headaches

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Dawne, Maureen, and other headache sufferers -

 

This is an article about headaches that was written by my friend Donia Alawi

who is a nutritionist, and I found it quite interesting.

 

Carol

 

Disarm Headaches And Migraines, Naturally! by Donia Alawi, health teacher

and nutritionist

 

Henry Bieler, M.D., in my opinion, presented the best logical explanation to

migraines and headaches in his book, Food Is Your Best Medicine. I say the

best, because I applied many of his recommendations with my mother who

suffered from migraines for years and her migraines did go away. Dr. Bieler

believes that the best way to prevent migraines is to reduce exposure to

toxic substances and improve your body's ability to detoxify substances in

your intestinal tract and liver.

 

Here's how Dr. Bieler explains a migraine headache:

 

" Food eaten today is about as far removed from the natural diet of man as

man is from his primitive jungles. Man, however, still has approximately the

same digestive apparatus and liver as his remote ancestors. If he lives on

natural food, his liver remains efficient; if he fills his stomach with

breads, hot dogs, chili, doughnuts washed down with coffee, his outraged

liver cannot do its work. Whether his liver breaks down early or late

depends upon how good an organ it was at birth. But break down it will, and

when it fails to filter and neutralize toxins from the blood, an extra line

of defense must come into play. This defense is carried on by the endocrine

glands, which try to direct these toxins into other eliminative organs. The

principal endocrine glands called upon for this effort are the pituitary

which lies at the base of the brain, the thyroid, situated in the neck, and

the adrenals, which fit like a cap over each kidney.

 

Glands of internal secretion then are pressed into hyperfunction, forced to

manufacture more of their secretion. However, since the amount of gland's

secretion is in exact ratio to the volume of blood entering it, the gland is

enlarged by this extra blood supply, which often can have disastrous

physical consequences.

 

The pituitary gland, for example, does not have much room in which to swell,

encased as it is in a bony cup at the base of the skull....very little

swelling can take place without creating a pressure on a gland within its

box. This pressure can cause alarming symptoms. Four different diseased

states, all arising from a toxemia of the blood, can result from the

pressure: migraine headache, the common types of epilepsy, acromegaly and

blindness.

 

There are many cases in my files of migraine and epilepsy-cases in which the

distressing symptoms have been arrested and the body restored to health.

This was accomplished by taking the excessive dietary burden off the liver,

which then was able to cleanse the blood stream and restore a balance

between the pituitary, thyroid and adrenal glands. " (pp. 44-45)

 

The worst toxins leading to migraine headaches are simple sugars. Dr. Bieler

calls it " alcoholic type of headache " . The alcohol does not come from

drinking alcoholic beverages. It is manufactured in the person's own

stomach. It results from the fermentation of the sugars and starches in that

person's diet. This alcohol is more harmful than bottled spirits. " Alcohol

made in the intestines has among its ingredients sour mash and other

products very toxic to the body. " (p. 45)

 

A migraine sufferer should remove all breads, starches (rice and pasta),

cookies, chocolate....etc. Eat vegetables, low glycemic fruits (apples,

oranges, cherries, peaches, berries and pears), fish, nuts, seeds, brown

rice and yams. This diet will eliminate the surplus of poisons and migraines

will simply not come back.

 

Beneficial nutritional support:

 

To help with digestion and assimilation:

 

.. Acidophilus and bifidus micro-blended with blue green algae.

.. Plant based enzymes micro-blended with blue green algae. (Use them with

cooked foods to properly digest meals and in between meals to help with

cleansing).

 

To help with nourishing the body:

 

.. Wild-crafted blue green algae.

.. Organically grown sprouted grains and grasses - a green mix powder.

 

To reduce oxidative stress:

 

.. Coenzyme Q10 micro-blended with organic flax oil.

.. Wheat sprouts micro-blended with red algae and wild-crafted blue green

algae.

 

Drink 8 to 12 glasses of spring water daily. Take small and frequent sips to

prevent your cells from shrinking as a result of dehydration. Avoid large

amounts of fluid with meals (liquid with meals dilutes digestive enzymes

which are designed to work without dilution from liquids).

 

Migraines and headaches are preventable. Just treat the body right by giving

it the right foods.

Products mentioned available at http://www.bluegreensolutions.com

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References:

Bieler, Henry, M.D. (1965). Food Is Your Best Medicine. New York: Ballantine

Books.