ReviewCurrent pain and headache reports2013
Dietary considerations in migraine management: does a consistent diet improve migraine?
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 50 citations in OpenAlex.
- Impact of Dietary Patterns on Migraine Management: Mechanisms of Action and Recent Literature Insights.Brain and behavior · 2025Pooled it
- Irregular meal and migraine headache: a scoping review.BMC nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Targeting the microbiome in pediatric migraine: gastrointestinal manifestations and the therapeutic role ofGut microbes · 2026Article
- Greater Mediterranean Diet Adherence Is Associated with Lower Odds of Chronic Migraine: A Retrospective Observational Study.Nutrients · 2026Observational
- The 6 pillars of lifestyle medicine and headache disability in Brazil: a cross-sectional, population-based study.The journal of headache and pain · 2025Article
- The Hypometabolic State of the Migraine Brain: Is a Ketogenic Diet the Answer?Brain and behavior · 2025Review
- An Assessment of the Dietary Habits of Individuals with Migraine Living in Spain: An Exploratory Observational Cross-Sectional Pilot Study.Nutrients · 2025Observational
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of the prevalence of celiac disease in migraine patients.Caspian journal of internal medicine · 2025Review
- Dairy and Headaches: What is the Connection?Current pain and headache reports · 2024Review
- An investigation of the relationship between cutaneous allodynia and kinesiophobia, gastrointestinal system symptom severity, physical activity and disability in individuals with migraine.The Korean journal of pain · 2023Article
- Migraine management: Non-pharmacological points for patients and health care professionals.Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) · 2022Review
- Association of dietary diversity score (DDS) and migraine headache severity among women.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2021Article
- Prevalence of migraine in adults with celiac disease: A case control cross-sectional study.PloS one · 2021Article
- A Bidirectional View of Migraine and Diet Relationship.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2021Review
- Migraine and Diet.Nutrients · 2020Review
- Triggers, Protectors, and Predictors in Episodic Migraine.Current pain and headache reports · 2018Review
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- Dietary trigger factors of migraine and tension-type headache in a South East Asian country.Journal of pain research · 2018Article
- Association of Gastrointestinal Functional Disorders and Migraine Headache: a Population Base Study.Middle East journal of digestive diseases · 2017Article
- Management of Chronic Daily Headache and Psychiatric Co-Morbidities by Lifestyle Modification: Participatory Action Research Combining New Communication Media.Anesthesiology and pain medicine · 2017Article
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Abstract
The clinical expression of migraine is significantly impacted by dietary and gastrointestinal issues. This includes gut dysfunction during and between attacks, food triggers, increase in migraine with obesity, comorbid GI and systemic inflammation influenced by diet, and specific food allergies such as dairy and gluten. Practitioners often encourage migraineurs to seek consistency in their lifestyle behaviors, and environmental exposures, as a way of avoiding sudden changes that may precipitate attacks. However, rigorous evidence linking consistency of diet with improvement in migraine is very limited and is, at best, indirect, being based mainly on the consistency of avoiding suspected food triggers. A review of current data surrounding the issue of dietary consistency is presented from the perspective of migraine as an illness (vulnerable state), as a disease (symptom expression traits), and with a view toward the role of local and systemic inflammation in its genesis. Firm recommendations await further investigation.
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