A groundbreaking and controversial work. HEAL YOUR
HEADACHE starts with the fresh insight that nearly all
headaches are migraines - that, in fact, a migraine is
not a type of headache at all but the built-in mechanism
that causes headaches of all kinds. Whether one is prone
to crippling ''migraines'' or only the occasional
garden-variety pounder, the underlying causes are the
same. This leads to a second insight: both headache
sufferers and the doctors they turn to are invariably
wrong in how they understand, diagnose and treat the
problem. With this knowledge in hand, John Hopkins
neurologist Dr David Bucholz takes headache sufferers
out of the vicious circle of misdiagnosis and rebound
and put them in charge of their lives with a simple,
practical, patient-proven 3 - step system. Step One:
Avoid quick fixes - treating the symptoms and not the
cause can lead to a cycle of escalating pain. Step Two:
Eliminate your headache triggers, especially
easy-to-control dietary ones like caffeine, chocolate,
MSG, and aged cheese. Step Three: raise your headache
threshold - when necessary, use preventive
medication.One, two, three - add together and for nearly
all sufferers, any headache problem can be dealt with,
no matter how acute. Every sufferer of headaches or
migraines would benefit from this book. |
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