hi I'd like to discuss some natural
remedies for migraines with you today
and the purpose of this if this video is
not to ignore all the advice you've been
giving by health care professionals by
your doctor by chiropractors by
neurologists about what medication to
take it's just something that you can do
in addition to possibly taking a
medication hopefully you create a bit
more degree and high degree of control
over your migraines
now migraines is a very common condition
and it's estimated one in seven people
suffer from migraines from time to time
severe or Majerle but definitely suffer
from migraines and for doshi who do not
know my brains are essentially a very
very intense headache often located one
side of the skull sometimes behind the
eye as well is associated as well with
with nausea with vomiting with
sensitivity to light and so he can't
stand bright light you can't stand sound
either so often people struggling with
migraines have to retreat and go into a
dark room and lay there until the
episode of migraine has has passed and a
lot of times people also have this aura
and that can differ from from from
individual but a common one is when the
visual field really becomes really
really narrow and it looks like someone
can only pee through or beep through a
keyhole
and that's that's about the visual field
that they have and so those are quite
quite common signs for migraines now we
know some triggers and with those
triggers I'm trying to give you some
natural remedies for the migraine so one
of the trick is that we know exist with
migraines is food so we know the
chocolate we know alcohol and we know
cheese there's a few more quite
individual ones but these ones are
common ones so the first thing you need
to do or you should be doing is maybe to
keep a food diary and see what kinds of
food you've eaten and see if the
migraine just followed eating a certain
type of food that that's the easiest way
to to determine if food is a trigger for
you the second one is is a stress stress
really can and bring on a migraine as
well especially if you're acceptable to
my brains anyway so you need to have
some stretch come
adding therapies or some relief so
meditation is a very very good one focus
on breathing often when people are
stressed they tend to breathe high up
and adjust and not from the tummies so
that's like a chest breathing and that's
a tummy breathing so lay on your back
bend your knees and really put your
hands on your tummy and really trying to
breathe from your tummy and that will
help to alleviate some stress as well
what both will helps you leave the edge
well maybe going out for a run do some
exercise all of them think and help you
with it dealing with them with stress as
well there's recently some studies have
been have been published that show that
there's a link between digestive
problems and migraines are you talking
for example about IBS irritable bowel
syndrome or celiac disease now in case
of IBS irritable bowel syndrome you
could try something called
the foot map diet FOD and ap foot map
diet and that tends to calm down the bow
and hopefully by doing so you can
control your your migraines a little bit
with with that another trigger that we
know are hormones so imbalance of
hormones estrogen dominance can lead to
two migraines when you have an on sort
of migraine during your menstrual cycle
I mean that's obviously big a big
trigger that you think okay actually
hormones do actually play a big part in
this as well when you've got some
migraines during your pregnancy or
postpartum and when you had a migraine
that began or stopped when taking birth
control pills I mean all these things
pinpoint to a hormonal involvement with
your migraines now there are a few
things you can do you can you can
control partly controlled East region
level by eating some foods which are
rich in East region and will give you
the top six foods for that ranking from
high in concentration of East region to
lower concentration
number one is tofu and you can try tofu
number two what you can try and take is
flax seeds sesame seeds is number three
soybeans is number four who moose number
five and number six is garlic you can
try and add those foods to your diet you
see that makes a difference with your
migraines if you know there's a hormonal
component
responsible for margins with with with
you v trigger and we is a trigger that
we call audio Pathak which is very
unfortunate but we just don't know
what's causing it so there's nothing to
do about that one vi trigger which is
also a known one is is the neck then
that can also play a massive role in in
in in my grains especially imagine when
you're sitting in front of in front of a
computer and you hunched up and your
shoulders touch your ears and there's
tension in the back of your neck and
then there's an irritation going on in
the neck and the muscles here the nerves
being pinched and that can also trigger
a migraine and that's something that we
can help with as chiropractors we can
lose your neck off we can if we can
adjust it we can do some gentle traction
and we can release some tension the
muscles giving you some stretches for
example one the stretches we could do it
is a stretch for your trapezius and when
you hold on to the in this case I'm
holding to the right wrist and put them
a right shoulder down and I'm tilting my
left ear to my left shoulder and I'm
holding it for 10 seconds and I'm
stretching out my upper trapezius muscle
on the right side here so I'm holding it
for 10 seconds I do 10 repetitions and I
do 3 sets the same the other side so I'm
putting down my left arm here by pulling
on my left wrist and I'm going to my
right side right ear right shoulder and
the same thing 10 repetitions hold off
for 10 seconds and repeat 3 times
another thing we can do as chiropractors
is is what we call medical dry needling
which is a very effective technique to
release tension top of your neck and and
top of your shoulders it's it's it's
it's acupuncture medical medical dry
needling works really really well for
this as well so that's something we can
help you with to do I mean postural
improvement is something in the help
people walk around like this the whole
time postural improvements are
strengthening the muscles between your
shoulder blades and make sure you're
nice and upright and take and take
regular breaks if you're sitting in
front of computer take regular breaks
every every 25 minutes now there are two
more supplements you can take
specifically for migraines which are
vitamin b12 which is RIBA flavin take
400 milligram daily for at least one
month
ideally for three months you can really
if it's made a difference for you the
other supplement you could take
specifically for migraines is ginger and
it's about a thousand milligrams a day
and ginger tends to help as well with
nausea and vomiting
so those remedies those supplements you
can take specifically for migraines and
there's three anti-inflammatory
supplements you can take as well so they
generally help with inflammation in the
body they might help with migraines as
well which is tumeric you take about a
thousand to two and a half thousand
milligram per day to help you to get an
anti-inflammatory and the inflammation
in your body you can use EPA fish oil
take about a thousand to two thousand
milligram daily and the last one I can
recommend is magnesium because magnesium
is a muscle relaxant and it's also
anti-inflammatory and how would you say
take what's only take what's on the on
the bottle good I hope you found some
some value in this I hope will help you
with giving you a high degree of control
of your migraines and wish you the best
of luck with us bye-bye