108. Why Nighttime Urination is a Warning Sign for Migraine Sufferers

Do you wake up once, twice, or even three times a night to urinate and assume it’s just part of getting older? In this episode, I explain why nighttime urination is not something to brush off, especially if you struggle with chronic migraines. I break down why this symptom can point to deeper issues with kidney regulation, mineral deficiency, and nutrient delivery, and how those same imbalances can affect the brain and contribute to migraines.

I also talk about how nighttime wake-ups can disrupt sleep, trigger stress hormones, and make healing harder, plus why long-term use of acid blockers like Prilosec may be part of the problem. If you’ve never thought of nighttime urination as an important clue, this episode will change the way you look at your symptoms.

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Episode Transcript

hi there
welcome to the Healing Migraines Naturally podcast
I'm your host Doctor Leslie Caesar
and I'm a licensed naturopathic doctor
former chronic migraine sufferer
and I've dedicated
my life to helping other women with chronic migraines
rediscover a migraine free life
so welcome to the podcast
today I'm going to talk about a very common symptom
that nobody realizes is a symptom
but it gives a big clue
as to why your body is generating migraines
nighttime urination
so you know
amongst us women we just assume that it's normal
it's sort of part of normal aging
this is what our body is supposed to do
we're supposed to get up in the middle of the night
and have to urinate at least once
if not two maybe three times right
and so
you wanna believe the number of women
that are waking up in the middle of the night
and needing to urinate
three times right
and the problem with this is once you wake up
it can be very very difficult to go back to sleep
you have to get out of bed
you're elevating your heart rate
I mean just to go from that flat line
down position to sitting up and walking
your adrenal glands
have to generate some cortisol and adrenaline
to keep your blood pressure and your circulation up
so that the blood stays in your head
and you don't faint okay
so just getting up like that in the middle of the night
you're going to have a little
sort of cortisol and adrenaline burst
and that's gonna wake you up right
those two hormones kind of Rev everything up
and the last thing we want at 3 in the morning
is our mind to be revved up right
so many women have to wake up every night
go to the bathroom
they lay back down and then what happens
right now my mind's activated
I'm thinking about the meeting at work and oh
the way that I said that was a little stupid oh
what about that thing that happened in junior high
remember how embarrassing that was
maybe I'll think about that now for 45 minutes right
it's a real real irritating and aggravating experience
and you know if it's if it's not happening once
it's happening 2 3 times to a lot of women right
once is bad enough
but we women we've been told that this is normal right
this is just part of getting older you know
maybe we blame it on the fact that we had a couple kids
right and so
we're just not associating this as an actual symptom
or an actual like
signal that the body is generating to tell us
that there's a deficiency here
and the great news is
is if there's a deficiency of something
we can fill the deficiency up
and then the symptom will go away
so let's dive into this a little bit deeper right
so how many of you can relate to this right
so I have
you know three clients this week
all of them came into working with me
experiencing this symptom where they're getting up
you know one woman once a night
very predictably
the other two usually more than once a night
all three of these women are sort of in their 50s
early to late 50s right
you know
we've been told not only that it's normal aging
or maybe it's the fact that we've had kids
but
we've also been told
that we're drinking too much water
I just did a podcast a couple weeks ago on this
like overconsumption of water
we're now being told that
we need to drink a gallon of water right
so
and particularly migraine suffers right
we're
we're very focused on maintaining our hydration levels
and not getting dehydrated right
on the one hand during the day right
we're told
you know you're
you gotta drink at least eight glasses of water
at least 64 ounces of water
now that's kind of like considered to be
you know too little water
right now up to a gallon of water
you're supposed to drink a gallon of water
throughout the entire day
but then at night time no water right
because you're now you're drinking too much water
and it's keeping you up at night right
so so many women
after drinking a lot of water during the day
like seven PM comes and they're like
okay no more water right
because I'm just like
getting up all the time in the middle of the night
I can't go back to sleep
so no water after 7 o'clock right
and so now suddenly
right now we're going into a restriction right
so again
like let's let's use a little common sense here
