The Mediterranean Migraine Diet: A Science-Based Roadmap to Control Symptoms and Transform Brain Health

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This cookbook features more than 70 delicious recipes and dozens of helpful tips to help combat migraine symptoms by eating a Mediterranean-style diet.

This unique cookbook and lifestyle guide provides migraine patients with a dietary roadmap to control attacks and radically transform health. Based on the popular Mediterranean diet, this eating plan goes a step beyond migraine elimination diets to help people living with migraine expand their palette of ingredients. Co-authored by healthy living blogger and creator of TheDizzyCook.com, Alicia Wolf, and neurologist Dr. Shin Beh, the book is packed with information.

The co-authors, patient and doctor in real life, teamed up to provide not only a cookbook, but a science-based guide to eating well, adapting the heart- and brain-healthy Mediterranean diet specifically for people living with migraine to help control their symptoms. Alicia shares her own journey with vestibular migraine and how she healed herself through the foods she cooked. Dr. Beh adds scientific information to bolster her delicious recipes.

Inside you'll find:

Ten tips for eating a Mediterranean-style diet

Typical migraine food triggers and how to adapt them to the Mediterranean diet

Instructions for curating a migraine-friendly pantry

Information on how to shop for and cook with specific brain-friendly ingredients

More than 70 healthy and delicious recipes organized by food type

Migraine-friendly meal plans and tips for making meals ahead

Tips and tricks for customizing dishes for special diets and personal migraine triggers

This book shows how easyand deliciousit can be to treat migraine through simply eating well.

Author Bio

Alicia Wolf is the author of The Dizzy Cook cookbook and the voice behind thedizzycook.com, an award-winning blog dedicated to improving the diet and lifestyle for those who suffer from migraine. She works with the Vestibular Disorders Association and Miles for Migraine, and has been featured on the Association of Migraine Disorders, the American Migraine Foundation, Good Morning Texas, foodgawker, National Headache Foundation, Healthline, and more. She is also a partner to the American Migraine Foundation. Alicia lives in Dallas, Texas. Shin C. Beh, MD, FAAN, FAHSis a neurologist specializing in balance and migraine, with a focus on vestibular migraine. He set up the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centers very first Vestibular Neuro-Visual Disorders clinic, built to help care for those with neurological disorders that cause vertigo, dizziness, and imbalance, and is the founder of the Beh Center for Vestibular & Migraine Disorders. Dr. Beh is the author of books focusing on migraine, including Victory Over Vestibular Migraine and The Migraine Manual. He lives in Frisco, Texas.