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Hosted by Melissa Bistricer, MS, RDN
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Melissa Bistricer, MS, RDN : [00:00:40] Hello and welcome back to another podcast here at InViteⓇ Health. Are you suffering from migraine headaches? I know that when I get a migraine, I just need to be in a dark room and sleep. This does impact my daily life. So you may think, how can you live your daily life like this? Well, lucky for you, today we’ll be talking a little bit more about diet and supplements that may be able to help you with your migraine headaches.† [00:01:04]
[00:01:05] My name is Melissa Bistricer and I am a registered dietitian. I am so excited to bring to you the nutritional aspect here at InViteⓇ Health. Nutrition, food for thought: here’s to a year of better habits, positive thinking, clean eating, and most of all, loving to yourself. InViteⓇ Health promotes an integrative approach in providing vitamins into your daily life to increase your quality of life. In conjunction with nutrient it is also important to learn and include other lifestyle modifications like nutrition, exercise and sleep. These practices with the use of vitamins will provide optimal benefits in your daily life. † [00:01:42]
[00:01:43] Now let’s get talking about the topic of migraines. Migraines are defined as headaches that are debilitating. They consist of severe throbbing pain and pulsing sensations in the temple area. There are different types of migraines and migraine symptoms as everyone experiences migraines in different stages. The most common type of migraines is migraines without the aura, which is no warning signs as when many migraine attack is going to start. A migraine with the aura is a warning sign. It appears that the migraine is going to start. The warning signs can be from sight, such as blind spots or seeing flashing lights. Evidence has suggested the possible cause of migraines can be related to a low serotonin level or hormonal imbalance. Migraine risk factors can be sex, age, family history, and other medical conditions such as depression, anxiety, sleep disorder, or even epilepsy. Side effects of migraine headaches can be exhaustion, nausea, vomiting and sensitivity to light, sound and sometimes even smell or touch. Triggers that are important to be aware of with migraines can be from hormonal changes from the menstrual cycle for woman, stress, foods, skipping meals, and weather changes. It is important to keep track of symptoms to try to prevent migraines from arising. Trying to avoid or identify triggers will help you to minimize headaches. Keeping a logbook of patterns and symptoms will help to use will help you to figure out the specific causes of the issue. Other factors are to manage stress with relaxation, such as meditation, yoga or mindful breathing. We also want to include eating a regular schedule diet, drinking lots of fluids and getting plenty of rest and regular moderate exercise.† [00:03:28]
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[00:03:30] Migraines are not preventable, unfortunately, and are thus far not 100% treatable either. But there are certain precautions you may be able to take to help reduce the symptoms. We will discuss specific foods to avoid and what supplements may be beneficial. Though generally we see migraines treated medically with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, otherwise known as NDAIDs such as acetaminophen or Excedrin migraine with the added caffeine. Triptan drugs that are used act as an antagonist for 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors or other drugs such as opioids or corticosteroids. We know that NSAIDs can potentially hurt the liver and kidney in the long run. Opioids will deplete the body of folic acid, vitamin C, iron, potassium. And corticosteroids will deplete the body of beta carotene, B-6, folic acid, vitamin C, vitamin D, calcium, magnesium, potassium, selenium, zinc and melatonin. Therefore, it is very important that if you are taking any of these drugs that you make sure that you’re getting the sufficient amount of nutrients that may be depleted due to the prescribed drugs. These interventions are not the best alternatives, and you may want to consider trying to use a natural alternative with the diet and supplements.† [00:04:47]
[00:04:49] Natural interventions that can be beneficial for migraines is to adjust your diet to a no tyramine diet. Improving sleep, having a key self-care regimen such as meditation, massage, facials, chiropractor or sufficient exercise. And lastly, adding supplements such as CoQ10, Melatonin, Riboflavin and Magnesium to help provide relief in migraine headaches. Diet is an extremely important factor to try to eliminate the frequencies of headaches.† [00:05:17]
