121. Why So Many Women With Migraines Also Have POTS Symptoms

POTS is suddenly everywhere right now, and a lot of women are hearing about it in a way that feels confusing, scary, and overwhelming. In this episode, I break down what POTS actually is, why I see it so often alongside chronic migraines, and why I don’t see it as some random mystery your body has thrown at you.

I explain what may be happening underneath the dizziness, racing heart, and instability, and why the deeper conversation has to include adrenal function, mineral balance, nutrient absorption, stress, and the body’s overall resilience. If you’ve been dealing with both migraines and POTS symptoms, this episode will help you make much more sense of what your body is trying to do.

If this sounds like your story and you’re tired of feeling like your body is a mystery, I’d love to help you look at the deeper root drivers behind your migraines and POTS symptoms. You can apply for a free consultation here:

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Episode Transcript

hi everyone
welcome to the Healing Migraines Naturally podcast
I'm your host Doctor Leslie Caesar
and I'm a licensed naturopathic physician
former chronic migraine sufferer
and I've dedicated my life to helping
other women with chronic migraines
rediscover a migraine free life
all without new medications
ability to wean off of their existing medications
and do it all without taking a fistful of supplements
so welcome to the podcast today
you know
there's a word that's suddenly appearing everywhere
right now
people who'd never heard this word a few weeks ago
are saying it at the dinner table
it's in the group chat
it's in the comments under a lot of posts
and that word is pots
if you've been anywhere near the internet lately
you know why there's a Netflix documentary out
came out in the middle of may about a
a terrible case out of Ohio
um a young woman of a speeding vehicle
a building and two people who didn't come home
and at the center of her defense
was a medical condition
she said
that she had been diagnosed with a few years earlier
and that diagnosis was pots
so the claim was made that it made her
this condition made her black out behind the wheel
and that was the cause of the accident
so I'm not really here to talk about that case
I'm not a judge I'm not a juror
I didn't sit in the courtroom
and I you know
I can't tell
you what happened inside of the car or you know
what went on within her her body that day
and the court has already weighed in on all of that
that's not my what my lane is
that's not what this podcast is for
but here is what is in my lane
because of that documentary
millions of people have now heard the word pots
and almost all of them have heard it in the worst
possible context
they heard it as something frightening
something that makes your body dangerous
something that strikes out of nowhere
and that nobody can really explain
and I have a lot of women in my world who have pots
or who have every single symptom of it
without the diagnosis
so I wanna do something a little bit different today
I wanna take this word
that everybody's suddenly afraid of
and I wanna tell you what it actually is
because once you understand
what's really happening in the body
pots stops becoming a mystery
and it stops being something to be afraid of
so why does this matter to you
so let me say first why I'm even bothering with this
when we're prone to migraines
there are other conditions that tend to
ride along with the migraines
and I've talked about many of them before
the migraine is rarely traveling alone
and pots is actually one of the most common
traveling companions to migraines that I see
so if I look across the women that I work with
somewhere around a quarter of them
have this set of symptoms
to some degree
whether or not anyone ever gave them a formal diagnosis
so this is not something that's rare
it's not some exotic thing uh happening to other people
a lot of you listening
know exactly what I'm about to describe
because you live with this
so here's the everyday version
you're kneeling down
you're straightening up the toys right
you're gonna lift up the laundry basket
and you stand up and the room tilts
you get woozy
maybe there's like a little dark curtain
that starts coming down over your vision
maybe your heart gives a few hard thumps
your heart starts to pound and you say whoa
I got up too fast
and you grab the counter and you wait for it to pass
you know I've done that
there are
there have been plenty of times in my own life
in the past where I've stood up too fast and thought
whoa right here
here we go
I personally never pursued a diagnosis
because it never plagued me to the severity that it
plagued some people
this can be very severe for a lot of people
but I do know that feeling in my own body
so when I tell you that this is common
I'm not sort of reading it out of a textbook
most people have felt at least a mild version of this
so that mild version and the severe
debilitating version are actually the same phenomenon
it's just a matter of degree
