The Migraine Detective E-Book

Roland Pfeiffer

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• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 248

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

The Migraine Detective looks at 44 fascinating cases of migraines and unravels their unique causes. The results lead to a treatment concept that is tailor-made for each individual patient. A book for patients, doctors, alternative practitioners and osteopaths. Yet in truth, each patient is unique and each cause of migraine is unique too. As unique as a fingerprint. This is why this book was written. The migraine is a puzzle that is begging for a solution. The book is aimed at everybody who suffers from migraines and aims to make this puzzle more tangible for each and every one of you. Dr medic Pfeiffer is also addressing his colleagues. Doctors, alternative practitioners and osteopaths, so that this puzzle can be solved for the benefit of their patients. Dr medic Pfeiffer shows you 44 detailed cases of patients with migraines to illustrate just how diverse the causes of migraine can be and how these causes can be analytically investigated, unlocked and eliminated. He describes people suffering from migraines and how he has succeeded in healing them. As a patient you will see similarities to your own medical history. The specialist knowledge he shares in his book is intended to inspire and encourage all professionals involved in treating and curing migraines. In his book he illustrates the complete root-cause-analysis: Through the eyes of the medic we look at the detailed migraine anamnesis, a special laboratory diagnosis, a complete osteopathic examination, as well as neural therapeutic interference zones and trial treatments. By systematically decoding the migraine, he will show you how the causes of migraines can be specifically targeted and eliminated enabling your body to tackle any remaining potential causes itself. The message: Migraines are curable!

Leseprobe

CONTENT

Preface and Facts of the Case

Chapter 1: Migraine

What is migraine and just how common is it?

The barrel of reasons – A model to explain what a migraine is

How a migraine attack occurs

How I became interested in migraine therapy

Chapter 2: 44 Migraine Patients – Solved Cases

Case 1: Nitro Stress and Osteopathic Dysfunction

Case 2: Putrefaction Milieu and Histamine

Case 3: Micronutrient Deficiencies, Intestinal Inflammation and Food Intolerances

Case 4: Carbohydrate Intolerance

Case 5: Vertebral Blockages and other Osteopathic Dysfunctions

Case 6: Dehydration

Case 7: A Scar on the Forehead as an Interference Zone

Case 8: Tonsil Interference Field

Case 9: Nitro Stress and Cholesterol Lowering

Case 10: Nitro Stress and Cervical Blockages after falling down the Stairs

Case 11: Nitro Stress und Osteopathic Dysfunction after Whiplash

Case 12: Trapezius Trigger Points

Case 13: Unhealthy Diet and Lifestyle

Case 14: Coccyx or Tailbone Scar

Case 15: Partnership Conflict

Case 16: Carbohydrate Intolerance and Hypothyroidism

Case 17: Nitro Stress after being punched

Case 18: Coccyx Fall

Case 19: Osteopathic and Neural-Therapeutic Causes

Case 20: Carbohydrate Intolerance and Progesterone Deficiency

Case 21: Sleep Apnoea

Case 22: Fibromyalgia

Case 23: Craniomandibular Dysfunction (CMD)

Case 24: Adrenal Gland Hypofunction

Case 25: Infected Tooth after Root Resection

Case 26: Histamine Intolerance

Case 27: Whiplash or ALS?

Case 28: Progesterone Deficiency

Case 29: Psychic Trauma and Scar Disturbance Field

Case 30: Gluten, Mould, Hypothyroidism and Histamine Intolerance

Case 31: Hidden Wisdom Tooth

Case 32: Bridge attached to a Dead Tooth

Case 33: Titanium Implant

Case 34: Craniosacral Dysfunction and “Scalp“ Interference Field after a Riding Accident

Case 35: Ovarian Cysts and Nodules on the Right Side of the Body

Case 36: Genetical Gluten Intolerance

Case 37: Irritation of the Cervical Dural Sac

Case 38: Antibody-free Gluten Intolerance

Case 39: Jaw Muscle Tension and the Cervical Spine

Case 40: „The Pill“

Case 41: Helicobacter Pylori Infection

Case 42: Tooth Abscess or Borrelia?

