Five migraine management essentials for PCPs and headache patients are summarized with the mnemonic SEEDS.
Lifestyle modification counseling is as essential to migraine management as pharmacologic intervention. A recent review in the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine underscores the important role of the primary care physician in offering headache patients behavioral guidance.
The authors identify 5 key lifestyle areas, summarized by the mnemonic SEEDS: sleep, exercise, eat, diary, and stress. The short slide show below is adapted from the review’s Advice to Patients with Migraine: SEEDS for Success.
The content is very patient-friendly and may be useful as talking points with your next migraine patient.
Alcohol Use at Any Level Linked to Higher Dementia Risk, Large Study Finds
September 24th 2025A study of more than 559 000 adults and 2.4 million genetic samples found that alcohol consumption of any amount increases dementia risk, challenging prior evidence of protective effects from light drinking.