you gotta drink a gallon of water during the day
but once the sun sets right
you can't drink any more water
or you're gonna be up urinating all night long
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
so those are the most common
explanations that women have been given right
it's either inevitable aging
you know
after effects of childbirth and drinking too much water
certainly I will say
if you were to drink a tremendous amount of water
right before you go to bed
that's going to increase
the likelihood that you're going to have to urinate
in the middle of the night OK
so I'm not saying that there's absolutely
no connection between your water intake
and needing to urinate in the middle of the night OK
but I drink water up until I go to bed okay
I drink water right before I go to bed right
I don't wake up in the middle of the night to urinate
okay
so what's actually going on here
we have to understand the physiology
or the purpose of the kidneys
the kidneys do a lot of different things
but one of the
very important things that the kidney does
is it manages
it regulates the mineral concentration in the blood
okay now like I said
it does a lot of other things
it also regulates other nutrients in the blood as well
but I'm gonna really focus in on minerals first
so there are some minerals notably Calcium
sodium potassium and Chloride which is
technically an ion okay but those four in particular
have to be very tightly regulated
or things go south really fast okay
like if if your Calcium
if your blood level Calcium gets too high
or gets too low
you're in a very life threatening situation okay
so there are some minerals that
we have to have in very tight regulation
within the bloodstream
and so the kidneys do that work
there are hormonal inputs
OK that that regulate that but one of the major uh
functions of the kidney is to regulate
this very critical
mineral concentration within the blood
and outside of those four minerals
it's regulating other minerals as well
so the kidneys are always sort of managing this
the kidneys want to maintain a certain concentration
of minerals within the blood
so if that concentration goes too low
first of all
the kidneys are gonna reabsorb those minerals okay
they're gonna make sure that those minerals
don't go into the urine'cause it wants
wants more mineral content within the blood
and then I'm
I still don't have enough the concentration is too low
so how could we increase the concentration
well we could get some of this fluid out of the body
right I can pull some water out of my blood
put it into the urine and I can urinate it out okay
so what I have found in my work is that
nighttime urination
having to get up in the middle of the night
is not so much due to water intake
and anatomical issues after childbirth
or certainly normal aging
it's your kidneys trying to concentrate your blood
so that there's higher mineral concentration
within the blood so
let's tie this back to what I talk about
as to what I call the three principles right
so if you've been listening to the podcast
I talk about what I call the three principles
the three things that your body needs
in order to restore itself back to health
or maintain its health
and when we are in a state of health
our body doesn't generate symptoms
like migraines and headaches
and a whole host of other symptoms right
the first principle the first thing that our body needs
to maintain its state of health
to function optimally to feel good
to not have symptoms the first thing is
our cells have to have the nutrients that they need
in order to function optimally
so minerals are critical nutrients okay
and so if
your kidneys are struggling
to maintain
the proper mineral concentration in your blood
your kidneys are going to accomplish that
by pulling that water out
and generating more urine
the more urine that's generated
the more you're going to have to go to the bathroom
so if we have nutrient deficiencies
we are not going to be able to get the nutrients
to our cells
and they're not going to function optimally
but how do we know if we have nutrient deficiencies
this is one of the telltale symptoms
when we have nutrient deficiencies
the body generates some telltale
some predictable some recurring symptoms that are
that happen over and over again
across a wide section of people
and this is one of those symptoms
I call these early warning symptoms
sometimes I call them canary in the coal mine symptoms
so before things you know go real south
our body
starts generating some of these more subtle symptoms
early warning symptoms
the problem is none of us know this okay
none of us realize that these early warning symptoms
and this is just one of them
that we're focusing on today
but these early warning symptoms
that the body generates people don't know this
and they don't realize what's happening
they don't know how to interpret
the signals that their body is sending them right
and you know intuitively we know right OK
I know my body's trying to tell me something right
I got these horrible migraines I'm in agony right
I got all these other symptoms
my joints hurt and I can't
