Listening to the fire alarms going off in your body - Migraines and PCOS (with Diane Ducarme)
85 min
85 min
Are you suffering from migraines? This week on The PCOS Nutritionist, we have a special guest, Diane Ducarme, the Founder & CEO of Nectar Health, to discuss how migraines can be hormonally driven, particularly for people with disrupted progesterone and estrogen.
Join us as Diane shares her tragic accident and journey with western medicine, how traditional Chinese medicine helped her, and how she was able to lose weight by adding foods rather than cutting them.
We’ll talk about giving your body the nutrients and energy it needs, thinking of migraines like a fire alarm, and exploring the root causes for women with migraines.
Plus, we’ll discuss liver and kidney function, symptoms and triggers for PCOS patients with migraines, and common medications for migraines.
Don’t miss this episode and the chance to learn how to add foods to help manage migraines.
Something things we cover in this episode:
Originally published February 2023
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Self-reported migraine
At start:
17 days/month
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3 days/month
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