Q:
What should someone do if they are having frequent severe headaches but no
other neurological symptoms?
Dr Cowden's Answer:
Since unrecognized food allergies are the trigger for over 80% of headaches, I
suggest you:
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Eat only one food per meal & only eat things that are rarely eaten
(pizza is 10-15 foods & not one food).
- Eat foods on a 4-day rotation until headache-free for at least 2 weeks.
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Follow this process: Do Stress Reduction Techniques for 4 minutes before every
meal & before every bedtime, take the resting pulse rate after the 4
minutes of stress reduction, then eat the one food, sit quietly at the table
for another 15 minutes after finishing that meal & take the pulse rate
again. If the pulse rises more than 14 beats per minute, that food is an
allergen & should not be eaten again until the headaches have been resolved
for at least 2 weeks. If the pulse rate rises 10-14 beats per minute, the
food is a possible allergen & can be left off until well or can be tried as
one more meal 4 days later.
If
the headaches persist a week after the last pulse rate rise on this 4-day
rotational diet, then a physician exam is indicated (as well as a possible
brain scan) to exclude the possibility of a brain tumor.
Many
of these techniques & principles used by me & other integrative
medicine doctors to help patients get well, when allopathic medicine fails, are
described in video courses on the website for the Academy (www.acimconnect.com).
