January 12, 2026
If you have experienced a migraine, you already know this truth. Migraines are not simply bad headaches. They are complex neurological events that can affect your entire body.
Migraine pain often comes with nausea, visual changes, sound sensitivity, or light sensitivity. For some people, the pain is disabling. For others, the unpredictability is just as disruptive. Either way, migraines interfere with work, family life, and daily responsibilities.
From a clinical standpoint, migraines involve changes in brain signaling, blood vessels, and chemical messengers like serotonin.¹ Because multiple systems are involved, migraines rarely have a single cause. Therefore, a narrow treatment approach often falls short.
At Hotze Health & Wellness Center, we view migraines through a broader lens. Integrative migraine treatment asks not only what hurts, but why it keeps happening. We believe in getting to the root cause of any symptom, not simply masking the symptom with pharmaceutical drugs.
No two migraine experiences are exactly alike. Some guests have migraines once a month. Others struggle weekly or even daily. This variation matters because it points to different underlying triggers.
Common contributors include:
Often, these factors overlap. For example, hormonal changes may heighten sensitivity to allergens. Likewise, poor sleep can worsen neurological reactivity. Because of this overlap, addressing only pain rarely leads to lasting improvement.
Instead, integrative migraine treatment focuses on identifying patterns. Timing, frequency, and associated symptoms provide valuable clues. When those clues are taken seriously, care becomes more precise and more personal.
Migraines originate in the nervous system, not in the muscles or scalp. During a migraine episode, specific nerve pathways become overly reactive.
One key player is the trigeminal nerve. When activated, it releases inflammatory compounds that increase pain signaling and affect nearby blood vessels.² This process explains why migraines can worsen with movement, light, or sound.
Over time, repeated migraines can make the nervous system more sensitive. This phenomenon, called central sensitization, lowers the threshold for future episodes.³ As a result, migraines may become more frequent or harder to manage.
This is why prevention and root-cause evaluation matter. Calming the nervous system requires more than symptom suppression. It requires understanding what keeps triggering the response.
Allergies can play a significant role in migraines, but they are often overlooked.
When the immune system overreacts to allergens such as pollen, mold, dust mites, pet dander, or certain foods, it releases inflammatory mediators like histamine. Histamine affects blood vessels and nerve signaling. Over time, this immune activation can increase migraine frequency or intensity.⁴⁻⁵
We frequently see patterns. Migraines worsen during high-pollen seasons. Head pain flares alongside congestion or sinus pressure. Some guests notice improvement when their allergy symptoms calm down. These observations matter.
At Hotze Health & Wellness Center, we address allergy-related migraines using Low Dose Immunotherapy (LDI). Rather than suppressing symptoms, LDI is designed to retrain the immune system’s response to allergens.
LDI uses very small, highly diluted doses of allergens administered as sublingual drops under the tongue. This controlled exposure helps reduce immune overreaction over time. LDI is needle-free, taken at home, and typically dosed every seven to eight weeks.
LDI can be customized to address over 300 allergens, including airborne, chemical, and food-related triggers. Because of its gentle delivery, LDI is used for adults, children, and even infants when clinically appropriate.
Many members of our own team have chosen LDI for themselves and their families. Clinically, we often see that when allergic inflammation is reduced, the nervous system becomes easier to regulate. For guests whose migraines are closely tied to immune triggers, this shift can significantly improve migraine stability.
What is Low Dose Immunotherapy (LDI)?
LDI is an integrative allergy approach that uses highly diluted allergen extracts to help retrain the immune system’s response.
How is LDI taken?
LDI is administered as sublingual drops placed under the tongue at home.
What allergens can LDI address?
LDI treats over 300 airborne (environmental), chemical, and food allergens. Doses are customized for your specific needs. It is a state-of-the-art treatment that cannot be compared to other conventional allergy treatments.
How often is LDI taken?
This is where you will really see the difference. LDI is dosed and administered (it can be mailed directly to your home after the first initial, in-office visit) every 7 – 8 weeks. There is no need for daily, weekly, or monthly treatments. This is why it is great for adults, but even more so, parents love LDI for their children. No injection and less frequency. If you have a flare-up, a booster can be sent to you; however, typically this is not needed.
Is LDI appropriate for children?
LDI is used for adults and children, including infants, when clinically appropriate and recommended by our medical provider.
Why consider LDI for migraines?
For guests whose migraines worsen alongside allergies, reducing immune overreaction may help lower migraine frequency and severity by calming inflammatory and neurological triggers.⁶
Hormonal fluctuations are one of the most well-established migraine triggers, especially for women. Estrogen shifts influence neurotransmitters, blood vessel tone, and pain signaling in the brain.⁷ Because of this, migraines often follow predictable hormonal patterns.