and the whole thing has a perfectly understandable
explanation
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
so let's take the scary name apart
so pots is an acronym that stands for postural
orthostatic tachycardia syndrome
right it sounds intimidating
but what I want to do with this
what I do with so many medical diagnoses
because in medicine
a large number of these intimidating names
are not really explanations at all
they're just the symptoms written in Latin and Greek
written in medical terminology
so that they sound official
so let's go word by word
so postal
that just means body position
specifically the position of your head
relative to the rest of your body
so lying down your head is level with everything else
right we're on a horizontal plane
stand up and your body is at the top
farthest from the ground
so postural is telling us that this has to do
this symptom presentation
this symptom pattern
has to do with a change in position
a change in the posture so the next word orthostatic
that refers to what happens to your blood
your blood pressure when position changes
you'll usually hear it paired with the word hypotension
which just means low blood pressure
so orthostatic
is telling us the blood pressure drops
when you change position
when the posture changes third word tachycardia
a lot of people recognize this one tachy means fast
cardio means heart fast heartbeat and finally syndrome
that's the word they tack on at the end
to turn a list of symptoms into a diagnosis
so we put it all together here
on on a change of position
the blood pressure drops and the heart rate jumps
that's the whole name orthostatic
tachycardia syndrome is just a fancy way of saying
when this person stands up
their blood pressure falls
and their heart rate goes up
so that's not a cause okay
that's a description of what's happening
and the difference between those two things is
the whole story
so what's actually happening in the body
and I promise you none of this is like woo woo stuff
this is straight out of a physiology textbook
same textbook
that I had to memorize in naturopathic medical school
the same one
that sits on the shelf of every medical doctor
so picture yourself
lying on the couch you're horizontal
gravity is pulling on your whole body evenly
and your blood is also horizontal
your blood is level okay
so now you know your your phone dings in the other room
so you pop up cause
you have to go check your phone every time it dings
right so you pop up and the second you stand up
gravity goes to work
it starts pulling the blood down out of your head
towards your feet
so your brain has to have blood
it cannot wait so in that instant
your circulatory system has to raise its own pressure
to push the blood back up into your brain
against gravity so how does it do that
well this is where your hormones come in
and this is the part that always gets skipped
so sitting on top of your kidneys
right at the small of your back
are your adrenal glands
so your adrenals make adrenaline and noradrenaline
you might know them as your fight or flight hormones
your stress hormones so when you stand up
the adrenals
squirt those hormones into your bloodstream
and they do two things
they squeeze your blood vessels tighter
and they make your heartbeat harder
and a little bit faster
so if you want more pressure inside of a closed tube
you squeeze the tube and you pump harder
so that's exactly what's happening
when all of that works
the way that it is supposed to work
you don't notice anything your phone dings
you pop up
you go check your phone and you're on with your life
your body just performed I mean
genuinely something amazing
and you weren't even aware of it
but your body is gonna
do whatever it takes to keep the blood in your brain
because you don't want to lose consciousness okay
if you lose consciousness
you've got a real problem
so the body has all these mechanisms to
keep the blood in your brain
despite gravity pulling it down to the ground
so what happens in pots okay
so there's sort of two um
different pictures to pots
so I'm gonna go through both pictures
so in the first picture you have adrenal glands
they're kind of worn out okay
they've been overworked they're struggling they're
they're they're they're lagging they're sluggish okay
so then when you stand up they're a little slow
they're a little slow on the on the uptake
and they're slow to release those hormones
so your blood vessels don't get the message to tighten
and your heart doesn't get the message to pump harder
and then the blood just doesn't stay in your brain
and so this is where you have this extreme right
I'm like spinning I'm woozy whoa
everything's going dark people will have a
sensation that they're going to faint
and at the extreme end
you absolutely can faint that can absolutely happen
and and just by the way
the way that this curtain comes down over your eyes
it's not actually happening in your eyeball
it's in the back of your brain in your visual cortex
okay when the blood drains out
that part of the brain loses its fuel
and the lights go off okay
so that's what that curtain is
