7 glasses of water a day will save you from a headache
Last reviewed: 16.10.2021
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Scientists have found a unique property of water - only 1.5 liters of clean water a day will save you from a headache.
If you are haunted by headaches, from which you are accustomed to save yourself with pills - stop. Scientists from the University of Maastricht revealed that a glass of water drunk in small sips can relieve or relieve migraine or headache even without a pill. If you regularly drink about 7 glasses of water a day, then stable headaches will recede and they will not torture you any more. This discovery belongs to scientists from the Netherlands, who first noticed 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 migraine headaches took part. One part of the participants tried to avoid caffeine and lower the level of stress to ease their condition, the second was only to drink 1.5 liters of water per day for three months. Participants regularly completed questionnaires on the number and intensity of migraine attacks during and before the experiment. The experiment showed that it was in the second group that the headache attacks decreased significantly. Many doctors consider the ability of water to remove headaches by a placebo effect, it can not be denied that the hydration of the body is extremely useful and improves the whole state of the body.
"If the experiment proved the effectiveness of water against headaches, we recommend that those who suffer from migraines, try for a while to drink at least 1.5 liters of clean water a day, it is likely for them this will also be a means of saving from painful sensations," - noted the Dutch experts.