How is migrane related to food intolerance?
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I have migraines and have tried to learn as much as I can about what causes them. For me, it's a combination of food triggers, stress, and hormones. There is a book that helped explain this that I got at my library called Heal Your Headache by David Buchholz, MD. I recommend it because it was the first book that explained most thoroughly what I can do to prevent my headaches.
I have to watch MSG and artificial sweetners. I am finding MSG is in EVERYTHING (it seems). I have to read EVERY label of what I eat because even a little MSG is enough to trigger a migraine, especially if there are other triggers going on at the same time. MSG also goes by other names, most commonly anything autolyzed or hydrolyzed.
Dark chocolate will also trigger migraines for me as will a sharp change in the weather (like one of the rare storms we get here in the desert where I live). I recommend you learn as much as you can about what causes YOUR migraines. Read online and library books.
Best wishes...
It could be an allergy. I know someone who use to get Migraines all the time. Until she cut Gluten out of her diet. I was a slow process. Where she cut foods out of her diet to see what happened.
A lot of migranes are triggered by foods: chocolate, bacon, etc. The food list is fairly long. It is the right place to start treatment
Women also tend to get migranes much more frequently... due to harmones.
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