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Migraine — Does a body good?

Nutrition with Judy
3 min readAug 7, 2020

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If you suffer from migraines, the best medicine might be to simply ride out the migraine.

Yes, migraines are more than debilitating but they may just serve a purpose in healing.

What do you do when you twist your ankle?

You take it easy. Your ankle swells, and the inflammation and pain cause you to rest the ankle. Let the body get to work while you rest. Because healing takes time, even though during that time, you can be in a lot of pain.

I have a client that suffered from migraines. Hormonal changes and stress always made them worse. She also noticed that fungal issues and yeast symptoms worsened during this time. When she started working with me, instead of focusing on migraine medicines — as, over the years, her migraines were getting worse — we focused on healing the gut.

Sometimes an imbalanced gut (dysbiosis) can result in toxins from the gut congesting the liver. Our liver is one of the main detoxification pathways, and we need a healthy functioning liver to properly detoxify any toxins in the body (and why I am not a fan of detoxing before strengthening the body first!)

Toxins run through the blood vessels and the lymphatic system. These toxins can irritate these pathways of circulation. When a part…

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Nutrition with Judy
Nutrition with Judy

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