New way to stop migraines….
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Today's post: Thursday, 4-25-2007
New way to stop migraines….
It’s been known for some time that people who exercise regularly tend to NOT get migraines. And, people who get migraines but don’t exercise & who manage to begin exercising regularly, tend to have considerably fewer migraines.
1. The information I recently saw helps explain WHY regular exercise helps to prevent migraines.
2. And, the exciting part is that you can also create this key effect of exercise in other ways.
So by using those other methods AND regular exercise, the effect you can have on reducing migraines or preventing them entirely goes up dramatically.
3. In addition, there is a kind of exercise that tends to work best to achieve this effect.
The missing link or underlying cause is this: Apparently, the vascular effects of insulin resistance tend to reliably cause migraines.
The good news is that insulin resistance is mostly reversible.
The really bad news is that it tends to cause type II diabetes & cardiovascular diseases if it gets bad. And, doctors are now beginning to find out that migraine sufferers may indeed be at higher risks for these diseases.
So, what reverses insulin resistance?
1. Regular exercise & physical activity. Even walking a few miles each week or doing housework or gardening can help. The ideal is to do both exercise & physical activities each week. Before TV & taking cars to go everywhere, most people did that.
Today, you have to turn off the TV sometimes & make time to walk or exercise to get it done. And, you have to do it every week.
2. Regular strength training & vigorous “cardio” exercise work better than mild exercise to turn off insulin resistance.
They also cause more vascular flexing & create more vascular flexibility, if done regularly, than mild exercise does. And that also helps to prevent migraines I suspect.
3. Eating refined grains & excess sugar or drinking regular soft drinks tend to trigger insulin resistance.
So the cure is to stop eating or drinking that stuff.
Some whole grains are OK for some people. But health OK proteins & oils like nuts & beans & lentils; sardines; beef fed only grass; extra virgin olive oil & avocados are best.
So are abundant green & nonstarchy vegetables. Whether in vegetable dishes like steamed broccoli or green beans or in salad greens they help a lot to normalize blood sugar.
And, guess what !!
People who stop eating low fiber, high carb, low nutrition foods & eat better -- plus do regular exercise including strength training each week also tend to lose excess body fat and keep it off.
4. Lastly, there are foods & supplements that help lower excessive blood sugar & increase insulin resistance.
a) All tea boosts the effectiveness of your insulin I read recently. Regular, black tea; oolong tea; & green tea all work. And, green tea has extra health benefits. So tea makes an excellent substitute for soft drinks. And, tea has more health benefits if you add neither sugar nor milk to it.
b) Do you like chocolate?
Another drink that increases insulin effectiveness is unsweetened cocoa. It has a lot more health benefits if you use the unsweetened kind & add no sugar or milk. But you can add a ton of the cocoa if you really like chocolate.
And, like dark chocolate, strong unsweetened cocoa also lowers high blood pressure by increasing the flexibility of your blood vessels & the ability of your blood vessels to relax.
That likely means that a cup of hot cocoa with a lot of cocoa might even help turn off a migraine in progress.
c) The same article said that cherries; blueberries; & most other berries have anthocyanins that increase insulin effectiveness.
d) Many sources report that cinnamon helps reduce blood sugar levels that are too high.
Specifically, that means that if you do add sugar to a dish, you’ll have better insulin response if you also add a generous amount of cinnamon.
e) Bilberry extract & grape seed extract are supplements high in anthocyanins that may also help.
f) Chromium polynicotinate helps normalize blood sugar control & likely improves insulin resistance. And, it tends to raise your levels of the beneficial HDL cholesterol & lower your bad LDL cholesterol as well.
g) Magnesium supplements also help blood sugar control. And, in many people who don’t get enough in food, they also help lower blood pressure.
If you get migraines at all, let alone get bad ones often, you might do yourself a favor by doing ALL of the above.
And, since everything on this list has many other health benefits, you’ll also be a LOT healthier.
Focus on Your Health:
In it we post health commentary & reviews of books, eBooks, & other things that improve or protect your health or which enable you to live longer, to be more prosperous, & to be more effective.
