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Jean is 54. She’s had migraines since she was 17. For years, her lunch break looked like this: drive to the parking lot, push the seat back, set an alarm for 30 minutes, and pray she could fall asleep long enough to take the edge off. Then go back to the office and hope it didn’t come back before 5. She tried everything. Fioricet. Triptans. Botox. Injectables. Hypnosis. Craniosacral therapy. Acupuncture. Pink tinted glasses. A page and a half of symptoms when we started. 23 head pain days a month. In this episode Jean joins me to share what four months of working together actually looked like, not the polished version, the real one. What shifted first. What surprised her. What it felt like to go six weeks between triptan doses for the first time in years. And what it means to take two trips without a migraine when travel used to guarantee one. If you’re ready to find out what’s actually driving your migraines, book a free consultation call at www.drlesliecisar.com/apply Want to understand what’s actually driving your migraines? Start with my free training, 5 Proven Steps To Being Migraine Free: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/5SHMN Connect with us: Website: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/ Free Facebook Group: Healing Migraines Naturally, with Leslie Cisar, ND Ready to try something radically different that actually works? Read more about my approach here: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/map In health,Dr. Leslie Cisar

When a woman fills out her intake form and gets to asthma, she checks the box and moves on. That was a long time ago. I grew out of it. I’m going to push back on that. You didn’t grow out of it. Your body pushed it deeper. In this episode I connect the dots that nobody lined up for you. The eczema as a baby. The allergies as a kid. The asthma at seven. The stomach problems at eleven. The migraines at 25. These are not separate problems that happened to the same unlucky person. They are one story: your body’s toxin bucket filling up over decades, and the symptoms getting deeper and more complex every time one of them got shut off without anyone addressing the load underneath. I explain why asthma and migraines switch sides at puberty at exactly the same moment. What three medications overlap between asthma and migraine care. and what most moms have never been told about one of them. And what it actually looks like when the bucket starts draining — for your lungs, for your allergies, and for your migraines. If you grew out of your asthma and now you have migraines, this episode is the chapter nobody gave you. Want to understand what’s actually driving your migraines? Start with my free training — 5 Proven Steps To Being Migraine Free: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/5SHMN Ready to look at your full picture? Book a free consultation call at www.drlesliecisar.com/apply Connect with us: Website: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/ Free Facebook Group: Healing Migraines Naturally, with Leslie Cisar, ND Ready to try something radically different that actually works? Read more about my approach here: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/map In health,Dr. Leslie Cisar

A headache center told Amanda that her migraines were hereditary and they'd likely stop at menopause. She took time off work to travel to that appointment. She cried most of the way home. Think about those two sentences together. They're hereditary. And they'll stop at menopause. Well, which is it? Your genes don't change at menopause. Today I'm talking to two women. The first one heard that, believed it, waited 15 years, got to menopause, and the migraines are still here. The second one got to menopause and her migraines did get better, but I'm going to ask a question nobody has asked her yet. I explain why the hardest years of Lisa's migraines were the ones right before menopause, and why that isn't bad luck. Why menopause didn't fix them. Why the calendar is gone but the migraines are keeping the time. And why for the woman whose migraines stopped at menopause, getting better and getting healthier are not always the same thing. And at the end I tell you about Sue. She had migraines for 45 years. She came to me at 64. She was migraine free by the end of our work together, and she still updates me every year. It is not too late.   If you’re ready to address the root drivers of your migraines, you can book a free consultation at the link below:  https://www.drlesliecisar.com/apply Free Training: 5 Proven Steps to Being Migraine Free (Even if you think you've already tried everything.) https://www.drlesliecisar.com/5SHMN   Connect with us: Website: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/ Free Facebook Group: Healing Migraines Naturally, with Leslie Cisar, ND Ready to try something radically different that actually works? Read more about my approach here: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/map In health,Dr. Leslie Cisar

Another Migraine Monday post showed up in my feed. Phases of a migraine attack. Prodrome, aura, headache, postdrome, interictal. Symptoms listed. Purple ribbon energy. And I couldn't let it go without actually explaining what those symptoms mean. Because here's what every one of those symptoms is doing, giving you a detailed report about what's happening inside your body. The frequent urination before a migraine. The yawning. The food cravings. The neck stiffness. The nasal congestion. The irritability. The brain fog that lingers for days after. These are not random. These are not just part of a chronic disease you have to manage. Every single one of them is a clue. And in this episode I walk through each phase of the migraine and explain exactly what the symptoms are telling us about where your body's three principles have broken down. Here's the simplest way I can put it. A migraine is a hangover without the alcohol. When you understand why that's true, nothing about your symptoms is random anymore. Book a free consultation call at www.drlesliecisar.com/apply

