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We teach you how to heal your own migraines

Mark overcame his migraines and chronic illness and has spent the last 6 years incorporating homeopathic medicine, holistic lifestyle coaching, nutrition and environmental medicine to help others.

02/01/2024

It's a common belief that the progestin and estrogen that you receive in hormonal birth control are the same as your body's estrogen and progesterone, but it's not.

It's also a common belief that poor hormonal function and low hormonal levels which are brought up to normal physiological ranges with hormones that are bio-identical to your body's hormones are somehow bad...

Most of it comes from misinformation and providers who are not adequately trained on how to utilize hormone replacement in their patients.

Even worse, most people, men and women are told that their hormones are "fine" and are not and are experiencing the symptoms and side effects of hormonal function that slip through the cracks of diagnosis, never getting the proper care they need.

Do you trigger regularly with your cycle, but when you asked your provider about it they said your hormones look "fine?" Or worse, they never even tested you?

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01/30/2024

Why is it that every time I work with a client and we go and trace back to when the problems started it is always a major life event like puberty, school, work, relationships, children, or an accident?

Why do you think?

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01/27/2024

What is histamine?

It's a normal creation by our body used to run many reactions like allergies, digestion, and immunity.

But what happens if we start developing in our histamine-managing systems?

What happens if our immune system becomes overactive in releasing histamines?

What happens if our mast cells become so overactive that they continue to degranulate and release histamine into our body without control? (Known as MCAS)

Histamine and other amines like tyramine can be a big problem for some people and one of the most common symptoms is migraines and headaches.

They even did a study and found that people with migraines had lower levels of DAO or diamine oxidase which is an enzyme that helps to break down histamine and tyramine in the body to prevent it from causing problems.

But this may not be everyone's problem, and this problem may be secondary to something that actually is a big problem for our immune system causing our immune system to go on overdrive.

Many migraineurs find taking antihistamines to be very helpful and while relief is welcome, long-term use of antihistamines may be a risk factor for neurological conditions like dementia.

This means we want to be careful with bandaid fixes which allow us to ignore a deeper problem that may be going on below the surface.

Always try to look at the root of the problem and use managing strategies only as needed.

Do you find antihistamines help you?

Have you tried a low-histamine diet? Low tyramine diet?

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01/25/2024

Whenever I ask someone what they think the dominant s*x hormone for women is, they ALWAYS say estrogen...

And estrogen is a massive player along with progesterone, especially at certain times of their cycle and pregnancy.

But testosterone is still a magnitude higher and consistent ALL throughout their cycle.

Testosterone is an incredible brain-supporting, inflammation-fighting, regenerative and feel-good hormone.

We want to feed and support our production of testosterone because it fights many of the harder aspects of our lives like aging and recovery.

One of your most important physiological tissues, especially if you want to feel and function well into your later years, is testosterone.

Do you want a really good marker of how healthy and vital you are?

Look at your testosterone.

But there is a caveat here, like anything health related....

Testosterone that comes from conditions and diseases(like pcos) is not the same as the testosterone that is created from your lifestyle.

What supports healthy testosterone?

Rest
Vigorous movement
A balanced whole-food diet
Regular activity
Sleep

And manage that inflammation.

Are your hormones battling you every month? This may look like triggers before, during, or after your period.

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01/22/2024

What's the best way to get our vitamins and minerals?

From our food!

But if we have severe deficiencies then our food is likely not enough.

Our metabolism and the energy needed for every one of our cells to function is super nutrient intensive.

When we want to ask more from our bodies, like during times of stress, we need to offer our bodies more, in terms of nutrition.

But we don't just need more energy that comes from our proteins, fats, and carbohydrates....

We also need the micronutrients that allow us to use that energy, and build and recycle our tissues.

The problem is that we all have varying requirements for these nutrients, with some of us experiencing 10-100x higher requirements (I'm looking at my chronic warriors).

Have you ever thought you may be low in a nutrient?

One of the most common nutrient deficiencies with migraines, headaches, and our society in general is magnesium which falls into the mineral category(separate post).

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05/12/2023

Here is a pill

Then when that doesn't work, here is a different pill.

Then when that doesn't work, here is an injection.

Then when that doesn't work, here is a surgery.

If your healthcare providers are not actively screening your mental, emotional, dietary, and lifestyle behaviors, you simply have a dealer.

Your body is speaking and telling you exactly where to look and what to change, it screams through the symptoms it creates, from pain to depression to digestion.

