Healing Migraines Naturally

Leslie Cisar, ND
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  • Alternative Health
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Conventional migraine medications and supplements only treat the symptoms of migraines – that’s like turning off the check engine light on your car, but not having a mechanic figure out and fix why the light came on in the first place. Join Leslie Cisar - licensed naturopathic physician, migraine specialist, (former chronic migraine sufferer), and health-restoration expert - each week to learn how to recover from chronic, debilitating migraines.  This is a migraine podcast like no other out there - full of hope, health, healing, and positivity. There is hope for all women with chronic migraines. Stop sitting on life's sidelines, and rediscover a migraine-free life!

  1. 1d ago

    149. The GAPS Diet Worked. So Why Did I Tell Her Not to Go Back On It?

    A woman on a recent consult call told me she was thinking about going back on the GAPS diet. Last year she followed it for seven months and had one migraine in that whole time. Before that, she'd been having more than 15 a month. When she came off it at Christmas, her migraines came back. The diet helped her. So why was I glad she talked to me before starting it again? In this episode, I cover: - Why her reflux, hot flashes and periods got better at the same time as her migraines, and why that isn't a coincidence - What you actually eat on the GAPS diet, and why so few people can stay on it - The three reasons GAPS worked for her - Why her migraines came back once she started eating normal, healthy food again - Two clients who spent two years on GAPS, and what changed when we brought food back in - How to get the same benefits from a varied diet you can eat at a restaurant or a holiday table If a strict diet has helped you, that's good news. It means your body can get better. You don't have to stay on that diet to keep feeling better. Episodes mentioned: 12. Is My Leaky Gut Causing My Migraines? https://www.drlesliecisar.com/podcasts/healing-migraines-naturally/episodes/2147713423 148. From 23 Migraine Days A Month To One. Jean's Story https://www.drlesliecisar.com/podcasts/healing-migraines-naturally/episodes/2149276926 More episodes on this topic: 4. The Truth About Food Triggers https://www.drlesliecisar.com/podcasts/healing-migraines-naturally/episodes/2147677965 5. All About Menstrual Migraines https://www.drlesliecisar.com/podcasts/healing-migraines-naturally/episodes/2147681850 20. Why Migraine Diets Don't Work https://www.drlesliecisar.com/podcasts/healing-migraines-naturally/episodes/2147748213 34. Food Sensitivity Testing - Is It Worth It? https://www.drlesliecisar.com/podcasts/healing-migraines-naturally/episodes/2147797648 69. Do Your Migraines Make You Dread the Holidays? https://www.drlesliecisar.com/podcasts/healing-migraines-naturally/episodes/2149105685 76. Are My Migraines and My Heartburn Connected? https://www.drlesliecisar.com/podcasts/healing-migraines-naturally/episodes/2149117702 99. The Real Reason You Keep Getting Migraines (It's Not What You Think) https://www.drlesliecisar.com/podcasts/healing-migraines-naturally/episodes/2149178586 140. Why Your Nose Runs When You Eat And What It Has To Do With Migraines https://www.drlesliecisar.com/podcasts/healing-migraines-naturally/episodes/2149258767 Free Training: 5 Proven Steps to Being Migraine Free (Even if you think you've already tried everything.) https://www.drlesliecisar.com/training Free Facebook Group: Healing Migraines Naturally, with Leslie Cisar, ND https://www.facebook.com/groups/healingmigrainesnaturally Book your free 30-minute consultation: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/apply In health, Dr. Leslie Cisar

  2. Oct 25

    148. From 23 Migraine Days A Month To One. Jean’s Story

    Jean is 54. She’s had migraines since she was 17. For years, her lunch break looked like this: drive to the parking lot, push the seat back, set an alarm for 30 minutes, and pray she could fall asleep long enough to take the edge off. Then go back to the office and hope it didn’t come back before 5. She tried everything. Fioricet. Triptans. Botox. Injectables. Hypnosis. Craniosacral therapy. Acupuncture. Pink tinted glasses. A page and a half of symptoms when we started. 23 head pain days a month. In this episode Jean joins me to share what four months of working together actually looked like, not the polished version, the real one. What shifted first. What surprised her. What it felt like to go six weeks between triptan doses for the first time in years. And what it means to take two trips without a migraine when travel used to guarantee one. If you’re ready to find out what’s actually driving your migraines, book a free consultation call at www.drlesliecisar.com/apply Want to understand what’s actually driving your migraines? Start with my free training, 5 Proven Steps To Being Migraine Free: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/5SHMN Connect with us: Website: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/ Free Facebook Group: Healing Migraines Naturally, with Leslie Cisar, ND Ready to try something radically different that actually works? Read more about my approach here: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/map In health,Dr. Leslie Cisar

