99. The Real Reason You Keep Getting Migraines (It's Not What You Think)

Have you ever noticed that a migraine feels almost exactly like a hangover? That's not a coincidence — and in this episode, I explain exactly why.

Migraines are a major toxicity symptom. When the body accumulates more metabolic waste and environmental toxins than the liver can process, the bucket overflows — and that overflow is what we call a migraine. Just like we know a hangover means the liver is working overtime to process alcohol, a migraine means the liver is struggling to drain what I call the toxin bucket.

I walk you through the Three Principles your body needs to function optimally: nutrients at the cellular level, metabolic waste clearance, and resilience and vitality. When those three things break down, your liver slows, the drain clogs, and any little stressor — sunlight, stress, a skipped meal — tips the bucket over.

I also share why aggressive detox cleanses and milk thistle protocols actually make migraines worse for chronic sufferers, and why most natural practitioners aren't trained to see this. The answer isn't to push harder — it's to give the liver what it needs first, then gently open the drain.

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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 have dedicated my life to helping other women
with chronic migraines rediscover a migraine free life
so welcome to the podcast
today we are going to talk about why we get migraines
this is a question that people have been asking
themselves since the dawn of times
within the ancient medical literature
you know we have recordings
we have writings from the
ancient Greek physicians
we have writings from other cultures around the world
um going back hundreds
sometimes you know
thousands of years
because humans have been trying to feel better
all the time right
we humans get sick and they want to feel better
and certainly accidents injuries right
humans have been trying to foster healing
foster repair using things in the environment
um they've even observed uh
chimps chewing up um
leaves that are known to be of medicinal value for
like healing the skin
chewing them up and applying them to themselves
so this is behavior that's uh
very ancient and very deep
and so we you know
where we have um recorded
uh you know
recordings from ancient physicians
they talk about migraines in those writings okay
so humans have been getting migraines
since the dawn of time um
they used to be called sick headaches
so in the uh
naturopathic literature
naturopathic medicine was founded in the United States
about 100 years ago
so we definitely have writing
writings from those early doctors
you know definitely um
even before Nature Naturopathy was uh
was founded or or put together as a
um as a coherent philosophy of health and disease
you had other uh practitioners
um in the United States called the eclectics
the thomsonians the osteopaths
the chiropractors the homeopaths
they have their literature as well
and one of the things and
and then you have the allopathic doctors
what we call conventional medicine
um you had the allopathic medical uh
practitioners back in the day as well
they have their literature
um and so
all of that literature will refer to sick headaches
now we call them migraines
but they were called sick headaches
because it's not only the head pain right
as we know
there's a headache and then there's a migraine right
so there was a headache
and then there was a sick headache
and why did they call them sick headaches
because of the additional symptoms
that we experience when we have a migraine right
like the nausea the vomiting
maybe the loose stools right the overwhelming fatigue
for most migraine suffers when they get that migraine
they can't get out of bed
they can't function
so they called them sick headaches
because of those additional symptoms that
really really make you feel sick right
a lot of migraine sufferers would say
oh boy
would I just love to have a headache right
I'll take a headache over a migraine every other day
because it's those additional
symptoms that come with the migraine
that make you feel so sick
in the modern age
with modern medicine our ability now
you know now we have technology that allows us to take
you know literally a look inside the cell
the biochemistry of the cell
we know so much
compared to what we knew even 50 years ago
around the biochemistry and the physiology of the body
what's happening inside the cell
we have so much more insight into that now
certainly
I think we don't know as much as we think we know
I think there's a tremendous amount
of discoveries to be made
uh knowledge to be gained
about what is actually going on within our body
within the cell
when we say well
you know what
what is causing X y
Z
disease or condition or symptom right
what's causing the migraine
usually what we're trying to determine
when we answer that question is
sort of what are the biochemical processes
that are going on within you know
the neurons in the brain
within the Vegas nerve you know
we're trying to understand the biochemistry
and the physiology
that's generating those symptoms
and then
within allopathic medicine or conventional medicine
their theory of
you know treatment of diseases is if you have a symptom
you counter the symptom with an agent
that suppresses the symptom
that prevents the body from generating
that biochemistry
you take an agent
that will prevent that reaction from taking place
you suppress that biochemistry
you're
you suppress that reaction
and then it can't happen
and then you don't feel the symptom
so
that's the allopathic or conventional medical approach
and that has given us everything from
you know aspirin Advil
Imitrex Ubrelvi
right the whole the
polygamy outside of abortive medication Topamax
right the the preventatives
you know all of that stuff right
so it's that medical model that real theory of disease
which is to say that in the allopathic model there
the theory of disease is well
you know something's going wrong in your body right
