Studies and Articles
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Video: Migraine Relief, Ketosis & Insulin Resistance w/ Elena Gross, PhD
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Dr Elena Gross speak to Mike Mutzel, MS of High Intensity Health about the effect of insulin (Nutrition) in the cause of migraines.
It is a fascinating interview that helps to shed light on the triggers and causes of migraines, as well as what we can do to reduce these triggers.
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Dietary Supplement With Ketones May Mitigate Migraine Attacks
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Among patients with migraines, daily dietary supplementation with ketones raised blood ketone levels and reduced the monthly number of attacks by half, preliminary trial results have shown. A reduction in migraine frequency from a mean of 16 days/month to 8 days/month, "and that is within the first month of supplemen -
Will Keto Help My Migraines?
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Migraine sufferers often turn to unconventional therapies, such as dietary changes, without the dreaded side effects of pharmaceuticals. Look no further than keto! The benefits of a ketogenic diet for numerous neurological conditions are being studied, and migraines are no exception. It has been well established the ketogenic diet can help reduce the frequency of seizures,[8] and studies have shown ketones exert a protective effect on the brain.[9] As noted above, current seizure medications (anticonvulsants), such as Topiramate, are currently being prescribed as a preventive migraine option. If an epilepsy medication can be used for migraine prevention, then it makes sense the same diet proven to benefit epilepsy will also aid in migraine relief. -
A Significant reduction in migraines
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One-month observational study of KD in 96 migraine patients as part of a weight loss program found a reduction of up to 80% in migraine frequency, severity and acute medication use [37]. The same intervention in 18 episodic migraineurs induced a 62.5% reduction in migraine days, which was accompanied by a normalization of the interictal habituation deficit of visual evoked responses [36]. The reduction in migraine attack frequency, severity and the use of acute anti-migraine medication during ketosis had effect
sizes ranging from a total absence of attacks [33] to a reduction to 1/5th of the run-in period [37]. In addition, preliminary evidence suggests that the protective effect may outlast the duration of ketosis [33], as is often the case in pediatric epilepsy patients, and could be the result of longer-lasting gene-expression changes [12,38]. -
University Hospital Basel (USB), Switzerland
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An alternative means to induce a state of mild to medium nutritional ketosis (0.4–2 mmol/l), irrespective of blood glucose levels, is dietary supplementation with ketogenic substances, such as beta-hydroxybutyrate (βHB) salts [45, 49–52]. This approach could be easily implemented with intake of a ketogenic powder dissolved in water (consisting of a calcium–magnesium–βHB salt three times a day). This intervention seems much more feasible than a strict KD in larger patient populations and avoids the complications of a very restricted high-fat diet. These considerations led us to examine the efficacy and safety of KB mineral salts in migraine prevention within the scopes of a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, efficacy and safety trial with a crossover design. -
Can the keto diet help with migraines?
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I never expected to be derailed by a decade of debilitating migraines. By my mid 30’s, I started to get menstrual migraines. I would end up in bed in a dark room, vomiting, intolerant to noise, light and scents.
That was the summer of 2017. Today, I genuinely have my life back. In the early days I was not magically migraine free but they did lessen in the first WEEK! That was motivation enough.
