Environmental/Food Triggers – Are they “real”? (podcast)

The water bottle, the grapes, the cologne – could they really be migraine or headache triggers? In this podcast we discuss environmental and food triggers, and a common misunderstanding that causes people to overlook them.

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Some links mentioned in or related to this episode:

• Applications of Toxicogenomic Technologies to Predictive Toxicology and Risk Assessment. (Not an easy read, but a discussion of research into predictive toxicology and its relation to genetics.)
• EWG’s Food Scores (and a link to apps)
• Reduce Your Environmental Chemical Exposure (A summary with links from Dr. Victoria Maize.)
• Does BPA Trigger Migraine? (A discussion of plastics and migraine.)
• How I discovered a coffee pot was making my patient sick
• EWG’s Skin Deep (Scores for personal care products.)
• What’s On My Food? (Another database with information on chemicals in common foods.)
• Migraine: Why Genetic Studies haven’t Solved all our Problems.