your biochemistry isn't working right
we're trying to understand how it doesn't work so well
so that we can come in and try to suppress it
or quote unquote try to fix this faulty biochemistry
with what we would call a drug
or a medicine right
hi there
I wanna jump in real quick and tell you about my client
Beth she was getting 15 to 20 migraines and headaches
per month and as you can imagine
this was impacting her work
performance and her confidence
she also has two small children
and she was
starting to feel like she was a horrible mom
because she had nothing left for them
at the end of the day but she reached out
and she booked a free consult call with me
and after I asked her about her migraines
and her health history
I felt confident that I could help her
I help women
uncover the root drivers of their migraines
and follow a step by step plan to dramatically reduce
the frequency by up to 90%
without adding more medication
or taking a bunch of supplements
so we built her personal migraine map
followed the plan
and now she will get one to two migraines per year
which she uses ibuprofen to treat if she needs to
verses up to 15 to 20 per month
when we first started working together
that weren't responding well to any medication
she just reached out to tell me that
she got a promotion at work
she's on top of her career again
and has been able to come off all of her migraine
medication but most importantly
she's a confident mom again
and she's attending birthday parties at Jump Zone
with her kids and saying yes
instead of saying maybe later
I've worked with women like Beth
from all over the United States
who were told this is the best we can do
but they were still willing to dig deeper
so
if you are serious about changing your migraine story
go to Doctor Leslie Caesar dot com slash apply
or tap the link in the show notes
and on our free consult
we'll map out why your migraines keep coming back
and the first three steps you can take
over the next 30 days
I do cap new client spots each month
so if the calendar is full
the doors are closed for now
but if you're done feeling helpless
and ready to do the work to heal
pause this episode for 30 seconds
and book that console call now in nature pathic
medicine we have a different conception of what a
what is disease what is symptom
we don't believe that the body is sort of broken
or defective or stupid
the body is always trying to do its best
within the environment that it finds itself in
if there are less than optimal conditions
inside of a cell the cell doesn't just drop dead
the cell adapts
and tries to function as well as it possibly can
in those less than optimal
you know intracellular conditions
but there's some compromises
you know we can't have our cake and eat it too
right if the conditions inside the cell are not optimal
for proper functioning of the cell
those adaptations
it's great cause the cell doesn't just drop dead
and therefore we don't just drop dead
but you know there have to be some
compromises made
those compromises eventually
kind of roll up into what we call symptoms right
these are the things that we don't like
that feel unpleasant to us
we don't like to have the heartburn
right
if our digestive
track can't function optimally
in the cellular environment that it finds itself in
well
it's better that our digestive track tries to function
even if we're having some heartburn
rather than all those cells just kind of drop dead
then we've got a much bigger problem right
so again it's unpleasant to us
we don't like it but it's actually a positive
it's better to not feel well
or the cell not to function optimally
than for it to just drop dead
but with that conception of what disease is
is or what the root of symptoms are
now there's a different approach right
if I think that I'm having symptoms
because my body is defective
and something has just you know
inexplicably gone wrong with my biochemistry
and now I gotta live with this for the rest of my life
then it's very logical it's very rational
to try to find a substance
that's going to suppress that
or it's gonna intervene
it's gonna manipulate my biochemistry
that's a very logical that's a very rational approach
if instead
you believe that the symptoms are being generated
because your body is trying to do its best
in conditions that are less than optimal well hmm
what are the conditions that are less than optimal
do I have any control over that
could I make some changes to bring that environment
that my body is in
the intracellular environment within the cell
can I make some changes
that are going to improve that environment
bring that environment in alignment with
optimal flourishing optimal biochemical reactions
optimal physiology
and then when I do that
my body is going to adapt
in a way where I'm not suffering right
our body is constantly adapting to the environment
if the environment if the environment is conducive
for optimal functioning we feel
a lot better
if the environment is not conducive for optimal
functioning we don't feel as well
one thing that I've talked about in the past
on the podcast is that
it's very important that
you choose a healthcare provider
that's in alignment with
what you believe to be true
there are millions of Americans who believe that the
allopathic approach
the conventional medicine approach to
you know what is disease
why do we have symptoms how should we treat symptoms
millions and millions of Americans
believe the allopathic model
and if you believe that
you should absolutely see an allopathic doctor
I know through my own personal experience
my training my working
I've been a naturopathic doctor now for 16 years
I've worked with thousands of people in that time
I've worked with hundreds of women
that suffer from migraine headaches
because that's what I work with exclusively now
so what I know with certainty
is that the nitropathic conception of disease
symptoms how to intervene is
true compared to the allopathic model
now with in allopathic medicine
we have all of these medications
and they can take away the pain
they can suppress the symptom
