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Regular exercise is the ultimate form of preventive medicine. In addition to weight loss benefits, exercising a few times a week has been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease, diabetes, stroke, Alzheimer’s, and depression. Well, we can add one more long term health benefit to the list; fewer headaches.
Swedish researchers found that 40 minutes of exercise performed three times a week reduced the number of headaches experienced my migraine sufferers in a given month. It might not sound like a huge gain, but the regular exercise proved just as effective as common prescription medication used to treat migraines.
If you’ve been battling with migraines lace up you sneakers and hit the road!
