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17 October 2016

Anti-inflammatory Juice

Recently in the free ezine HeadWay, we’ve been talking a lot about diet. In particular, sources of vitamin D, juices and smoothies, and anti-inflammatory foods.

Anti-inflammatory juice Very often a key component of headache-fighting diets is simply more fruits and vegetables – especially more green veggies.

Here’s a video to show you a quick and easy recipe for anti-inflammatory juice. Yes, there is good science behind this. However, a caution. I would drink this with a meal, or else turn it into a smoothie, thus hanging on to the fiber. Slowly using smoothies to add nutrients to your diet is a great migraine and headache fighter. Quickly adding a lot of juice, and so a lot of sugar, can do the reverse.

With that being said, this recipe is packed with great headache-fighters, and is a fun place to start.

Do you have a great anti-inflammatory recipe? Share it here!

28 November 2009

Chocolate for Migraine?

James Discoveries & Stats 2

Chocolate has a notoriously bad reputation when it comes to migraine. But much of that reputation isn’t deserved. Although chocolate may trigger migraine in some, it may actually be ingredients accompanying the chocolate that cause the problem.

As a matter of fact, as you’ve probably heard before, cocoa has some health benefits. And a recent study from Missouri State University, USA, shows it may have some benefits for headache sufferers in particular.

Now before you get too excited, this was an animal study – on mice. The mice were fed a cocoa enriched diet for two weeks. The mice were shown to have less inflammation than those who were deprived of cocoa (poor things!).

The authors of the study felt that a cocoa supplement may help with diseases of the head and face that involved the trigeminal ganglion (part of the trigeminal nerve), not just migraine.

The researchers feel cocoa could be an important part of an anti-inflammatory diet: Cocoa enriched diets are able to repress the stimulated expression of proteins associated with the promotion and maintenance of inflammatory … responses said the researchers.

This is a very preliminary study, but it may lead to some helpful research in the future – possibly some new supplements that may be very effective. Of course we shouldn’t all go out and start eating chocolate bars. However, if chocolate isn’t a trigger for you, adding dark chocolate, low in sugar, and cocoa to your diet may decrease inflammation, as well as being an antioxidant, and a source of magnesium and folic acid.

More ideas and tips regarding chocolate and headache here. And this video shows a healthy way to add cocoa to your diet, and why.

More on the study here: Chocolate may ease migraines: Study