  3. Oct 24

    147. The Eczema, The Allergies, The Asthma, And Then The Migraines. It Was Never A Coincidence

    When a woman fills out her intake form and gets to asthma, she checks the box and moves on. That was a long time ago. I grew out of it. I’m going to push back on that. You didn’t grow out of it. Your body pushed it deeper. In this episode I connect the dots that nobody lined up for you. The eczema as a baby. The allergies as a kid. The asthma at seven. The stomach problems at eleven. The migraines at 25. These are not separate problems that happened to the same unlucky person. They are one story: your body’s toxin bucket filling up over decades, and the symptoms getting deeper and more complex every time one of them got shut off without anyone addressing the load underneath. I explain why asthma and migraines switch sides at puberty at exactly the same moment. What three medications overlap between asthma and migraine care. and what most moms have never been told about one of them. And what it actually looks like when the bucket starts draining — for your lungs, for your allergies, and for your migraines. If you grew out of your asthma and now you have migraines, this episode is the chapter nobody gave you. Want to understand what’s actually driving your migraines? Start with my free training — 5 Proven Steps To Being Migraine Free: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/5SHMN Ready to look at your full picture? Book a free consultation call at www.drlesliecisar.com/apply Connect with us: Website: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/ Free Facebook Group: Healing Migraines Naturally, with Leslie Cisar, ND Ready to try something radically different that actually works? Read more about my approach here: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/map In health,Dr. Leslie Cisar

  4. Oct 20

    146. They Told Her Migraines Would Stop At Menopause. They Were Wrong.

    A headache center told Amanda that her migraines were hereditary and they'd likely stop at menopause. She took time off work to travel to that appointment. She cried most of the way home. Think about those two sentences together. They're hereditary. And they'll stop at menopause. Well, which is it? Your genes don't change at menopause. Today I'm talking to two women. The first one heard that, believed it, waited 15 years, got to menopause, and the migraines are still here. The second one got to menopause and her migraines did get better, but I'm going to ask a question nobody has asked her yet. I explain why the hardest years of Lisa's migraines were the ones right before menopause, and why that isn't bad luck. Why menopause didn't fix them. Why the calendar is gone but the migraines are keeping the time. And why for the woman whose migraines stopped at menopause, getting better and getting healthier are not always the same thing. And at the end I tell you about Sue. She had migraines for 45 years. She came to me at 64. She was migraine free by the end of our work together, and she still updates me every year. It is not too late.   If you’re ready to address the root drivers of your migraines, you can book a free consultation at the link below:  https://www.drlesliecisar.com/apply Free Training: 5 Proven Steps to Being Migraine Free (Even if you think you've already tried everything.) https://www.drlesliecisar.com/5SHMN   Connect with us: Website: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/ Free Facebook Group: Healing Migraines Naturally, with Leslie Cisar, ND Ready to try something radically different that actually works? Read more about my approach here: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/map In health,Dr. Leslie Cisar

  5. Oct 7

    145. Triggered with Dr. Leslie: Reacting To A Migraine Infographic, And What They Got Wrong

    Another Migraine Monday post showed up in my feed. Phases of a migraine attack. Prodrome, aura, headache, postdrome, interictal. Symptoms listed. Purple ribbon energy. And I couldn't let it go without actually explaining what those symptoms mean. Because here's what every one of those symptoms is doing, giving you a detailed report about what's happening inside your body. The frequent urination before a migraine. The yawning. The food cravings. The neck stiffness. The nasal congestion. The irritability. The brain fog that lingers for days after. These are not random. These are not just part of a chronic disease you have to manage. Every single one of them is a clue. And in this episode I walk through each phase of the migraine and explain exactly what the symptoms are telling us about where your body's three principles have broken down. Here's the simplest way I can put it. A migraine is a hangover without the alcohol. When you understand why that's true, nothing about your symptoms is random anymore. Book a free consultation call at www.drlesliecisar.com/apply

