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Is Menopause or Peri-Menopause Increasing Your Migraines?
Is Menopause or Peri-Menopause Increasing Your Migraines?
I was recently researching information about women and menopause-related migraines to pass on to you. From an experience standpoint, many women can tell you that around peri-menopause and during menopause it is possible migraines will increase in frequency and intensity. Conversely, for some women, once menopause either begins or ends, migraines may disappear.
However, a new study has found that migraines worsen as women approach menopause. According to Vincent Martin, M.D., a professor of internal medicine in the University of Cincinnati’s Division of General Internal Medicine and co-director of the Headache and Facial Pain Program at the University of Cincinnati Neuroscience Institute, “Women have been telling doctors that their migraine headaches worsen around menopause, and now we have proof they were right.” It seems that the risk for high frequency migraine, or more than 10 days with a headache per month, increased by 60 percent in middle-aged women with migraine during peri-menopause. Peri-menopause is, as you know, the transitional period into menopause marked by irregular menstrual cycles.
10 Top Vegetables for a Healthy Diet
So, what are the “10 Top Vegetables for a Healthy Diet?”
If you are making a huge effort to lose weight, then I would suggest you definitely include vegetables in your diet. As well as helping you lose weight, vegetables play a huge role in good health. Also, if you want to get your body into shape or tone it up to make it look better, you definitely want to make sure you make vegetables a part of your daily diet.
Research also tends to suggest that eating nearly eight servings of vegetables every day increases the immunity power in your body to ward off any harmful diseases such as heart problems, diabetes and cancer.
Here’s a list of 10 top vegetables for a healthy diet:
Could Exercise Help You Prevent Migraines?
Could Exercise Help You Prevent Migraines?
We have briefly discussed in the past, the effects of exercise on migraines. I am a huge proponent of regular exercise as a prophylaxis for migraines. This has been such a “migraine reliever” in my own life.
Today, I would like to go into this in a little more depth, and find out what your general routine exercise is.
According to the American Headache Society, regular exercise can reduce the frequency and intensity of headaches and migraines. The AHS states that “When one exercises, the body releases endorphins, which are the body’s natural painkillers. Exercise reduces stress and helps individuals to sleep at night. Stress and inadequate sleep are two migraine triggers.”
Is Inflammation Hindering Your Weight Loss?
Is Inflammation Hindering Your Weight Loss? Are you battling a weight problem or feel tired and sick most the time? This could be the result of chronic inflammation. Inflammation in the body contributes to many debilitating, chronic illnesses such as arthritis, heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and even cancer.
Chronic inflammation occurs when your immune system’s “switch”
seemingly is stuck in the “on” position. At that point, it’s as if a war is raging on your body’s cells and unfortunately this can pack on the pounds, especially around your waistline – not to mention the other damages done to your body.
It is my belief that the best way to combat chronic inflammation is through diet. I often put my clients on an anti-inflammatory diet consisting of high-quality proteins, bone broth, vegetables, healthy fats, fruits, and nuts. This type of diet helps to put out those raging fires inside causing the inflammation. Recent research finds that eating this way not only helps protect against certain diseases, but it also slows the aging process by stabilizing blood sugar and increasing metabolism.
Could Vitamin Deficiency Be Causing You The Distressing Pain of Migraine?
Could Vitamin Deficiency Be Causing You The Distressing Pain of Migraine?
I hope this week that my fellow migraineurs out there reading this have had a good and migraine-free week. For those who do not suffer with migraines or even chronic headaches, they cannot “feel” the appreciation we have for those migraine-free days. I hope not only did you have a great week last week, but hope next week will be an amazing, pain-free week for you.
Those who suffer from migraines know how extremely painful and debilitating they can be with the severe, intense and recurring throbbing pain, combined with visual disturbances, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, extreme sensitivity to light, sound, smell and touch, and tingling or numbness in the face. Migraine is classified as one of the top 20 of the world’s most disabling medical illnesses. As migraineurs, we can appreciate how prevalent it is and yet, for being so “common” it is another one of those diseases with not clear cure.
4 Hormone Tips to Control Cravings
4 Hormone Tips to Control Cravings
I wanted to run a little scenario by you this week to help you understand how hormone balances can affect your daily lifestyle. So let’s run through a possible “Day in the Life of [Your Name].”
Today is Monday. You knew you were going to try to have healthy week, so you spent the weekend clearing out your cupboards and pantry, throwing away all of the ‘bad’ foods, doing your grocery shopping for your healthy alternatives, and then preparing your meals for the week. You are so proud of yourself because you feel really great anticipating that this is going to be a ‘good’ week. You have everything planned out, and you feel prepared. You are determine that your diet is going to work this time.
