Posts Tagged ‘Migraines’

An article published in the 2012 March edition of the headache journal Cephalalgia, discusses a Taiwanese study that found a correlation between having erectile dysfunction (ED) and also having been diagnosed with migraines.

In over 5000 patients with ED, the odds of having also been diagnosed were 63% greater than in men without ED, and this was after adjusting for other risk factors that are associated with ED like heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol and alcohol abuse.

An interesting aspect of this research was that this increased risk of having been diagnosed with both migraine and ED increased from 63% to 98% in men between the ages of 30-39, an age group not usually associated with ED.

For men who suffer chronic migraines, the need to stop the pain and avoid a life of taking pain pills is enough motivation to explore options that prevent migraines. The possibility that migraines are somehow related to ED only provides another reason to explore all of the options

Curt Hendrix, M.S., C.C.N., C.N.S.

To learn more about safe, effective, non-drug migraine options please go to www.MigreLief.com

As women approach menopause, some are not plagued with the well know symptoms of hot flashes, night sweats, vaginal dryness, poor sleep, excitability, depression, poor concentration, fatigue, and some are to the point of distraction.

All of the symptoms are caused, at least in part, by the hormonal changes that are occurring during this phase of a woman’s life.

To deal with these problems many women’s physicians suggest going on hormone replacement therapy (HRT).
It is well known that HRT increases the risk of blood clots, strokes, and various cancers like breast, ovarian and uterine. Therefore, there is little to lose and much to gain by first trying natural alternatives that are supported by clinical evidence, before running the risks associated with HRT.

The natural medicines that seem to work best for many women are:

Black Cohosh 20 mg twice per day
Chaste Tree Extract 400 mg/day
Fermented Soy Foods – i.e. Tempeh, Miso, Natto. ( I am not in favor of soymilk, soy protein, or pill forms of soy isoflavones) *
Vitamin E succinate 800 IU per day
Maca – 2000 mg/day

Best of Health,

Curt Hendrix, M.S., C.C.N., C.N.S.

*Read about the possible dangers of consuming non-fermented soy products – Dr. Kaayla Daniel, author of The Whole Soy Story

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Curt Hendrix, creator of MigreLief, is interviewed on Lifetime’s Balancing Act.

Mr. Hendrix discusses causes and treatment of migraines, especially as related to women who suffer from migraine headaches.

More than 30 million people in the US suffer from migraines, and more than three-quarters are women. The key is not to treat the symptoms, but prevent the severe headaches from ever forming. We’ll show you how to do it naturally.  Watch The Balancing Act interview below.

Could there possibly be benefits to getting migraines?

We don’t know if this will help you to feel better during your next migraine, but migraine sufferers are much less susceptible to breast cancer. A study published in the Journal of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention- in 2009, found that migraine sufferers are 26% less likely to get breast cancer.

What we do know will make you feel better is not getting migraines in the first place. For those of you new to the MigreLief community, remember, MigreLief is all about PREVENTION.   We believe in stopping the pain before it starts!

Curt Hendrix, M.S., C.C.N., C.N.S.

Can you imagine the stress and pressure Kate Middleton and Prince William are under as they approach their Royal Wedding day?

Not limited to commoners, Kings, Queens, Princesses and Celebrities, all suffer from migraines. Queen Elizabeth I and II, King Henry the VIII, Princess Margret and some of the richest, most powerful and most famous, were plagued by the life disrupting phenomenon of MIGRAINES.  They could have been helped, find out how.

The World Headache Alliance published the following article that you may find interesting:

“Some of the world’s most famous and influential people—statesmen, military leaders, writers, painters, psychologists, philosophers, actors, musicians and sports stars—have suffered from migraine.

The Politicians

Roman dictator Julius Caesar and French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte suffered from migraine, as did U.S. president and principal author of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson. Both Robert E. Lee, Commander-in-Chief of Confederate armies during the American Civil War, and Ulysses S. Grant, the Union general who overcame Lee’s troops and went on to become U.S. president also suffered from migraine.

The Writers

Migraine has influenced the work of many writers, among them Lewis Carroll, Virginia Woolf, and Miguel de Cervantes. Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found  may have been drawn from the feelings of bodily distortion and light sensitivity experienced by some people with migraine.

Virginia Woolf’s works include A Room of One’s Own, Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. Cervantes is best known for his satirical masterpiece Don Quixote.

The Painters

Impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh is reputed to have suffered from severe migraines. Some speculate that his strokes of pure color were inspired by visual disturbances from migraine auras. Van Gogh’s works include some of the most acclaimed paintings ever created – Sunflowers, Irises and The Night Café.

The “Seurat effect,” a term used to describe the visual phenomenon of a scintillating aura, takes its name from another Impressionist artist, Georges Seurat. Seurat pioneered the pointillist technique of building up images from small dots of color.

