These two chronic symptoms have many root causes and triggers. I am still in the progress of writing this page.

Migraine Headache:

#1. Gluten and Dairy Food Sensitivity – This is the Gut and Brain Axis connection. What is happening in the gut is triggering your migraine to occur via the vagus and enteric nervous system (second brain). Why dairy? At the molecular level, these two are almost identical long amino acid peptides. This is the major problem for my migraine headache attacks I have had for 25 years until I discovered the brain-gut connection. If you have SNPs called HLA and HLA DQ2 genes, we are not talking about Celiac Disease (autoimmune problem) but food sensitivities to gluten and dairy. You can order 23&me saliva genetic testing and plug the raw txt file into TrueReport (Nutrigenomics Report) $29- to get the long genetic report contains 250 SNP’s. I consult with my patients based on this report not only migraine headaches but many other findings. This is the eye-opener report for many of my patients in order to prevent diseases from occurs in the future.

#2. Hypersensitivity – mostly light (photophobia) and smell. I highly recommend ordering two pairs of glasses made by TheraSpecs. One for indoor used when you are at the front of the computer and the phone and other pairs for outside use include driving. This eyewear reduces migraine frequency, relieves photophobia and protects from fluorescent and blue light triggers. These are articles from PubMed (NIH)

#3. Mold, Heavy Metal, and Environmental Toxicity – If my patients do not see any or very little progress with dietary changes like GF/DF, this is the next step for me to drill down my investigation. These are the tests out of pocket but it is worth the penny if we are able to narrow down the root cause “what’s really triggering it?”. This ND’s story is very compelling. Her triggers were not from the diet, but environmental toxins and her genetic mutation. Please read her article HERE is you are interested in.

Cluster Headache – This is the worst headache imaginable. Often they have pre-attack symptoms like aura and people has cluster headache are also dealing with various sensitivities includes light sensitivity I posted above as well as severe neck stiffness and some have severe nausea and vomiting. I highly recommend people who have cluster headache to get a pair of theraspecs eyeglasses for outdoor and indoor when you are at the front of computer or with iPhone, cut down gluten & dairy, sleep extra hour, apply a drop of peppermint oil on the area pounding (Pranarom is my favorite essential oil company from France. You can purchase from rosemarysgarden.com). This is TheraSpecs Cluster Headache article.

Vertigo:

#1. Vestibular Migraine Headache – I have many patients, mostly women between 30-50, came to see me with this diagnosis with the symptoms of vertigo or dizziness and disequilibrium symptoms might be caused by this type of migraine or some people are told they have Meniere’s disease which is an autoimmune disease problem with the inner ear. Some people have migraine headaches with aura. I found this article very interesting. Please check it out.

#2. Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) – often caused by an ear infection and patients are often told it will go away in a few weeks by itself and chances are you may go to see a physical therapist 2 x / week to learn the semont maneuver exercise. What I recommend is to avoid getting high oxalate foods. BPPV happens when tiny crystals of CALCIUM carbonate in your inner ear become clogged and float to other parts to it. Those patients might have had frozen shoulder, gout, or other big joint issues due to calcium carbonate stiffened the tissues around the joint. Please visit my page “Oxalate Toxicity“. Definitely cut down the DAIRY intake and you should not be driving until the dizziness is gone.