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Dr. Bradley was puzzled. These patients with heart and kidney failure often had something else in common. Sleep apnea. Why? In the most recent edition of HeadWay, we were exploring the connection between sleep apnea (or sleep apnoea) and migraine, headaches and cluster headache. There’s good evidence for a strong relationship. It seems many people [...]
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Getting a good night’s rest is key to minimizing migraine attacks, cluster headache and many other types of headache as well. In fact, working at improving sleep may be one of the best ways you can fight migraine and headache. Our first Community Question had to do with getting to sleep, and your excellent advice [...]
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It seems intuitive that high blood pressure, or hypertension, would cause headache. After all, we often associate headaches with our blood vessels, especially headaches with pounding pain. High blood pressure is just what it sounds like – your blood is moving through your blood vessels at a higher pressure than normal. Of course, your blood [...]
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We hear a lot about using aromatherapy for headaches, such as tension type headache. But often it’s made too easy ("buy our fabulous aromatherapy shampoo!"), or it sounds far too intimidating ("After reading only 2453 pages in our Complete Book of Aromatherapy Power, you’ll be qualified to use some basic essential oils!"). It’s true that aromatherapy [...]
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I’m a secret fan of aromatherapy. All right, not so secret, I guess. But there’s one thing that drives me crazy. When people go for aromachology, thinking they’re getting aromatherapy. What a rip-off. What is true aromatherapy? The former Health AtoZ put it this way: "Aromatherapy is the therapeutic use of plant-derived, aromatic essential oils [...]
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