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Hello everyone, welcome back to Just One Thing.
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I'm your host, Kat Bodden,
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and today's guest is Diane Ducarme,
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the founder and CEO of Migraine Heroes.
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Hi Diane, I'm so happy to have you with me today.
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Thank you for joining.
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Thank you so much for having me.
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Please tell our listeners how you work with clients.
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So I have a Migraine Heroes app,
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and every single day across the globe,
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I help people who suffer from migraine disease
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for anywhere between five years of their life
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all the way to 60 years of their life.
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Struggling with pain, it can be trembling sensations,
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dizziness, vertigo, losing their eyesight,
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seeing dots and prisms in their vision,
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having palpitations, a lot of night sweats,
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all sorts of sensations in addition to the migraine
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and the migraine attack and the migraine pain.
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And by adding foods to their diet,
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getting them back to a happy gut-brain axis,
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a happy vagus nerve, and in no more pain,
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which to them feels completely groundbreaking,
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following which we have engagements, we have promotions,
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and we have very sort of unusual course of life
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that happens, and that made me so happy.
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Oh, wonderful, I love it.
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Okay, so if you could inspire all of your clients
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to do just one thing every day to promote optimal health,
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tell me what your one thing would be.
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It's to follow your intuition,
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and that is valid for my customers
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and for those who are listening and are not customers.
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When you suffer from migraine disease,
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really follow your intuition.
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It can be the same way you'd think,
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someone advising me to drink more water is a stupid advice.
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In the same way, challenge,
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living a life of medication
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and taking medication every single day
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and cocktail of medications and going to the emergency room
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when I lose my eyesight, does that make sense?
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And am I born that way?
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Yes, I am born with a genetic predisposition for migraine,
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but is that not a fire alarm away from my body
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to communicate to me something?
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And so using your intuition to keep the hope in your mind
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that this is a temporary situation,
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that there is a solution out there,
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that it is feasible to heal and to get better.
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And using that intuition to see
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what else in my body is going on?
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What else is my body trying to tell me
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along my gut-brain axis, what else is going on?
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Are these migraines always occurring around my menstruation,
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before my menstruation, for example,
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or during, and what might be happening there?
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Or is stress a trigger, wine a trigger,
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cheese, chocolate a trigger, and should I pose that?
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Is this contraception really made for me?
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It feels my migraine increase,
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and even though I went to see my gynecologist
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and they think it's impossible that it's causing me migraine,
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my intuition is that it does.
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Well, then follow your intuition.
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Oh, I absolutely love that.
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And that's true for so many symptoms, not just migraines.
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You know, our bodies are so wise and so amazing.
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When we have symptoms,
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whether that's headache or pain or digestive issues,
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you know, it's our body trying to communicate to us
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that something's wrong.
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And unfortunately, you know,
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we both know the conventional system
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is just really set up to suppress these symptoms.
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We take an antacid, we take pain-relieving medication,
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we take antihypertensives that just really work
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on band-aiding the symptom and not getting down
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and addressing that root cause.
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And so I love what you say in that following this intuition,
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if we can really tune into and listen to our bodies,
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we can really help figure out what that root cause is.
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And sometimes along the way, things got complicated,
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but indeed you have to have the deep, deep faith
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that your body's completely logical.
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And even though you might not understand
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why these symptoms occur one after the other,
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why are you bloated all the time?
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Why do you have so many blood clots in your menstruation?
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Why is your menstruation turning darker and is now black?
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Why do you have cysts that come back on your ovaries?
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Why do you not digest well?
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And meanwhile, all the time you have migraine,
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start to put the two and two together,
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start to observe and start to see
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how can I get out of that situation?
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And the body is beautiful like that and incredibly logical.
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And it really, you know,
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kind of emphasizes the importance of symptom tracking
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because when we're sort of lost in the storm
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and feeling all this pain and discomfort and nausea,
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it can be hard to realize, oh yeah, okay,
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you know, maybe I'm getting a headache, you know,
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the week before I get my period or something.
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And that's where symptom trackers
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and types of fitness trackers can really help us,
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you know, analyze that data.
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And you have that in the Migraine Heroes app, right?
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So really a migraine hero is, you know,
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a person that takes in charge of life
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and decides for themselves.
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And so there's a free plan where you can just track
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and it's really important to track
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all of these symptoms in parallel.
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Even, for example, your bowel movements,
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are they very dry?
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Are they very loose?
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And that's gonna change how your gut brain axis
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and your vagus nerve is set up.
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And so tracking is incredibly important
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because it allows you to make connections.
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However, the female body is complicated
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to overlay the cycle.
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You might say, hmm, you know,
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I intuitively feel wine is a trigger for me,
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but the other day I had a glass of wine and it was fine.
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Whereas a week ago I did have wine and it was a disaster.
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And so you can really, truly,
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when you start to map the cycle,
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understand what on that day did your body have to prioritize
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and how did it prioritize?
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And this is where if you look at the data in a blank way,
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you might not see these patterns and appreciate them,
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but they're really drumming in the background.
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And so that's what we really specialize into.
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I also, it really strikes me how
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on the Migraine Heroes podcast,
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we have people testifying and say,
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look, I went to see every single specialist.
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I went to see everyone who wrote any book
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and they were not able to help me.
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And in the end, she was different
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and her approach was completely different.
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And I added foods in my life and oh my God,
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I just feel so, so much better.
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For example, a woman saying I have liquids inside my ear.
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I can feel it, but I go to every ENT
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and they tell me there is nothing in your ear.
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I had a woman saying I have like masses inside my face
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on the left side and I'm trying to describe it to doctors,
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but with an MRI, we can't see anything.
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And how to truly for us,
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listen to the intuition of these people
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because they give us the answer where the problem is.
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So it's not just for you, it's for us together
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then we're able to guide you and say,
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oh, it's quite simple, this is how you correct it.
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Thank you so much for sharing so much depth of insights.
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This is exactly what it is.
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And I think maybe we should be in the West as doctors,
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like maybe a bit more modest.
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We've been on the moon in 1969.
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That's a long time ago, half a century ago.
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And yet we have to apologize to some women and say,
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I am sorry that I can't decrypt these very common things
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that you're experiencing.
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We're running a bit behind
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and we're doing our best to come together.
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Thank you for saying that.
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Okay, Diane, if people would like to find you
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and find Migraine Heroes,
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where is a good place for them to look?
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So you can hop on your app store and download
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or Google Play store and download the Migraine Heroes app.
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You can go on Spotify or on Apple podcast
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and hear Migraine Heroes podcast
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where you'll hear a lot of stories.
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I really encourage you to do your due diligence
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and because you've probably done a lot of different things
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to get rid of your migraine before.
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And it's always a lot of hope and then deception.
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And we want you to feel safe and taken care of.
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Then you can go on the MigraineHeroes.com website
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where we have a plethora of beautiful testimonials
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strictly focused on migraine disease
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with just so much love and so much joy for me
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and for the 14 of us that are working on this.
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Thank you so much.