[00:05:18] A population based study was completed on caffeine risks for those with daily headaches. The conclusion resulted in dietary or medical caffeine consumption has a minimal risk factor for chronic daily headache onset. The recommendation is to limit caffeine intake to 1 to 2 cups per day, approximately 200 milligrams of caffeine daily. The dietary guidelines for Americans recommend having healthy eating habits incorporating as much as we can whole grains, increasing fruits and vegetables with a variety, limiting sodium intake to less than 2300 milligrams daily, trying to limit to skip meals, trying to drink plenty of water, and commonly follow a diet to help eliminate or prevent migraines to follow a low tyramine diet.† [00:06:03]
[00:06:03] What is a low tyramine diet? Well, tyramine simply just means a compound which occurs naturally in cheese and other foods and can cause dangerously high blood pressure if someone is taking a specific inhibitor. Though, a low tyramine diet is simply just eliminating cured, pickled, smoked, and processed meats. Examples of high tyramine foods that should be avoided to reduce the chances of getting migraines are sauerkraut, kimchi, pickled beets, pickles, and fermented foods such as tofu or miso. In a low tyramine diet you want to try to include as much as possible whole grains, eggs, fresh meat, fish, poultry, non fermented or pasteurized dairy cheeses like milk cream cheese or cottage cheese or cottage cheese. Other factors in a diet that may contribute to migraines can be nitrates, which nitrates are the preservation of foods such as hot dogs and deli meats and monosodium glutamate, otherwise known as MSG, used as a flavor enhancer in some Chinese foods and soups and phenylethylamine compounds found in chocolate, garlic, nuts, raw onions and seeds. It is important you test these foods out to assess if they are causing you migraines and taking further precaution. If they do cause you migraines to try to eliminate eating these foods. † [00:07:21]
[00:07:23] Let’s dive a little deeper now in talking about the nutritional supplements. CoQ10 is beneficial for cellular energy production is a highly active in areas especially the brain and can be depleted rapidly. A study was completed with a number of days with nausea due to migraine headaches and taking CoQ10 supplementation. Was seen to help to reduce the number of days with nausea due to migraine headaches. The American Academy of Neurology 56th annual meeting in San Francisco shows that CoQ10 may have benefits on migraines. Patients in the supplement group who experience migraines taking 100 milligrams three times a day of CoQ10 had less migraines in the three months of the study than those who took the placebo pill. † [00:08:05]
[00:08:07] Next is melatonin, levels can oftentimes be below, especially during a migraine attack. Clinical studies have shown improvement of symptoms and reduced attacks with taking melatonin. The Gail Academy has studied the therapeutic potential of melatonin in migraines. Current research suggests that migraines are responsible for a pineal circadian irregularity. Which is given melatonin normalize this to circadian cycle. Melatonin may have potential to play an important role in resynchronizing biological rhythms to a lifestyle and subsequently relieving migraines. The researchers state that the use of melatonin found is safe for people who suffer from migraines with fewer or no side effects at all.† [00:08:49]
[00:08:50] Riboflavin has been shown to be effective in preventing migraines with the ability to enhance mitochondrial energy production. Riboflavin, which is also known as B2. This helps with the cell growth, enzyme function and energy production. The data that has been study shows that Riboflavin has been effective for migraines due to patients with mitochondrial genetic abnormalities. Taking a high dose of riboflavin can help to reduce migraine attacks by about two attacks per month. A study was completed on individuals suffering from migraines given 400 milligrams of riboflavin per day. Headaches have been significantly reduced from four days a month to two days a month after 3 to 6 months of treatment. The intensity in hours did not improve, but the frequency of the migraines improved with the use of riboflavin treatment. † [00:09:40]
[00:09:41] Magnesium is an extremely important supplement which we have spoken about previously. Magnesium deficiency is linked to multiple processes. Implicating the migraine pathology can trigger cortical spreading depression, platelet aggregation and vasoconstriction. Specifically, studies have been completed on magnesium citrate the benefits of helping reducing migraine symptoms. There has been several double blind, randomized, placebo controlled trials that have shown efficacy of using magnesium to relieve headaches and leading accommodations to use oral magnesium to relieve headaches in several national and international guidelines.† [00:10:16]
