Migraine Building Blocks: Nutrition and Hormones

• Flipped Classroom: 9.25 Hours
• 3 Day course: 25 hours

In order to effectively treat a migraine, you must understand how nutrition and hormones play a roll in the migraine condition, and how to solve those problems.

• • Triggers and their role in migraine – Do triggers even exist? New research tells us why traditional wisdom may be a diversion from the actual cause.
  • Nutrition & Migraine – Learn everything, including genetic components, of nutrition in migraine.
  • Ketogenic, Atkins, Fasting, Vegan….what is the best diet for migraine??
  • Omega 3’s and their effect on episodic migraine
  • Caffeine – A harmful and helpful compound. How do we use it clinically
  • B Vitamins – What are the vitamin correlates?
  • Genetic base of nutrition, is there a method to the food sensitivity madness??
  • Month by Month nutritional guidelines for successful migraine outcomes
  • Antioxidants – Dealing with inflammatory aspects of migraine
  • Sodium intake – How and when to use salt as an adjunct for treatment
  • Vitamin D deficiency and migraine – What are the vitamin D correlates?
  • Stress & Hormones – How does stress effect migraine? Find out how to test and interpret lab results and prescribe proper protocols.
  • Menstrual related migraine – What can be done and why is it currently being done wrong
  • Stress and migraine chronification – How to stop the downward spiral
  • Estrogens role in migraine – Learn how the females hormones play a role in the migraine condition.
  • Trigeminal alterations in menstrual migraine patients
  • The effect of puberty on migraine
  • Laboratory testing of stress hormones – Learn exactly what tests are worth ordering for stress hormones and which ones to skip.
  • Interpretation and protocol development of HPA Axis dysfunction

This class is the 2nd part in a 4 part series. To learn more about the entire Mastering Migraine Program, please click here.