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Welcome to the Migraine Heroes Podcast, a podcast where we share real stories from real
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people suffering and battling with migraine disease.
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In this podcast, we seek to provide support, hope, holistic health, advocacy and inspiration
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for those who suffer from migraine disease.
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So in this podcast, I want to talk to you about food and how adding food to your diet
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can help de-trigger, untrigger, prevent and abort migraines.
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And before we go into that, I want to share with you a really special story that is quite
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interesting is when I got started, people put me in touch with an investor.
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He was a man, quite an older man who had invested in a lot of what is called unicorns. So companies
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that are extremely successful and therefore had made a lot of money with it.
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And he had for me three advice.
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The first one was on food.
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At the time, I had 56 foods in the database and his advice was, oh, 56 foods is very complicated and
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it's going to add complexity to your business.
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I suggest you make that 10 foods only and you create these beautiful boxes with beautiful
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packaging so that people can have a placebo effect with their sort of migraine.
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The second advice he had was you try too hard on difficult cases.
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You should let them down and not serve them.
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And the third advice he had was your online test is 30 questions.
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No one answers 30 questions.
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This is way too long.
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Fast forward five years later, I decided at the time that person, even though they were
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very smart, they were trying to make money. And most importantly, they were really not
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understanding what a migraine was, what people were suffering about.
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And while he was interested in making money, I was interested in making a difference.
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I was interested and excited by solving the actual problem.
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And I knew that 10 foods would never solve the problem.
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Today I have 727 foods, functional foods and functional foods combination that we add
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to people's diet in order to de-trigger, untrigger, abort and prevent their migraines.
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And I'm glad I didn't go with someone like that because it would have compromised what
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I was trying to do.
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So let's talk about foods.
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The foods that we work with, you can find them in Western supermarkets, Asian stores,
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Amazon, online ordering.
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You can have them in organic form or frozen form or dried form.
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It doesn't matter that much.
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We find that regardless of the quality of the ingredients, we can always get there.
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Now, what we do, which is really unusual, is we add foods.
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You see, while a lot of people will remove foods to remove their migraines, we actually
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If you remove foods for a minute, and let's talk about elimination diet, you go on an
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elimination diet and you say, I no longer drink, for example, or I no longer have cheese.
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I no longer have chocolate.
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I went gluten-free.
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I went dairy-free.
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I am on a keto diet.
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I am vegan, although that's not very usual for someone who suffers from a migraine disease.
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Let's make one more probable.
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I am on a histamine and tyramine-free diet. People will remove food.
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They will remove things that they have rightfully identified triggers their migraines because
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it's easier to see a short-term trigger.
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A short-term trigger is a food or substance that you will inject and will give you a migraine.
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And so as they identify them, they remove them, which is a smart situation.
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If I take an analogy, it's a little bit like you had an employer and your employer was
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not able to complete all of the tasks in a single day because it didn't have the capabilities.
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So the way you solve the problem and the acute problem is you say, I'm just going to give
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And what basically you're saying is, dear liver system, I can hear that you have a lot
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I can hear that you really struggle.
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I am going to deload your amount of work.
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And in many ways that makes sense.
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However, what we do is the exact opposite.
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What we do is trying to say, dear liver, I can see your struggle.
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I can see you have a long to-do list and you struggle to get your to-do list done.
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What I'm going to do is I'm going to give you more budget, more resources, more training
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so that at the end of the day, your to-do list is completed.
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And we're going to do that with all of the systems that require help inside the body.
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And so the foods that we work on are going to be added to help those systems.
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So at the base, you have your genetics and those we can't change, they're given.
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But on top of your genetics, you have imbalances.
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And these imbalances are what we're trying to correct by adding food.
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With migraine disease, we only have each other to make a difference.
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If you know of someone suffering from migraine attacks, share this podcast with them.
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Now you might say, Diane, I have this impeccable diet.
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Honestly, I live like a monk or like a nun.
