So why don't I get them any more? Well, in one sentence:

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You should understand that I am not a "Medical Doctor" though I am studying towards a degree in natural health. I was trained as an Engineer to have a healthy curiosity as to why things work, and also why things don't work. Thus I have books and reference material on subjects that most people don't know exist. (& should they learn of them they probably wouldn't care anyway). So I have to know why a certain solution to a problem works so I can understand why another seemingly similar solution doesn't.

Women are afflicted more than men largely due to the effects of hormone levels on the blood vessels. Many women report the onset of migraines after some sort of hormonal shift (i.e. menses, pregnancy or birth control pills). [PLEASE don't take birth control pills]. Migraines are more likely to happen during phases of the menstrual cycle, especially ovulation. Many women who suffer from migraine headaches believe that they are a natural occurrence. In fact they are not. Migraines are always an indication of an imbalance in the body.

There are some things that can trigger migraines: Hunger, Lack of sleep, MILK. .exposure to glare, the odor of perfume, Sustained exertion, Long airplane trips, High altitudes, and changes in barometric pressure. Dehydration also causes headaches.  Next time you feel a headache coming on, try drinking a large glass of water.J

In his clinical practice, Dr. Charles Mossman D.C. found that migraine sufferers often have hormonal imbalances from liver toxicity or congestion as well as intestinal dysbiosis or leaky gut syndrome. Leaky gut syndrome is usually caused by an overgrowth of candida Albicans in the gut, which causes the wall of the small intestine to become permeable or leaky. As the liver becomes more burdened from this toxic waste, it loses its ability to assist in natural hormone processing. This in turn causes hormonal imbalances which trigger the blood vessel changes which cause the symptoms we recognize as Migraine Headaches.

Headaches (I assume you read my piece on headaches..) are often linked to toxic blood. Most Americans have toxic blood to some extent. If you feel fatigued, headachy, depressed, and drink coffee to get through the day, you are whipping (stimulating) your endocrine glands (usually the adrenal glands) to produce this false sense of exhilaration. Your sense of well-being is a mask hiding the truth. How long can you continue whipping the endocrine glands? Only until their inevitable breakdown. [This material is found in greater detail in "Food is your Best Medicine" by Henry Bieler M.D. 0-345-35183-5].

Toxemia is caused by improper foods. The organs are then forced to become emergency streams of vicarious elimination to discharge their toxic wastes. The endocrine glands are called into action to aid in eliminating toxic poisons from the system. If you fill your stomach with hot breads, hot dogs, chili, & doughnuts washed down with strong coffee, your liver cannot do its work. Whether your liver breaks down early or late depends upon how good an organ it was at birth. But break down it will, and when it is overloaded, or breaks down and fails to filter and neutralize toxins from the blood, an extra line of defense must come into play. This defense is carried on by the endocrine glands, which try to direct these toxins into other eliminative organs. The principal endocrine glands called upon for this effort are the pituitary, which lies at the base of the brain, the thyroid, situated in the neck, and the adrenals, which fit like a cap over each kidney.

These glands of internal secretion are then pressed into hyper function, forced to manufacture more of their secretion. However since the amount of each gland's secretion is in exact proportion to the volume of blood entering it, the gland is ENLARGED by this extra blood supply, which can often have disastrous physical consequences.

The pituitary gland, for example , does not have much room to swell, encased as it is in a bony cup at the base of the skull, directly behind the eyeballs. If this receptacle is small or deformed by rickets in early life, very little swelling can take place without creating a pressure on the gland within its box. Four different diseased states, all arising from a toxemia of the blood, can result from the pressure: MIGRAINE headache, the common type of epilepsy, acromegaly (tremendous overgrowth or giantism) and blindness.