I can't sleep a full night without having to urinate
all the time
and I got these horrible allergies and you know
all these other symptoms right
we know intuitively
that our body is trying to tell us something
but we just don't understand what it is right
well
so this is sort of what this symptom is indicating okay
if you are overproducing urine while you're sleeping
it's because your kidneys are trying to you know
they're trying to do the best they can
in the conditions that the body is currently in
so if the body is mineral deficient
you know
the kidneys they they're not dictating what you eat
right so
you know if you haven't been eating
food with enough mineral content in it
or if your digestive function is poor
because you have to have good digestive function
to absorb the minerals from your food
in particular you have to have adequate stomach acid
in order to absorb the minerals from your food
so if we have somebody
maybe they've been on a PPI for 20 years
a proton pump inhibitor medication like a Prilosec okay
that medication suppresses your stomach's ability
to make stomach acid
now if you don't have adequate stomach acid
you won't feel that heartburn sensation okay
that might be a plus
but if you don't have adequate stomach acid
not only are you not going to properly prepare
the food in the stomach
so that it's broken down enough
so that when it goes in the small intestine
your small intestine doesn't have to work so hard
but the other thing is
you have to have adequate stomach acid
to fully absorb the minerals that are in the food
the acid does a chemical reaction with the minerals
and facilitates the absorption of those minerals
and so this is why when you look at the box of Prilosec
like go to the drugstore
get the box of Prilosec or go to your medicine cabinet
look at the Prilosec box
it says do not take for longer than 14 days okay
this is the prescribing guidelines
I know
many of you listening have been given prescription
proton pump inhibitor medications
and your doctor refilled that prescription for years
that's contrary to medical prescribing guidelines
okay that's contrary to standard of care
if you have been taking a medication like that for
longer than 14 days right
I mean even taking it once
is going to impair your stomach acid production
but the longer that goes on right
the the more and more of a problem you're going to have
so you may be eating you know
you might be putting a lot of effort
into your eating habits you might be buying organic
you might be going to Whole Foods
you might be cooking everything at home
you might be getting fruits and vegetables
and grains and proteins in the whole bit
you might be checking all the boxes
but if you don't have adequate stomach acid
maybe your stomach isn't making it adequately or
you know so many Americans
this is one of the most widely used medications
is proton pump inhibitors like Prilosec
you're not making enough stomach acid
you're putting all this effort into your eating habits
which is laudable
but you're not going to be able to get the benefit
out of it
so that's going to
inevitably generate mineral deficiencies
as well as other nutrient deficiencies right
because just in general
the food in the stomach isn't being properly prepared
and then the small
intestine is going to have an even harder job
and
I mean there's just no way
you're going to get as much nutrient
content out of that food
but particularly with the minerals right
you're going to have a lowered absorption of minerals
and the studies are very clear on this
why do they tell
people not to take it for longer than 14 days
they know this okay
I'm not saying like naturopathic woo woo stuff
this is all written about in the physiology textbook
and the pharmacology textbooks
this is widely known your doctor should know this
so that's why they have the warning label on there
so they know that
if you stay on these medications long enough
you're going to develop mineral deficiencies
and guess what
it's well documented
that women who have been on proton pump inhibitors
for a long time are much more prone to osteoporosis
why wouldn't they be
your bones are made out of minerals right
we all know this so I'm not saying this to
you know criticize you
I know you don't want to take this medication
in the first place
but we've got to start telling people like what
you know why does it say
don't take for longer than 14 days on the box
right now
I know you say well
I'm taking this
because I've got this horrible heartburn
and I gotta get through the day
what do you expect me to do
here's the opportunity right
this is something I have
I can't tell you how many clients over the years
I've helped restore their digestive function
heal the lining on their stomach
and then they're able to carefully
wean off the
these medications without rebound heartburn
and then they can get all of the benefit
from their effort to have good eating habits
they can get all of the benefit out of that
it's pretty inevitable right
I mean even women who are not taking
acid blocking medications
you know so many people are so mineral deficient
that this symptom