Case 43: Open Foramen Ovale

Case 44: Wheat and Rye Intolerance as well as Nocturnal Hypoglycaemia

Chapter 3: The Systematic Decoding of the Migraine in Four Steps

Step 1: Detailed Case History

Step 2: Laboratory Analyses

Step 3: Osteopathic Examination

Step 4: Neural Therapeutic Testing

Chapter 4: The Perpetrators of the Migraine in Focus

Cervical Spine, Nitro Stress and Mitochondrial Medicine

The Tragedy of Carbohydrate and Gluten Mast

Hormones, Neurotransmitters and Neuropeptides

Prohibited Substances for Migraine Sufferers

Epilogue

My Seminars: “The Systematic Decoding of the Migraine”

Thanks

References and Literature Recommendations

Preface and Facts of the Case

There are lots of books about migraines. Books full of tips on nutrition and how to relax. Books comparing painkillers and therapy options. Books that manage to reduce almost all cases of migraine to just one cause. Books that treat all migraine patients the same with a one-size-fits all approach. And unfortunately there are still a number of books that continue to perpetuate the outdated conventional opinion that migraine is in fact incurable. Yet in truth, each patient is unique and each cause of migraine is unique too. As unique as a fingerprint.

This is why I have written this book. The migraine is a puzzle that is begging for a solution. My book is aimed at everybody who suffers from migraines and aims to make this puzzle more tangible for each and every one of you. I am also addressing my colleagues – doctors, alternative practitioners and osteopaths – so that this puzzle can be solved for the benefit of your patients.

„The Migraine Detective“ looks at 44 fascinating cases of migraines and unravels their unique causes. I will show you how I have been able to detect what triggers migraines through systematic investigation and following the right instincts and how it is possible to eliminate them and cure patients permanently. Migraines are fundamentally curable and this is proven solely by the fact that spontaneous cures are possible in this field. Almost every doctor knows patients that used to suffer from migraines, but now no longer suffer from them at all. Some have no migraines once their pregnancies are over, others when they move house, change jobs, when they start the menopause or sometimes even if nothing significant happens in their lives. Something or other has taken place, which has relieved their nervous system or simply had a positive effect on the causes of their migraines and subsequently cured them. This cure could just be a fluke. But no patient can or wants to hang around waiting for chance. They want to be freed from their migraines as soon as possible! By systematically decoding the migraine, I will show you how the causes of migraines can be specifically targeted and eliminated enabling your body to tackle any remaining potential causes itself. Of course you don’t want to read the „The Migraine Detective“ from cover to cover, do you? No problem at all! So how can you as a reader, patient or colleague find what you are looking for in this book? Just follow the chapter guidelines.

In Chapter 1 you will learn about what exactly a migraine is, how it comes about and how I as a doctor treated it.

In Chapter 2 I show you 44 detailed cases of patients with migraines to illustrate just how diverse the causes of migraine can be and how these causes can be analytically investigated, unlocked and eliminated. I describe people suffering from migraines and how I have succeeded in healing them. As a patient you will see similarities to your own medical history. The specialist knowledge I share in this chapter is intended to inspire and encourage all professionals involved in treating and curing migraines.

In Chapter 3 I illustrate the complete root-cause-analysis. Through the eyes of the medic we look at the detailed migraine anamnesis, a special laboratory diagnosis, a complete osteopathic examination, as well as neural therapeutic interference zones and trial treatments. For the lay person this might be rather „too much medicine“. For the initiated a large pool of information about migraine diagnosis.

In Chapter 4 I will explain more precisely how certain „culprits“ can cause Migraines & Co. to come about.

In Chapter 2, the following signposts will point the way through the 44 case studies of my cured migraine patients.

