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Avoiding carbohydrates is preventing migraines
According to some case studies, migraine patients benefit from a low-carbohydrate diet. [Funct Neurol. Oct-Dec 2013;28(4):305-8.] Are these coincidences, or can drastically reducing carbohydrate intake actually protect against migraines? According to a trial in which nearly a hundred volunteers participated, the latter is the case.
Study
The researchers divided the women into two groups. The women in the control group reduced their energy intake [SD]. The women in the experimental group ate as much as the women in the control group, but switched to a low-carbohydrate diet for a month [KD].
The women consumed no more than thirty grams of carbohydrates per day. After the low-carb month, the researchers gradually reintroduced the carbohydrates into the diet of the women in the experimental group.
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Conclusion
"Nonetheless, they may provide a useful strategy for migraineurs who need to treat headaches and who are overweight and/or experience a weight increase as a side effect of cyclic prophylactic treatments for migraines."
"Besides, since other ketogenic diet schemes (e.g. the modified Atkins diet) are suitable for very long diet periods, it cannot be excluded that ketogenesis might be used in the future as an additional therapeutic strategy for migraines, as it is in paediatric epilepsy."
"Further controlled studies are needed to confirm our preliminary findings."
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