The Thinkers

Sigmund Freud, the “Father of Psychoanalysis,” is thought to have suffered from migraine. Freud’s radical views challenged 20th century society’s view of itself and the world with his provocative theories on the psychology of human sexuality and dream interpretation.

The German philosopher and poet Friedrich Nietzsche was also plagued by migraines. Nietzsche, considered one of the most influential thinkers of the 19th century, produced many works during his short career. These include The Birth of Tragedy, Daybreak, The Gay Science, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Antichrist and The Will to Power.

The Entertainers

Musical legend Elvis Presley, actress and comedienne Whoopi Goldberg, British royal family member Princess Margaret, Denver Broncos player Terrel Davis, and actress Susan Olsen (Cindy Brady of Brady Bunch fame) are just some of the 20th century’s famous migraine sufferers.

Needless to say, if you suffer from migraine, you’re in good company.

Many migraines sufferers have tried many, many things to control this life disrupting phenomenon. Millions abuse pain pills in an attempt to get some relief.  But a lifetime of taking pills for pain is not a pleasant thought.

Preventing migraines by helping your body to cure itself, is an option that is not a dream but a reality. To learn more please go to www.migrelief.com.  You don’t have to be royalty or rich and famous to get the best information available and take back control of your life.

Curt Hendrix, M.S., C.C.N., C.N.S

Royals get migraines too!  Can you imagine the stress and pressure of being Kate Middleton who is about to marry Prince William in the Royal event of the decade? The enormous amounts of planning, meetings, decisions, paparazzi, reporters, wardrobe choices can easily cause a migraine and history teaches us that the wealth and power of being a royal is not enough to make one immune to these incredibly painful headaches.

King Henry the eighth, Queen Elizabeth I and II, all suffered with migraines.  Royalty is no more immune to these debilitating attacks, than are we commoners.

After having what promises to be, one of the most extravagant and fairytale weddings of all time, its hard to imagine a migraine causing the honeymoon night something less than fantasy perfect. Somehow, “not tonight, dear, I have a migraine” just doesn’t seem like an option.

Well there is some interesting research that Kate and all of you other women who may experience a migraine on a special night, should know about.

The often quoted saying “Not tonight dear, I have a headache”, implies that sex makes the pain worse.

Well, a Dr. James Couch, a professor of neurology at the Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, reports that several women patients have reported that sex actually helps decrease the pain of their migraines or makes them go away completely, in many cases.

 So Couch asked 84 other female migraines if they ever had sex during a migraine? 2 out of 3 patients reported that they did and 61% reported that they experienced some sort of relief.  This is pretty impressive since the prescription medicines known as triptans and sold as Immitrex or Zomig, achieve some benefit between 60-80% of the time.

What was even more intriguing was that more than 20% of the women reported that sex stopped their migraines completely!

Couch could only guess as to why sex had this favorable effect on some female migraine sufferers and also laughingly said, “I haven’t really figured out how to follow this information up with a more formal study.”

On the other side of things, professor Randolph Evan of the Baylor College of Medicine says that sex can trigger migraines in 10% of female migraine sufferers.

From the male perspective, 1% of men can actually develop a headaches that is known as “coital cephalalgia” (a fancy way of saying headaches induced by sex) but its uncommon and usually goes away.

But a much more common and real problem is the headache that can be caused by erectile dysfunction pills that men take, like Viagra and Cialis.

The bottom line is that sex may help certain migraine sufferers and it may cause migraines to occur in others.

Evans joking states, since migraines happen randomly and unexpectedly, using sex as a treatment certainly has its limitations, one just cannot grab someone in the office and tell them, “Hey, it’s a medical emergency.”

The real goal of chronic migraine sufferers should be to stop the migraines from occurring, not to spend a lifetime taking pain killers.  This may sound like a dream but in fact, it is reality for hundreds of thousands of women. Women, who had tried everything to take back control of their lives, only to be disappointed. If you suffer from chronic migraines, go to www.migrelief.com.  It will change your life forever.

Curt Hendrix

Researchers have found that between 51-82% of Bipolar II patients also suffer from migraines.

Conversely, patients with migraine had a higher frequency of affective disorder (47% versus 22% in patients without migraine) (affective disorders are emotional disorders like depression that occur with no visible abnormality of the brain) and a higher number of anxiety disorders. They were more likely to have panic disorder (51% versus 24%) and agoraphobia (58% versus 27%) than the patients without migraine.

Magnesium has been shown to help calm the mania of some bipolar patients.  Magnesium as it is found in MigreLief, has also been shown to help prevent migraine headaches.

For migraine sufferers who also suffer from bipolar disorders and for bipolar patients who are also experiencing chronic migraines, a safe and effective, magnesium containing, supplement like MigreLief may provide benefits for both conditions.

Curt Hendrix B.S. M.S. C.C.N. C.N.S.

