The #1 Vitamin Deficiency Behind Migraines (MUST KNOW)

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Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, we’re going to talk about the #1 vitamin deficiency behind migraines. Migraines can cause debilitating pain and hypersensitivity to smells, sounds, and light. They can also cause nausea and increase the impulse to vomit.

Migraines can be genetic, but this doesn’t mean you have to live with them. You have to understand the epigenetic factors that can potentially help you override this genetic weakness.

There is a connection between under-functioning mitochondria and migraines. This vitamin is involved with an enzyme that helps preserve the aerobic metabolism in your mitochondria. It also helps you build up glutathione.

One of the earliest indications of Parkinson’s disease is the failure of the glutathione mechanism. If you don’t have enough glutathione, it can cause serious damage to your neurons.

Riboflavin (vitamin B2) deficiency is the vitamin deficiency often involved with migraines. If you have a genetic problem in your mitochondria, you may need more vitamin B2. Vitamin B2 helps allow oxygen to work through the mitochondria.

Try taking 400 mg of vitamin B2 to help prevent migraines. If you want to know how to get rid of a migraine if you already have one, try taking 100 mg of vitamin B2 every hour until your migraine symptoms are gone—but don't exceed 400 mg per day.

Sodium deficiencies can also cause migraines. Consuming more sea salt can help. If vitamin B2 doesn’t provide migraine relief, you can also try ginger or turmeric.

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0:00.0	Let's talk about the most common vitamin deficiency in migrain.
0:05.4	If you've ever had a migraine, it can be debilitating.
0:08.4	It creates this hypersensitivity of your
0:13.3	sight, sight, so you want to stay in the dark.
0:15.0	It can increase the impulse to vomit or feel nauseous.
0:18.3	So apparently when I did this research, I found something that I didn't know before. The majority of these migraines are genetic.
0:26.7	And I do know from studying genetics, this doesn't mean that you have to live with it.
0:30.6	It just means that you have to understand the epigenetic factors, those things that are above your genetics that potentially could help you override this genetic weakness.
0:40.0	So when someone has a genetic problem, they have a limited capacity for doing a certain thing
0:45.3	but if you understand the epigenetics maybe you can override it and in five to 11 clinical trials
0:51.8	there is significant improvement in migraines.
0:54.0	Now, four of the trials were mixed and two of the trials didn't show any results, probably
0:59.6	because it wasn't genetics and there's some other cause to these migraines.
1:04.4	But migraines a lot of times will affect the ocular, the eye.
1:07.4	And so if you do have a problem, especially with one-sided eye problems,
1:10.8	I think this remedy is going to greatly help you. There's various theories about, you know,
1:15.7	migraines and no one really knows for sure, but there's a huge relationship between your mitochondria and these headaches, especially a high-bow
1:27.2	under-functioning mitochondria. There's some type of dysfunction in the
1:31.9	mitochondria that doesn't allow it to work correctly.
1:35.0	And this particular vitamin is involved with an enzyme that helps you preserve the aerobic metabolism in your mitochondria.
1:46.7	That just means with oxygen.
1:48.6	And so when you're taking food and
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