it's not actually occurring in your eyes
so in the second picture
this is where the adrenals are actually over stressed
and they're on high alert okay
so this is where when you stand up instead of this very
you know a subtle cascade right
just the right amount at the right time
your adrenals are like oh my goodness right
it's like a panic response
and they blast your body with these hormones
so now you've got a pounding heart
when you've got that adrenaline and noradrenaline
you're gonna you know
you got the pounding heart you can start to feel shaky
you can start sweating
you might feel a little nauseous
people might think they're actually having a panic
attack because it's a sensation
very similar to a panic attack
so you know
your heart's pounding and you know
you're sweating
and you're kind of feeling nauseous and
you know really woozy and you're thinking
you know what's wrong with my heart
am I having a stroke right you know
it can get very frightening
so two different pictures
one person's adrenals are doing too little
and the others are
the other person's adrenals are doing too much okay
but both of them are telling us the exact same thing
the adrenal glands are not in a state of health
why are the adrenals struggling
that would be the next obvious question right
someone who's experiencing this
they go in they try to get it sorted out
and unfortunately and unfortunately
it it can be years
before people are told by a medical doctor
you know what's going on
you have this diagnosis many times they're dismissed
they're given antidepressants
or anti anxiety medications
you know it can be a real
real nightmare for people to get help
in the conventional space
and then you know
so once you get this diagnosis
it's like well
how did this happen right
and so this is where the official sources just sort of
throw up their hands so
if you go look up pots on one of the big
respected medical websites
and I mean the most prestigious names in medicine
and you read their write up on pots
you'll find that they essentially call it a mystery
they really don't know what causes it
it's just one of those things
and frankly that's a mystery to me
because I just walked you through
the known physiology of the circulatory system
the known biochemistry of how the adrenal glands work
it's in the textbooks
the very same textbooks those doctors studied
they go through the very same scientific training
I went through they Learned this exact physiology
and then when the class ends
they close the book and they never open it again
so the patient walks out
being told that
nobody knows why this is happening to them
and think about what that does to a person right
when the authority when the doctor
tells you
that your body is doing something frightening
and no one knows why the message you walk away with is
my body is broken my body is defective
my body is doing weird
random things that even the experts can't explain
and you know
does that sound familiar this is exactly
the message that so many women with chronic migraines
always get
my body hates me you know
my genes are bad there's something wrong with me
it's not true
so let me answer the question that they call a mystery
why would the adrenal glands stop doing their job
correctly
it comes back to what I call the three principles
the three things your body needs to restore your health
and maintain your health
and these three principles apply
at every level of the body
the whole body
individual organs even individual cell
so the first principle is
that we have to get the nutrients that our cells need
to the cells so
your adrenal cells cannot
manufacture adrenaline out of thin air
they need specific nutrients to build that hormone okay
we don't make adrenaline out of Starbucks
Frappuccinos and unicorn dust
you can open a biochemistry textbook
and read the list of what we know
I'm sure there's discoveries yet to be made
but you can read about what we know
about what nutrients are required
so if an adrenal cell doesn't have those raw materials
when you stand up off the couch
it can't make the hormone properly
it's going to do the best it can with what's available
but you know it's not gonna be optimal
it's not gonna be functioning in this wonderful
beautiful symphony that it's supposed to be playing
it's gonna be playing kind of a kind of a clunky
clunky tune okay so that's not just one cell right
imagine most of the cells
in your adrenal glands are running short okay
you're not going to have the response that you need
so the second principle
to restoring our health
and maintaining our health is we have to
clear metabolic waste material from the cells
and get it out of our body okay
so every time a cell does its job
and it builds something like a hormone
and it releases it into the bloodstream
it generates waste material
I call it metabolic waste material okay
so it's like a workshop producing sawdust okay
that sawdust has to get carried out of the workshop
or pretty soon
we're not going to be making high quality woodwork okay
so that waste has to get carried out of the cell
and eliminated from the body
