Dr. Alexander Mauskop

Advil, yes, ibuprofen, that is.

Didn't work, not at all.

But luckily, Sumatriptan, that's the first migraine-specific drug that we have, works like a charm.

I take a pill at the earliest sign of migraine, and I don't skip a beat.

So I would take that, headache goes away, but then I thought, why am I taking this?

So my cure, magical cure, and you write about it in your book, and that's meditation.

And not just meditation.

When I was doing 10, 20 minutes a day, it did not work.

When I went up to 30, that was my cure for migraines.

30 minutes every day, sometimes up to 45.

And no more migraines, literally none, except when I drink wine or do something that I know will trigger.

Well, age may have something to do with that as well.

I tell every single patient who walks into the door, I start with exercise.

Exercise is number one.

Number two is meditation.

Yes.

Why is that?

Well, good science, actually.

And the science tells us that your brain structure changes with meditation.

Not just connections between different parts of the brain, but MRI scan changes.