itself
and you probably can't even see where you cut yourself
anymore right
it completely repaired itself
and it looks just like it did before the cut
so that healing mechanism that we see play out
every time we cut our skin
is at work in in a larger way
even for chronic
debilitating health problems like migraines
so this woman
who posted this little vent in the Facebook group
what this is telling me
is that she's butting up against
sort of the internal knowing that she has right
cause she even threw out a hypothesis
she says I think it has something to do with my sleep
right so again
this is the mind saying you know what
I could take action there's something driving this
and if I knew what it was
I I'll
I'll take action right
I'm willing to change
I'm willing to take action on this
but I need to know what it is right
and so
she's kind of like she's generating some hypotheses
right well I think it's my sleep right
so you know
but my neurologist he's not asking me about my sleep
right he's just giving me the next medication
that's on the list right
because again your neurologist is not thinking like oh
she could do something differently
and this will improve he's not thinking like that
they're not trained
to believe that the body can heal and recover itself
a fixture within naturopathy that I've been trained in
the system of medicine that I've been trained in
you know
the fundamental Assumption in that system of medicine
is that if you give the body what it needs
it's going to respond
and it's going to start feeling better and better
and it's gonna start to return itself
back to a state of health
and when we're in a state of health
our body doesn't generate symptoms and we feel good
so I hope this helps
probably if you've been listening to the podcast
and you've been struggling with chronic migraines
I would assume that there's some
some elements that you can really relate to
both in you know
in my story and this this vent that was
that was put into the Facebook group
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