Patient Profile

This is where you can read about patients who suffer from migraine: age, sex, job, medical history, living conditions, lifestyle, life events, medication, therapy attempts … everything that describes these patients.

Searching for Clues and Decoding them

Here you can read about how I systematically determine the causes of migraine in each of my patients and then combine the results of this analysis in a targeted treatment concept.

Expert Zoom

This section takes an in-depth specialist approach. Doctors, alternative practitioners, osteopaths and all those who treat migraines in a professional capacity will find what they are looking for here.

CHAPTER 1

MIGRAINE

What is migraine and just how common is it?

Everyone is talking about migraine. But what exactly is a migraine? That is what we want to find out before we begin our investigation. Migraine is a primarily unilateral headache. Episodes of migraine are often paroxysmal and can go on for hours or even days. It is not uncommon for the pain to be accompanied by an aura of nausea, vomiting and sensitivity to light and noise. Sometimes there are also speech disorders, visual disturbances, memory failures and other neurological symptoms. In Germany, about eight million people suffer from migraines. Two thirds of those are women.

Migraines are caused by an energy deficit, a malfunction, or an overstimulation of different nerve centres, that are triggered by various factors. Therefore the aim of any treatment is to rebalance the nervous system and to balance the mismatch between energy needs and energy supply.

The barrel of reasons – A model to explain what a migraine is

In order to understand how a migraine is caused, then simply imagine what I call the „barrel model“. Let’s compare the human body to a barrel. This barrel slowly fills itself if a number of negative factors occur simultaneously and create volume. What these factors may be, I will explain in the next chapter and in the 44 case studies.

Our body has a very high compensatory capacity. If the barrel fills up to the rim, the body will not react immediately. But if there is just one single drop too many in the barrel, it will overflow and the body will react. This reaction corresponds to the migraine attack. Therefore when treating a migraine, it is necessary to remove as much volume as possible from the barrel, so that smaller events like changes in the weather or stress situations do not cause it to overflow. In my view, it is pointless even to discuss whether one should consider the genetic component that we cannot influence and which is usually mitochondrial damage inherited from the mother, and which I estimate occupies between 10% and 30% of the barrel’s volume, to be the cause of migraines and all other factors are triggers. Would it not make more sense rather to identify all factors as causes? It does not matter in the barrel model. All factors together fill the barrel and in my opinion we must reduce the volume of the barrel by about half. Then there are no migraines anymore. The higher the genetic percentage is, the higher the percentage of other factors is, that need to be removed. We have to systematically investigate the contents of the barrel and how to at least empty up to half of them. This is the real challenge!

How a migraine attack occurs

In order to understand what happens to the body during a migraine attack, it is necessary to delve a little medically deeper into the subject matter. The Migraine Causes Diagram on page → shows us how the various factors involved in a migraine attack interact together.

Numerous factors of all kinds can lead to malfunctions in the mitochrondial supply and to the overactivity of the migraine generator in the brainstem. This is where the nuclei of the pain-sensitive trigeminus nerve originate from. Possible stress factors are, for example, mechanical, chemical, hormonal, food-related, digestive-dependent, sensory organ-dependent, electromagnetic, climatic, infectious, psychological, toxic, immunological and genetical in nature. However, neural-therapeutic perturbative fields can also have an adverse effect.