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[00:10:18] With the use of supplements also comes the responsibility of changing your diet to eliminate foods that may cause migraines as well. As we mentioned, staying away from the high tyramine foods, nitrates, MSG and Phenylethylamine Foods, and also adding in supplements such as CoQ10, melatonin, riboflavin and magnesium into your daily supplement regimen. It is an integrated approach where nutrition and supplements are important to be modified together. So getting exposure can come in many different ways. My advice to you is to start to create a log of migraine symptoms. See what you’re having migraines from. Is it a stressful time? Is it some type of food you’re eating like deli meat or fermented foods? This way you can have a better idea. You can specifically relate if it’s stress, maybe you need to incorporate yoga or meditation into your daily life. If it was due to specific foods, you may want to adjust your diet, eliminating the foods and seeing if the migraine duration or frequency subsides due to the changing of your diet. Lastly, with the lack of symptoms, you can introduce supplements to help as well as discussed before beneficial supplements to help with the frequency can be CoQ10, Melatonin, Riboflavin and Magnesium. You can also go check out the products sold at invitehealth.com and if you have any further questions, you can always chat with myself as a nutritionist or any of our health care providers to assist you here at invitehealth.com or feel free to email me at [email protected] again that’s [email protected].† [00:11:48]
[00:11:51] I am Melissa Bistricer, RDN ready to share the knowledge to help you modify your lifestyle to live a happier, more successful life. I’m looking forward to continuing to provide you with educational podcasts and blog posts. Again nutrition food for thought: here’s to a year of better habits, positive thinking, clean eating, and most of all, loving yourself. Have a great day and tune in for the next podcast coming your way soon.† [00:11:51]
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[00:00:40] When it comes to our immune system, sometimes things can go haywire, and today I want to talk about a autoimmune condition that commonly affects women. So 9 out of 10 people who are diagnosed with lupus are women, and we know that just according to statistics, we recognize that there’s roughly about one and a half million Americans who have a form of lupus. Certainly, men can be impacted by this. Children, teenagers. But for the most part, we find that a good 90% are going to be women. Between usually the ages of 20 and 40 is when the initial diagnosis occurs with lupus. So I want to talk a little bit about what exactly lupus is and what you can be doing if you yourself have been diagnosed with this, or if you happen to have a friend, a family member, a coworker who has been diagnosed with lupus.† [00:01:43]
[00:01:43] So I’m Amanda Williams, MD, MPH, Scientific Director here at InViteⓇ Health and lupus is a incredibly detrimental systemic disease. Whenever our immune system decides that it’s going to rear its ugly head and create havoc for us, that is a big problem. And there are so many different autoimmune conditions. You can look at things such as lupus, we can look at rheumatoid arthritis, we can look at diabetes. We know that there are many different ways to which our immune system can go from being a very protective thing in our, in our body to something that can be very destructive.† [00:02:30]
[00:02:31] Now we know that lupus has a common driving force, and that is inflammation. Now when you look at lupus, this is… We usually just shorten it to lupus, but we’re talking about systemic lupus erythematosus and SLE. Now we know that when it comes to SLE, hence just lupus, we’re dealing generally with multiple areas in the body. So the skin, kidneys, heart, the entire cardiovascular system, the nervous system, connective tissue, the skeletal muscular system, as well as other areas that can be impacted because of the significant inflammation that occurs. So when people have lupus, oftentimes the way that they present and many of the complications is that there are multiple organ systems that have been impacted by this. So this puts someone with lupus at a higher risk of having a heart attack, having diabetes, having chronic kidney disease, bone loss, osteoporosis, as well as different blood disorders.† [00:03:44]