we can feel better quickly
and when I say better right
the symptom is gone right
overall we may not feel better
we may have side effects or whatever
but that
that symptom that was just causing us so much suffering
we have the technology now
the ability to in a lot of cases
really short circuit that symptom signal
and people can be relieved from that symptom
all of that being said
let's go back to the cause of migraines because
you know again
when we say what causes migraines
in the conventional medical model
you know when you look at
you know the big uh
groundbreaking studies from
you know Cleveland Clinic or the Mayo right
these prestigious uh
centers of medical knowledge and discovery
what they're really
when they say the cause of migraines
it's like the biochemistry
associated with the migraine itself
that's generating the symptoms right
and so you know
a recent um
advance in the understanding of the biochemistry
behind migraines
LED to the new class of migraine drugs
that got released several years ago now
the CGRP antagonist class of medications
your Aimovig your Emgality Neurtec Qulipta right
those new migraine drugs were developed
because of a better understanding of that CGRP molecule
and how it is being produced
and dispersed during migraine flares okay
so again you're coming in with a drug to kind of
short circuit of a molecule that your body is making
while you have that migraine
again sort of the underlying Assumption is
you know this whole migraine it's
it's a defect right
your body is generating this
you know'cause it's like defective
there's no reason for this right
it's some kind of whacked out
broken thing that your body is doing
that it shouldn't be doing
and so
we need to come in with an external agent and kind of
right the ship okay
so um uh
I don't think that this is the right question to ask
okay what is the biochemistry behind the migraine again
our understanding of human biochemistry again
leaps and bounds
grows every year um
but there are discoveries yet to be made for sure
and they're making those discoveries all the time
so if you're trying to answer this question
from a biochemistry perspective or a physiology
perspective you're never really going to arrive
at the destination of the answer
because there's more to be discovered here right
what I think
is more interesting is looking at the patterns
that our body generates so symptoms are not random
I know that we've
been kind of told that symptoms are just
sort of this random phenomenon
but nothing in nature is random
there's patterns throughout nature
our human body is is not an exception
there are certain patterns
recurring patterns
that happen to different people over and over again
right you know within ourselves right
so if we just look at ourselves as an individual
we start to notice the recurring patterns that
of symptom production that our body tends to do
so for example right now the flu is going around okay
and I've had several clients
over the past couple weeks
get sick
for me if I'm gonna get a cold or a flu
what I've noticed over my
over the course of my life is that usually
it starts in my throat
I'm gonna start to get that little tickle
that little scratchy sensation
little bit of pain
I'm gonna get that in the back of my throat
and it's usually gonna be on the right side
sometimes the left but usually the right
it's much more prominent on the right
and that's usually the first little signal
uh oh I think I'm getting sick other people
it's a different symptom within our own body
we notice that there are recurring symptom patterns
that our body generates
when you understand hundreds
thousands of different people
and you really listen to their symptoms
and how their body generates symptoms
you start to see patterns across people
and then you can start to connect what those symptoms
symptoms are indicating about
the intracellular environment
and the overall environment that that person is in
when you go in to see a medical doctor
the national average
for the duration of that appointment is like
12 minutes long
so you're not going to get that level of observation
study analysis big picture again
if I think symptoms are just random
and there's no underlying pattern to them
and they're being generated
because something's defective
and faulty within the body
why am I gonna pay that much attention to them
but if I have an understanding
that symptoms are being generated
as a way to adapt to an environment
well now I'm gonna pay a lot of attention
what insight can I gain
how could we change that environment
when we make these changes
how do the symptoms change
right now
have a whole world of in
information to take a look at
let's really talk about the symptoms of a migraine
this is very very telling
it is not a coincidence
that a migraine feels a lot like a hangover
and this is what no one is talking about
this is like the the elephant hiding in plain sight
go out on a Friday night
you indulge a little too much
what happened Saturday morning
oh my head is pounding
oh my goodness somebody please shut the curtains
turn the lights off the lights are killing me
who left this trash sitting around
oh that stinks
somebody take the garbage out
I can't stand that smell oh my goodness
you're cooking something oh
I feel like I'm gonna throw up
please stop making all that noise
you're so loud
does that sound familiar haha
so it's not a coincidence
that the migraine feels just like that
migraines are a major symptom
of a toxin overload within the body
just like the alcohol is a
a toxin that we've taken into our body and right
we know oh yeah
my liver is working overtime this morning right
oh my liver is really gonna be challenged with this one
we know that our liver
has to detoxify all of that alcohol
and we're not gonna feel better until that happens
you can eat toast you can take Tylenol
you can take Advil you can take the hair of the dog
right you can put a cold cloth on your forehead
you can hang out in a dark room
but you know that you're gonna have to wait
until your liver processes
all of that alcohol that you drank the night before