and moving things in and out of the cell
just itself takes resources okay
you you have to
pump a lot of things in and out of the cells
and those pumps require nutrients too
so a major pump is called a sodium potassium pump
so that's one of the major pumps
that use potassium and sodium to run this little pump
that moves things in and out of the cells
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
when the waste material can't get out of the cell
the cell gets clogged up
when the cell is buried in its own trash
it doesn't work right in fact
it can get kind of irritated
and twitchy and hypersensitive on a hair trigger
which is part of why you get that overreacting adrenal
picture
the third principle is that this
we have to restore and maintain our resilience
and vitality so at the cellular level
our vitality corresponds to the cellular voltage
the cellular energy
at the most basic level a healthy cell
holds a tiny electrical charge across its membrane
a real measurable voltage
as a cell gets if we want to say less healthy
that voltage drifts it declines
they've actually measured this
and the cell then stops running at full capacity
so again
if I only have 50% of the electricity on the wire
to my lamp and I turn the lamp on
the bulb is not going to burn as brightly okay
so
when there's lowered intracellular voltage or vitality
it's not like the cell just stops working totally
it does the best it can
with the energy that it has available
but it's it's not going to be optimal
there's just no way around it
so when those three things are in place
the adrenals do their job
you stand up to check your phone
and you don't have a second thought about it
when one or more of those three things is missing
then the adrenals can't keep up and you get pots
you get pot symptoms okay
so this is not a mystery
this is a body asking for something that it isn't
getting
so how do you get deficient in the first place right
so here's the question that nobody asks
everybody wants to talk about the deficiency
you're low in this mineral low in that mineral okay
but how do you get that way
because that's the part that actually matters
if you don't answer that
you're gonna be chasing this forever
so let me name some of the players
so that this isn't too abstract
your adrenals your heart
your blood vessels to run that whole stand up response
they lean on minerals magnesium sodium
potassium Calcium
and a handful of trace minerals in smaller amounts
things like iron and zinc
and copper and manganese
that act like spark plugs for building the hormones
so you don't need to memorize this list
you just need to know that these are the raw materials
and a lot of women are running low on them
so how does that happen I want to give you two reasons
and like most things here in medicine
they're hiding in plain sight
so the first reason is
stress is draining them out of you
so when you're under stress okay
like real acute stress so like
you know like you get in a car accident
it's very stressful um
or that low grade all day
holding everything together
kind of stress that so many of us live in
day in and day out
your body your adrenal glands pump out cortisol
and cortisol is we you know
we call it the stress hormone
you have to have cortisol to get through the stress
okay so
you know cortisol kind of has this bad name
oh cortisol
it's bad it makes you fat
you have to have cortisol to get through stress
and cortisol does something to your minerals
it makes you hold on to sodium
and it makes you dump potassium
so it throws off that whole mineral balance
sodium and potassium
they're what I like to call sister minerals
there are some minerals
that have to be in balance with each other
so not only do you have to have enough of
the individual mineral
two minerals have to be in balance with each other
they have to be in proportion with each other
so potassium and sodium these are sister minerals
Calcium and magnesium these are sister minerals
copper and zinc these are sister minerals
they have to be in balance with each other
you have to have enough
but they have to be in proportion
or balance with each other too
so what happens is that cortisol
disrupts that sodium and potassium balance okay
so the system
that's supposed to keep sodium and potassium
where they belong
gets scrambled when cortisol stays high
month over month year after year
so picture a woman who's stressed to the gills
running on adrenaline and cortisol never coming down
she's draining her minerals every single day
just by living the way she's living
nobody ever told her that stress
and her dizzy spells were connected
not because it's quote unquote
in her head and she should just calm down right
if you just calm down you won't be so dizzy
that's not what I'm saying
what I'm saying is
the biochemistry that connects these two
so the second reason is
you can't absorb the minerals that you're eating okay
and so this is the one that almost never gets mentioned
to pull minerals out of your food
you need stomach acid strong stomach acid okay
the pH of your stomach acid
should be one that will take paint off of a car