A neurologist looked at her patient after years of appointments and said three words: I have failed you. Not, "You failed the treatment." Not, "You're overusing your medication." I have failed you. She's in her late 30s. Three to four migraines a week. She's been through every triptan, every preventative, Botox, CGRP injections, the Cleveland Clinic. She's made her own sourdough, done a food sensitivity test, ordered a cleanse kit. In 23 years of migraines, she has gone two weeks without one exactly twice. And in this episode I tell you her story the way she told it to me on a consultation call — because if you've had migraines for a long time, it's probably your story too. I also explain what I heard in her story that nobody else did. Where her needle actually is. Why the two weeks without a migraine during a cold was not trivia. Why every drug, every supplement, every cleanse was aimed at the migraine, and why not one of them asked what's blocking her body from recovering in the first place. Your neurologist may have run out of drugs. Your body hasn't run out of the ability to recover. And there's a question nobody has asked it yet.   If you're ready to look at the full picture, book a free consultation call at www.drlesliecisar.com/apply

She came to me for her migraines. But she was also in the middle of a brutal perimenopause — the hot flashes, the mood swings, the sleep disturbances, all of it. And she said to me: if my migraines were better, I'd probably handle menopause better. She had been treating them as two completely separate problems. A neurologist for one, a gynecologist for the other. One sentence changed her entire picture. In this episode I explain why your migraines and your hormonal symptoms are not two different problems, they're two expressions of the same underlying picture. I also talk about why the HRT conversation that's everywhere right now is missing the most important question entirely. Not whether bioidentical hormones are safer than synthetic ones. Not what the clinical trials say. But what is your total estrogen load right now — and how well is your body actually clearing it? I walk through how estrogen is actually metabolized, the three detox pathways it has to go through, what happens when those pathways are nutrient depleted, and why a woman with migraines is in a fundamentally different position than the average clinical trial participant. I'm not saying HRT is never appropriate. I'm saying the question of whether it's right for you cannot be answered by a five minute telehealth intake form. If you're ready to look at the full picture, book a free consultation call at www.drlesliecisar.com/apply

When I heard that Presley Gerber had died at 27 in a residential treatment center, I had a pit in my stomach. Not because I knew him. Because I'd seen it before. For two years I worked as a staff physician at an inpatient drug and alcohol rehab in Arizona. I watched young people walk through our doors on nine, ten, eleven prescription medications — each one there to suppress a symptom the drugs or alcohol were generating. Nobody was asking why the body was generating those symptoms in the first place. Before he died, Presley posted a video listing his medications. An opioid. Two benzodiazepines. An antidepressant. Two blood pressure medications. An anticonvulsant. An antihistamine. Ketamine. Nine prescription drugs. And he said something that I haven't been able to stop thinking about. "I'm just looking for a doctor that's actually going to help me taper. Not just keep me on some stuff." In this episode I explain why that's so hard to find. Why coming off medication fails almost every time without health being restored first. Why the taper is almost always done too fast. And why when I looked at his medication list, I saw the same categories I see in my migraine clients every single day. Migraine sufferers are not drug addicts. But tragically, they are given as much medication as drug addicts are given. This episode is for anyone who wants to understand what their medications are actually doing, and what it would actually take to come off them.   Book a free consultation at www.drlesliecisar.com/apply Free Training: 5 Proven Steps to Being Migraine Free (Even if you think you've already tried everything.) https://www.drlesliecisar.com/5SHMN   Connect with us: Website: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/ Free Facebook Group: Healing Migraines Naturally, with Leslie Cisar, ND Ready to try something radically different that actually works? Read more about my approach here: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/map In health,Dr. Leslie Cisar