The brainstem is, in evolutionary terms, the oldest part of the brain and it is responsible for controlling vital functions in the body. It regulates autonomic functions such as breathing, circulation, body temperature and digestion. At the same time, the brain-stem is also a measuring entity that reacts extremely sensitively to measurable nerve hyperactivity and increased blood flow, strong oxygen fluctuations, blood sugar, fluid, salinity and acid-alkaline balance, as well as to toxins. If a situation arises that threatens the energy supply to the brain, then a section of the brainstem responds massively towards it. This particular section of the brain-stem is also referred to as the migraine generator. The migraine generator is activated before the activation of trigeminal nerve, which supplies the blood vessels, thus causing a sensation of pain. The most recent PET examinations have proved this. The Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a method in which particularly active brain areas are visualized in colour. The blood circulation in area of the migraine generator is stronger before and during a migraine attack, indicating increased activity. It remains active even though painkillers such as triptans, for example, have long since surpressed the migraine attack. It is therefore in a position to allow the migraine to flare up again, once the painkillers have worn off. The trigeminal nerve is activated. This nerve is responsible for the sensitive supply of the meninges, cerebral arteries, cerebral cortex, sinuses and face, thus making sensitivity to pain possible. Trigeminal fibres bring information, for example, from the head vessels and face to their nerve cores, which are distributed from the midbrain to the spinal cord of the cervical spine. In the upper cervical spine, end-segments of the trigeminal fibres and cervical nerve fibres overlap in the spinal cord. As a result of this friction, disturbing stimuli can be unleashed from the upper cervical spine as they do when you suffer whiplash. When they reach the trigeminal nerve, they irritate it. In addition to this, irritation can also occur due to fibres from the seventh and tenth cranial nerve. Constant stimuli ranging from scar disturbances, chronic inflammation and anatomical or physiological problem areas such as, for example, irritation to the head and neck joints, cause irritation zones in the brainstem with heightened energy consumption. This happens in, among other places, the cores of the trigeminal nerve and in the cerebral cortex. These irritation zones are related and can lead to the development of migraine. The overactivity of the trigeminal nerve releases messenger substances. These affect the vascular musculature and vessel diameter in the blood vessels of the brain. This also happens when too much nitric oxide floods into the vessels. This is called nitro stress. Nowadays it is assumed that the arterial walls are only momentarily inflamed. This initially leads to an expansion of the arteries of the head and to increased permeability and swelling of the arterial walls (edema). This edema leads to a narrowing of the arteries and consequently to a reduction of blood flow to certain areas of the brain. The result of this is migraine aura. The inflammation caused by the nerve irritation spreads across the entire vessel wall and disrupts the cell connections. These subsequently become more elastic again. The blood pressure expands the constricted vessels and the aura disappears (literature recommendation 5). Due to the inflammation of the nerves, the vascular walls are extremely pain sensitive.

However the details of how migraines develop have not been fully scientifically researched. I will describe the factors that are able to trigger an overactivity of the migraine generator in the brainstem and in the trigeminal ganglion in detail, in the chapters, Anamnesis, Laboratory Analysis, Osteopathic Examination and Neural-Therapeutic Testing.

Fig.: Migraine Causes Diagram

How I became interested in migraine therapy

Following my acupuncture training, I became an avid acupuncturist. I trusted in my Chinese needles to achieve almost anything and I internalized the philosophy of traditional Chinese medicine. I learned a lot about the acupuncture meridians and each of their specific acupuncture points, as well as their significance for various organs and diseases. And as fate would have it, I managed to cure three migraine patients of their migraines in short succession. I was totally euphoric and thought that I now knew how to cure migraines. I soon realised how naive that was. I advertised my first successes and lots of migraine patients came to see me for treatment. But unfortunately I suffered one failure after another. I came to realize that I could only help up to 20% of the patients with acupuncture. So there must be other causes that could not be influenced by my needles.

I decided that my next step would be to do neural therapy training. At least this enabled me to up my success rate to 45%. But that was not enough for me. Then when every second patient leaves your praxis dissatisfied, it is not exactly the best advertisement for a medic. So I completed a five-year osteopathy course at the Osteopathy School Germany (OSD). At the same time, I delved intensively into nutritional medicine, orthomolecular medicine, endocrinology and bioidentical hormone therapy, as well as mitochondrial therapy according to Dr Kuklinski. Looking at my current statistics today, I can say that I have been able to cure 75% of my patients of their migraines within 10 to 20 sessions. Another 10% experience at least a significant improvement of their symptoms, that is, they suffer significantly fewer seizures and the migraine itself is less violent.