of needing to urinate in the middle of the night
is a very very prevalent very common symptom
but it's particularly prevalent
amongst women who are taking acid blocking medications
so I hope this gives you some insight
and some understanding into the major driver
of what drives nighttime urination okay
it's particularly mineral deficiencies in particular
but when we're deficient in minerals okay
we're gonna be deficient in other nutrients too
that's pretty inevitable and so again
as they start to understand
more and more how the kidney functions right
they know that there are other vitamins and other
nutrients that the kidney will
kind of monitor and say okay
do we have too much
if we do I'm gonna put some in the urine oh
do we not have enough I'm gonna reabsorb more
the kidney is balancing these micronutrients
and trying to keep us in balance
but it also has to look at okay
what's the concentration of things right
so if we've got a too few minerals and too much water
right it's gonna have to get rid of some water
so there's another component too
that can drive nighttime urination okay
and so there's a hormone called anti diuretic hormone
this is a hormone that is made in the hypothalamus
and so as we start to wind down
as we start to end the day
as our cortisol starts to decrease
and our melatonin starts to increase
this hormone
anti diuretic hormone coming from the hypothalamus
should start to increase
this is a hormone that signals to the kidney
stop making so much urine okay
so this is very helpful while we're sleeping right
you know while we're sleeping
our body wants us to continue to sleep
and so it actually releases this hormone
that sort of signals to the kidney
don't make so much urine okay
we're trying to sleep here
don't make so much urine
so this hormone also contributes right
if we have adequate anti diuretic hormone production
and proper signaling
then the kidney should not be making so much urine
while we sleep
this I think
also can be playing a role in nighttime urination
so let's go back to the three principles right
so your hypothalamus
so this is a little tiny organ in your brain
that does a lot of critical stuff
that we won't go into detail here
but your hypothalamus in order to function properly
has to have the nutrients that it needs
to do all of its work okay
so the hypothalamus is you know
monitoring your blood
it's it's it's one of these master glands that uh
monitors the blood and produces hormones
and keeps things harmonious and
and working properly okay
so in order to do all of that
it has to have the nutrients that it needs
to run all of those biochemical processes
inside of those hypothalamus cells
to do all of its work that's the first thing
your hypothalamus needs to function properly
it needs the nutrients required to run its biochemistry
the second thing is
once your hypothalamus does all of its work
all of its monitoring
and hormone production and all that
it's going to generate metabolic waste material
we've got to get that out of the cells
of the hypothalamus okay
the
the little organ is not going to function properly if
you know it's trying to do stuff
and there's trash all over the place okay
we got to get the trash out of there
you know
you can't run a factory where every day you're making
you know making supplies and materials and
you know stuff
but then you just leave all of the uh byproducts
you know the little snip metal and the packing cartons
and you just leave everything
all strewn over the factory floor
you can't come in the next day and make a good product
right you gotta get all that cleaned out
hi there I want to 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
the third thing
that your hypothalamus needs to function properly is
it needs adequate vitality
at the cellular level
this corresponds to cellular voltage
it needs enough energy to run that biochemistry okay
so these three principles that I'm talking about
they operate on a whole body level
but they also operate at an organ level
a cellular level
they're applicable throughout all the different
sort of levels of the body
and so you know
if you're deficient in these three areas right
your hypothalamus is gonna struggle
it's not going to do nothing okay
it's not just going to drop dead
but it's not gonna function optimally
it's gonna do the best it can in the conditions
in which it finds itself
I suspect
that this is also playing a role
in nighttime urination
so the answer whether it's a hypothalamus issue
whether it's a issue with the kidneys
the answer is the same
that's the beauty of these three principles
when you understand right at a real root cause level
how the body works and I'm
I'm just taking these principles
from the known physiology
and biochemistry and pathology of the body
but when you know these things
you can see these patterns recur
and so with all three of these clients this week
they you know one of them has completely
stopped urinating in the middle of the night okay
she used to be waking up multiple times
in the middle of the night
we just wrapped up four months of work
she's feeling extraordinarily better on all levels