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[00:03:46] We can see that there are certain areas in the country to which lupus diagnosis can be at a higher rate. So we know that there is a Vitamin D connection to lupus. So you’re going to see higher rates of lupus being diagnosed throughout the Midwest, as well as the Northeast than you do in other parts of the country, including the the west coast of the country, as well as the Southeast. So we know that Vitamin D, which remember, Vitamin D is critical to our immune system. We know that Vitamin D is definitely playing a significant role. We recognize that not only is it geographically driven, but it is also very much so race driven. And we are going to see higher rates of lupus in those who are African-American, Asian-American, Native American as well as Latina women. You see this in a much greater rate, the incidence in these women, much more than you do in Caucasians. This is an area where I think it’s commonly overlooked as a public health issue, and there are so many things that should be done and can be done to improve upon the health outcomes for anyone who is diagnosed with lupus and many of the signs and symptoms of lupus can vary from one person to the next.† [00:05:18]
[00:05:19] Now, the actual diagnosis is going to come down to serum blood levels of those autoantibodies. So looking at the antibodies in the blood. But we know that sometimes people or people present with just really extreme fatigue. They may have painful, swollen joints, muscle pain. Many times people know the famous butterfly rash, but it is a rash across the cheeks. Now, that doesn’t mean that every person who has lupus will develop that because there are different types of lupus and the different systems or organs to which lupus attacks can vary from one person to the next. For some people, they can experience it with pain in their chest when breathing. So there’s many different ways. Headaches is another one that sometimes people will present with, you know, swollen joints and headaches, and it’s like what is actually happening? And then they do the serum tests and then they can see, yes, indeed, this is a case of lupus.† [00:06:27]
[00:06:28] Now, conventional treatment for lupus is very… It can be very beneficial, but it can also come with a whole host of different side effects. So many of the anti-malarial drugs, which are antiparasitic drugs, are oftentimes prescribed to those who have lupus. Now, those come with a whole host of different side effects, including significant damage that can occur within the liver. We can definitely look at the overuse of anti-inflammatory drugs, the NSAIDs, so chronic use of NSAIDs in someone who has lupus can lead to damaging effects once again when it comes to the health of the kidneys, as well as the liver, just depending upon which NSAID someone is using.† [00:07:19]
[00:07:20] So what can be beneficial in terms of what someone with lupus can do? We know that looking at the diet, making sure that we’re not adding insult to injury by having a pro-inflammatory diet foods that are going to drive up even more inflammation, so you want to have an anti-inflammatory diet. Fruits and vegetables. High antioxidant foods. Healthy fats. Things that are going to help to lower your inflammatory burden. Understanding how much stress plays a role into this. Remember, stress will drive inflammation as well. So management of stress, whether this is, you know, finding ways to do meditation or yoga or exercise, all of these make a big difference.† [00:08:08]
[00:08:10] And then we have to look at different natural interventions. Knowing that Vitamin D is directly linked to this… If you look at people who have lupus and you test their serum Vitamin D levels, you are likely to find significant insufficiency and even deficient Vitamin D levels. But we can also look at how Vitamin E, you know, inadequate Vitamin E intake can be another driving factor for this inflammation that drives up in the system. We can look at how omega-3s, so by incorporating in fish oil or krill oil, how beneficial this can be for easing inflammation. Of course, we can look at hormonal pathways, and they’ve been able to show… There’s a very important adrenal hormone known as DHEA, and low levels of DHEA have been observed in patients who have lupus, as well as other inflammatory diseases. So oftentimes you will find doctors who will prescribe DHEA to help to improve upon the health of those who have these inflammatory autoimmune conditions.† [00:09:27]
