WATER AND MIGRAINES

Peter Goadsby, MD, PhD, director of the Headache Center at the University of California San Francisco, explains that the area of the brain that triggers thirst also prompts migraines.  He says the less thirsty you are, the less likely the cells that cause migraines will be activated.  Also, a study in the European Journal of Neurology found that participants who drank just over 4 cups more water a day than their usual daily intake experienced 21 fewer hours of pain throughout the 12-week study.  Their pain was also less intense. 

For anyone who suffers from true migraines, and all bad headaches are not migraines, it could be very helpful to keep the above information in mind.  Drinking some extra water in exchange for less pain and less intense pain sounds like a good trade-off to me.