Pharmacist Explains The Everyday Habits Quietly Triggering Your Migraines

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Learn about migraine triggers and what causes migraines with the science of how to prevent migraines and stop a migraine before it starts!

In this video we explore what causes migraines and discuss the migraine threshold theory to explain why your headaches might feel so unpredictable. I break down the most common migraine causes by looking at dietary factors like aged cheeses and nitrates, as well as environmental factors like weather changes and blue light. From understanding how build up leads to an attack to discovering how to use a migraine diary to spot the causes of migraines in your own life, this guide provides the clinical insight you need to stay below your personal threshold and manage migraine headache causes more effectively every single day.

What you'll learn:

-The Migraine Threshold Theory: Why migraines are usually caused by a cumulative build-up of triggers filling your "trigger cup."

-High-Risk Dietary Triggers: How tyramine in aged cheeses, nitrates in cured meats, histamines/tannins in red wine, and aspartame can trigger attacks.

-The Role of Caffeine & Skipping Meals: How caffeine withdrawal, excessive intake, and blood sugar dips send stress signals to the brain.

-Environmental & Lifestyle Triggers: The impact of barometric pressure shifts, fluorescent light flicker, screen strain, and post-stress "let-down" periods.

-How to Keep an Effective Migraine Diary: What to track daily to spot subtle patterns before an attack starts.

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WHEN TO SEE YOUR DOCTOR ABOUT MIGRAINES:

See a GP if your migraines are severe, getting worse, happening more than once a week, or are hard to control. Get urgent help if a migraine lasts longer than 72 hours, aura symptoms last over an hour, or if you’re pregnant or have recently had a baby. Call emergency services immediately if you have a sudden, extremely severe headache or symptoms like vision loss, confusion, difficulty speaking, weakness on one side, a seizure, or after a head injury, as these may indicate a serious condition.

REFERENCES:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11916-018-0734-0

https://www.scielo.br/j/anp/a/8dGbJR6MJRfR9pvdxNBgFVs/?lang=en

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0149577

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10072-012-1046-5

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11916-014-0454-z

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 - Why your migraines feel completely random

00:24 - The Migraine Threshold Theory (Why triggers stack up)

00:46 - Dietary triggers such as aged cheese, chocolate, red wine and more

01:46 - Environmental triggers: Sleep, lighting, weather, and screens

02:16 - Stress build-up vs. post-stress "let-down" migraines