and when that happens
you know that the clouds are gonna part
and you're gonna start to feel better
when you get a migraine
those symptoms are nearly identical
that's what people experience
their head is pounding they're nauseous
they're sensitive to noise
to odors to light
they're very irritable
it's a classic migraine now
certainly there are other subtypes of migraines
where people might have you know
visual auras they might have more uh
neurological type symptoms like numbness and tingling
but again
if somebody's hungover
are they uh working
on their doctoral thesis no
they can hardly think right
they're trying to talk they're losing their words right
they're really struggling with a lot of brain fog
when they're hungover
folks this is not a coincidence
like I've talked about on this podcast
our body needs three things to function properly
and I call these things the three principles
so number one
is that our cells need the nutrients
required for them to function optimally
the second principle is
we have to clear metabolic waste
material and toxins from the cells
and ultimately from the body
and then the third principle is
we have to restore our resilience and vitality
so that we can weather the stressors
that we are continuously bombarded by
in the migraine world we call these things triggers
like sunlight or weather changes
uh stress
these are the three things that our body needs
in order to function optimally
if our body doesn't have that
we're not gonna feel good now
some symptoms are more correlated with
one of these principles more so than others
okay so
there's a whole host of symptoms
that we call toxicity symptoms
so there are symptoms that the body generates
in particular
when there's an overload of metabolic waste
and toxins within the body
headaches and migraines are a major toxicity symptom
those symptoms that are being generated
they're being generated because
for having
an acute toxin spill within the body
so let me break this down a little bit more
I like to think of this as we sort of have
like this trash can okay
we've got this little waste bucket
this little trash can
that
we are constantly putting metabolic waste
material and toxins into the bucket
and this is very important to understand
so when our cells have the nutrients
that they need to function properly
and they do their work
that's fulfilling the first principle
so our cells do their work
via nutrients okay
we don't run on unicorn dust and Starbucks Frappuccinos
okay we need nutrients for everything in the body
to run
so when the cells have those nutrients
they do their work the cells generate waste material
metabolic byproducts
toxins
so even if we were living in a pristine environment
which actually never really existed
but let's say we were living in a pristine environment
we were eating all organic food
and we were living on top of a mountain
and breathing in the pristine mountain air
and drinking the spring water
we would still be putting waste material
in our trash can because we make the waste materials
okay so
you're continuously putting these metabolic
by products metabolic waste materials
the stuff that you're making is going into the bucket
in addition there are
toxins in the environment that we're exposed to
get into our body that also go into that bucket
so many of these things are
you know man made toxins in the food supply
in the water supply in the air supply
but certainly there are toxic substances on the planet
okay there's arsenic in the soil
um you know whenever you burn something
you're releasing toxin molecules in the air
that you're going to breathe in okay
so this is why I say
we've never been living in a pristine
toxin free environment that has never been the case
we have our organs of detoxification
our liver is the main organ
so I'm gonna talk about the liver
as I walk you through this
but our organs of detoxification
detoxify these molecules
and you can open up a biochemistry textbook
a physiology textbook and
you can read about the detoxification pathways
that are within the cells
of the liver and in some other cells
that will process these toxin molecules
and run them through a process that we call
detoxification when that happens
then they can be eliminated from the body
this sort of trash can that we have
is continuously getting added to
and we need to have a drain at the bottom of the bucket
that's big enough so that the bucket doesn't overflow
okay the bucket is never going to be empty
because we're always adding to it
but we just don't want it to overflow
that's the ideal situation
what happens is
we're adding more and more to the bucket
we've got environmental toxins
we've got the medications that we take
are toxic and have to be detoxified right
so we're adding adding
adding in addition to what we make to the bucket
now that won't cause a problem
as long as that drain gets wider
if our again
I'm gonna say
the liver'cause that's the main organ doing this
if our liver can keep up and make that drain wider
we're still gonna feel just fine
but the liver to run those detoxification pathways
guess what the liver needs
to run those pathways and keep that drain open
it needs nutrients it's got to clear out its own waste
material that it's making
as it's running these pathways
and it needs cellular energy or vitality
so what happens to people
people is they start to develop deficiencies
particularly within that first principle
and the third principle and then their liver slows down
when your liver slows down
that drain gets smaller
if you turn the water on in your bathtub
if you've got a hairball in your bathtub drain
it's going to eventually overflow
so that's what's happening to people
and this has been happening to people
since the dawn of time because
migraines have been afflicting us
since the dawn of time based on the haha
based on the old literature
um
I've just recently talked about one very common symptom
which is allergies seasonal allergies even
you know dog
cat dust mite
those types of allergies
those are toxicity symptoms
you start to get allergies
