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Can McDonald’s Cure Your Migraine? Debunking the Viral McMigraine Trend (www.mcgill.ca)
submitted 6 months ago by quercus@slrpnk.net to c/migraine@lemmy.world
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TikTok’s newest wellness trend is the McMigraine order—a Coke and McDonald’s fries that allegedly hold the miracle cure for migraines. We dug into these claims, finding that once again, an online trend is no replacement for a doctor.

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[–] quercus@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago

Exactly, or sodium or electrolytes.

When it started popping up, it came off like some twisted marketing scheme. I hope this doesn't become the new, "have you tried lavender essential oils?"