Stress Headache

Stress can be a number of things, but often involve pushing your body to the limit and then some – excess work, exercise, or intense situations all increase the stress hormone in your body. Environmental and physical stress can cause these headaches to trigger, as well as mental stress. These headaches can increase in severity and become debilitating in your daily life.

Many researchers have tried to figure out how stress causes headaches. It is a complicated question since not everyone responds to stress by getting a headache. We have convincing evidence to suggest that those people who tend to get headaches have a genetic predisposition. This is to say that they are born with a lower threshold to suffer from headaches than people without such genetic predisposition. But having a lowered threshold is not enough, a trigger usually is required to cause a headache. Stress is one of such triggers, along with lack of sleep, alcohol, loud noise, strong odors, bright light, and others.

So, how does stress cause headaches? Our research suggests that depletion of magnesium could be the culprit. Mental stress is known to cause release of adrenalin in the so called fight-or-flight response. The release of adrenalin was shown to cause the release of magnesium into the bloodstream, after which this circulating magnesium is excreted in the urine.

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