The mainstream approach to treating seizures is to use medications. And it pretty much stops there. You may get some cursory advice to exercise and watch your stress levels, but the reality is that many neurologists believe that nothing you can do will be as powerful as the anti-seizure medications. When those medications don’t work […]
Anyone with a neurological condition, whether anxiety, depression, epilepsy, migraines or MS, will tell you that symptoms wax and wane. But why? While a common occurrence, it seems that few question why this is so. It is considered more as just a course of the condition. But what if the fluctuations of symptoms are […]
One of the first reactions to my Migraines and Epilepsy book is that people don’t understand what these two conditions have in common. At it’s foundation, these two conditions share the same mechanism. I have personally known this for at least a decade, but the information seems to be taking a while to get out […]
I don’t need to go into how epilepsy is a condition not limited to the brain, because I have covered this many times in the past. This is also just one of the areas where migraines and seizures have similarities—migraines are also a brain condition that is not limited to the brain. Both are an […]
I have gone as far as writing a book on Migraines and Epilepsy to show that epilepsy needs to be treated from a full-body approach. A treatment approach that just focuses on controlling the seizures is missing the real problem. Don’t get me wrong—controlling the seizures is the first goal. But it should never be […]