when you start to creep up on that toxin level
within your bucket
other
her toxicity symptoms are menstrual symptoms
okay so if you know
some unfortunately in this day and age now
a lot of young women
when they first start to get their period
right out of the gate
they're having horrible menstrual symptoms right
um in the past it used to
be something where you know
it would take a woman in her 40s to have
you know sort of peri menopausal
you know heavy bleeding
but in this day and age unfortunately
younger and younger young women
are having a lot of symptoms with their period
but certainly we women I mean
I'm a Gen Xer so
I mean this was
this was becoming a problem even
by the time I was a teenager
but you know
I remember
going to sleepovers in the 80s with my friends
and reading you know
a 17 magazine and Tiger Beat
and reading articles telling us girls
that our periods were going to be a nightmare right
we just have been told now for like
three generations now
that your period is going to be a total nightmare
and that's normal and it's not
I won't go on that Tangent today
as that bucket starts to get closer
and closer to the top our body start to generate
lower level toxicity symptoms
migraines occur when the bucket tips over when the
bucket overspills okay and you're getting that severe
set of symptoms that cause so much agony
you know before we get the migraines
most of us don't start to get migraines until we're in
you know our 20s or so
that's the typical onset time
and when you look at the symptoms
that people were experiencing
as a child as a teenager
you can start to see when you know
what toxicity symptoms are
you can start to see oh yeah okay
here's the toxic here's here's the allergies
here's the acne
here's the menstrual cramping
here's the PMS symptoms we start to see
these sort of more minor
toxicity symptoms start to accumulate
start to build up
that means your toxin bucket is getting higher
and higher to the top
closer and closer to the top
when you finally start getting migraines
what's happening is your toxin level is right there
up to the top
and your liver is trying to drain it
but it can't drain it fast enough
and then any little influx
is going to tip that bucket over
and then all those toxins are gonna spill out
all over the floor and you're gonna get a migraine
so I'll give you a personal example
I've talked a lot about on the podcast
that I used to be very
very sensitive to being out in the sun
I could not go out in the sun
even if it wasn't that hot
it could be like you know nice
you know mid 70s day
but if it was very sunny I was highly
highly likely to get a severe migraine
when we are exposed to the sun
it revs up our biochemistry OK
when we're exposed to heat
it makes things move faster in the body
and the in the body
chemistry of the cells if our body warms up
things start to run faster okay
so if things start to run faster
we're exposed to sunlight
and now I'm starting to make some vitamin d right
I have more metabolic processes
happening within my body
and then I'm making more metabolic waste material
and that is gonna go into my bucket
and if my bucket is half half empty
I've got a lot of room for that
if it's right up to the top
and any little additional molecule
is gonna send the whole thing tumbling
now I've got a really big problem
hi there
I wanna jump in real quick and tell you about my client
Beth she was getting 15 to 20 migraines and headaches
per month and as you can imagine
this was impacting her work performance
and her confidence she also has two small children
and she was
starting to feel like she was a horrible mom
because she had nothing left for them
at the end of the day but she reached out
and she booked a free consult call with me
and after I asked her about her migraines
and her health history
I felt confident that I could help her
I help women uncover
the root drivers of their migraines
and follow a step by step plan to dramatically reduce
the frequency by up to 90%
without adding more medication
or taking a bunch of supplements
so we built her personal migraine map
followed the plan
and now she will get one to two migraines per year
which she uses ibuprofen to treat if she needs to
verses up to 15 to 20 per month
when we first started working together
that weren't responding well to any medication
she just reached out to tell me that
she got a promotion at work
she's on top of her career again
and has been able to come off all of her migraine
medication but most importantly
she's a confident mom again
and she's attending birthday parties at Jump Zone
with her kids and saying yes
instead of saying maybe later
I've worked with women like Beth
from all over the United States
who were told this is the best we can do
but they were still willing to dig deeper
so if you're serious about changing your migraine story
go to Doctor Leslie Caesar dot com slash apply
or tap the link in the show notes
and on our free consult
we'll map out why your migraines keep coming back
and the first three steps you can take
over the next 30 days
I do cap new client spots each month
so if the calendar is full
the doors are closed for now
but if you're done feeling helpless
and ready to do the work to heal
pause this episode for 30 seconds
and book that console call
now
a lot of the things that we call migraine triggers
are things that are going to add a little bit more
either outright toxins from the environment
which may or may not be man made
or additional metabolic waste
material that we make ourselves
add it to the bucket
when you have recurring symptom patterns
that happen over and over
to a multitude of different people
different ethnic groups
from today to 2,000 years ago in ancient Greece right
this is not a coincidence
this is part of the overall design
of how the body works we may not like it
it may not be pleasant
but we don't have control over that okay
I want to share with you just to kind of
give you something to think about with this OK
I'm gonna read to you
so I have a book here
that documents the different symptoms
that are associated
