You can also find equally anecdotal cases of people who “healed” migraine with exorcism, trephanation, and blunt-force trauma, but that doesn’t mean it’s caused by demons, swelling brains, or remaining conscious and alive.

The science says susceptibility to migraine seems to be related to hormonal shifts and there’s plenty of reason to believe it runs in families; though dietary changes might help reduce the symptoms and therefore treat some of those susceptible to migraine, it’s not a panacea and it’s definitely not causal.