We do posts on staying healthy; preventing disease; aging more slowly; weight loss; exercise; nutrition; & news in medicine.
Today's post: Thursday, 4-25-2007
New way to stop migraines….
It’s been known for some time that people who exercise regularly tend to NOT get migraines. And, people who get migraines but don’t exercise & who manage to begin exercising regularly, tend to have considerably fewer migraines.
1. The information I recently saw helps explain WHY regular exercise helps to prevent migraines.
2. And, the exciting part is that you can also create this key effect of exercise in other ways.
So by using those other methods AND regular exercise, the effect you can have on reducing migraines or preventing them entirely goes up dramatically.
3. In addition, there is a kind of exercise that tends to work best to achieve this effect.
The missing link or underlying cause is this: Apparently, the vascular effects of insulin resistance tend to reliably cause migraines.
The good news is that insulin resistance is mostly reversible.
The really bad news is that it tends to cause type II diabetes & cardiovascular diseases if it gets bad. And, doctors are now beginning to find out that migraine sufferers may indeed be at higher risks for these diseases.
So, what reverses insulin resistance?
1. Regular exercise & physical activity. Even walking a few miles each week or doing housework or gardening can help. The ideal is to do both exercise & physical activities each week. Before TV & taking cars to go everywhere, most people did that.
Today, you have to turn off the TV sometimes & make time to walk or exercise to get it done. And, you have to do it every week.
2. Regular strength training & vigorous “cardio” exercise work better than mild exercise to turn off insulin resistance.
They also cause more vascular flexing & create more vascular flexibility, if done regularly, than mild exercise does. And that also helps to prevent migraines I suspect.
3. Eating refined grains & excess sugar or drinking regular soft drinks tend to trigger insulin resistance.
So the cure is to stop eating or drinking that stuff.
Some whole grains are OK for some people. But health OK proteins & oils like nuts & beans & lentils; sardines; beef fed only grass; extra virgin olive oil & avocados are best.
So are abundant green & nonstarchy vegetables. Whether in vegetable dishes like steamed broccoli or green beans or in salad greens they help a lot to normalize blood sugar.
And, guess what !!
People who stop eating low fiber, high carb, low nutrition foods & eat better -- plus do regular exercise including strength training each week also tend to lose excess body fat and keep it off.
4. Lastly, there are foods & supplements that help lower excessive blood sugar & increase insulin resistance.
a) All tea boosts the effectiveness of your insulin I read recently. Regular, black tea; oolong tea; & green tea all work. And, green tea has extra health benefits. So tea makes an excellent substitute for soft drinks. And, tea has more health benefits if you add neither sugar nor milk to it.
b) Do you like chocolate?
Another drink that increases insulin effectiveness is unsweetened cocoa. It has a lot more health benefits if you use the unsweetened kind & add no sugar or milk. But you can add a ton of the cocoa if you really like chocolate.
And, like dark chocolate, strong unsweetened cocoa also lowers high blood pressure by increasing the flexibility of your blood vessels & the ability of your blood vessels to relax.
That likely means that a cup of hot cocoa with a lot of cocoa might even help turn off a migraine in progress.
c) The same article said that cherries; blueberries; & most other berries have anthocyanins that increase insulin effectiveness.
d) Many sources report that cinnamon helps reduce blood sugar levels that are too high.
Specifically, that means that if you do add sugar to a dish, you’ll have better insulin response if you also add a generous amount of cinnamon.
e) Bilberry extract & grape seed extract are supplements high in anthocyanins that may also help.
f) Chromium polynicotinate helps normalize blood sugar control & likely improves insulin resistance. And, it tends to raise your levels of the beneficial HDL cholesterol & lower your bad LDL cholesterol as well.
g) Magnesium supplements also help blood sugar control. And, in many people who don’t get enough in food, they also help lower blood pressure.
If you get migraines at all, let alone get bad ones often, you might do yourself a favor by doing ALL of the above.
And, since everything on this list has many other health benefits, you’ll also be a LOT healthier.
Labels: exercise, headaches, insulin resistance, migraines
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