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I'm an instructor.
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I'm a nutritionist myself.
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I eat superbly well.
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I always eat in season, organic.
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I know how to feed myself.
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And therefore, I don't see how this can help.
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Well, what we're trying to find out is what else is coming with your migraines.
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Do you have bloating?
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Do you have a distention of the belly area?
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Do you digest well?
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On a Bristol chart, are your bowel movement a type four?
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So when you poop, is it too dry?
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Do you have IBS, irritable bowel syndrome?
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Do you have a leaky gut?
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Do you have trembling sensations?
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Do you have skin rash?
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Do you have recurrent urinary tract infections?
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And we ask for all of these things because all of these things highlight imbalances that
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are going on inside the body.
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And we're adding foods to remove these problems.
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Now, when we do that, the problems go away and they fade away.
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Sometimes they can come back because of homeostasis, the body not wanting to let go and not wanting
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But as we insist, the body ends up changing.
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And so when we work with someone, the difficulty is that we're adding food at a certain frequency
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and length of time that is different for every single person.
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And so I have been doing this work for five years.
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There's not two people that I've solved the migraines for in the same way.
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It takes me now a year and a half to train a new health practitioner.
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It means that while we have something incredibly special, we have also something absolutely
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However, we have managed to now put all of that in artificial intelligence in order to
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be able to help you guide on what foods will de-trigger, untrigger, prevent, and abort
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And when you listen to a lot of the Migraine Heroes podcast, you will hear about a lot
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of people commenting on, wow, I was starting to have a migraine attack.
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I took this infusion.
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I took it three, four, five times in a row.
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And wow, the pain was gone.
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Then the pain tried to come back later in the day.
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I had one more and it was completely gone.
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And the next day I felt nothing.
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No post-traum, no migraine attack.
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This is wonderful.
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And you will hear these stories over and over again.
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This is when we're really able to identify the root cause of the migraine that is at
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hand and solve it with the food.
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Now this is highly complicated.
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This is why we have a very massive AI behind this.
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And artificial intelligence can sometimes be scary.
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At the end of the day, artificial intelligence is just a reflection of who was its creator.
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And its creator is me and another two moms, or three moms, based in New Zealand, in France, in
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Belgium, with collectively eight children. And just really happy to be able to make a
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difference for the life that our children are going to have on this planet Earth.
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And so it's beautiful.
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It really helps like that.
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We also have the Migraine Now button specifically that helps you find, identify the given food
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that will help with a given migraine at hand happening in the moment.
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Because while you might see and you might feel all of your migraines are the same, I
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think you intuitively also know that your premenstruation migraine might be slightly
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different in pain and intensity and severity than the migraine during your menstruation
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and the migraine after your menstruation, that the migraine when the barometric pressure
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changes and the migraine that are triggered before stress or after stress or during stress
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were different to the migraine that you experience in the evening versus in the morning, the
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ones that wake you up at night, etc.
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And so what we try to do is use these foods in order to correct the underlying imbalances.
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That's my story of how I got from 56 food in that database was told to go to 10 to make
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it a very lush business, which I don't think would exist today, honestly, all the way to
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727 food, which is currently what we need to help make things happen for you.
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If you're looking for a community, we'd love to have you join us in our Facebook groups.
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Migraine Heroes is a community all about creative expression and open conversations around migraine.
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We have a second group called Migraine and Comorbidities, where we support each other
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through the unique challenges of living with migraine alongside things like IBS, ADHD,
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Just check the links in this description,
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we'd be very happy to welcome you there.
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The content in this podcast should not be considered a substitute for medical professional
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advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
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Always consult with your health care provider for any health related concerns.
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And remember, everyone and every situation is unique.
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Remember, sharing is caring.
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Share your story with me,
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take my free test and let's connect to help you gain a deeper understanding of your migraine
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Learn about the underlying imbalances that could be contributing to your genetic predisposition
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Join our community of Migraine Heroes,
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