What if we could help people with migraine find lasting relief? This is the story of how Migraine Heroes began, and how it grew into our mission: helping one million people with migraine find lasting relief.
Diane's sister found herself in a situation that's unfortunately familiar to many people with migraine: three MRIs, no answers.
At the time, Diane was living in Shanghai, where she knew Dr. Yifang Zhang. She reached out, and together they helped Diane's sister address the underlying patterns contributing to her migraine — using food.
Word spread. First friends. Then friends of friends. What began as helping one person quickly became something much bigger.
The pattern
The more people Diane worked with, the more complex migraine became. Every person seemed different — different symptoms, different histories, different patterns.
4
years of close work
400+
people worked with
At first, Diane thought helping people would be much simpler than it turned out to be. Instead, it took four years of working closely with more than 400 people to understand how much the details matter, and how personal migraine really is. Dr. Zhang's guidance was critical throughout — every single person in the early years, and now the most complex cases.
“Finding relief wasn't about applying the same solution to everyone. It was about understanding each person well enough to know where to begin.
That insight became the foundation of Migraine Heroes.”
The work
For years, Diane worked directly with people suffering from migraine, one person at a time, refining the approach through thousands of conversations, observations, and experiments.
The product
Only much later did she begin building technology around that work — first through the podcast, then through the Migraine Heroes app — with one goal in mind: making that experience available to many more people than would ever be possible one-on-one.
People who experience migraine often notice things in their body that too rarely get taken seriously. We believe paying attention to those signals — and sharing them — is an important part of understanding what’s happening beneath the migraine, and knowing where to begin.
No two people experience migraine in exactly the same way. The combination of patterns, symptoms, history, and circumstances is unique to each person — and shifts. That’s why static solutions often fall short.
Your Migraine Insights help us identify where to start. From there, the picture gets richer as we learn how your body responds over time.
We see the relationship with our members as a partnership. We share what we’re seeing, explain why we’re making recommendations, listen carefully to your feedback, and adapt as we learn together. The goal isn’t simply to follow a plan — it’s to help you develop knowledge you can keep using long after the program ends.
Lasting change comes from simple habits and practical routines, not strict rules or blanket restrictions. Our members continue to shape how we build Migraine Heroes every day.
Founder
After working one-on-one with more than 400 people suffering from migraine, Diane founded Migraine Heroes to make migraine relief accessible worldwide. She studied business and neuroscience at Harvard Business School and HarvardX, graduated from the Academy of Healing Nutrition, and trained in traditional Chinese medicine in Shanghai alongside Dr. Zhang.
Clinical Authority
A traditional Chinese medicine practitioner with more than 35 years of clinical and teaching experience, and the author of six books on healing and nutrition. Dr. Zhang's knowledge has shaped Migraine Heroes from the very beginning. She continues to work alongside Diane and our practitioners, helping us understand complex cases and deepen our understanding of migraine.
Holistic Health Practitioner
Certified by the Academy of Healing Nutrition, Hélène combines traditional Chinese medicine with deep individual attention and care. She is passionate about understanding each person’s unique story and helping them find greater balance, resilience, and relief.
MA in Counseling Psychology
Dulcie joined Migraine Heroes as a member herself. The program changed her life, taking her from almost daily migraine to being able to work full-time again. That’s why she chose to join the team, bringing her expertise in trauma and the nervous system. Her work directly addresses the connection between migraine and emotions like anxiety, stress, and anger.
Customer Service & Operations
Irene helps keep Migraine Heroes running smoothly behind the scenes. From operations to member support and everything in between, she is often the person making sure the right things happen at the right time.
Product & Strategy
Hélène met Diane at Harvard Business School nearly two decades ago, and followed the evolution of Migraine Heroes from its earliest days. While working at Google, she supported the project from the sidelines. When the time was right, she left to join Migraine Heroes full-time, to help bring Diane’s work to many more people around the world.
And alongside them is a broader team of engineers, designers, editors, and specialists working behind the scenes to share knowledge, build better tools, and help more people find relief. Everyone on the Migraine Heroes team is united by the same mission that brought this company into existence.
Our mission
Every week, we hear from people whose lives have changed.
Drive without fear
Enjoy a meal out
Travel
Make plans
Say yes to things they once avoided
Those stories are what drive us.
We're working to make this approach available to more people, continue learning about migraine every day, and contribute to a future where migraine is better understood, taken more seriously, and approached with more possibility.
