Overview
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Meg Mill, a functional medicine practitioner, bestselling author, and host of the A Little Bit Healthier podcast, who spent years dealing with unresolved gastrointestinal issues that conventional medicine kept labeling as IBS before she discovered functional medicine and finally found her answers. Today Dr. Meg specializes in helping people get to the root cause of headaches and migraines, a condition that millions of people manage with over-the-counter pain relievers without ever questioning why it keeps happening. This conversation will completely change how you think about headaches.
You’ll Learn
- The key differences between tension headaches, migraines, and cluster headaches including how they feel, what triggers them, and what each type signals about what is happening in the body
- Why hormonal migraines are often driven by estrogen dominance or rapid hormonal shifts in the week before your period, and how the Dutch test reveals what a standard estrogen blood test completely misses
- How endocrine disruptors from BPA plastics, hormone-laden dairy, and conventional meat are silently raising estrogen levels and contributing to chronic headaches
- Why Ibuprofen and NSAIDs may actually make headaches worse over time by disrupting the gut lining, increasing intestinal permeability, and feeding the very inflammation cycle driving the pain
- The simple calendar tracking method Dr. Meg uses with clients to start identifying food triggers and patterns, including why the food you ate the day before may be causing today’s headache
- Why magnesium deficiency is one of the most common nutrient drivers behind chronic headaches and the easiest food sources to start with including pumpkin seeds, salmon, and eggs
- How blood sugar dysregulation and low insulin testing create a high-low cycle that triggers headache episodes, and why your fasting glucose can look normal while you already have hyperinsulinemia
- Why sleep deprivation is an independent risk factor for migraines specifically because decreased REM sleep is directly associated with migraine frequency
Resources
Connect with Dr. Meg Mill:
Free Headache Guide- https://www.HelpMyHeadaches.com
Hormone Symptom Checklist- https://www.HormoneFixer.com
Prioritize your sleep. Everything your body needs to repair, restore, and regulate happens there.
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If you’re struggling with an autoimmune disease, thyroid issues, gut problems, or mystery health issues that conventional medicine can’t explain, I can help. Through functional medicine lab testing, we will uncover what’s really going on in your body and create customized protocols to help you heal. If you’re ready to reverse your health issues naturally, you can book a health consultation with myself or someone on my team below.
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