The Headache Plan by Milena Penkowa (book/books)

This book is for those suffering from migraines, nerve pain, tension headaches, or cluster headaches. Here, you'll find the most important knowledge from international research presented in an easy-to-understand way, so anyone in pain can correctly combine their dietary supplements. If you combine everything correctly in the right doses, you can achieve a massive effect on your headache. Each chapter concludes with a practical guide to the supplements and doses suitable for different degrees of tension headaches and various types of migraines, nerve pain (trigeminal neuralgia), and cluster headaches. Each type of headache is explained so you can better understand how the pain arises and how the dietary supplements work. The book is for anyone living with chronic pain, whether you are ill, a relative, or simply want to know how headaches can be tackled.

Excerpt from the book: When people with severe migraines take 600 mg of alpha-lipoic acid, after 12 weeks, there is almost a halving in the frequency of migraine attacks and the severity of the pain. The duration of each migraine attack is more than halved by alpha-lipoic acid, as alpha-lipoic acid reduces attacks from an average of 37 hours to an average of 15 hours per attack. The same effect was not seen in the placebo group who did not receive alpha-lipoic acid. When all data is entered into the so-called "Migraine Headache Index Score," which is a scoring system for the duration, frequency, and pain level of migraine attacks, alpha-lipoic acid is shown to reduce migraines by over 80%. The placebo group showed no effect on the "Migraine Headache Index Score" neither before, during, nor after the 12 weeks the experiment lasted.

About the author: Milena Penkowa is a brain expert, Cand.med., and Ph.D. in brain science from the University of Copenhagen. She runs the companies Hjerneeksperten and Milenas Medlemsklub, and hosts the TV programs Hjerneeksperten and Milenas Mad on dk4. Milena gives lectures and courses – and is the author of books on topics such as brain food, joint pain, anxiety, fatigue, aging, cancer, etc.