Top 12 Heath and Dietary Habits that Contribute to Headaches! Continued

Published September 13, 2019 | By Jake Morgan

We are going to round out the last few health and dietary habits that may be contributing to your headaches!

Food Allergies

Food allergies will trigger a headache quickly! If you’re allergic to a food, whether it’s yeast, milk, peanuts, wheat, or sugar, its possible that you will have a headache after eating that food. In children suffering from migraines and epilepsy, eliminating offending foods will result in reduction of seizures.

What makes food allergies more complicated is that a food essentially stays in the body for four days so you could be reacting to a food eaten four days ago!

Faulty Elimination causes Headaches

For a minute, think back to a time you were constipated. How did you feel? Miserable! I must tell you how important it is to have a bowel movement at least twice daily. If you don’t, you are constipated.

What happens inside of the body when you are constipated is not pretty. all that waste matter inside your intestines is rotting!Forgive me for being so graphic, but i want you to understand this. There is a process in the body called diffusion that happens inside the cells that works like this: whenever you have a higher concentration of wastes in the intestines, they start “polluting” the rest of the organs in your abdomen. This is part of the reason why so many men have prostrate problems!

Those wastes in your colon are in such a high concentration that they start “flowing” to other places of the body. Countless patients have told me over the years that part of the reason why they got headaches was because they were constipated.

Stop carrying around those old meals as a suitcase in your colon and start feeling better. You will clearly have fewer headaches as a result.

Dehydration

Your body uses water to dissolve EVERYTHING except fats and fat-soluble vitamins. When you don’t have enough water, you can’t dissolve toxins and get them out of the body. Your blood has a high percentage of water. when your water levels are only 5% lower, your efficiency suffers by 30%. Aim for 1 oz water for every 2 lbs you weigh. For example, if you weigh 150 lbs, you need a minimum of 75 oz water per day. That’s equivalent to a little over nine 8-oz glasses of water. If you drink three in the morning when you wake up, you only have six more to go for the rest of the day. That’s easy!

Malnutrition causes headaches

Vitamin and mineral deficiencies cause headaches. I’m not going to go through every one of the vitamins and mineral deficiencies that do this because you’ll rush out and try to buy them. The problem with that thinking is that it doesn’t work. You must have balanced nutrition, a balanced amount of vitamins and minerals to make nutrients work. A good vitamin/mineral plan is important.

Stress

I understand that you may be experiencing a very difficult time in your life; during difficult times, there’s a lot of stress. For every problem, there’s a solution. Some of the top ways to beat stress are:

Exercise

Taking a walk somewhere peaceful

Listen to music or play an instrument

Pray

Add an extra vitamin B

Processed Foods

Processed foods cause headaches by causing inflammation; the more inflammation, the more frequent you’ll have headaches. The way that processed foods cause inflammation is by the chemicals in them called advanced glycation endproducts, or AGE’s. These AGEs are worse than free radicals, causing mini explosive reactions inside the body’s organs that lead to aging, heart disease, cancer, diabetes and inflammation.