Dr. Amelia Scott Barrett, MD
She looked at me with eyes that were afraid to hope again. “Do you think this new medication will work?”
Katie was one of my favorite patients — a mom of four with a job and a husband, who took care of everyone and everything. We’d tried every medication combination we could think of, and I know so many of you can relate to her frustration.
“Yeah, I do,” I told her, a little too enthusiastically. “I think we’ve got a good plan.” She agreed to try it, then asked the question I’d heard a thousand times: “Why is this happening in the first place?”
I gave her the standard answer — genetics plus environment. But as I said those familiar words, the truth bubbled up: we didn’t actually know. Her scans and labs looked fine. We didn’t have a clue. And I didn’t think this new medication would work any better than the last one.
That was the moment everything changed for me. I was done with temporary fixes that only suppress the pain — strategies I’d spent 20 years mastering in my neurology training at Stanford and my practice ever since. I needed real answers, so I explored everything: yoga, functional medicine, and eventually, DNA science.
That’s when it clicked. We can’t change our genes, but we can change the biological pathways they regulate. Your DNA shows you which medications are likely to work, which foods your body can’t process, which supplements you actually need, and which lifestyle changes will truly move the needle. That’s precision medicine — solutions tailored to your unique biology, not a one-size-fits-all guess.
My Mission
Migraine isn’t “just a headache” — it’s a true neurological disorder that affects the whole brain, and it’s the leading cause of disability in women under 50 (Steiner, 2020). 28 million women in America live with migraines, which are more likely to take them away from the life they love than any other disease.
Women like Katie deserve to get their lives back — to be fully present for their kids, to be able to do their best at the work they love, and to be the partner and friend they know they can be. That’s why I created Migraine Relief Code: to help you find and fix the root causes of your migraines through the science of your own biology.
Don’t ever give up. Together, we can do hard things.
Warmly,
Amelia Scott Barrett, MD
Neurologist and Founder, Migraine Relief Code
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