What if your migraine relief plan started not at the doctor’s office—but in your kitchen? In this episode of The Migraine Heroes Podcast, host Diane Ducarme explores how batch cooking can become a powerful ally in migraine prevention and recovery.

You’ll discover:

🍴 Why erratic eating and “stress snacks” silently fuel migraines—and how batch cooking puts you back in control

🍴 The science behind blood sugar, histamine build-up, and how frozen meals can either help or hurt your brain

🍴 The surprising Eastern wisdom of “food as daily medicine”—and how warm, nourishing dishes support long-term healing

🍴 A migraine-friendly approach to meal prep that saves energy while protecting your nervous system

Batch cooking isn’t just a time-saver—it’s a healing strategy. By stabilizing blood sugar, reducing stress-triggered food choices, and honoring your body’s rhythm, you can build a safety net that prevents attacks before they start.

You’ll also hear the overlooked truth most batch cooking blogs never mention: the histamine clock—and why freezing your meals right away may be the missing link in your migraine management.

✨ Your kitchen could be your strongest line of defense against migraine flare-ups. Tune in and learn how small, practical shifts in meal prep can create big relief.

🎧 New episodes every Monday and Wednesday

🔗 Migraine Assessment: Discover your unique Migraine Profile and uncover insights about your migraine triggers and solutions. Take a few minutes for yourself and begin now.✨

📲 Want to track your symptoms, understand your unique triggers, and receive personalized support?

Download the Migraine Heroes App today—your healing begins with awareness.

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Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not substitute for providing medical advice. Always consult your healthcare professional before making any health-related decisions.

For women, men, and children who suffer from migraine disease, Migraine Heroes is your go-to resource for understanding, managing, and overcoming migraine attacks.

We cover all types of migraines and related headaches, including primary and secondary migraines, chronic migraines, and cluster migraines. We dive deep into the complexities of migraine with aura and migraine without aura, as well as rarer forms like hemiplegic migraine, retinal migraine, and acephalgic migraine (silent migraine). Our discussions also extend to cervicogenic headaches, ice pick headaches, and pressure headaches, which often mimic migraine or contribute to overall migraine burden.

Does your phone feel like both your lifeline and your biggest migraine trigger?

In this episode of The Migraine Heroes Podcast, we dive into the hidden ways screen time overstimulates your brain — and how to reduce migraine risk without quitting your job, ditching your smartphone, or cutting yourself off from the online world.

Blending Western neuroscience with Eastern healing wisdom, host Diane Ducarme unpacks the physical, mental, and emotional costs of our screen-saturated lives — and how to reclaim your brain’s balance in a digital age.

You’ll discover:

🤳 How blue light, notifications, and poor posture trigger the migraine cascade

🤳 Why your nervous system reacts differently to screens when you’re already migraine-prone

🤳 Eastern perspectives on overstimulation, “scattered Qi,” and how to restore harmony

🤳 Practical hacks — from yellow-tinted glasses to “digital walks” — that help you stay connected without sacrificing your health

This isn’t about a total digital detox — it’s about using screens in a way that serves you, not the other way around.

You’ll also hear inspiring real-life examples of migraine heroes who’ve reshaped their screen habits and found more clarity, energy, and pain-free days.

🎧 New episodes every Monday and Wednesday

🔗 Migraine Assessment: Discover your unique Migraine Profile and uncover insights about your migraine triggers and solutions. Take a few minutes for yourself and begin now.✨

📲 Want to track your symptoms, understand your unique triggers, and receive personalized support?

Download the Migraine Heroes App today—your healing begins with awareness.

🔗 Download the Migraine Heroes App: ⁠⁠⁠

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Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not substitute for providing medical advice. Always consult your healthcare professional before making any health-related decisions.

For women, men, and children who suffer from migraine disease, Migraine Heroes is your go-to resource for understanding, managing, and overcoming migraine attacks.

We cover all types of migraines and related headaches, including primary and secondary migraines, chronic migraines, and cluster migraines. We dive deep into the complexities of migraine with aura and migraine without aura, as well as rarer forms like hemiplegic migraine, retinal migraine, and acephalgic migraine (silent migraine). Our discussions also extend to cervicogenic headaches, ice pick headaches, and pressure headaches, which often mimic migraine or contribute to overall migraine burden.

Kombucha has been marketed as a bubbly, probiotic-rich health elixir — promising gut healing, detox, and a boost for your immune system. But for some migraine sufferers, this fizzy drink might be doing more harm than good.