If you notice migraines occurring around the same time each month, hormones are very likely playing a role. Many guests experience migraines just before their menstrual cycle, around ovulation, or during other periods of hormonal transition. This pattern is often referred to as hormonally triggered or menstrual migraines and is well-documented in medical literature.⁷
Migraines may also become more frequent or intense during perimenopause and menopause, when hormone levels fluctuate more unpredictably. Importantly, bloodwork may still fall within a “normal” range during these stages, even when symptoms are significant.
At Hotze Health & Wellness Center, we evaluate clinical symptoms alongside comprehensive blood testing. When hormone depletion or imbalance is indicated, we recommend bioidentical hormone replacement. Bioidentical hormones match the molecular structure the body naturally produces and are used to support hormonal stability. At the Hotze Health & Wellness Center, we do not recommend synthetic hormones as they come with a host of side effects. Make sure you are a self-advocate and always choose bioidentical hormones as the healthier choice.
Research shows that improved hormonal consistency often helps reduce migraine frequency and severity.⁸ We have seen this in our own practice. Women who have suffered from monthly migraines finally get relief after introducing bioidentical hormone replacement. By addressing hormones as part of integrative migraine treatment, we often uncover a missing piece that helps explain long-standing migraine patterns.
Conventional migraine care often centers on managing pain once a migraine has already started. For some people, pharmaceutical medications may temporarily reduce the intensity or shorten an episode. However, this approach does not address what is driving repeated migraines.
As discussed earlier, repeated migraine activity can keep the nervous system in a heightened, reactive state. When underlying triggers are not addressed, the nervous system continues to be stimulated again and again. Over time, this pattern can make migraines easier to trigger and harder to calm.
This is why treating symptoms alone often falls short. While pain relief may help in the moment, it does not interrupt the ongoing signals that contribute to nervous system sensitization. In some cases, relying only on symptom management can allow the cycle to continue unchecked.
Alternative and integrative migraine treatment takes a different path. At Hotze Health & Wellness Center, we focus on identifying and addressing the factors that repeatedly provoke migraine activity, such as immune activation from allergies, hormone imbalance, blood sugar instability, sleep disruption, or chronic stress.
By reducing these ongoing triggers, we work to support better neurological regulation over time. This whole-body approach not only helps address current migraines but also supports prevention and long-term healthspan. We believe longer lives should also be quality lives, and addressing migraines at their root is an important part of that goal.
At Hotze Health & Wellness Center, we specialize in uncovering root causes through alternative and integrative approaches. We are often the last stop for guests (we call our patients guests) who have consulted multiple doctors without resolution. We are the last stop because we get to the root cause, and the search for help is over. Our guests often tell us, “They wish they had chosen us first because we have transformed and restored their lives!”
How are we different from most medical providers? We listen. We listen to clinical symptoms in addition to running comprehensive bloodwork. We also have over 35 years of experience treating women, men, and teens (even children), and we know that “normal” lab ranges do not always reflect optimal function. With 35 years of experience and a very tenured team of medical professionals, we have learned, grown, and evolved into a renowned alternative and integrative medical practice that can be trusted with your health and your healthspan.
Hormone imbalance and replenishment are not taught in medical school. Yet listening carefully and addressing hormone depletion can often resolve symptoms without unnecessary pharmaceutical drugs. God has given our bodies the amazing ability to heal themselves. By replenishing what is being lost in the body (nutrients and hormones) rather than pumping it with pharmaceutical drugs, we have seen our guests increase their energy levels, moods, and vitality.
Since 1989, we have helped over 33,000 guests improve immune balance, energy, and vitality. We also care for guests from across the nation and around the world. We are often asked if we take insurance. The answer is no. We are a cash-based business. Our practice does provide you with a detailed billing statement along with a diagnosis code for you to submit to your insurance company, but we cannot guarantee they will cover alternative and integrative medicine. The reason we do not take insurance is that we refuse to be constrained by insurance-driven treatment models. This is for the benefit of your health and the health of all our guests.
Migraines are rarely isolated. They often connect to other symptoms and underlying imbalances within the body. That is why understanding the bigger picture matters.
Start with our Symptom Checker.
This quick, guided tool helps identify patterns related to allergies, hormone imbalance, thyroid function, immune health, stress, and other common contributors to ongoing symptoms. Many guests find it brings clarity to symptoms they have been experiencing for years.
When you’re ready, schedule a complimentary wellness consultation.
If you’re ready to explore a new path to wellness, click HERE to schedule your complimentary phone consultation with one of our Wellness Consultants or call 281-698-8698. Our consultations are always free. It’s a pressure-free, 30-minute conversation where you can ask questions, share your concerns, and discover whether our integrative, root-cause approach is the right fit for you. It would be our privilege to serve you.
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