Miranda Wells

Miranda Wells: Roundhay pilates teacher says goodbye to headaches

Roundhay pilates teacher Miranda Wells makes a living from being fit and active so she was frustrated that despite repeated trips to the doctor she was still unwell.

Miranda suffered from daily headaches and agonising migraines since she was a teenager but GPs simply prescribed painkillers and advised her to avoid "triggers" such as strong smells like cigarette smoke, alcohol and perfume.

Despite her energetic lifestyle, working as a personal trainer and teaching pilates and dance classes at Virgin Active and Esporta, The Light, she was still plagued by debilitating headaches and often felt sluggish and sickly.

She said exercising helped, as the endorphins released acted as natural painkillers, but she wanted to get to the bottom of the cause of her headaches.

She said it felt as if her body was "fighting something" so she set out to diagnose the problem and cure it herself.Miranda tried everything from detoxing to different diets and Chinese medicine, to no avail.

But when her sister's stomach problems vanished after being diagnosed with food allergies and changing her diet accordingly, her parents persuaded her to try a food intolerance test.

She sent a blood sample to YorkTest Laboratories, in York, and paid £250 for the foodSCAN test against 113 foods.

The results were back within a week and showed she seriously reacted to seafood, cow's milk and wheat gluten - found in bread

And many other foods.She didn't eat seafood anyway but loved toast and cafe lattes.

She decided to give it a go and changed her diet completely - cutting out everything containing the problem substances.
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Miranda said the effects of cutting the foods out of her diet were instant.
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Miranda said: "I know there's a lot of scepticism around food intolerance but my advice to anyone with migraines would be

Miranda Wells: Roundhay pilates teacher says goodbye to headaches

Miranda Wells: Roundhay pilates teacher says goodbye to headaches
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Roundhay pilates teacher Miranda Wells makes a living from being fit and active so she was frustrated that despite repeated trips to the doctor she was still unwell.

Miranda suffered from daily headaches and agonising migraines since she was a teenager but GPs simply prescribed painkillers and advised her to avoid "triggers" such as strong smells like cigarette smoke, alcohol and perfume.

Despite her energetic lifestyle, working as a personal trainer and teaching pilates and dance classes at Virgin Active and Esporta, The Light, she was still plagued by debilitating headaches and often felt sluggish and sickly.

She said exercising helped, as the endorphins released acted as natural painkillers, but she wanted to get to the bottom of the cause of her headaches.

She said it felt as if her body was "fighting something" so she set out to diagnose the problem and cure it herself. Miranda tried everything from detoxing to different diets and Chinese medicine, to no avail.
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Miranda said the effects of cutting the foods out of her diet were instant.
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Miranda said: "I know there's a lot of scepticism around food intolerance but my advice to anyone with migraines would be
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Miranda Wells: Roundhay pilates teacher says goodbye to headaches