CHAPTER 2

44 MIGRAINE PATIENTS – 44 SOLVED CASES

Case 1: Nitro Stress and Osteopathic Dysfunction

A 44-year-old physiotherapist suffered a whiplash injury 15 years ago, when the car behind her failed to stop at a red light and rammed into her. After the accident, she had to wear a neck brace for several days. Four weeks later she got her first migraine attack. For a long time, the attacks only occured every month or two, often just as her menstruation started. However over the last two years, the migraines became more and more frequent. Then during the past three months, the patient began to have a migraine attack up to three times a week. She used to enjoy jogging, but now she paid for every endurance run with a migraine attack. For a while, the only medicine that helped her at all were triptans. But then after a while, even they did not help her anymore. Worse still was that in addition to the migraine pain, she also suffered from dizziness, blurred vision, tinnitus, nausea, poor concentration and memory impairment. A succession of 15 acupuncture sessions with her family doctor saw no improvement whatsoever in her condition. So she was pretty desperate when she came to see me.

After a consultation, I took some blood samples for laboratory analysis. I wanted to find out if the whiplash injury had caused an instable vertical spine, resulting in elevated levels of nitrogen monoxide production (nitro stress). That would indicate an increased consumption her from the extreme pain she was suffering, I gave her a 1mg injection of B12, without even waiting for the lab results. Her next consultation was due in two weeks and during that time, I recommended that she inject herself daily in the stomach with the same dose of this vitamin.

During the osteopathic examination, I discovered that my patient had several restrictions. Increased membrane tension, reduced cranial plates, in particular an occipital bone wedged between the two temporal bones, a sacrum wedged between the pelvic bones, resulting in an asynchronous craniosacral rhythm, vertebral blockages in the upper cervical spine and the lower thoracic spine and reduced chest expansion. I treated these problems in a specific order. First I released the tension of the dural membranes lining the spine and head, then I freed the wedged sacrum as well as the wedged occipital bone. After that, I released the blockages of the thoracic and cervical spine, and synchronized its craniosacral rhythm.

The patient returned to me two weeks later and told me that she felt well and that she hadn’t suffered any migraine attacks at all. In the meantime, the laboratory results had come back and they confirmed strong nitro stress, thus causing a pronounced vitamin B12 deficiency with all its consequences for cell respiration and cell metabolism. There was also a lack of vitamin B2, B6, folic acid, biotin and magnesium. I suggested treating the painful pressure points on the upper cervical and thoracic spine and a nerve network in the gynecological area (plexus utero-vesicalis) with neural therapy by injecting local anesthetics and by replacing the aforementioned micronutrient deficiencies. After five more treatments over the next five weeks, the patient came back to my practice smiling and told me that she was migraine-free. The crazy part of this patient’s migraine-healing-story was that she had become pregnant during her treatment. And this at 44 years of age, and after having tried unsuccessfully to get pregnant for the past ten years. As the patient had been migraine-free for seven weeks and there was concern that the pregnancy may be endangered by the injections, we decided to end the treatment for the time being. Normally I only consider that a treatment is complete, once a patient has not had a migraine for four months.

A year later, I called the patient to check if her treatment had been successful. I learned that she was no longer suffering from migraines and that in the meantime, she had become a mother.

