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Headaches?
 
Check for These Common Causes...

When you have a headache, good luck with concentrating on anything. Or being creative. Or even being nice to be around!

The thing about headaches is that they have so many causes! And taking some painkiller addresses - you guessed it - NONE of them.

So, check for these common causes, all of which are within your power to do something about!

1. Are you dehydrated? If you don't know, just drink enough water until you're needing to go to the bathroom every hour.

2. Are you lacking the electrolytes that would hold that water inside your cells? Craving salt is one indicator for that. So try eating something salty and see if that helps.

3. Is a bone out of alignment in your neck? This will stop the flow of energy and can create a whopper of a headache. Try gently rotating your head through its entire range of motion. Do this while not allowing your neck to move. Be sure to move it forward and back too, not just side to side. This encourages your atlas and axis to realign. If that doesn't work, try moving your neck through its range of motion at the base of your shoulders. This encourages your C7 to pop back in to place. If that was the problem and you've corrected it with these movements, your headache will drain away as if by magic.

4.Are you toxic? A clue is if your breath smells bad or if you have a bad taste in your mouth. In that case, try REAL vitamin C. The juice of a lemon squeezed in some water is a good source. (The high dose products marketed as vitamin C are actually made from boiling corn syrup and sulfuric acid together, and the diarrhea that often results from high doses is often not a result of the cleansing action, but rather from the chemicals.)

5. Do you have an infection? In this case herbs that support immune functioning will be of benefit, such as Echinacea, Golden Seal, St. John's Wort, Astragalus, Cat's Claw.

6. Do you have blood sugar problems? Some clues include if the headache arrived after eating something sugary, or alternatively, if your headache came several hours after your last meal and was accompanied by feeling lightheaded and/or shaky. If so, in the first instance, enough already with sugary stuff (and do the self-test for Candida, which you can find by searching for "Candida' in the Archived Newsletters section of BetterHealthBytes.) In the second instance, eat high protein snacks throughout the day.

7. Are you having a reaction to a food intolerance or an allergen? Either one of these can cause histamine to be liberated,creating swelling. You might feel your sinuses are full, and you're sneezing or have an irritated but non-productive cough. Try herbs such as Chinese Skullcap root, (also called Scutellaria), Albezia bark + Feverfew, which have anti-histaminic and drying effects which reduce the swelling. These will help deal with the symptom short-term. Long term you need to ferret out your food intolerances. This is essential even if you react to a seasonal allergen such as pollen. When you enter pollen season with your immune system already over-busy trying to deal with a backload from food intolerances, you have a much lower threshold before your immune system responds with histamine.

8. If you're a woman and your headaches follow a pattern related to the timing of your cycle, your headaches may be hormonally connected. The most common of these is low progesterone in relation to estrogen, but before you go running off to the store to buy some over-the-counter progesterone cream, you'd be much better off getting a hormonal saliva test. One reason is because you may be estrogen dominant not because your progesterone levels are too low, but because your estrogen levels are too high. In that case, always start by cleaning your liver (Garlic supplements often help).

Pamela Levin is an R.N. and a Teaching & Supervising Transactional Analyst with 500+ post graduate hours in clinical nutrition, herbology and applied kinesiology. In private practice 42 years, she is an award winning author and nutritional journalist.

Pamela Levin, R.N., T.S.T.A.
December 16,2013

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Pamela Levin is an R.N. and a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst who has been in private practice offering health improvement services for 40 years.

She has over 500 post-graduate hours of training in clinical nutrition, herbology and applied kineseology.

She has published many professional journal and lay audience articles and has an international reputation in the fields of emotional development, emotional intelligence and Transactional Analysis.

For her work in these areas, she was awarded the prestigious Eric Berne Award by members of the International Transactional Analysis Association in 72 countries.

She has lectured and trained both lay and professional audiences all over the world.

Her work is continues to be used  throughout North and South America, The UK, Europe, Asia and Australia.

She has personally researched the key emotional nutrients™ she makes available through this site.

They have consistently been demonstrated to be the core nutrients people need to feed all the six parts of their emotional selves. 

People from all cultures and languages in all parts of the world have used them since she first made them public in 1974 to feed their emotional selves, move from surviving to thriving, release limiting beliefs, improve parenting skills and more.

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