This episode is for the woman in a dark room. Maybe you found this podcast the way a lot of women find it, lying in bed waiting for the pain to pass, needing something to listen to, wondering when you're going to be able to re-enter your life. I want to tell you about Rachel. Rachel is a composedof real clients. She's 35, a dental hygienist, a mom of three. Her third delivery went wrong. She hemorrhaged. Lost consciousness twice. Missed the first moments with her baby. And then went home and waited to bounce back the way she always had before. She never bounced back. What followed were four years, a diagnosis list as long as your arm, every specialist, every injection, every clinic, every approach that medicine had to give her. And none of it worked. Not really. Not for long. In this episode I explain why. Nt with another diagnosis, not with more treatments, but with three questions that nobody had ever asked Rachel before. Questions that reveal where recovery breaks down, what stands between a depleted body and the health it's been trying to reach, and why the approach that changes everything is completely different from everything she had already tried. I also tell you about Jody, who found me eating crackers in a dark room and now sells out her cookie butter stuffed cookies at a farmers market every Saturday. If part of you is wondering, am I too complicated for this? Too many diagnoses, too many years, too many things that didn't work,this episode is specifically for you. Your body is not defective. It's blocked. And those are completely different things. Book a free consultation at www.drlesliecisar.com/apply Free Training: 5 Proven Steps to Being Migraine Free (Even if you think you've already tried everything.) https://www.drlesliecisar.com/5SHMN   Connect with us: Website: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/ Free Facebook Group: Healing Migraines Naturally, with Leslie Cisar, ND Ready to try something radically different that actually works? Read more about my approach here: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/map In health,Dr. Leslie Cisar

She's very put together when she leaves the house. Hair done, makeup on, clothing right. And always a Kleenex in her left pocket. Because about four minutes after she sits down to eat — any meal, any food, any day — her nose starts running like a faucet. She's been hiding it for a decade. Perfecting the quiet dab, the fake cough. She sat across from a man on a third date with a wad of tissue balled up in her fist under the napkin. When she mentioned it to her doctor, she was told it was allergies. Try an antihistamine. It didn't help. So she went back to the Kleenex and stopped asking. In this episode I explain what's actually happening, why her nose runs when she eats, why this symptom shows up in migraine sufferers at a striking rate, and why I actually love this symptom more than almost any other. Because her nose isn't misbehaving at dinner. It's been giving her a report three times a day, every day, for ten years. Nobody ever told her how to read it. If you're ready to find out what your body has been trying to tell you, book a free consultation at www.drlesliecisar.com/apply Free Training: 5 Proven Steps to Being Migraine Free (Even if you think you've already tried everything.) https://www.drlesliecisar.com/5SHMN   Connect with us: Website: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/ Free Facebook Group: Healing Migraines Naturally, with Leslie Cisar, ND Ready to try something radically different that actually works? Read more about my approach here: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/map In health,Dr. Leslie Cisar

Amanda spent nine years having migraines about half the time. Half her week, every week, for nine years. She went through every triptan. She got on Topamax. She took a day off work to travel to a headache specialist, convinced that this time she would finally get real answers. She drove home in tears. They offered her more medication. By the time she found me on social media she was desperate enough to reach out to a naturopathic doctor she had never met, halfway across the country, through telehealth — something she had never done before and no one in her family had ever considered. She actually got a migraine in the middle of our very first call. In this episode Amanda shares what working on the root causes of her migraines actually looked like, how quickly things started to shift, what surprised her the most, and what life looks like now, years later, compared to where she was in 2019. Her words: the migraine used to be the biggest thing in her life. Now it's the smallest. If you’re ready to address the root drivers of your migraines, you can book a free consultation at the link below:  https://www.drlesliecisar.com/apply Free Training: 5 Proven Steps to Being Migraine Free (Even if you think you've already tried everything.) https://www.drlesliecisar.com/5SHMN   Connect with us: Website: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/ Free Facebook Group: Healing Migraines Naturally, with Leslie Cisar, ND Ready to try something radically different that actually works? Read more about my approach here: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/map In health,Dr. Leslie Cisar

In this episode of Triggered with Dr. Leslie, I break down a popular piece of migraine advice about why so many women get migraines on Saturdays. The usual explanation is that your “migraine brain” can’t handle sleeping in, shifting your routine, or delaying your coffee, but I don’t think that gets to the real issue. In this episode, I talk about the let-down effect, what I call false vitality, and why so many women crash the moment life finally slows down. We talk about why I don’t want women stuck in a bubble-wrap lifestyle built around rigid routines, and why the real goal should be building the kind of resilience and vitality that lets your body handle normal life without tipping into a migraine. If you’re ready to address the root drivers of your migraines, you can book a free consultation at the link below:  https://www.drlesliecisar.com/apply Free Training: 5 Proven Steps to Being Migraine Free (Even if you think you've already tried everything.) https://www.drlesliecisar.com/5SHMN   Connect with us: Website: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/ Free Facebook Group: Healing Migraines Naturally, with Leslie Cisar, ND Ready to try something radically different that actually works? Read more about my approach here: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/map In health,Dr. Leslie Cisar