What had happened? How did the patient get rid of her migraines so quickly? How was it possible that after having tried to become a mother for ten years, that she had suddenly become pregnant, almost as a side-effect of migraine therapy? In order to answer these questions and understand the situation, let us look at what happens to a person after suffering whiplash. The Rostock specialist for internal and environmental medicine, Dr Bodo Kuklinski, has researched this subject for decades and describes it in detail in his books „Schwachstelle Genick“ and „Das HWS Trauma“. The cervical spine is the most mobile part of the entire spine. Here, nerves, blood vessels, lymph nodes, ligaments, muscles, fascia, bones and glands are compressed within the most confined of spaces. When whiplash occurs, the ligaments that provide stability to the cervical spine are overstretched, resulting in an unstable cervical spine. The resulting temporary undersupply of cells with oxygen and subsequent reperfusion sets a chemical reaction in motion. The amino acid arginine is split into citrulline and nitric oxide. Nitric oxide is a gas that spreads throughout the body, invading all body cells and mitochondria, causing destruction there. The body can neutralize nitric oxide, but only with very high levels of vitamin B12 and other micronutrients. An increased nitrogen monoxide content of inhaled air, measured with a respiratory gas meter, is significantly reduced after the injection of vitamin B12. When the body suffers from shock, or is jerked or shaken when jogging or riding, for example, large amounts of nitric oxide are released. What this means in terms of causing migraines, I will explain in detail in the chapter „Nitro Stress“. A further problem is that fascial distortion can occur following whiplash impact. The fascia, which consist mainly of elastic collagen and elastin fibres, envelop the muscles. They can be twisted and swirled around and then when they are immobilized by the neck brace, they bond together again. When the muscle strand is wrapped in a twisted fascia, it feels like a tightrope. The patient has the feeling that he is trapped inside a skintight diving suit. This relationship has been described by the American osteopath and discoverer of the Fascial Distortion Model, Steven Typaldos (literature recommendation 25). Spinal blockages are further facilitated by jerky movements during whiplash, loose ligaments, twisted fascia, and tense muscles. In migraines occuring after whiplash, the first two cervical vertebrae Atlas and Axis are often twisted against each other and are thus immobile. The body usually compensates for this through an oblique pelvis position. The possible consequences of cervical blockades are manifold. They can cause the irritation of the cranial nerves, spinal nerves and of the vegetative nervous system. There is pressure and traction in the vertebral artery with unilaterally altered blood supply, chronic inflammatory processes in the area of the muscle tendon approaches, nitro stress and chronic fatigue. Affected patients are particularly prone to migraines and chronic headaches. As the endocrine system and endocrine glands are controlled by the vegetative nervous system, permanent irritation to the nerves can lead to hormonal disorders, especially to the thyroid and ovaries. This can hamper pregnancy. As soon as the natural regulatory capacity of the body has been restored through the elimination of the perturbative fields of the vegetative nervous system, and the normalization of cellular respiration has also been restored, then nothing stands in the way of a pregnancy.

Case 2: Putrefaction Milieu and Histamine

A 48-year-old lawyer had been suffering on an almost daily basis from light to moderate headaches. In addition to that, she had two to three migraine attacks per week which she treated with aspirin, paracetamol or triptans. She had regular massages and physiotherapy to relieve the tension in her shoulder and neck, but this only slightly relieved her symptoms. The pain also had a severe psychological effect on her and she was only able to work for an hour at any one time. Apart from around three bouts of flu a year, which she treated by taking antibiotics, she had no other illnesses. She didn’t have any allergies or food intolerances. She only felt bloated from time to time, but this was nothing compared to the frequent severe headaches she suffered. She had multiple internal, neurological and orthopaedic examinations. Two periods spent in migraine clinics had no positive effects whatsoever. Her migraines did not get any better.

Her blood count as well as her intracellular micronutrient analysis were perfectly normal. Her liver function reading was slightly elevated. Her thyroid glands and inflammation markers were both normal.