that's what you need when inside of your stomach
that acid is what breaks the food down
and freeze the minerals
so that your body can actually take them in magnesium
Calcium iron
zinc they all need that acidic environment
so no acid no absorption
so you can eat beautifully and still come up short
now
guess what one of the best selling categories of drugs
in this country is
drugs that shut down stomach acid
the little purple pill and all of its cousins
millions of people are on them
a lot of them for years sometimes decades
and no one ever revisits it
you get put on it and you just stay on it
and that's the part that should make you stop
these drugs lower
the very stomach acid
that you need to absorb your minerals
the FDA itself has put out a warning
that long term use of these drugs can drive
your magnesium down that's not me on a soapbox
that's the warning label the exact mineral
your heart
and your nervous system need to stay calm and steady
depleted by a drug tens of millions of people take
like it's nothing and it's not just the magnesium
the FDA also warns that long term use of these drugs
is linked to broken bones
osteoporosis related fractures of the hip
the wrist the spine
do you want to guess the leading reason why
the same thing we've been talking about
you can't absorb your Calcium without stomach acid
so shut down the acid for years
and you can't pull the Calcium out of your food
and your bones are where your body keeps its Calcium
so the bones pay the Bill
so same drug same root cause
showing up in a different part of the body
and here's what I always think
when I read those warnings
okay the FDA has warned us about magnesium
they've warned us about Calcium
but what about all the others
what about your potassium
your zinc your iron
don't they deserve a press release too
because they need that stomach acid just as much
so the FDA named the two that show up the loudest
and the fastest but the same drug
shutting down the same stomach acid
is starving you of all of the rest
they just didn't get their own headline
so don't think for a second
that the damage stops at the two minerals
that made the news and here's the real irony
why are people on these drugs in the first place
acid reflux heartburn
they feel the burn
so the Assumption is I've got too much acid
I need to shut it down
but a lot of the time reflux isn't too much acid
it's actually too little
when you don't have enough stomach acid
your food doesn't break down properly
so then it sits there and it
fermentation is the nice way to put it uh
it starts to rot let's let's be real
it's your food starts to rot
and it creates gas and pressure
and that pressure pushes acid up
where it doesn't belong so you feel the burn
the burn is real
but the root problem was actually low acid all along
and the fix that everybody reaches for
further shuts the acid down
you're treating a low acid problem
by making the acid even lower
and then we wonder why people stay stuck in this cycle
now please if you are on one of these medications
do not stop your medications okay
you need to talk about this
with your prescribing doctor
and these drugs need to be weaned off very carefully
and slowly because your stomach unfortunately
will come back with rebound acid production
if you quit cold Turkey and you'll feel even worse
and then you'll think you'll
oh I must need this right
unfortunately
getting off the drug isn't the whole answer either
if you don't actually restore your digestive function
if you don't fix
why your stomach acid was low in the first place
you're still gonna be miserable
even if you wean off the medication
the drug was never the fix
it was just the lid on the problem
and this is exactly why
taking supplements doesn't work okay
I get asked all the time well
why can't I just take a magnesium supplement
a potassium supplement I'll just take the minerals
and I understand why a lot of people think that
but look at what I just walked you through right
you can take these supplements for years
I'm sure if you're listening to this
you've been taking a lot of supplements
for a long time
but if you don't have the stomach acid to absorb them
what good are they
they they go right through you right
so you're flushing your money right down the toilet
and I I mean that literally
and even if you could absorb them
if your cortisol is still high
you're still draining
minerals out faster than you're putting them
into the bucket okay
so you can pour all the supplements you want
the bucket never fills
because it's leaking out of the bottom the whole time
so that's a major problem with the supplement approach
it assumes
the only issue is that the mineral isn't there
but the mineral
not being there is the end of the story
not the beginning the beginning is
why can't you absorb it and why are you draining it
fix those and the minerals from your food
start getting into your bloodstream
and landing and staying where they should
and that's what restoring your health requires
the bottle was never gonna do it
whether it was a prescription or a supplement bottle
