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(Video opens with a medium shot of Pratyay looking directly at the camera. The tone is reflective and serious.)

Hook: When I was 14, my life took a turn. I was unable to speak, lost control over the left side of my body for about 30 minutes, started seeing lights that didn't make sense, and dealt with a pain as if someone was hammering the right side of my head. This led to a series of visits to doctor's offices. First, they said it was probably a migraine. A month later, maybe epilepsy. The diagnosis was never certain, but the prescription was always the same: more drugs to subdue what I felt.

That personal chaos is why the central question of this book hit me so hard.

(Hold up the book "Fighting the Migraine Epidemic".)

This book, Fighting the Migraine Epidemic, operates on a simple, powerful principle: If you can cause an attack, you know the cause. If you can stop it, you know what to do to stop it. And if you can do both, you can finally prevent it from ever happening. The author argues that when something hurts, there is always a cellular reason for the pain. It's not random, and it's not a mystery. But to find that reason, we have to start with the right question.

Core (The Misdiagnosis Angle): And that question is: Are you sure you have migraines?

This might be shocking, but the book points out that the diagnosis of "migraine" is often a catch-all term. The current diagnostic method is frequently a process of elimination: “If it is nothing else, it must be migraines”.

This leads to a massive problem with misdiagnosis. You might actually be dealing with cluster headaches, chronic stress headaches, trigeminal neuralgia (try-JEM-in-uhl noo-RAL-juh), occipital neuralgia (ok-SIP-it-uhl noo-RAL-juh), or cervicogenic (sur-vih-ko-JEN-ik) headaches—all of which are often incorrectly categorized and treated as migraines. If you're treating the wrong problem, you will never get the right solution.

Getting this right is critical. The author states that when your body's chemistry is in balance, food triggers often disappear. However, true migraineurs have specific genetic predispositions that can make them intolerant to carbohydrates. For this group, consuming these foods can not only trigger a migraine but also put them at a much higher risk for metabolic disorders, like type 2 diabetes.

For me, being stuck in that cycle of uncertainty and medication was exhausting. Getting the right diagnosis is the first step to finding the real cellular cause, restoring balance, and finally breaking free.

(Look directly at the camera, leaning in slightly.)

Closing: So I’ll ask you again, are you sure you have migraines? We'll discuss more on this in the next video on the Migraine Brain.