Menstrual Migraines: What's Your Body Telling You?

I used to think migraines were just a "me problem." That they showed up because I was tired, stressed, or wired wrong. But over the years of working with thousands of women (and navigating my own symptoms), I realised something much deeper was going on.

Menstrual migraines aren’t random. They have a rhythm. And that rhythm usually follows your cycle.

If you tend to get migraines in the days before your period, the first few days of bleeding, or right before ovulation, this isn’t just bad luck. It’s a message from your body about estrogen—specifically, how it rises and dips across the month.

When estrogen dips, inflammation tends to rise. And for some women, that inflammation shows up as throbbing, debilitating migraines.

But it doesn't stop at estrogen. I want you to zoom out with me for a moment and think about what your body needs to even make estrogen in the first place. It needs minerals like iron, magnesium, zinc, and copper. It needs a calm nervous system, stable blood sugars, a metabolism that’s firing, and a gut that’s absorbing. In other words, it needs the Four Female Fundamentals™.

When you get a migraine with your cycle, your body might be asking:

• Do I have enough iron?

• Can I absorb and utilise the nutrients I’m giving it?

• Are my stress hormones interfering with hormonal balance?

• Is my blood sugar spiking and crashing?

Symptoms like migraines aren’t flaws. They’re feedback. And when you learn to interpret them, you reclaim your power.

I break all of this down in more depth on Episode #28 Menstrual Migraines: What’s Your Body Telling You? of the What’s My Body Telling Me? podcast. Tune in to hear the science and strategies behind estrogen, iron, and decoding cyclical symptoms.