Often migraine sufferers are less physically active then non-sufferers.
Is this a cause or an effect? After all, you hardly feel like exercise if all you want to do is lie in a darkened room with an ice-pack.
But a study in “Headache: the journal of head and face pain” shows that aerobic exercise can reduce migraine pain.
It stands to reason really – and we’ve seen in another Natural Migraine Alternatives blog post than oxygen can help migraine. So head on over to the article and read more.
Here’s something different!
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SOURCE The HealthCentral Network
Although migraine is a neurological condition, I’m sure most people here would readily acknowledge that diet plays a strong part.
My ebook discusses the link between migraine and the neuro-transmitter serotonin, which many now accept; but what surprised me recently was to read that over 90% of the body’s serotonin is made in the gut.
For the academically minded, the book The Second Brain by Michael Gershon will be interesting; be advised, though, it has been reviewed as a book for the scientifically minded rather than the lay-person.
Applying the principals of good diet, it stands to reason that a poorly nourished body will not perform optimally, and without good digestion you cannot be well-nourished. You are not just what you eat, but what you digest and assimilate. At the simplest level, if your body does not correctly process the food you have eaten it cannot do its job.
So it was interesting to come across an eating plan that claims to improve your digestion, and is simple to follow. Here’s a review of the plan. It’s not specifically targeted at migraine sufferers, but the review refers to reduction and even cessation of headaches.
Here’s an interesting article on women and migraine in Hospital News, Canada’s Health Care Newspaper Online.
To set the scene, Dr. Allan Gordon, Director of the Wasser Pain Management Centre and a specialist in the treatment and management of migraine pain, speculates as to why women are approximately three times more likely to be affected by migraine than men.
Many women will have observed that their migraines are linked to hormone fluctuations. As an example, one-third of female migraine sufferers will experience less pain or even a complete absence of pain during pregnancy, while for two-thirds of sufferers there is no change or even a worsening.
As one of the lucky group with no migraines at all during in my two pregnancies, I can vouch for the fact that this was only temporary respite and, as is usual, my migraines returned after pregnancy.
Although I prefer natural methods myself, many women take the route of conventional medication. However this is undesirable when trying for a family, during pregnancy and while breastfeeding. It’s good, then, to see this article suggest some drug-free migraine management techniques.
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