In this episode of The Migraine Heroes Podcast, host Diane Ducarme blends Western science with Eastern healing wisdom to uncover the surprising ways kombucha can both support and sabotage migraine recovery. You’ll hear the real-life story of a woman whose daily kombucha habit was quietly prolonging her migraine hangovers — and the transformation she experienced when she stopped.

You’ll discover:

☘️ How kombucha impacts your gut, blood sugar, and inflammation — and why that matters for migraine

☘️ The hidden risks: candida, SIBO, histamine overload, and “slow triggers” that can quietly build migraine susceptibility

☘️ Why Traditional Chinese Medicine views kombucha’s cold, fizzy nature as disruptive to digestion and brain clarity

☘️ How to decide if kombucha belongs in your migraine healing plan — and how to listen to your body’s signals

Kombucha isn’t universally good or bad — it’s a functional food that should be matched to your body’s unique terrain. This episode will help you sort through the hype, understand the science, and make an informed choice for your migraine journey.

🎧 New episodes every Monday and Wednesday

🔗 Migraine Assessment: Discover your unique Migraine Profile and uncover insights about your migraine triggers and solutions. Take a few minutes for yourself and begin now.✨

📲 Want to track your symptoms, understand your unique triggers, and receive personalized support?

Download the Migraine Heroes App today—your healing begins with awareness.

🔗 Download the Migraine Heroes App: ⁠⁠⁠

📌 ⁠App Store⁠

📌 ⁠Google Playstore⁠

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not substitute for providing medical advice. Always consult your healthcare professional before making any health-related decisions.

For women, men, and children who suffer from migraine disease, Migraine Heroes is your go-to resource for understanding, managing, and overcoming migraine attacks.

We cover all types of migraines and related headaches, including primary and secondary migraines, chronic migraines, and cluster migraines. We dive deep into the complexities of migraine with aura and migraine without aura, as well as rarer forms like hemiplegic migraine, retinal migraine, and acephalgic migraine (silent migraine). Our discussions also extend to cervicogenic headaches, ice pick headaches, and pressure headaches, which often mimic migraine or contribute to overall migraine burden.

Ever smiled through a pounding migraine just to get through the day? You’re not alone. Many migraine sufferers wear a “migraine mask” — hiding our pain to keep working, caring, or just functioning in a world that doesn’t always understand invisible illness.

This episode of The Migraine Heroes Podcast explores the complex reality of masking: when it helps you survive, and when it quietly takes a toll on your body and mind. Hosted by Diane Ducarme, who has guided hundreds of women in rewriting their migraine story, we blend Western neuroscience with Eastern healing wisdom to uncover the unseen cost of pretending to be fine.

You’ll discover:

🎭 Why masking your migraine can increase stress, inflammation, and attack frequency

🎭 The hidden emotional labor of living with invisible pain

🎭 Eastern medicine insights on how holding back disrupts your body’s inner balance

🎭 A compassionate framework for deciding when to mask — and when to let trusted people in

Masking is not a weakness. It’s a survival strategy in a world that rarely pauses to ask what migraine really feels like. But constant masking can leave you depleted, disconnected, and misunderstood. In this episode, you’ll learn how to protect your energy without losing yourself — and why unmasking in safe spaces can be a powerful step toward healing.

🎧 New episodes every Monday and Wednesday

🔗 Migraine Assessment: Discover your unique Migraine Profile and uncover insights about your migraine triggers and solutions. Take a few minutes for yourself and begin now.✨

📲 Want to track your symptoms, understand your unique triggers, and receive personalized support?

Download the Migraine Heroes App today—your healing begins with awareness.

🔗 Download the Migraine Heroes App: ⁠⁠⁠

📌 ⁠App Store⁠

📌 ⁠Google Playstore⁠

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not substitute for providing medical advice. Always consult your healthcare professional before making any health-related decisions.

For women, men, and children who suffer from migraine disease, Migraine Heroes is your go-to resource for understanding, managing, and overcoming migraine attacks.

We cover all types of migraines and related headaches, including primary and secondary migraines, chronic migraines, and cluster migraines. We dive deep into the complexities of migraine with aura and migraine without aura, as well as rarer forms like hemiplegic migraine, retinal migraine, and acephalgic migraine (silent migraine). Our discussions also extend to cervicogenic headaches, ice pick headaches, and pressure headaches, which often mimic migraine or contribute to overall migraine burden.

