Image courtesy Angela A Stanton, Ph.D. Book cover art, found on Amazon.
A story worth a thousand words, hugs, and tears.
Story of gratitude:
6 mo ago, I noticed my heart rate was very high at all times and trouble breathing. Resting at 90 (typically 60) jogging 190 (typically 140). I stopped exercising due to feeling I may have cardiac issues. Over the next month, I was shaky at all times, felt pain to touch my face especially ears, blue lips, trouble swallowing, saliva glands would not turn off (constantly drooling, jaw popping, dizzy, incredibly weak (could barely climb a flight of stairs, and the scarier symptoms: head shaking, eyes rolling back, gasping for air, confusion and trouble thinking and forming sentences. Had blood work done and ER visits, chest x-ray, ct scan, EKG. All normal. At its height, 7 days in a seizure like state not able to function. Called my mother to tell her I may not make it, wrote a will etc. She advised due to my hemiplegic migraines; this may be related. I knew nothing of Migraine protocol and in desperation consulted Terri and Angela here briefly, then long meeting with Angela. Within 3 minutes of salt under my tongue, my ears stopped hurting and jaw stopped popping, swallowed what tasted like blood for the next few min. Over the next 20 min, I was able to see better and breathe normally and walk steadily. My face swelling went down (one eye had been practically closed shut for weeks and finally evened out almost immediately, and I could swallow normally and seizure-like feeling went away drastically. Over the next 4 months, in continuing salted waters and cutting out certain things from my diet, I am symptom free today. I ran this morning with my heart rate back to just 140 and resting again at 60.
I felt compelled in sheer gratitude to share. This page saved my life. Truly. PCP told me It was anxiety neurologist gave no advise or info. If it were not for this Doctor and this website , I may be dead. Thank you.
Angela A Stanton, PhD, is a Neuroeconomist focusing on chronic pain--migraine in particular--physiology, electrolyte homeostasis, nutrition, and genetics. She lives in Southern California. Her current research is focused on migraine cause, prevention, and treatment without the use of medicine. As a forever migraineur from childhood, her discovery was helped by experimenting on herself. She found the cause of migraine to be at the ionic level, associated with disruption of the electrolyte homeostasis, resulting from genetic variations of all voltage dependent channels, gates, and pumps (chanelopathy) that modulate electrolyte mineral density and voltage in the brain. In addition, insulin and glucose transporters, and several other variants, such as MTHFR variants of B vitamin methylation process and many others are different in the case of a migraineur from the general population.
Migraineurs are glucose sensitive (carbohydrate intolerant) and should avoid eating carbs as much as possible. She is working on her hypothesis that migraine is a metabolic disease.
As a result of the success of the first edition of her book and her helping over 5000 migraineurs successfully prevent their migraines world wide, all ages and both genders, and all types of migraines, she published the 2nd (extended) edition of her migraine book "Fighting The Migraine Epidemic: Complete Guide: How To Treat & Prevent Migraines Without Medications". The 2nd edition is the “holy grail” of migraine cause, development, and prevention, incorporating all there is to know. It includes a long section for medical and research professionals. The book is full of academic citations (over 800) to authenticate the statements she makes to make it easy to follow up by those interested and to spark further research interest. It is a "Complete Guide", published on September 29, 2017.
Dr. Stanton received her BSc at UCLA in Mathematics, MBA at UCR, MS in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, PhD in Economics with dissertation in neuroscience (culminating in Neuroeconomics) at Claremont Graduate University, fMRI certification at Harvard University Medical School at the Martinos Center for Neuroimaging for experimenting with neurotransmitters on human volunteers, certification in LCHF/ketogenic diet from NN (Nutrition Network), certification in physiology (UPEN via Coursea), Nutrition (Harvard Shool of Public Health) and functional medicine studies. Dr. Stanton is an avid sports fan, currently power weight lifting and kickboxing. For relaxation (yeah.. about a half minute each day), she paints and photographs and loves to spend time with her family of husband of 45 years, 2 sons and their wives, and 2 granddaughters.
Follow her on Twitter at: @MigraineBook, LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelaastantonphd/ and facebook at https://www.facebook.com/DrAngelaAStanton/
neurologist gave no advise or info. If it were not for this Doctor and this website , I may be dead. Thank you.
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