  6. Oct 4

    144. I Have Failed You - What A Neurologist Said That Changed Everything

    A neurologist looked at her patient after years of appointments and said three words: I have failed you. Not, "You failed the treatment." Not, "You're overusing your medication." I have failed you. She's in her late 30s. Three to four migraines a week. She's been through every triptan, every preventative, Botox, CGRP injections, the Cleveland Clinic. She's made her own sourdough, done a food sensitivity test, ordered a cleanse kit. In 23 years of migraines, she has gone two weeks without one exactly twice. And in this episode I tell you her story the way she told it to me on a consultation call — because if you've had migraines for a long time, it's probably your story too. I also explain what I heard in her story that nobody else did. Where her needle actually is. Why the two weeks without a migraine during a cold was not trivia. Why every drug, every supplement, every cleanse was aimed at the migraine, and why not one of them asked what's blocking her body from recovering in the first place. Your neurologist may have run out of drugs. Your body hasn't run out of the ability to recover. And there's a question nobody has asked it yet.   If you're ready to look at the full picture, book a free consultation call at www.drlesliecisar.com/apply

  7. Sep 29

    143. Why HRT Might Be Making Your Migraines Worse

    She came to me for her migraines. But she was also in the middle of a brutal perimenopause — the hot flashes, the mood swings, the sleep disturbances, all of it. And she said to me: if my migraines were better, I'd probably handle menopause better. She had been treating them as two completely separate problems. A neurologist for one, a gynecologist for the other. One sentence changed her entire picture. In this episode I explain why your migraines and your hormonal symptoms are not two different problems, they're two expressions of the same underlying picture. I also talk about why the HRT conversation that's everywhere right now is missing the most important question entirely. Not whether bioidentical hormones are safer than synthetic ones. Not what the clinical trials say. But what is your total estrogen load right now — and how well is your body actually clearing it? I walk through how estrogen is actually metabolized, the three detox pathways it has to go through, what happens when those pathways are nutrient depleted, and why a woman with migraines is in a fundamentally different position than the average clinical trial participant. I'm not saying HRT is never appropriate. I'm saying the question of whether it's right for you cannot be answered by a five minute telehealth intake form. If you're ready to look at the full picture, book a free consultation call at www.drlesliecisar.com/apply

  8. Sep 27

    142. Why Your Migraines Return When You Stop Medication, and What to Do Next

    When I heard that Presley Gerber had died at 27 in a residential treatment center, I had a pit in my stomach. Not because I knew him. Because I'd seen it before. For two years I worked as a staff physician at an inpatient drug and alcohol rehab in Arizona. I watched young people walk through our doors on nine, ten, eleven prescription medications — each one there to suppress a symptom the drugs or alcohol were generating. Nobody was asking why the body was generating those symptoms in the first place. Before he died, Presley posted a video listing his medications. An opioid. Two benzodiazepines. An antidepressant. Two blood pressure medications. An anticonvulsant. An antihistamine. Ketamine. Nine prescription drugs. And he said something that I haven't been able to stop thinking about. "I'm just looking for a doctor that's actually going to help me taper. Not just keep me on some stuff." In this episode I explain why that's so hard to find. Why coming off medication fails almost every time without health being restored first. Why the taper is almost always done too fast. And why when I looked at his medication list, I saw the same categories I see in my migraine clients every single day. Migraine sufferers are not drug addicts. But tragically, they are given as much medication as drug addicts are given. This episode is for anyone who wants to understand what their medications are actually doing, and what it would actually take to come off them.   Book a free consultation at www.drlesliecisar.com/apply Free Training: 5 Proven Steps to Being Migraine Free (Even if you think you've already tried everything.) https://www.drlesliecisar.com/5SHMN   Connect with us: Website: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/ Free Facebook Group: Healing Migraines Naturally, with Leslie Cisar, ND Ready to try something radically different that actually works? Read more about my approach here: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/map In health,Dr. Leslie Cisar

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Conventional migraine medications and supplements only treat the symptoms of migraines – that’s like turning off the check engine light on your car, but not having a mechanic figure out and fix why the light came on in the first place. Join Leslie Cisar - licensed naturopathic physician, migraine specialist, (former chronic migraine sufferer), and health-restoration expert - each week to learn how to recover from chronic, debilitating migraines.  This is a migraine podcast like no other out there - full of hope, health, healing, and positivity. There is hope for all women with chronic migraines. Stop sitting on life's sidelines, and rediscover a migraine-free life!

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