In this episode of Triggered with Dr. Leslie, I break down a popular migraine graphic that I think perfectly captures one of the biggest problems in the migraine world right now.So much of the messaging women are receiving teaches them to see themselves as having a defective “migraine brain,” to track every symptom, ration medication, and live in a constant state of hypervigilance. I talk about why I believe that mindset is not helping women heal, how it can actually reinforce fear and disconnection from the body, and why we need a very different framework if we want real recovery.If you’ve ever felt like living with migraines has turned you into a full-time monitor of your own body, this episode will probably hit home. If you’re ready to address the root drivers of your migraines, you can book a free consultation at the link below:  https://www.drlesliecisar.com/apply Free Training: 5 Proven Steps to Being Migraine Free (Even if you think you've already tried everything.) https://www.drlesliecisar.com/5SHMN   Connect with us: Website: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/ Free Facebook Group: Healing Migraines Naturally, with Leslie Cisar, ND Ready to try something radically different that actually works? Read more about my approach here: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/map In health,Dr. Leslie Cisar

In this episode, I break down a very popular migraine TikTok that talks about frequent migraines, rebound headaches, and how to rotate through different medications to manage attacks. I want to be clear that I believe the creator means well, but this kind of advice reflects some of the biggest misconceptions in the migraine world.  I explain why I do not believe medication truly “aborts” a migraine, why cycling through more and more tools can actually deepen the problem over time, and why real healing has to go beyond symptom suppression. f you’ve ever felt trapped in the constant math of what to take, when to take it, and how not to overdo it, this episode will likely resonate If you’re ready to address the root drivers of your migraines, you can book a free consultation at the link below:  https://www.drlesliecisar.com/apply Free Training: 5 Proven Steps to Being Migraine Free (Even if you think you've already tried everything.) https://www.drlesliecisar.com/5SHMN   Connect with us: Website: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/ Free Facebook Group: Healing Migraines Naturally, with Leslie Cisar, ND Ready to try something radically different that actually works? Read more about my approach here: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/map In health,Dr. Leslie Cisar

In this episode, I answer one of the most common questions women ask me: what is it that you actually do? And the truth is, the reason that question is so hard to answer simply is because I do not start with a protocol, a supplement, or a one-size-fits-all solution. I share a story from a conversation at my hair appointment that perfectly captures the problem with the way both conventional and alternative medicine often approach chronic symptoms: the tool gets picked before the right question is even asked. In this episode, I explain the three core principles I use to understand why a woman’s body is struggling in the first place, and why real healing has to be built like a solid foundation before anything else can truly work.If you’re ready to address the root drivers of your migraines, you can book a free consultation at the link below:  https://www.drlesliecisar.com/apply Free Training: 5 Proven Steps to Being Migraine Free (Even if you think you've already tried everything.) https://www.drlesliecisar.com/5SHMN   Connect with us: Website: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/ Free Facebook Group: Healing Migraines Naturally, with Leslie Cisar, ND Ready to try something radically different that actually works? Read more about my approach here: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/map In health,Dr. Leslie Cisar

In this episode of Triggered with Dr. Leslie, I react to a viral migraine “hack” involving little clips placed on the forehead. This one says so much about the state of migraine care right now. When women have been let down for so long by both conventional and alternative medicine, they become willing to try almost anything,even something that looks ridiculous on its face, because they’re desperate for relief. In this episode, I talk about why hacks like this are not real solutions, why they spread so easily, and why migraine sufferers deserve far better than gimmicks, pranks, and temporary distractions from the real problem.  If you’re ready to address the root drivers of your migraines, you can book a free consultation at the link below:  https://www.drlesliecisar.com/apply Free Training: 5 Proven Steps to Being Migraine Free (Even if you think you've already tried everything.) https://www.drlesliecisar.com/5SHMN   Connect with us: Website: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/ Free Facebook Group: Healing Migraines Naturally, with Leslie Cisar, ND Ready to try something radically different that actually works? Read more about my approach here: https://www.drlesliecisar.com/map In health,Dr. Leslie Cisar