with different poisonous substances
this is I think going to be very interesting to you
let me go through this
let's say you were poisoned by arsenic okay
this is a common right
we kind of know that this is poisonous right
so what symptoms do people experience
if they are poisoned by arsenic
let's see what we have here
here we go uh
here's a symptom uh
well documented
feels as if brain moved and beat against the skull
during motion right
so somebody's moving around
and it feels like their brain is hahaha
rattling in their skull right
hmm that sounds familiar
pressure is from a load on the brain
worse on rising up yeah
or moving okay so again
you know as far as the pain of a migraine
a lot of people will describe it as a pressing pain
or like they have an elephant sitting on their head
it's more of like a pressure type sensation
that's a common subcategory of the pain
as if the brain were torn to pieces
icy feeling on the scalp throbbing
stupifying burning pain okay
worse with light and noise
bruised and sore feeling over the nose right
a lot of people will report a feeling like there's a
a heavy weight right on the bridge of their nose right
that's a that's a common symptom
does any of this sound familiar to you
right so this is just arsenic poisoning
right
there's some some particularly specific head pain
symptoms that are associated with arsenic poisoning
but for many of you listening
this will probably ring a bell yeah
that kind of sounds like some of what I experienced
what do people go through mentally and emotionally
if they're poisoned by arsenic
oh
they're prone to finding fault in other people
this is known as like being irritable right
hahaha this is a very common migraine symptom right
oh yeah if I'm like I'm
I'm on my last nerve right
if I have a migraine like don't bother me
I'm gonna be you know
I'm gonna rip you up despair of recovery
this is a very specific um
anxiety symptom
that's associated with arsenic poisoning
some people become very despondent
and their mind starts
telling them that they're never gonna recover
and that they're gonna
be stuck like this for the rest of their life
is anyone uh experience that themselves
this is a pretty common mental phenomenon that occurs
when people have a migraine
they're they can become very despairing
and lose hope that they're ever going to feel better
and then when the migraine clears
it's like why did I think that right
like of course
I was gonna feel better like I feel better already
why was I thinking like that
but this is a poisoning symptom
I'm not saying that if you have these symptoms
you have like a like you
you've been poisoned by arsenic in the soil
or something like that that's not the point of this
what I'm trying to say is
we have known documentation around symptoms that occur
when people are poisoned with poisonous substances okay
so again if you're poisoned by a poisonous substance
like alcohol like arsenic
what recurring symptom patterns are generated
we've got a lot of migraine like head pain
and here we've got a lot of mental symptoms
that are very similar
to what a lot of people go through mentally
when they have a migraine
this is not a coincidence okay
and this crosses ethnic lines cultural lines right
this is not like a cultural phenomenon this is
a biochemical phenomenon within the human body
let's take another let's take a look at another poison
let's take a look at a nightshade
so here we have a plant poison okay
so um
this is something that people would be
unfortunately routinely poisoned by because
you know
they might be going out in the forest to collect
you know wild berries
and they would mistake
the nightshade Berry for an edible Berry
and so
you know now in America
people are kind of rarely doing this
but you know
just a few hundred years ago
nightshade poisoning was unfortunately pretty common
and so it's well documented
within the medical literature from the time
because the doctors at the time had to know okay
what does it look like if somebody ate
you know nightshade berries
we need to know right
brain rises and falls in waves
does that strike anyone
sensation of a board pressing on the forehead
fullness and pressure in the temples and the forehead
that's pretty common migraine symptom on stooping
that's like on bending over
feeling like everything is gonna fall out of my head
right oh
I can't bend over and pick anything up
this in my head
really feels like everything's gonna come out
it starts pounding right
um as if the sutures of the skull were being torn apart
right so this is like what classic
like my brain is gonna explode right
and this unfortunately
if you have that type of symptom with a migraine
this might lead you to the
does feel like you know
like you're gonna there's something's gonna explode in
I've had quite a few of those skull buster ones and uh
let's see here
as if the muscles of the forehead
and the eyes were contracted
tremendous throbbing within the head
okay so again
this is a very common from poison
this just happens to be the poison that's in uh
the nightshade Berry
but I'm saying this is a known poison
so what symptoms does the body generate
over and over again when it
when it is exposed to a toxic poison
and another one okay let's take a look at the Jasmine
so if you're familiar with Jasmine
it's a poisonous flower you don't want to eat Jasmine
you're gonna you're gonna get really sick
so
what symptoms do people experience if they're poisoned
perfuse eye watering okay
this is a toxicity symptom
many people will have their their
their eyes will water with the migraine
it's a it's a toxicity symptom and again
what happens with allergies
your eyes water right
these are recurring patterns that the body generates
when there's an when it's poisoned
when there's an overload of toxins
when your liver can't keep up
so we've got the nausea um
we've got neurological symptoms
but what I'm trying to illustrate here
is that there are recurring symptom
patterns that our bodies produce
when there when they've been poisoned
when there's a toxin overload
