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13/01/2026

🍎 Did your "healthy" lunch just trigger a migraine?

It’s not necessarily what you ate, but how it hit your bloodstream.

When your blood sugar crashes (reactive hypoglycemia), your brain enters a state called neuroglycopenia. It panics, releasing stress hormones that trigger neuroinflammation and pain.

The Golden Rule: Flatten the Glucose Curve. ❌ Don't eat "naked" carbs (fruit alone, plain toast). ✅ Dress your carbs with Fats and Proteins (add nut butter, olive oil, or eggs) and never skip meals

Save this post to remember your lunch tomorrow! 🥑

12/01/2026

For Clinicians: Learn with Jake Cook and I about Vestibular Migraine on Feb 1st 2026

Don't miss the early bird discount.

Register at www.beyondmigraine.co.uk/seminars

11/01/2026

How can you predict a migraine? 🔮🧠
Ever have a day where you’re suddenly craving chocolate like crazy, you’re yawning every five minutes (even though you slept fine), or you’re unusually irritable with your family?

This is called the Premonitory Phase of migraine. Yes, the migraine has already started. It’s the "warning phase" that can happen hours or even days before a migraine hit.

Most people ignore these signs, thinking they’re just having an "off day." But these are actually neurological shifts. Your brain is already in a migraine cycle; the "storm" just hasn't fully arrived yet. If you can learn to spot your unique warning signs, you can often take steps to dampen the intensity of what's coming next.

This is one of the reasons you get a digital toolkit in the Beyond Migraine Navigator Program to help you track and identify these signs before they overwhelm your system in a full blown migraine.

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09/01/2026

Why the migraine brain hates the shopping centres. 🛒✨

Have you ever wondered why a trip to the grocery store feels like it triggers a "crash"? For someone with Migraine, the brain's ability to filter out irrelevant information is compromised.

In a healthy state, your brain ignores the flickering fluorescent lights and the movement of people in your peripheral vision. But the Migraine Brain has no "dimmer switch." It takes in everything at 100% volume. This sensory overload overloads the system, leading to that "spaced-out," dizzy, or nauseous feeling. You want to focus on widening that "filter" so you can navigate the world without your brain hitting the panic button.

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04/01/2026

Why do I get dizzy after I eat a big meal (and your stress). 🍳📉
Because Vestibular Migraine is a metabolic disorder as much as a neurological one, your brain is incredibly sensitive to "fuel" changes.

Ever notice your dizziness spikes when you skip a meal, or after a night of poor sleep? That’s because a migraine brain has a very low threshold for fluctuations. When your blood sugar drops or your stress hormones spike, the "vestibular" centers (balance centres) of your brain—which are already sensitive—are the first to lose power.

This is why finding the'Why' behind the 'Dizzy' is so important. Is it your gut? Is it your hormones? Is it inflammation? If we don't fix the fuel, the balance exercises won't stick.

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01/01/2026

For the brain to work effectively the cells have to be in a possition to work effectively. This means we require a baseline metabolism to allow for our cells to addapt to demanding conditions.

This has important implications for rehabilitation and recovery and why we place particular emphasis on strengthening your baseline metabolism in phase one of our Navigator program. It also forms a large part of what we focus on when we work with other clincians in our seminars.

You see your body parts doesn't work in isolation. Many, many complex interactions happen every second in every single cell, when all those processes combine in a symphony of activity we have optimal conditions for rehab. This is why sometimes you don't feel well after treatment. It isn't that the treatment was wrong, it's just that they cells in your body, your metabolism was not able to take on the stimulus provided.

This is why we have to ensure we address both neurological and metabolic factors in your recovery. Sometimes when we start to focus on the small things the larger things take care of themselves.

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30/12/2025

When we can harness the power of our brain we expand our world and harness our potential.

To do that we have to train our brain but more importantly we have to give it what it needs to recover.
1. Fuel
2 Oxygen
3.Stimulation and
4.Nurture it by not poisoning it every day.

Where does one start this journey?
Where do we begin when our brains feel broken?

We start small, with what seems insignificant changes. One less cup of coffee, a few nights without booze and a little walk after dinner.

Small changes compound over time and before you know it you will look back and realise you are now a different person in control and thriving.

29/12/2025

For Clinicians: Learn with Jake and about Vestibular Migraine on Feb 1st 2026

Don't miss the early bird discount.

Register at www.beyondmigraine.co.uk/seminars

27/12/2025

What talks about here is so true. I rarely come across a migraine patient that doesn't consume way too much carbohydrate.

High carb diets particularly for breakfast sets your metabolic clock into a constant insulin see saw which has an impact on every system in your body, particularly your brain and hence migraines.

One of the first things we have to fix is that baseline metabolic function. Giving your body the opportunity to heal.

This is step one of our Navigator program, and the topic of our seminar on insulin resistance for clinicians.

We gently start the transition so that you understand why we do this and so that you can make the changes gradually in a way that you can sustain this indefinitely.

Once you start feeling the changes, you realise the potential you never knew you had. Life gets easier and migraines fade and you become the best form of you.

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22/12/2025

Thank you Dr Hyman for reminding us how important food is.

Look, I like food more than the next person, believe me. So the question isn't what should I eat or drink? The question is what signals do you want to send your brain.

Let's be realistic. It's Christmas, we are going to have that glass of wine and extra mince pie. What you're signaling your body is that this is a change from normal, a little tax on normal processes but this is the key, it's temporary and short lived.

BUT....when we send these signals all the time our body will not be able to cope with your brain's demands. So the important thing is really to understand that this signal must be short lived and ......worth it.

That means when you choose to enjoy a Christmas treat, don't let the guilt of that mince pie haunt you. You had it, you enjoyed it, you understood the signal you sent and that is perfectly fine

The key is to recognise that the next signal and the one after that are ones that heal not harm and in this way your brain will have an opportunity to navigator the festive period.

15/12/2025

Christmas happens in the kitchen, the mince pies, ginger bread, turkey and who can resist the Christmas pudding?

So many of our memories about the Christmas holiday centres around food. Good food shared with people you love represents joy and satisfaction.

It's no secret then that food is also the key to what makes us healthy. Too little we starve and too much we become unhealthy.

We are unique in this period of human existence that we also have to think about what we eat not just where to find food and this is especially true for those of us who suffer with migraine.

Migraine is profoundly impacted by our food choices because food is just instructions for our metabolism. When we send the wrong signals with food our metabolism can't build the right instruments to work effectively.

That is why we focus on making small changes consistently gradually rebuilding your cells capabilities from the inside out.

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