The muscle tension and soreness associated with these headaches is an effect of the underlying biochemical cause of the pain and not a cause of it. Migraines can begin in children and affect females more than males. The average age of onset is 20 and most people have 15 to 20 years of headaches before they disappear. New headaches starting after the age of 45 should not be considered migraine until all other causes have been ruled out. We view migraine as a fascinating example of food reactive problems that allow us to examine the link between food, the circulating immune system and brain disturbances.
Migraine sufferers are likely to respond well to adequate diet revision.
It is usually not adequate just to eliminate a few things from the diet. While pain is the main event, many other symptoms that occur before, during, and after a headache can be explained as a delayed pattern food allergy mechanism. Typically, a migraine sufferer will follow a rhythmic or cyclic pattern. Headaches come in attacks with variable symptom-free periods between attacks. The underlying biorhythms and changes in tolerance for trigger substances will vary the response to the ingestion of trigger foods.