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7 glasses of water a day will get rid of your headaches
Last reviewed: 01.07.2025
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Scientists have found a unique property of water - just 1.5 liters of clean water a day will relieve you of headaches.
If you are haunted by headaches that you are used to taking pills for, stop. Scientists from the University of Maastricht have found that a glass of water, drunk in small sips, can relieve or eliminate a migraine or headache even without a pill. If you regularly drink about 7 glasses of water a day, then stable headaches will retreat and will not torment you anymore. This discovery belongs to scientists from the Netherlands, who were the first to notice that patients who drank a lot of water due to bladder problems rarely complained of headaches.
Later, the author of the study, Dr. Mark Spigt, conducted an experiment in which 100 people suffering from regular migraines took part. One part of the participants tried to avoid caffeine and reduce stress levels to alleviate their condition, the second part had to drink only 1.5 liters of water per day for three months. The participants regularly filled out questionnaires about the number and strength of migraine attacks during the experiment and before it. The experiment showed that it was in the second group that headache attacks significantly decreased. Many doctors consider the ability of water to relieve headaches to be a placebo effect, but it cannot be denied that hydration is extremely useful for the body and improves the overall condition of the body.
"If the experiment has proven the effectiveness of water against headaches, we recommend that those who suffer from migraines try drinking at least 1.5 liters of pure water a day for some time; it is quite possible that for them this will also be a means of relief from painful sensations," the Dutch experts noted.