but this symptom in particular
she hasn't gotten up to urinate
in the middle of the night
four weeks okay
and again she was assuming that well
this is what happens when you get into your 50s right
the two other clients this week
this symptom is improving
one of one of the two for the first time this week
she had a night where she didn't wake up to urinate
the other client she's gone down from consistent two
if not three times
waking up in the middle of the night
to just waking up one time in the middle of the night
and then she's falling asleep a lot easier
so I I'm expecting
as we continue to go forward here in the weeks to come
that she's gonna start having
some nights where she's not waking up to urinate
and eventually both of these women I would I'm hoping
I'm expecting are gonna get to the point
where they're not waking up at all
for weeks at a time without having to urinate
and that's what should happen
so you know
even if you sort of like Doctor Google this symptom
okay which everybody does now
everybody uses Doctor Google
and then scares themselves half to death
reading the results right
because when you go to Doctor Google
you're just a couple clicks away from you know oh
this means you have cancer or something like that
but if you doctor Google this symptom
they're gonna talk about you know oh
this is something that affects very elderly people
because the um
anti diuretic hormone production is lacking because
you know they're very elderly and at their
they're at the end of their life
well I don't think these 50
year old women are at the end of their life okay
it's much more common than you know
an elderly uh person it's
it's actually one of the more common symptoms
that people experience okay
and and these are the root causes of it
so if this is you
if you've resonated to what we've talked about here
know that this is one of those
sort of early warning symptoms
one of those canary in the coal mine symptoms
you know'cause
I'm sure if you're listening to the podcast
you're racking your brain going
why am I getting these migraines
let me figure out why I'm getting these migraines
why am I getting these migraines
well
part of the picture not the entire picture
but part of the picture
of why your body is generating migraines
is because it doesn't have the nutrients that it needs
to function properly how would we know that
well if you have this symptom
if you're waking up in the middle of the night
to urinate
you have some nutrient deficiencies
and you know the other thing here too
you're not gonna solve this problem
very effectively
because
how did you get nutrient deficient in the first place
how did you get mineral deficient in the first place
how did you get in general
nutrient deficient in the first place right
so this is why
I wanted to talk a little bit about this
very common phenomenon
when people are on acid blocking medications
and it affecting their mineral absorption right
so often
particularly within the natural medicine industry
that I'm a part of right
everybody's jumping to supplements
oh well you gotta take this
you gotta take this miracle magnesium right
every couple years there's a new form of magnesium
that's gonna solve everybody's problems
and you know you gotta take this Calcium
you gotta take this and that well
nobody is asking
certainly the supplement manufacturers are not asking
nobody's asking why are people so nutrient deficient
why are people so mineral deficient right
I mean again
let's think about this okay
you know we're here in America
we have indoor plumbing
if we do have to get up in the middle of the night
to urinate
it's you know
it's a pain it's an inconvenience
but it's not a life threatening situation
and it's you know
it could be a lot worse right
I mean
in many parts of the world
people do not have indoor plumbing
and to get up in the middle of the night
and exit their dwelling and go out into the bush
so to speak could be dangerous okay
um certainly just
you know a very short time ago
everyone on the planet you know
no one on the planet had indoor plumbing
and so to get up in the middle of the night to urinate
you know go out into
into the bush right
go out into the forest right
to urinate uh
you're putting yourself
in an extremely vulnerable position okay
so does it really make sense that
by the time people are in their late 40s
they have to
put themselves in this very vulnerable position
I mean we never would have survived right
like our
bodies are not designed
to put us in a vulnerable position
in the middle of the night
so again
this is where we have to apply some common sense here
right it's not normal to have
to urinate and put yourself in a vulnerable
you know potentially
life threatening situation with the wild animals
and everything else
because you have to urinate in the middle of the night
okay but now suddenly
right now
everybody has to urinate in the middle of the night
and it's just normal aging
and we just take it for granted and oh well
you know
what happens when you have kids and you get old
no
you gotta start thinking
about things with a lot more common sense
