Can you remember what was bothering Pontius Pilate? Right— migraine. Among all reasons that cause headache, migraine bothers about 20% of adults, and that is every fifth person.
It is still unknown what causes migrain, but we can highlight these factors — biological inheritance, hormone changes while puberty, constant stress, ergasthenia.
Migrains that you have also depend on what you eat. it is proven that lack of some elements in human‘s body increases chances of having a headache. Deficiency of necessary elements may be compensated with food. What do you need to include in your daily ratioт to get rid of headaches?
Foods can be separated into 4 categories:
1. Folic acid and vitamin В12
Deficiency of these elements can cause excessive irritation and distraction. Deficiency of these elements for a long time can lead to serious stress. The thing is, we usually take pills that include aspirin, which reduces the amount of folic acid and vitamin B12 in our body.
Folic acid can be found in broccoli, spinach, asparagus, pumpkins, carrots, beets, avocados. Vitamin B12 can be found in chicken eggs.
2. Copper and iron
Women often suffer from the deficiency of copper and iron. This leads to migrains, hypotension, anemia. Great amount of copper can be found in beans, nuts, avocado, goat cheese. To compensate lack of iron do not forget about laminaria, sesame, seeds.
3. Vitamin В6
To compensate the lack of vitamin B6 include cereals, fresh vegetables, liver, beans in your daily ration.
4. Vitamin D
Vitamin D is sometimes called the “sunshine vitamin” because it’s produced in your skin in response to sunlight. And during winter it can be found in different foods like milk products, seafood, eggs, and beans.
