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Headaches are in the top 20 disabilities in America today.
Costing American Industry thirteen billion dollars, every single year.
The most dangerous causes of headaches:
brain tumors and cancer and infection and aneurysms...
only account for a fraction of 1% of headaches,
and that is absolutely a medical emergency...
Unfortuneately, the other 28 million Americans that suffer with headaches have very few effective options to them...
most of us just deal with headaches with over the counter non steroidal anti inflamatory drugs.
things like aspirin, excedrin, tylenol, advil, motrin, we consider to be okay,
I just took a couple of...whatever and my headaches go away...
here is a staggering statistic: one hundred and seven thousand hospitalizations for over the counter pain medications every year
headache remedies put 107,000 people in the hospital evey year.
and nearly seventeen thousand don't make it out alive.
That's pretty scary stuff.
17,000 people, every single year die from...
treating their headaches! With over the counter medication.
It actually has become a larger, more common cause of death than AIDS!
You don't hear that in the commercials...
"well I just take two of these instead of eight of these, all day"...
They don't bother to mention in the commercial, oh by the way, we're more dangerous than AIDS.
It's unbelievable that just the treatment of the over the counter non steroidal anti inflamatories
cost the American people two Billion dollars in unecessary health care costs.
And is the 15th most common cause of death in this country right now.
Not the headache but the over the counter med that you never even consider...
"I just take two and my headache goes away"... More dangerous than AIDS...
A little scary that we never even consider that.
We've had some friends in brushes with death... In the emergency room for months at a time...
Just because they didn't think it was a real issue, if you could get it at the 7-11... it can't be that dangerous...
So I'm going to give you a few natural options and some things that you want to stay away from.
The first one is MSG. MSG does not cause headaches but is a major trigger for anyone with sensitivity.
The problem is MSG is in everything.
If you are in the habit of reading labels, anything that says: hydrolyzed, protein, yeast extract, autolyzed, yeast, gelatin, texurized protein...
soy sauce, enzymes or fermented... Absolutely contains MSG.
And usually anything that says: boullion, broth, stock, flavoring, natural flavors, seasonings, maltodextrin, malt extract, ultra pasteurized...
often there is enough MSG to trigger a headache in: corn starch, corn syrup...
modified food starch, rice syrup, milk powder, anything vitamin enriched,
pasteurized, balsamic vinegar.
Lunch meats, red wines and beers, that's a rough one, any diet food that contains aspartame...
wheat and dairy products...
will trigger headaches. Not that they all have MSG, but they all have different chemicals that can trigger headaches for some people.
Instead of going crazy reading lables... stick with foods that don't come with labels... and I don't mean McDonalds...
When you shop around the outside perimeter of the grocery store, when you don't go into the aisles...
there are no labels in the fresh produce section, there are no labels on the fresh fish or meat, there may be other problems with that, but...
at least you are dealing with less chemical processing that causes headaches for a lot of people.
This is what got me into chiropractic, I was a headache sufferer, on meds for life, by the time I was a teenager, I was on 5 prescription meds...
already had a handful of surgeries...
and still had the same problem...
and within 3 months, a chiroprator, of all people, turned it around for me.