We carried out an examination of her intestinal flora to check her bloating problem. It showed a lack of digestion enzymes (Pancreaselastase), an increased amount of fat and species) were significantly higher than the norm and there was a reduced level of lactobacilli. Furthermore, her faeces showed significantly elevated (12x) histamine levels accompanied by an in-serum diaminoxidase which was just about normal (DAO 11). In conclusion, the patient was suffering from decay dyspepsia. This is caused by a lack of digestion enzymes which means that fat and protein are not digested properly. This creates ideal nutritional and propagational conditions for gas-forming putrefactive bacteria. Clostridia, in particular, whose growth was encouraged by the frequent use of antibiotics, can produce poisonous metabollic products. These must be removed through the liver. The body of the patient was flooded and poisoned by bacterial waste products and histamine. This led to the bloatedness and severe strain on the liver, as seen in the elevated liver function reading.

The flooding of the body with bacteria toxins and histamine also led to the malfunction of the energy supply of the mitochondria which then caused irritation to the migraine generator in the brainstem. Neuropeptides were released there and the trigeminus nerve in the blood vessels of the brain was irritated. And this is how the migraine disaster ran its course.

The first step of the treatment was to start a low-histamine diet plus two capsules of Diaminoxidase – a histamine-reducing enzyme - at every mealtime. This already brought some relief. In the second step of the treatment, Clostridia was significantly reduced through a fortnightly dose of oxygen-inducing substances after every mealtime. The patient also took digestion enzymes at every mealtime. The third step was to build up a healthy intestinal flora through the administration of lactobacilli and bifidobacteria. These were able to settle on the mucous membrane, which had been left bare by the displacement of clostridia. Six months after starting this intestinal cleansing, both the chronic headaches and migraines had completely disappeared.

Case 3: Micronutrient Deficiencies, Intestinal Inflammation and Food Intolerances

A 17-year-old girl came to my office with her mother. She had been suffering increasingly from migraine attacks for about four years, as well as from allergic asthma and eczema on the face, neck and elbow. She had already been diagnosed with a house-dust allergy and hay fever. The girl regularly used cortisone sprays and ointments containing cortisone.

An intracellular micronutrient analysis indicated a lack of zinc, selenium, vitamin B6, and vitamin D3. The intestinal flora examination revealed a deficiency of coliform bacteria, enterococci, bifidobacteria and lactobacilli, as well as increased protein residues and a reduced amount of starch in the stool. Alpha-1-antitrypsin, a marker of inflammation and poor mucosal absorption, was elevated. The same was true for the secretory IgA in the stool and antitrypsin and secretory IgA in the stool pointed towards a food intolerance. I therefore carried out a blood test on the 88 most important foods. This showed a drastic increase in IgG4 antibodies against rye, wheat, spelt and all dairy products. All levels were 150 to 300 times higher. Almost all other foods were well tolerated.

My first step was to put her on a largely gluten-free diet and to cut out all milk products, apart from butter which only has a small amount of milk protein and a lot of milk fat. In the second step of the treatment, I carried out a detoxification of the hyperpermeable intestinal mucosa with microbiological preparations, amino acids and micronutrients. The allergic processes decreased as a result, inflammatory areas of the intestinal mucosa closed and the normal barrier function of the intestinal mucosa was restored. The last migraine attack occurred five weeks after the start of therapy. After that, there were no further migraine attacks. The side-effects of the treatment were particularly gratifying. The girl‘s eczema disappeared completely and she no longer needed cortisone sprays for her asthma.

This case shows that migraine attacks can also be triggered by immunological causes. It is interesting that milk and cereal products in particular were not tolerated. This is often the case and probably due to the fact that ten thousand years ago in the Stone Age, these products were not part of our diet. About 5000 years ago, humans began to feed themselves milk and cereals and apparently many people have not genetically adapted themselves to these foods.

Another aspect in this case is the connection between a colonization of the intestine and disorders of the brain metabolism. If the healthy intestinal flora is damaged by malnutrition, antibiotics or chemicals such as preservatives, then inflammatory mediators form (TNF-alpha, IL6). These lead to the destruction and increased permeability of the intestinal mucosa, allowing contaminants to enter the blood and brain unhindered. This can lead to neuronal inflammation in the brain and these in turn can manifest themselves as migraine attacks.