2025 Expert Guide to Migraines: Triggers, Treatments & Tools with Dr. Asare Christian, MD
The Root Cause Medicine Podcast
Kate Kresge
4.8 • 581 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Root Cause Medicine Podcast, Dr. Kate Kresge welcomes Dr. Asare Christian, MD, a pain medicine and rehabilitation specialist, to explore the complex physiology of migraines and how a root-cause or functional medicine approach can transform treatment. They discuss the various triggers, including hormonal fluctuations, gut health, inflammation, and environmental toxins, as well as innovative natural therapies, supplements, and device options that empower patients to take control of their headache management. This conversation offers a comprehensive view of migraine care beyond conventional medications, emphasizing education, prevention, and personalized strategies for lasting relief.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the root cause medicine podcast. |
| 0:03.5 | There's all of these other things that drives migraine. |
| 0:05.9 | So let's figure out the root course. |
| 0:08.2 | When you have the root cause understanding, you can do a lot more about migraine besides just blocking the signal, which is where the medicine is taking place. |
| 0:16.1 | What is creating that signal? |
| 0:17.7 | We can go after that. |
| 0:19.1 | Well, hello there and welcome back to the root cause medicine podcast. I'm your host for today, Dr. Kate Kresgey, and I'm joined by Dr. Asari Christian, a physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist and a specialist in functional medicine, and he's here to talk about migraines. Now, as any clinician knows who treats migraines, migraines are not just headaches, they affect 14% of the world's |
| 0:37.5 | population, and they are the leading cause of disability among women worldwide. |
| 0:42.8 | Migrants are tough to treat, but thankfully there are some new advances, and Dr. Christian |
| 0:46.6 | is here to teach us about them. From neuromodulatory devices to nutrient therapies, herbal |
| 0:51.3 | medicine therapies, and even root cause diagnostic workup, |
| 0:54.6 | there's a lot that's happened in the last few years that you may want to know about if you |
| 0:57.9 | treat people with migraines. He's also going to share some inspirational and hopeful case |
| 1:02.0 | studies with us about patients that he's been successfully able to treat using a combination |
| 1:06.6 | of both conventional and natural therapeutics. If you want to be on the leading edge and help your clients get better from migraines, |
| 1:12.8 | this episode is for you. |
| 1:14.7 | Before we get started, though, I've got a special question for the practitioners in the audience. |
| 1:19.0 | What if your supplement dispensing, patient education, and treatment planning all lived in one |
| 1:23.8 | powerful platform designed for whole person care? |
| 1:27.2 | And better yet, what if that platform was free for both you and your clients while saving |
| 1:32.2 | you hours of time on administration each week? |
| 1:35.4 | Well, meet full script, the comprehensive care delivery platform designed to reduce administrative |
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