Angela A Stanton, PhD

Angela A Stanton, PhD, is a Neuroeconomist who evaluates changes in behavior, chronic pain, decision-making, as a result of hormonal variations in the brain. She lives in Southern California. Her current research is focused on migraine cause, prevention and treatment without the use of medicines.

As a migraineur, her discovery was helped by experimenting on herself.

She found the cause of migraine to be at the ionic level, associated with disruption of the electrolyte homeostasis, resulting from genetic mutations of insulin and glucose transporters, and voltage gated sodium and calcium channel mutations. Such mutations cause major shifts in a migraine brain, unlike that of a non-migraine brain. A non-migraineur can handle electrolyte changes on autopilot. A migraineur must always be on manual guard for such changes to maintain electrolyte homeostasis.

The book Fighting The Migraine Epidemic: How To Treat and Prevent Migraines Without Medicines - An Insider's View explains why we have migraines, how to prevent them and how to stay migraine (and medicine) free for life.

Because of the success of the first edition and new research and findings, she is now finishing the 2nd edition. The 2nd edition is the “holy grail” of migraines, incorporating all there is to know at the moment and also some hypotheses. It includes an academic research section with suggestions for further research. The book is full of citations to authenticate the statements she makes to be followed up by those interested and to spark further research interest.

While working on the 2nd edition of the book she also published academic articles:

"Migraine Cause and Treatment" Mental Health in family Medicine, November 23, 2015, open access
"Functional Prodrome in Migraines" Journal of Neurological Disorders, January 22, 2016, open access
"Are Statistics Misleading Sodium Reduction Benefits?", Journal of Medical Diagnostic Method, February 3, 2016, open access
“A Comment on Severe Headache or Migraine History Is Inversely Correlated With Dietary Sodium Intake: NHANES 1999-2004” Angela A Stanton PhD, 19 July 2016 DOI: 10.1111/head.12861 not open access, membership required to read it.

Dr. Stanton received her BSc at UCLA in Mathematics, MBA at UCR, MS in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, PhD in NeuroEconomics at Claremont Graduate University, and fMRI certification at Harvard University Medical School at the Martinos Center for Neuroimaging for experimenting with neurotransmitters on human volunteers.

For relaxation Dr. Stanton paints and photographs. Follow her on Twitter at: @MigraineBook

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Hydration, Thirst, and Drinking Water

by Angela A Stanton, PhD

July 5, 2023

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Most of us equate the expression “hydrate extra” with drinking more water but – unfortunately – this is incorrect. In any online

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Are Vegan Diets Heart Healthy: A Case Study

by Angela A Stanton, PhD

May 31, 2023

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What is the Best Diet?I have been working with tens of thousands of migraine sufferers from all over the world for nearly

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Electrolyte Balance With Different Low Carb Diets

by Angela A Stanton, PhD

March 29, 2023

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Over recent years, a number of new diets have become popular among health conscious individuals. The most popular include: the low carb

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Migraine: Do We Have It All Wrong?

by Angela A Stanton, PhD

March 8, 2023

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The combined APS (American Physiological Society) and EB (Experimental Biology) conference was full of excitement for me. This was my first migraine-associated

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Are Some Foods Addictive?

by Angela A Stanton, PhD

September 19, 2022

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What is Addiction?When we hear the word addiction, what comes to mind are things like illicit drugs, nicotine, alcohol, or behaviors that

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Ancient Tribes to Modern Babies: Whole Milk Is a Common Denominator

by Angela A Stanton, PhD

September 12, 2022

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Three seemingly random disparate points of observations merged into one coherent thought in my mind the other day. The first observation was

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Genetics and the Migraine Brain: Mutation, Adaptation, or Variance?

by Angela A Stanton, PhD

August 29, 2022

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Fitness and survival are by nature estimates of past performance. George Wald Reconsidering Genetic Mutations: What is Baseline?Each person possesses a set

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Cymbalta: A Neurological Damage Machine

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February 3, 2022

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A friend shared a story with me earlier today—it was a quote from something amazing that one of her friends wrote. She

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