I was at a marketing event this week and ended up having a conversation about a teenage girl who had epilepsy. Natural remedies for seizures came up in conversation. The seizures had begun about a year ago right around the time that her menstrual cycles started, and her seizures were tied to her menstrual cycles (the […]
Ever since it has been commercially available, formula manufacturers have made an attempt to equate formula with breast milk. Let me clarify that I understand that not every new mom will be able to nurse. However, many times the problem is not an unfixable problem. Rather, the new mom needs to be matched with a […]
Seizures are very, very bad for the brain. Status epilepticus is the term for uncontrolled, unstoppable seizures. Very often, these patients end up in the emergency room pumped full of sedatives just to stop the seizures. The damage to the brain under status epilepticus is even worse than that which occurs with single seizures. Not […]
Medications and more medications. Maybe an electrical device implanted in your neck. In the end, surgery. This pretty much describes the medical treatment of epilepsy and migraines. And, as a whole, this treatment paradigm sucks. It does nothing to protect the brain, which should be the number one goal. I should consider clarifying this by […]
In my book, Migraines and Epilepsy, I review the evidence that shows that oxidative stress plays a huge role in seizures. Because of this, antioxidants are a requirement in natural remedies for seizures. This approach, however, is largely ignored by most of mainstream medicine. Even at its surface, the extremely high level of brain cell activity […]