when there's a waste material overload
this is not random this is not inexplicable
these are recurring patterns
when I'm working with my clients
I'm actually looking for this level of detail
with their migraines if somebody you know
if I have a client where they
do feel like there's a band wrapped around their head
or their head is in a vise
uh
contrasted with it's more of like a constant pounding
pounding boom boom boom
that's very helpful information to me
your neurologist could care less right
your neurologist doesn't care if it's pounding
if it's stabbing if it's in a vice
if it's pressure if it's an elephant on your head
they're just looking okay
do we have enough symptoms here to make a migraine
diagnosis
because then I'm gonna give them a migraine abortive
right that's all your neurologist is interested in
but for me I go
go deep into what these actual like specific right
we have the overall symptom pattern
that we call migraines
but then we've got more of these kind of individualized
or you know
more detailed symptoms
and those are actually really important
and so I do go into that level of detail
so migraines
headaches headaches are like
the bucket hasn't totally over spilled
but you're really close to the top
that's when headaches come
migraines this is
the bucket has tipped over
and you've spilled this trash all over the floor
our liver has to do clean up
and until the liver gets that spill cleaned up
we're gonna stay in that migraine
and if our liver can work quickly
we're gonna quickly come out of that migraine
if our liver is struggling and it's really slow
and it's only working at half capacity
it's going to take longer
for us to come out of the migraine
and again think of your own migraine history
this is what happened I had the exact same phenomenon
when I first started getting migraines I would feel
come on kind of
as I was leaving work I would take some Advil
I'd come home I'd
take a nap or I just go to bed
and I wake up the next morning and I feel fine
I was back at'em as they got worse and worse
well now I need to take more and more Advil
now I'm waking up and I'm still not feeling good
right because
it's taking
longer and longer for your liver to clean up
the spill and then what are we doing right
we're kind of adding in all of these other medications
that are adding to the bucket
now I'm not saying this to scare you
I'm not telling you don't take medication at this point
if you're in a chronic migraine state
and your bucket is at the top
pretty much all the time
and overflowing multiple times a week
I'm not telling you not to take medication
just eliminating medication is
not going to get that bucket drained very quickly
don't do not listen to this podcast
and interpret it as
if I'm telling you to not take medication
I am not
I'm not telling you that you're poisoning yourself
I'm not trying to generate fear and anxiety
that's the last thing that I want to do
with this podcast
but I just want you to kind of understand better
what's going on so
part of the recovery process
from migraines is to get that bucket drained
we want to get that bucket drained
so that it's about half empty
and then we've got some room
then I can have some drinks
and I can put those drinks in the bucket
and the bucket isn't gonna overspill
I can go out and I can get overheated with exercise
and have more waste material generated by my own body
and I can put that in the bucket
and I've got some room if I have no room
and I go out in the hot sun and exercise
and I generate a whole bunch of metabolic
waste material and put that in my bucket
and it was already full to the brim
now I've overspilled the bucket
and then what do you know
I've got a horrible migraine
after I went out in the sun
and did some physical activity
so we've got to get that bucket drained
how do we get the bucket
drained well your liver has to
your liver has to have the nutrients that it needs
to run those detoxification pathways
and your liver the cells in your liver
have to have enough cellular energy or
quality or voltage to run at 100%
so what happens to people is they start to
develop deficiencies
within their liver within the first
principle and the third principle
their liver slows down the drain clogs up
you could be eating organic
you could be using natural cleaning products
nothing but baking soda and vinegar
you could be you know
filtering your water
you could be not touching any prescription medication
you could be living in a you know
part of the country that has a very good air quality
you can do all of those things
you're still going to be adding to this waste bucket
because you make the waste material
so even if you're quote unquote
doing all the right things
which a lot of migraine suffers are either doing
or trying very hard to do
quote unquote all the right things
by avoiding all of these things
if your liver still doesn't have what it needs to run
those detoxification pathways
your drain is gonna get clogged
you're going to be adding to that bucket
through your own metabolic waste material
and your bucket is gonna come up to the top
and overspill
what we need to determine is
why do you have those deficiencies
within the first principle
and the third principle
that's the critical question
if you think you're going to make your liver run faster
without addressing the underlying deficiencies
or missing pieces or blockers
within that first principle
and third principle
if you think you're gonna do
you know
a cleanse detox herbs
these types of things you're gonna make yourself
myself really sick unfortunately
because if you try to push your liver to move faster
than it can
you're going to knock that bucket over
and you're going to get a horrible migraine
I can give you know a strapping
24 year old man
who's never been sick a day in his life
and just thinks he's on top of the world
I can put him in bed for three days with a migraine
by pushing his liver too hard okay
and so a lot of you listening to the podcast
you hear me talk about things like detoxification
toxin overload maybe you Learned you know
some some of these connections between toxicity