If after a healthcare appointment, you are no better at listening and responding to those signs, then you have been done a disservice.

I don't want to tell you all of your appointments have been a waste, but if you are honest with yourself then you can be the one to do so.

Let's reassess how we go about perceiving our illnesses, not as machines with pharmaceutical deficiencies, but as dynamic living organisms.

What have your flares taught you that your healthcare providers have not?

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05/09/2023

What you feed will breed.

Unclench your jaw, loosen your face, drop your shoulders, and release your stomach.

Thoughts and emotions are held in our bodies, so make sure to shake them out regularly.

If that is too hard, then make sure to shake them out 3 times a day.

The more engrained an unhealthy patten is, the more vigilant you should be about not letting it stay with you.

Do not let your unresolved emotions spoil and poison inside you.

Choose what you want to be and what in your life you want to see.

Then program yourself with it.

You are constantly running on programs that were set in your past, and the more you have run them the easier it is for them to run.

So choose the new thoughts, feelings, actions, and programs you want to run

And actively and consciously engage in them until they become like every other thought feeling and action you have.

Fight for your state, it is the only thing you actually have and the only thing you can use to affect yourself and those around you.

What traits are you trying to develop?

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05/05/2023

How often have you had to enter a crisis to really be able to receive the gift that was only possible on the other side of it?

We all have to go through the cocoon, often over and over again.

Don't struggle through it

Prepare yourself for the time when you can act

Make yourself ready for the situations you have power in

Do not regret or remorse the moment

Save yourself because your time will come.

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05/03/2023

It's a very common and normal experience for me to meet with clients who simply do not believe that they can heal, overcome their circumstances, and be free of pain and symptoms.

If you adopted the reductionist allopathic model of medicine, your beliefs may lead you to think this is the case with your own health.

But this is only one way of understanding health and illness.

The result? Look at the skyrocketing rates of chronic diseases today and you have all the proof you need that this system does not work.

Even worse, this system has become so profitable and corporatized that it is against shareholder interests to cure disease, since the management of disease is so much more lucrative.

Ask anyone that is stuck inside of the insurance-based healthcare system how effective their solutions are for fatigue, hormones, obesity, pain, or immune issues...

Not only is it doing all of us a disservice as human beings who have survived millennia in the most apocalyptic conditions known to man...

But it is doing a disservice to you, as an individual that is trying to find answers to your health, answers that allow you to stop triggering, to stop paining, and to stop being chronic.

You cannot heal, and you cannot even begin to heal, if you do not believe in your ability to do so.

You must not only believe in your ability to heal, but you must believe in the ability for YOU to be the effector of change in your own life.

What is health and healing? It is finding the belief in yourself again.

I believe in you and will continue believing in you until you believe in yourself.

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04/27/2023

Who and what are you strong for?

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04/24/2023

The personal care product industry is largely unregulated and many of the substances used are intended for utility over health outcomes.

The number of synthetic, toxic, and endocrine-disrupting compounds finding their way into our bodies and affecting our health continues to grow.

Many of these can be triggers or contributors to the high trigger levels that may provoke headaches or migraines.

In this article, I cover 5 commonly used products we have data showing they may have problematic compounds as well as some of the specific compounds like phthalates that we want to avoid.

What personal care products trigger you? Fragrance used to be horrible for me and walking by the cleaning products aisle in the grocery store was a death sentence.

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Mark overcame his migraines and chronic illness and has spent the last 7 years incorporating natural medicine, holistic lifestyle coaching, nutrition and environmental medicine to help others. These people suffer from a wide range of acute and chronic illness but chronic migraines have come to the forefront of his focus.

He knows first hand that migraines are not just headaches and that being listened to, acknowledged and accepted for where we are is the forefront of dealing with migraines. He has created step by step programs to allow the body to heal itself so that migraines are no longer something the body needs to express. Most programs focus on teaching the basic and advanced principles to self care that doctors skip so that you can have a pain free head. Each and every patient is treated like what they are, a real human being. Sometimes our doctors and even ourselves can forget that we are whole beings who require whole approaches to health and not just empty promises from drugs that end up doing more harm than good. This is why we at Migraine Professional use a holistic, integrative and functional approach so that every health plan is made according to what each patient has the time, energy and resources to put into action. Mark rejects conventional medicine and believes that healing takes multiple areas of approach not just drugging patients and forgetting about the cause of migraines.