this is a symptom we know how the kidneys work
we know how these hormones work put it together people
I went to naturopathic medical school
I had to take the same biochemistry physiology
pharmacology uh embryology right
the entire scientific curriculum
in accredited naturopathic schools
like the one that I went to
is identical
to that curriculum in conventional medical schools
that your medical doctor went to
it's the same textbooks
I have the exact same medical textbooks on this uh
bookshelf right off uh
right to the right here off camera
there isn't a special like naturopathic biochemistry
okay I'm just
applying what we know about how the body works
and making logical conclusions
what it is is it's basically generating a hypothesis
that's what I did in my practice
because this is actually something that
I wasn't taught okay
I wasn't taught this connection
what I started applying in my practice right
as I'm working with my clients
I'm always trying to get the best results
and try to get people better as fast as possible
in the most efficient way
and you know
nearly
every woman is waking up in the middle of the night
and having to urinate so it's like
what's going on here right
and so I applied the principles of biochemistry
and physiology and so on
the known principles and said okay
you know
how do the kidneys work how is urine produced right
okay well
let's look at all of the factors
well here we go
mineral balance and so then I started with my clients
I started focusing on okay
let's make sure we're getting minerals into the body
and once I started doing that
this symptom started to improve
started to go away right
my clients are able to sleep through the night now
you know a lot of people think that
you know
natural medicine practitioners are not scientific
they're following sort of like unproven
you know kind of woo woo out there stuff
and you know
believe me a lot of natural medicine practitioners are
I'm not gonna lie
there's a lot of kind of crazy stuff out there
I I I can't deny it
for me right
being a naturopathic doctor
means that I'm applying the known biochemistry
and the known physiology of the body
I'm looking at things from a common sense perspective
and I'm forming a hypothesis right
so my hypothesis was hmm
I think it's a mineral deficiency
um in
in fact I was taught that
this symptom
was an indication of a toxin overload in the body
and so when I first started practicing
that's what I thought it was
because that's what I was taught but um
I started questioning that
sort of questioning
that conventional wisdom that was taught to me
and I started digging more into the biochemistry
and physiology formulated this hypothesis right
a hypothesis is a prediction right
you generate a prediction or a hypothesis
you formulate an intervention to test and then if you
you you see what the results are right
and so
as I started focusing more on getting proper mineral uh
status in my clients
then I really saw this symptom improving more and more
faster and faster
and it really clinched it for me that actually
I don't think this is so much a toxicity symptom
but it's a symptom of nutrient deficiencies
and especially mineral deficiencies
and again
we can't just jump to supplements
we've got to do the additional digging
why in particular
did this client become mineral deficient
that level of analysis has to be done because you know
just taking a mineral supplement
it's not gonna cut it okay
if you're not getting the minerals out of your food
you're not gonna get them out of a mineral supplement
if you're getting the minerals out of your food
but you're not getting them into your blood
and you're not getting them circulated to the cells
you're not going to do that
for through a mineral supplement either okay
so this is where again
you know my conventional medicine colleagues
they don't put put this together at all
even though they have the same textbooks I have
the same physiology textbooks I have
they're not putting it together unfortunately right
everything to them
the answer to everything is just to suppress things
and then unfortunately
too many natural medicine practitioners
are just jumping to supplements
supplements supplements we're just
gonna supplement our way out of every problem
and before you know it
you're taking a fistful of supplements with every meal
and you're really not feeling that much better
I really hope this helps
and I hope you had some aha moments with this
and again you know
if you've been struggling with this
whether you know getting up frequently to urinate
and disrupting your sleep
having digestive issues
particularly if you've been put on a PPI
and left there to linger for years and years
this is something where I have a lot of experience
and I might be able to help you with
in addition to your migraines
and in fact
resolving these things is really part of the path
to resolving your migraines as well
so if this resonates with you
I'd love to talk with you um
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or just hang out with other women
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