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[00:09:28] So lupus itself, we know it’s a systemic autoimmune disease driven by inflammation, so the immune system is attacking tissues in the body. We know that when it comes to which system is going to be affected most, this is going to vary from one person to the next. We know that there are different types of lupus. You have SLE, which is systemic lupus, meaning that this is affecting multiple systems in the body. You have discoid lupus. Now this is… Generally speaking, discoid lupus is only affecting the skin. Then you have drug-induced lupus. So this is when you were on a particular medication that then triggers an autoimmune response. There are different drugs that are frequently associated with creating this drug-induced lupus. So this can be many of the cardiovascular drugs antiarrhythmic drugs, hydralazine, which is a blood pressure lowering drug. So we can see how it is that lupus can present in different ways for different people.† [00:10:42]
[00:10:43] But at the end of the day, what we need to do is make sure that we are doing everything in our power to lower that inflammatory burden in the system. So we want to make sure that when it comes to the dietary intake that you are adhering to an anti-inflammatory diet so that Mediterranean diet really comes into play. We know that we don’t want to have to continuously turn to the anti-malarial drugs and the high dose NSAIDs in order to try to regulate this. So we want to try and help our immune system out ourselves by giving the immune system adequate nutrients, key vitamins and minerals. Those omega-3 fatty acids that we know are so key. So Vitamin D is going to be the number one thing that you look at. We know that when it comes to lupus, deficiency of Vitamin D is going to be incredibly high. And if someone with lupus doesn’t have Vitamin D deficiency, it’s pretty much guarantee that they will have insufficiency, meaning low levels, but not to the level of complete deficiency. So having your serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D level tested is incredibly important so that you’re supplementing with the right amount of Vitamin D every day to get you back into a healthy range to once again help to regulate the immune system response. Remember, when you’re taking Vitamin D, it’s always advantageous to take magnesium to help with that proper absorption. We want to incorporate in our fish oil or krill oil, or if you want to use the vegetarian option, using flaxseed. I always encourage anyone who has been diagnosed with lupus to incorporate Vitamin E. We know that Vitamin E certainly plays a essential role in terms of stabilizing cellular membranes. So we want to make sure that those immune cells have that support, and we know that Vitamin E certainly can block that autoimmune attack just through that action of stabilizing the cell membrane. They’ve done studies where they’ve shown how Vitamin D supplementation can actually reduce the level of autoantibodies in lupus patients.† [00:13:22]
[00:13:23] We have to look at other herbal extracts. There have been many studies done with curcumin and understanding that the bioactive components those curcuminoids can do a wonderful job in terms of easing that inflammation through targeting and suppressing or lowering different cytokines that are directly linked with lupus. So looking at things like different interleukins and tumor necrosis factor alpha. We can look at the clinical trials where they’ve given curcumin extract to patients with lupus, and they can start to see an improvement across all different markers, including those who have significant impact to their kidneys. Remember, lupus is going to attack multiple organ systems. When it attacks the kidneys and creates kidney disease because of lupus, so you get nephritis, so inflammation within the kidney, they can see how it is that that curcumin can help to stabilize that kidney function. So a lot of different things that we can be looking at. We can look at that hormonal component. And if your DHEA levels are low, then looking at supplementation with DHEA can help to create that balance once again within that adrenal stress response, but at the same time helping to heighten the body’s immune system, so it’s not going into this self-destructive mode. So lupus is something that you definitely want to make sure that if you know someone, if you, you yourself have lupus, that you take action in terms of diet, exercise and proper supplementation to have a better management of this autoimmune condition.† [00:15:21]
[00:15:22] So that’s all that I have for you for today. I want to thank you so much for tuning in to the InViteⓇ Health Podcast. Remember, you can find all of our episodes for free wherever you listen to podcasts or by visiting invitehealth.com/podcast. Now do make sure that you subscribe and you leave us a review. You can follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @invitehealth and we will see you next time for another episode of the InViteⓇ Health Podcast.† [00:15:22]
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