Dhru Purohit Show
Masterclass on the Root Causes of Migraines and A Four Pillar Plan to Tackle Them Head On with Dr. Elena Gross
29 Jan 2025
This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers, Fatty15, and Levels. Approximately 15% of the population suffers from migraines, many of which are debilitating and impact daily life, work, and relationships. For years, migraines were seen as something people had to endure or blamed on genetics. Today’s guest, a chronic migraine sufferer, shares her journey to uncover the root causes of migraines and how to prevent them from taking over her life. Today on The Dhru Purohit Show, Dhru sits down with Dr. Elena Gross to discuss migraines, their top root causes, and her Four-Pillar plan to address them. Dr. Gross highlights modern lifestyle practices that can increase the prevalence of migraines and the toxins that can trigger their onset. She also shares insights from epilepsy research that shifted her perspective on how to address migraines effectively. If you’re seeking answers on how to prevent and manage migraines, this episode is a must-listen! Dr. Elena Gross is a neuroscientist with a PhD in clinical research and a former chronic migraineur. Her personal struggle with migraines and the lack of effective treatments inspired her to pursue an MSc in Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and a PhD at the University of Basel, aiming to better understand this debilitating condition and improve clinical care. Passionate about the therapeutic potential of ketosis and nutritional interventions, Dr. Gross focuses on mitochondrial functioning, energy metabolism in brain health, and disease prevention to enhance health span. As the founder and CEO of KetoSwiss and MigraKet, and the inventor of four patents, her groundbreaking migraine research has been published in prestigious journals like Nature Neurology. In this episode, Dhru and Dr. Gross dive into: The number one disabler for women under the age of 50 (00:00:30) The top root causes of migraines (3:15) Dr. Gross’ journey with migraines (11:06) The modern lifestyle practices and how they drive the prevalence of migraines (18:21) Properly fueling your brain and lessons from epilepsy patients (28:16) Dr. Gross’ Four Pillar Plan for tackling migraines (35:51) Sources of toxins and how they can be triggering (47:11) Exogenous ketones (53:11) Dr. Gross’ Brain Ritual supplement (01:00:11) Nutrient deficiencies and triggers that can lead to migraines (01:03:11) Dr. Gross’ Community and sharing resources (1:11:22) Also mentioned in this episode: Brain Ritual Migraket: Use code DHRU30 for $30 off Dr. Georgia Ede’s Practitioner List For more on Dr. Gross, follow her on Instagram, Facebook, X/Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, her Website, and other platforms, such as Keto Swiss and Migraket. This episode is brought to you by Bioptimizers, Fatty15, and Levels. Go to bioptimizers.com/dhru now and enter promo code DHRU10 to get 10% off any order and up to 2 travel-size bottles of Magnesium Breakthrough for a limited time. Fatty15 is offering an additional 15% off its 90-day subscription Starter Kit. Go to fatty15.com/dhru and use code DHRU to replenish your C15 levels for long-term health. Right now, Levels is offering my listeners an additional 2 FREE months of the Levels annual Membership when you use my link, levels.link/DHRU. Make moves on your metabolic health with Levels today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Full Episode
Dr. Elena Gross, welcome to the podcast. You know, you're here to shine the light on a common neurological disorder that's destroying the lives of a billion people globally. In fact, since the age of 14, you've suffered from this disorder and it inspired you to go on a mission to not only discover its root causes and
and heal yourself, but also how you could take the learnings and apply to other brain disorders and mental health conditions even. So tell us what this disorder is and give us a sense of how bad the problem is for so many people that suffer from it.
Hey, Ju, thanks so much for having me. Yeah, migraine is kind of the unwanted child of neurology. In a sense, it's so, so common. It's very debilitating, but it hasn't been very much studied or studied a lot. And not a lot of focus and research money has actually been going into it. Even though in women under 50, it's actually the number one disabler.
So it's the biggest disabling problem, actually, for women. And if you count men into it, it's still the second most disabled according to the WHO. So it really is a huge problem. What does it mean personally? What does it feel like? Well, first of all, anybody who's ever been a strong pain knows that pain is hard to ignore. Pain is a warning signal that is designed not to be ignored.
So if you have migraine, migraine is actually a spectrum disorder. And it can be very mild from like one or two attacks a year. all the way to being in pain every single day, all the time. And you cannot take painkillers on every single day because that's going to harm your liver. It's going to harm your whole body, right? You get medication overuse, medication overuse headache.
But firstly, it's really this... Very strong pain in the brain, typically half-sided, can be both-sided, and it comes with associated neurological symptoms such as light sensitivity, so light hurts, noises hurts, even smell can hurt. You get nausea, some people throw up.
Movement makes it worse, so with a tension-type headache, you can go outside, you walk for a bit, you drink some water, it gets better.
migraine will wake you up in the night you can't sleep through it you can't walk that makes it worse and it really is moderate to severe mostly and in its worst form its chronic form it basically deprives you of life it's the presence of pain combined with the absence of life because you will miss important events of your kids you will miss all those school trips you will miss school itself work
Nobody really usually would take you seriously. I think it's changing, but it was also stigmatized a lot. So really what I want to do also with my work is that it's real. It's not a psychological issue, even though in some people it can. It's a real disorder. It's a real problem. It's painful and it means lack of life, even if you're not dying from it, at least not immediately.
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