Ever found yourself inhaling cookies or chips right before a migraine hits—and then feeling ashamed, confused, or totally out of control?

You’re not alone. And you’re not broken.

In fact, that craving might be your brain’s first migraine alert.

In this episode of The Migraine Heroes Podcast, host Diane Ducarme reveals the misunderstood connection between binge eating and migraine prodrome—those hours (or days) before the actual pain begins.

Through science-backed insight and personal stories, you’ll learn:

💡 Why intense cravings before a migraine are neurological, not moral

💡 What the hypothalamus, gut, and vagus nerve have to do with your food urges

💡 Eastern medicine’s view on cravings, and how they reflect imbalance—not weakness

💡 A step-by-step strategy to decode your cravings, regulate your body, and stop the spiral before it starts

You’ll also hear a powerful story of a woman who went from secret gas station binges to full relief—without crash diets or guilt.

Whether your cravings hit before your period, after stress, or for no reason at all—this episode will help you transform shame into insight, and symptoms into signals.

Your body is not betraying you. It’s asking you to listen.

This episode will help you do just that—with clarity, empathy, and practical tools.

🎧 New episodes every Monday and Wednesday

🔗 Migraine Assessment: Discover your unique Migraine Profile and uncover insights about your migraine triggers and solutions. Take a few minutes for yourself and begin now.✨

📲 Want to track your symptoms, understand your unique triggers, and receive personalized support?

Download the Migraine Heroes App today—your healing begins with awareness.

🔗 Download the Migraine Heroes App: ⁠⁠⁠

📌 ⁠App Store⁠

📌 ⁠Google Playstore⁠

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not substitute for providing medical advice. Always consult your healthcare professional before making any health-related decisions.

For women, men, and children who suffer from migraine disease, Migraine Heroes is your go-to resource for understanding, managing, and overcoming migraine attacks.

We cover all types of migraines and related headaches, including primary and secondary migraines, chronic migraines, and cluster migraines. We dive deep into the complexities of migraine with aura and migraine without aura, as well as rarer forms like hemiplegic migraine, retinal migraine, and acephalgic migraine (silent migraine). Our discussions also extend to cervicogenic headaches, ice pick headaches, and pressure headaches, which often mimic migraine or contribute to overall migraine burden.

Ever feel guilty for slowing down—like rest means you’re falling behind? You’re not alone. And if you live with migraine, that belief might be doing more harm than you realize.

In this episode of The Migraine Heroes Podcast, host Diane Ducarme unpacks the hidden cost of pushing through the pain—and why reclaiming rest might be the most powerful move on your healing journey. With a blend of neuroscience and Eastern medicine, we explore how over-productivity impacts your brain, hormones, and nervous system—and how rest, when reframed, becomes medicine.

You’ll discover:

💡 Why your brain associates rest with failure (and how dopamine is involved)

💡 How chronic overwork and productivity guilt increase migraine frequency

💡 The Eastern view of rest as a vital force—not a luxury

💡 Three simple rituals to welcome rest into your life—without shame

This episode is not just about lying down. It’s about unlearning the belief that your worth is tied to your output. Because true resilience isn’t about pretending you're okay. It's about listening to your body when it whispers—and resting before it screams.

Whether you’re in bed with a migraine or trying to prevent the next one, this episode offers validation, practical tools, and a new way of seeing rest: not as giving up, but as returning to yourself.

🎧 New episodes every Monday and Wednesday

🔗 Migraine Assessment: Discover your unique Migraine Profile and uncover insights about your migraine triggers and solutions. Take a few minutes for yourself and begin now.✨

📲 Want to track your symptoms, understand your unique triggers, and receive personalized support?

Download the Migraine Heroes App today—your healing begins with awareness.

🔗 Download the Migraine Heroes App: ⁠⁠⁠

📌 ⁠App Store⁠

📌 ⁠Google Playstore⁠

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not substitute for providing medical advice. Always consult your healthcare professional before making any health-related decisions.

For women, men, and children who suffer from migraine disease, Migraine Heroes is your go-to resource for understanding, managing, and overcoming migraine attacks.

We cover all types of migraines and related headaches, including primary and secondary migraines, chronic migraines, and cluster migraines. We dive deep into the complexities of migraine with aura and migraine without aura, as well as rarer forms like hemiplegic migraine, retinal migraine, and acephalgic migraine (silent migraine). Our discussions also extend to cervicogenic headaches, ice pick headaches, and pressure headaches, which often mimic migraine or contribute to overall migraine burden.