symptoms and migraines and you say well
I already tried a cleanse
I already took milk thistle
I already you know did a fast
I already did the lemon juice and maple syrup
what those things are doing
are pushing your liver to run faster
when we know it doesn't have what it needs
in the first place
if you've never had a headache
or a migraine in your life
and you beat a dead liver
you're gonna get a migraine
if you're already prone to migraines
you're definitely gonna get a migraine
ask me how I know
I say this with caution when you
when to those of you listening to the podcast
because a lot of natural practitioners
don't understand that and
and they're actually sort of like
inducing migraines in their patients
I'm known within the naturopathic community now
as a migraine specialist
and I will get calls from colleagues
and they will say you know
I've got a new patient with migraines
and I did X y and Z
I know we need to you know
detox so I recommended
you know X
y and Z and I just got
you know a message from her
that she was in bed for three days with a migraine
and I I don't understand
I do this X y
Z detox protocol with the vast majority of my patients
and nobody has made a complaint before
why would this happen well
with a
migraine suffer in particular
that bucket is already right up to the
stop if you have chronic migraines
that bucket is just waiting for one more molecule
before it's gonna overflow
so any little thing right
this is this is why we're so sensitive to what we call
triggers right
any little thing can tip that bucket over
and if you give your liver a big shove
you're gonna topple that bucket over
and you're gonna get really sick
so people that are not prone to migraines
they're not already having migraines
they might not feel great right
you know they might do some of these you know
quote unquote detox protocols
they might you know feel a little nauseous
they might have some joint pain muscle pain
their nose might start running
they might you know have a flare of a rash
that they get every once in a while
so they might have those symptoms and it may be
you know kind of unpleasant
but they won't get a full blown migraine
because their bucket isn't already
totally full okay so you can push the liver
and you can jolt the bucket a little bit
and you're gonna get
a uptick in some toxicity symptoms
but you're not gonna knock the whole thing
and spill everything all
over the floor
so
the way that I work within this area is very specific
and it's designed
so that those of us who are prone to migraines
we're not gonna tip the bucket over
and I can't emphasize this enough
which what most natural practitioners are not doing
is they're not thinking about does this liver okay
does this liver and this patient that I have
does this liver have what it needs to function properly
your liver doesn't need milk
thistle to function properly okay
so the
natural practitioner is not doing a full assessment
okay
what's the nutrient status at the level of the liver
what's the vitality
cellular voltage status at the level of the liver
you can tell that by
the symptoms that the body generates
the symptoms that are being generated
or the symptoms that are starting to clear up
so with my clients I'm looking at the symptoms
I'm analyzing their symptom picture
and that's gonna tell me okay
we've got what we need at the
at the level of the liver
we can start to give it a little gentle little nudge
haha to run a little bit faster
but only when I'm getting that indication
from the body that it's the right time to do it
I'm telling you
natural practitioners
are not trained to do this level of analysis
I was trained
at the top naturopathic school in the country
and I was not trained to do this level of analysis
this has been developed over the years
particularly working with migraine sufferers
because we are so sensitive
so I have developed a way of determining not
not only where people's blockers
and deficiencies
and missing pieces are within these three principles
but also a way of determining okay
when have we made enough progress
where we can give a little bit of a nudge to the liver
not a push not a slam but a little bit of a nudge
get it working a little bit faster
we get that drain open a little bit wider
and then we keep building
and we just keep getting that drain gently
gently wider and wider and wider
and then we're going to start to drain that bucket
and then you're gonna start feeling better
and you're gonna have less frequent
migraines and headaches
and they're going to become less and less severe
and then if you do take medication
the medication is gonna start working better
I say this with caution
this is something you know
if if you wanna if you wanna go to Whole Foods
and buy a little cleanse protocol
have at it I used to do that stuff too
when I first started getting migraines
and I got frustrated with my medical doctor
cause I didn't wanna take the prescription medication
and I said you know what
I'm gonna read some books
and I'm gonna try to figure this out on my own oh
cleanse
that sounds like a good idea you can absolutely do it
you know
you
doing those types of things when I
was trying those things out
but like I say
so be cautious if you wanna do that on your own
if you don't wanna do that on your own
reach out to me
you can book a free console call with me
we'll go through your migraine symptoms
any other health concerns that you have
and I will give you a recommendation
and we'll put together a game plan for you
to get this turned around
if you do want to work with somebody like me
who's an expert in this OK
so thank you for joining me today
I'm really happy to go over this with you
this is a podcast that's on the longer side
but I think that this is really
really good information for you
and I think that
we need to get this concept out into the world
because again it's
it's my hypothesis
as to what's going on with migraines
but I think that it's a it's a very exciting hypothesis
so very good like I say
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