There are many cases in his files of migraine and epilepsy in which the distressing symptoms have been arrested and the body restored to health. This was accomplished by taking the excessive dietary burden off the liver, which was then able to clean the blood stream and restore a balance between the pituitary, thyroid and adrenal gland. J

Dr. Joe Esposito believes that most of today's MIGRAINE headaches are due to ASPARTAME (found in diet drinks and foods). He has a pathologist friend who does autopsies on teenage girls who have died of BRAIN TUMORS. This doctor says that they are mostly ASPARTAME which has the unique ability to breach the blood barrier, but has trouble leaving so it accumulates there.. I have in my hand a small packet of "Sweet Plus" that pink packet found in restaurants. The label says " Use of this product may be hazardous to your health. This product contains Saccharin which has been determined to cause cancer in laboratory animals." (I had to use a magnifying glass to read it.) The little blue packet of "EQUAL" says No SACCHARIN, but does admit to containing aspartame. Now if you try and buy aspartame (the chemical) it will most likely come in a can with skull and crossbones on it, if you can find a legal outlet to buy it at.

I suggest that there is no reason at all for you to consume anything with aspartame in it. It may require reading the labels on your food (assuming you eat food with labels on it) since the largest aspartame manufacturer is owned by a drug company......but it can be done. Just because the Food and Drug Administration allows it to be sold doesn't mean that you should consume it..In the early 1980's the head of the FDA overruled his own expert advisory committee and approved aspartame for soft drinks and other foods. Shortly after that he left for a cushy job with...you guessed it, that same aspartame company.

WOW! You did it! got thru all that doctor stuff! J I guess you know what a migraine feels like, and might want to know how NOT to know it again.

Well, as noted in my mission statement, you have to take responsibility for your own health, and consult your doctor before embarking on any new and wondrous cure. That said, I personally would seriously question the advice of anyone who thinks that more fruits and vegetables, nuts and grains, might be detrimental to your health. I suggest that a serious search into these pages will assist you in developing a healthy skepticism towards the curative powers of drugs, herbs, and vitamin supplements. In addition, you may discover that what you presently consume at meals and in between is not FOOD, and may be the cause of many of your present and FUTURE troubles.

Just as a test, write down the date each time you have an attack so that you have a real handle on how frequently they occur. Then for twice that period delete all sugars and starches in your diet, replacing them with fresh raw vegetables in great variety. Drink fresh Carrot juice, Orange juice, Lemon Juice, Celery, Broccoli. Avoid foods containing "tyramine", such as aged cheeses (dairy), chocolate, hot dogs, bacon, and luncheon meats that contain nitrites. No MSG, no fermented foods..beer, red wine, MILK.., dairy products, yogurt, sauerkraut, yeast, brewer's yeast. Again note how long you go between attacks. If avoidance of PAIN drives you at all, you might find this simple test illuminating. Go directly to Elimination Diet.

By the way, I found this on the net:
As you may or may not know, aspartame (NutraSweet) is a dangerous neurotoxin that breaks down into very dangerous substances like formaldehyde and methanol (especially when it gets warmer than about 40 degrees). (For more info see www.dorway.com - great site, all the details.) or let me know and I can send you some stuff about it. Recently the FDA approved a drug for migranes that is called MAXALT(R) (rizatriptam bensoate) It also come in a sublingual tablet that you dissolve under your tongue. Guess what? Merck & Co., Inc., who make this stuff, say in their own company Press Release and I quote (emphasis mine), " Each lyophilized orally disintegrating tablet contains the following inactive ingredients: gelatin, mannitol, glycine, ASPARTAME, and peppermint flavor." They are giving a "medicine" to people to cure their headaches that actually may CAUSE headaches. Migraine sufferers, please beware!

Also note that if you have Coronary Artery Disease, you should not take certain anti-migraine drugs , according to a report in the journal "Circulation". In laboratory experiments, the migraine medications ergotamine, dihydroegotamine, methysergide, sumatriptan and similar drugs caused coronary arteries to constrict. If the vessels leading to the heart are already narrowed by disease, such an effect could result in chest pain and even a heart attack.

If you take things the names of which you cannot pronounce, the actions of which you do not understand, and the interactions of which are unpredictable, I'd say you have great faith.

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