At Last! Safe Relief for Children’s Migraines!
The First Natural Migraine Supplement Just for Kids – Children’s MigreLief

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 23, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — MigreLief, the first name in migraine prevention, releases a safe and proven effective supplement for children of all ages:

One of the hardest things for a parent to do is to see their child in pain.  Yet every day millions of parents must watch helplessly as their children suffer from debilitating attacks.  About one out of every ten kids, or nearly 8 million children in the United States alone, are plagued by what has become the most common acute and recurrent headache pattern experienced by children today.

“Be it supplement, OTC drug or prescription drug, Children’s MigreLief is the first and only therapy developed specifically for children suffering from migraine headaches,” explains Curt Hendrix M.S. C.C.N, C.N.S., scientist and creator of Children’s MigreLief.  These often incapacitating experiences strike suddenly and often with accompanying symptoms of nausea, abdominal pain and vomiting. Until now, the only option available was the use of side-effect prone prescription medications actually causing more migraines, known as rebound headaches. But Children’s MigreLief offers parents of children suffering migraines a safe nutritional option, with none of the potentially disruptive side-effects of prescription drugs.

Hendrix explains, “There is NOT one prescription drug approved by the FDA for use by children with migraines. The side-effects of these drugs are significant in adults and not an option most parents would want to subject a child to. Children’s MigreLief is the perfect solution… a vitamin, a mineral and a plant, all well known for their safety, efficacy and low side-effects to establish normal vascular function instead of a lifetime on pain killers and abortive drugs.”

MigreLief contains a patented “Triple Therapy” approach to reestablishing normal cerebrovascular tone and function that is disrupted in children who have migraines.  Nutritional deficiencies, inflammation, and vasospasm can independently and together contribute to migraine occurrence, frequency and intensity.  Children’s MigreLief contains the same “Triple Therapy” ingredients as MigreLief but with dosages and pill sizes adjusted to meet the needs of children.

MigreLief’s ingredients; Puracol, a proprietary blend of two unique Feverfew sources, Magnesium from two sources and high dose, highly absorbable Riboflavin (Vitamin B-2) have all independently been shown to be of significant preventive benefit to chronic migraine sufferers.

All MigreLief products are available in select pharmacies and online at MigreLief.com.  For more information and product samples contact sales@akesohealth.com.

About Akeso Health Sciences

Founded by Curt Hendrix in 1992, the company now Akeso L.L.C. is a family company dedicated to continuing research and breakthrough technologies for the development of patented supplements. Akeso has helped tens of thousands control their migraines to find new joy and peace in life and consistently delivers innovative, leading edge solutions for migraineurs worldwide.

Contact: Steve Hendrix sales@akesohealth.com USA (800) 758-8746

DISCLAIMER: (MigreLief™) is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or illness.  Please consult your licensed medical practitioner if you have, or suspect you may have, a health problem.

SOURCE Akeso Health Sciences and PRNewswire.com

Find out more about Children’s MigreLief.

Chronic migraine sufferers often report an increase in their migraine activity when traveling. Coming down with a migraine is never fun and especially so, when you get one while away from home.

What is it about traveling that can cause migraine flare ups?

Traveling can cause the following changes that can increase the likelihood of getting a migraine:

* Temperature fluctuations
* Barometric pressure changes and cabin pressures during flying
* Humidity changes
* Altitude changes
* Exposure to smokers
* Motion sickness
* Dehydration
* Disrupted sleep patterns
* Increased consumption of alcohol
* Travel stress

Flying and the related changes in cabin pressurization can cause migraines in susceptible individuals. Conditions inside pressurized cabins are similar to being in high altitude locations of 5000 feet or more. Many migraine sufferers will get bad migraines when they go skiing because of this change in altitude.

If you know that flying causes you to get a migraine, then you may want to discuss with your physician following the advice of Dr. Fred Frietag, a migraine specialist. Dr. Freitag suggests trying the drug acetazolamide which is used to treat altitude sickness and helps to prevent migraines caused by flying. Dr. Freitag mentions that tingling or transient numbness may be side-effects of this drug.

We can’t do much about preventing temperature, barometric, humidity or altitude changes but we can anticipate them. So if you know the weather forecasts in the city (s) you are heading for and they reflect the changes above, be sure to BE PARTICULARLY GOOD AT THOSE THINGS YOU CAN CONTROL:

* Dress appropriately, don’t allow yourself to get too hot or too cold
* Stay hydrated – dehydration cases lots of migraines
* Keep to your regular sleep patterns as much as possible
* Lay off the alcohol as much as possible
* Plan to avoid smokers – some hotels and restaurants still allow smoking
* Limit your exposure to the sun and wear a big brimmed hat and polarized sunglasses
* Comfortable shoes reduce stress

Finally, it goes without saying; don’t forget to bring your medications with you. If you have chronic migraines, you hopefully are on a prevention program. To learn more about that see www.migrelief.com.

Here’s to pain-free travel,

Curt Hendrix M.S. C.C.N. C.N.S.