Headache Relief: Foods That Help, Foods That Trigger | Dr. Neal Barnard Exam Room LIVE Q&A
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🗓️ 11 January 2024
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Summary
What can help a migraine headache? What can remedy an ordinary throbbing headache?
Dr. Neal Barnard discusses how to find relief and prevent headaches through your diet on The Exam Room LIVE.
From foods that help to foods that hurt, everything on the road to headache relief is on the table when he joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room LIVE.
You'll also discover why blueberries may be the ultimate dietary remedy for migraines during The Power Foods Focus segment.
Topics
- Tension headaches vs. migraines
- Dairy increases risk of migraines
- How to identify foods that trigger headaches
- Foods that can relieve headaches
- How to eat to prevent a headache
- Ginger and migraine relief
- Headaches from alcohol
- Hydrating foods that may help headaches
Dr. Barnard is the author of The Power Foods Diet: The Breakthrough Plan That Traps, Tames, and Burns Calories for Easy and Permanent Weight Loss.
This episode is sponsored by The Gregory J. Reiter Memorial Fund, which supports organizations like the Physicians Committee that carry on Greg’s passion and love for animals through rescue efforts, veganism, and wildlife conservation.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. We did a migraine research study here. We brought in people |
| 0:07.2 | suffering with migraines day after day and I will never forget one of the very |
| 0:10.7 | first participants was a law student and she was in law school here in DC and she came in and said I can't study |
| 0:18.2 | I can't focus some days I can't go to class because I've been up all night with a migraine. She changed her |
| 0:24.1 | diet. She identified her triggers in exactly the way that we described. Totally |
| 0:28.7 | migraine-free, never had another migraine, and then entered her legal career feeling like she had power, she just never anticipated before. |
| 0:35.6 | So I'm saying this because I don't want people to be modest, thinking, oh foods will do a little bit. |
| 0:40.1 | Foods will change your life. Chuck, you've seen it, I've seen seen it. I just want to make sure that everybody knows they can put that to work |
| 0:52.4 | Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:57.0 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 1:00.0 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us coast to coast and around the world in great cities like Tampa, Florida, Arveda, Colorado, and Shenzhen, China. |
| 1:11.0 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 1:15.7 | This is episode 7 of season 7, number 506 overall. |
| 1:22.2 | So let's get into it. |
| 1:24.0 | Pounding, throbbing, right between the eyes, splintering pain. |
| 1:30.0 | From migraines to the day to day. We are talking headaches and dialing up relief on the exam |
| 1:38.0 | room because headaches are something that we all get from time to time and they can be major disruptors. |
| 1:44.8 | The kind of thing that can turn a good day sour in a flash. |
| 1:49.5 | And whether it's a crippling migraine or just an ordinary tension headache, nobody wants them. |
| 1:55.6 | Nobody needs them. |
| 1:57.2 | And today we are on the hunt for some natural Tylenol, so to speak, with Dr. Neil Barnard. |
| 2:04.1 | He joined me this week on the exam room live. |
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