That yogurt you eat for breakfast… could it be silently setting you up for a migraine later?

In this episode of The Migraine Heroes Podcast, host Diane Ducarme unpacks the confusing role of dairy in migraine health — and reveals how one food group can both soothe and sabotage your nervous system.

We dive into the science and the ancient wisdom behind milk, cheese, yogurt, and more — so you can stop guessing and start listening to your body’s deeper cues.

You’ll discover:

💡 How dairy can hydrate the body and increase inflammation — depending on your unique constitution

💡 The four bioactive compounds in dairy that may be triggering your migraines (casein, lactose, hormones, histamines)

💡 What Traditional Chinese Medicine says about Dampness and how it clouds the brain–gut axis

💡 Practical ways to consume dairy (or avoid it) based on your body’s signals, digestion, and symptoms

We’ll also share:

✨ A powerful story of a woman who thought hydration was helping her — until it quietly made things worse

✨ Why the root of your migraines might not be in your head… but in your gut

This episode blends neuroscience and holistic medicine to help you make smarter choices — not out of fear, but out of deep understanding.

If you’ve ever felt foggy, bloated, or tired after dairy — or confused by conflicting advice — this episode is for you.

🎧 New episodes every Monday and Wednesday

🔗 Migraine Assessment: Discover your unique Migraine Profile and uncover insights about your migraine triggers and solutions. Take a few minutes for yourself and begin now.✨

📲 Want to track your symptoms, understand your unique triggers, and receive personalized support?

Download the Migraine Heroes App today—your healing begins with awareness.

🔗 Download the Migraine Heroes App: ⁠⁠⁠

📌 ⁠App Store⁠

📌 ⁠Google Playstore⁠

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not substitute for providing medical advice. Always consult your healthcare professional before making any health-related decisions.

For women, men, and children who suffer from migraine disease, Migraine Heroes is your go-to resource for understanding, managing, and overcoming migraine attacks.

We cover all types of migraines and related headaches, including primary and secondary migraines, chronic migraines, and cluster migraines. We dive deep into the complexities of migraine with aura and migraine without aura, as well as rarer forms like hemiplegic migraine, retinal migraine, and acephalgic migraine (silent migraine). Our discussions also extend to cervicogenic headaches, ice pick headaches, and pressure headaches, which often mimic migraine or contribute to overall migraine burden.

Always putting others first… but feeling depleted, in pain, and on edge? That’s not just stress—it may be your body calling for boundaries.

The Migraine Heroes Podcast is your space to heal beyond medications and surface-level advice. Hosted by Diane Ducarme, who’s helped over 500 women decode their migraines using both neuroscience and Traditional Chinese Medicine, this show unpacks the deeper emotional and physiological layers of chronic pain.

In this episode, we explore the quiet—but powerful—link between people-pleasing and migraines.

You’ll:

● Learn how chronic self-silencing drains your nervous system and increases pain sensitivity

● Understand the neuroscience behind fawning and why it’s more than just a personality trait

● Discover Eastern insights on how abandoning yourself creates disharmony—and how to return to your center

● Get practical, body-based tools to protect your energy and start healing gently

This episode is for the kind-hearted souls who always show up for others—but are ready to show up for themselves, too.

🎧 New episodes every Monday and Wednesday

🔗 Migraine Assessment: Discover your unique Migraine Profile and uncover insights about your migraine triggers and solutions. Take a few minutes for yourself and begin now.✨

📲 Want to track your symptoms, understand your unique triggers, and receive personalized support?

Download the Migraine Heroes App today—your healing begins with awareness.

🔗 Download the Migraine Heroes App: ⁠⁠⁠

📌 ⁠App Store⁠

📌 ⁠Google Playstore⁠

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not substitute for providing medical advice. Always consult your healthcare professional before making any health-related decisions.

For women, men, and children who suffer from migraine disease, Migraine Heroes is your go-to resource for understanding, managing, and overcoming migraine attacks.

We cover all types of migraines and related headaches, including primary and secondary migraines, chronic migraines, and cluster migraines. We dive deep into the complexities of migraine with aura and migraine without aura, as well as rarer forms like hemiplegic migraine, retinal migraine, and acephalgic migraine (silent migraine). Our discussions also extend to cervicogenic headaches, ice pick headaches, and pressure headaches, which often mimic migraine or contribute to overall migraine burden.