Intelligent Medicine Radio for September 6: Are migraines predictive of heart attacks?

written by Dr. Ronald Hoffman | September 8, 2025

Part 1: Are migraines predictive of heart attacks?

A cautionary tale about a life-threatening reaction to the double flu/Covid booster; Are migraines predictive of heart attacks? Where does all our recycling go? (The answer will shock you!); Ultra-processed foods damage male reproductive health.



Part 2: Stress Hormone Testing

Why vaccines have become so polarizing; Florida to remove all vaccine mandates; A modest proposal for revised Covid vaccine guidelines has the CDC in an uproar; Gastroparesis—what causes it and how to alleviate it; options for treatment of tricuspid regurgitation; New tech enables continuous home testing of levels of stress hormone; The mystery of a dog’s sudden death.









References & Resouorces

Effect of ultra-processed food consumption on male reproductive and metabolic health
Cell Metab. 2025 Aug 22:S1550-4131(25)00360-2. doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2025.08.004. Online ahead of print.

Migraine headache: An under-appreciated risk factor for Cardiovascular disease in women.
Journal of the American Heart Association  Volume 8, Number 22, https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.119.014546

Hemangiosarcoma accounts for 5% of canine malignancies
Canine Health Foundation, August 16, 2007

Florida seeks to end the state’s vaccine mandates
By Joseph De Avila and Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ  September 3, 2025

An evidence-based approach to COVID-19 vaccination
N Engl J Med 2025;392:2484-2486

Gastroparesis is a chronic stomach disorder where the stomach muscles don’t move food into the small intestine properly, causing a delay in gastric emptying
Cleveland Clinic

Open-label pilot study: non-invasive vagal nerve stimulation improves symptoms and gastric emptying in patients with idiopathic gastroparesis
Neurogastroenterol Motility Volume 32, Issue 4

Meet Hormometer, the first continuous monitoring system
Eli Health