You go about your daily routine and by 10:00 a.m. everything has gone as planned and you are ready to eat your mid-morning snack, but before you know it, you are called into a meeting and as you have been summoned to be there quickly, you have to leave your healthy, natural snack on your desk. Before you know it, hunger sets. Still, what can you do? You can’t leave this important meeting — you’re stuck.
Now it’s 1:00 p.m. and you are starving. All you’ve had so far is the breakfast you ate at 7:45 a.m. It’s been over five hours since you ate. You just don’t know if you can manage to eat quickly enough, but as you think about that great salad you made, you realize you have lost the excitement you had about your beautiful homemade lunch. You are so hungry that a salad just isn’t going to get it for you. What a dilemma. Still, as hungry as you are, you decide you will just have to forego the salad and head out for the nearest cafe where you have more than you should to eat – and on top of that, not the most healthy choice. Still,with your stomach rumbling, and your intense hunger, you just have to get something “more substantial” inside you. So you justify it with the fact that you missed out on your snack and you had a stressful morning with that emergency meeting.
Fad v. Fact Diet Confusion
It is quite obvious from advertisements, news reports, emails, and the Internet, that there is no shortage of nutritional information available. Unfortunately, there is more misinformation than good, solid information. How do we wade through this mountain of information and decide what is fact and what is fiction? As consumers, how are we to determine what nutritional practices are effective, and of this which are effective, how do you adopt such practices to improve and support overall health and well-being? For us to sort all this out, the easiest way is probably to start by shifting the focus of daily diet habits from restrictions of what to eat and what not to eat, to a more common-sense and lifestyle-change approach. It’s the “Fad v. Fact Diet Confusion!”
5 Simple Lifestyle Tips for Migraine Relief
As you are probably well aware, migraines are the type of “headache” that can be accompanied by nausea and/or vomiting, sensitivity to light, sensitivity to noise, along with other symptoms – and all ending in throbbing, intense pain on one side of the head. Some people have an aura, which is a group of symptoms which are like a warning signal for those who have it prior to the actual migraine beginning. An aura can include flashing lights, wavy lines, tingling and visual disturbances as well as other symptoms. Some people who suffer with migraines also report problems with their minds, such as an inability to focus and a feeling of “fuzziness.” It has been reported that some people find this to be more disabling than the pain itself. Each person has a slightly unique set of symptoms and pain levels, but what migraineurs well know, whatever the degree and extent of the symptoms and pain, they are definitely debilitating and affect their lifestyle and ability to function properly. Personally, besides foods, I find stress and weather to be the most typical trigger for my migraines. Yet my sister, who also suffers with migraines, finds hers are only triggered by stress. Whatever the cause, it is important to know the triggers in your own migraine experience, so that you can learn what to avoid to minimize the frequency of your migraines. 5 Simple Lifestyle Tips for Migraine Relief
4 Signs Your Diet Isn’t Working For You!
I am sitting here thinking about this blog and I realize that as I am writing this, April is almost over. I cannot believe that May is next week. 4 Signs Your Diet Isn’t Working For You! How has it been going for you with your diet and with your goals this year? At the beginning of the year, we make our New Year Resolutions, and determine we are going to do this and that this year. Sometimes, it doesn’t take long before we are not doing what we intended to, and are struggling to get back on track. Sometimes, we try our best to lose weight and get on a better eating plan, but we are struggling.
The Stress Effect on Migraines
The Stress Effect on Migraines. As you know, April is Stress Awareness month. For those who suffer with migraines, stress is one of the most prevalent migraine triggers there is. Unfortunately, in today’s society, with the busyness of our lives, stress is something we don’t seem to be able to avoid. Yet, as migraineurs, we certainly need to learn how to deal with our stress so that we can minimize our migraine intensity and occurrence.
7 Diet Myths Debunked
7 Diet Myths Debunked. As a Board Certified Health Coach, when I give or class or talk with a client, I like to emphasize that better nutrition is actually simple. On the whole, people tend not to believe this until they have tried it and get into their own routine.
There is so much information “out there” that frankly, it can be very confusing. In a way, we are on “Google overload” as things are so readily available on the Internet and most people when they research, can find several different theories or ideas. Yes, it can be very confusing. Some of the things we read about are just common myths which have become so pervasive that they seem to be everywhere. The bad thing about that is they often derail many people’s attempts to lose weight.
5 Ways to Treat Hormonal Migraines Naturally
Talking as a female, I am sure you too sometimes feel as if you are on a hormonal merry-go-round. When your mood-improving estrogen spikes, you feel great and can “conquer the world.” On the flip side, when your levels are low, you find yourself facing imbalance to the chemical and systems of your brain, which results in migraines and headaches. Below are 5 ways to treat hormonal migraines naturally.