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For many years I’ve noticed the forgotten aspect of training your nervous system and the adaptations it makes to support your activity underpins all the improvements you see. I read a beautiful research article named how brain cells change their tune and I felt it was time to explain mytheory that learning a skill depends on training our nerves.
Just a quick report. Yesterday I tried having two teaspoons of coffee instead of one. Not a huge change for most people but a lot for me. Oh, and it was normal coffee not decaf. I’ve moved on a long way in my tolerance this past year. I can’t help but notice how tense I have been since yesterday. Totally …
Building on how to cure migraine The basic idea is that headaches, particularly migraine could be a reflection of the brain being pushed too hard in some way. Just like physical training can lead to Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) and severe pain that lasts for days. Migraines could come in patches because the brain hasn’t fully recovered from the …
I’ve been meaning to write this article for a long time but never felt I had the time to do it justice. Now I just feel I have waited too long so I need to put my first draft together and then build it over time. A recent article Size, connectivity of brain region linked to anxiety level in young children is …
The network of arteries supplying blood flow to the brain is more likely to be incomplete in people who suffer migraine, a new study by researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania reports. Variations in arterial anatomy lead to asymmetries in cerebral blood flow that might contribute to the process triggering migraines. Read the full …
This is an incredibly technical explanation. I’m including it for completeness. Let me know what you think.
Ian Bulow made an interesting comment on my previous post on curing migraines. He suggested I look into upper cervical care. Not something I had heard about so it’s an interesting topic. Exactly the kind of response I was hoping for. He linked to an interview he has upload to youtube explaining what he means by upper cervical care so …
I feel migraine is a very personal challenge and so I am expecting there to be multiple causes. Much like there are for cancer. So I’m not expecting a one size fits all solution. I specialise in finding common patterns that then lead to individual solutions.
I am a big fan of the Oatmeal and I just love how he explains how caffeine affects a human. I so wish I had his skills. I would love to be able to express things in such a fun way. I actually learnt something reading this post which I do when I read a lot of his posts. From …
I’ve been wanting to share this for a few months. Now that I have started some posts exploring migraine it’s time to share. Episode 3 of the tv series Trust me I’m a doctor is amazing. It covers migraine and I have my special theory that it’s about the brain being overloaded and so training your brain should help. Later …
I have a mission this year to help my wife learn to live with her migraines. My wife suffers badly from then, she is suffering as I write this post and it is quite a bain of our lives. Like anyone else I’ve searched for cures, she has too and she’s tried all sorts of remedies. Some things seem to help the …
This post may challenge everything you know about Migraine but I have a genuine need to understand and cure it. My wife suffers badly and it makes us both unhappy. I think my sports science knowledge can help. It can’t hurt to try can it, excuse the pun. I don’t promise to have a fix but I have a very …
If we don’t sleep we simply don’t work properly. So what does it do for us, how much do we need, what types are there and many other questions are answered.
I understand that our brains can only obtain energy from sugar. The can’t get it from protein and fat like the rest of our body. So when I found an article considering How much glucose does your brain actually need? I knew I needed to make a record for future reference. This is something I learnt through bio psychology and my PE …
Given many of my recent posts I’m now coming close I feel to a theory that can explain many headaches and migraines as the brains way of telling us that our brains have been pushed too far and they need time to recover. Partly this is because there is no real concept of the brain being injured, except for having …