so what does this have to do with your migraines right
so let me bring this home
because this is a migraine podcast
and you might be wondering why
I've spent all this time on blood pressure
and adrenal glands
so here's the question I want you to ask
if your adrenals can't do their job
if you've been suffering with these pots
symptoms yourself like so many migraine sufferers do
if your adrenals can't do their job
because you can't absorb your minerals
because stress is draining them
because the acid you need got shut off
then the obvious question is right
what else in your body is running
on those same minerals
what else is starved by that same drained out
can't absorb situation it's not just your adrenals
it's everything your adrenals
are just the part that happens to make you dizzy
when you stand up so they're easy to point at
but
the same shortage is hitting every system you've got
which brings us to your head right
so there's two reasons why this matters for your
migraines first
those same three principles
are what's behind your migraines too
so when I work with a woman who has both migraines
and pots type symptoms
I'm not running two separate projects okay
the dizziness the racing heart
the migraines the heartburn
whatever else is on her list
they're all coming out of the same deficiencies
in those three principles
so we go to work on the root
and what happens is
the rising tide lifts all the symptom boats
the symptoms start improving together
so I'll tell you something I see again and again
the pot symptoms
usually get better before the migraines do
migraines are a complicated event
it pulls in you know
the blood vessels the brain chemistry
the digestive symptoms sometimes the visual system
the adrenal picture is a little bit simpler okay
so it tends to come back online sooner
so I actually love it
when I have a client that has this dizziness
because it's such an easy thing for her to track
week to week you don't need a special machine
you just notice
was I dizzy when I stood up this week or wasn't I
it tells us if we're on the right road
so second and this connects to that documentary
that started all of this
that fight or flight response itself
is a stressor on the body
so when your adrenals blast you with stress hormones
that's a real physical event
and for someone prone to migraines
that kind of stressor
is exactly the sort of thing
that can tip you over into a migraine
so that's a what a lot of you would call a trigger
right but what I always say
the stressor isn't the root cause
it's the last little push
on a body that was already
struggling to keep itself in balance
so it's Migraine Awareness Month this month
and um
the awareness that I actually want from this episode
is this
so here we are a documentary
has put this word in front of the whole country
and the version of pots that everyone just met
is a very scary one and unpredictable one
a version that sounds like your body
is a danger to you and others
so I want to leave you with just the opposite
if you have pots or you have the symptoms of it
the dizziness when you stand
the curtain over your vision
the heart that races when you get up too fast
your body is not broken your body is not weird
your body is not a mystery
no matter who told you it was
your body is doing exactly what it's designed to do
with what it has been given to work with
it's asking you for something
and when you figure out what that something is
when you give those cells the nutrients that they need
help them clear what's clogging them
rebuild their voltage the adrenals come back
the dizziness fades and so often
the migraines start to lift right along with it
you are not doomed or defective
you have some correctable blockers
and deficiencies and missing pieces
that's it and once we know what they are
we get to work and you feel better
and if your doctor's answer so far has been a steroid
or a beta blocker those
those drugs manage the symptoms from the outside
they don't ask
why the adrenal stopped working in the first place
and that's really the only question
that actually gets you well
so be careful about the messages you tell yourself
especially this month Migraine Awareness Month
we're all being bombarded with the hashtags
and the messaging and so on
you have to be very careful about the voices
you let speak loudest you know
there's a kind of person who's always saying oh
you know you shouldn't do too much
you're not really the kind of person who can do that
be careful anything could happen to you
and then there's the kind of person who says
you know what
you can do this and you deserve to feel good
so when the internet is suddenly telling you
that a condition you live with is frightening
and hopeless
you get to decide what voice you're gonna listen to
and I think you know
which one I'd want you listening to
and that's what this podcast is here
so if you've got the migraines and the dizziness
and you're tired of being told
nobody knows why come find me
there's a link in the description book
a free call
we'll spend about 30 minutes on your situation
and we'll put a plan together talk to you soon