About a year ago, a co-worker who had a lot of experience with headaches recommended a book to me called Heal Your Headache: The 1-2-3 Program for Taking Charge of Your Pain. The author of the book, Dr. David Buchholz, explains a lot of things about headaches that I hadn't heard before. He goes into detail about Tyramine, an amino acid found naturally in a lot of well-liked foods like chocolate, wine, cheese, sour cream, yogurt, soy sauce, pork, avocados, bananas, pineapples, figs, nuts, processed meats, and so on. He talks about the foods that trigger headaches; the foods that should be avoided when you're trying to reduce the amount of inflammation in the blood vessels in and around your head. By the time I read this book, I was so completely worn out from having constant painful headaches that I decided I was going to try his suggestions. I didn't try everything he said overnight, though. That would have meant eliminitating about 75% of the foods I normally ate! Besides, I had to test the waters to know that this was legit. It was as if I had to touch the stove to know it was hot, so to speak. I tested each of the foods he said to avoid, to see if I would get a headache or not. And I did (get a headache), every time! Through a lot of painful trial and error, I was forced to come up with a lot of alternative food choices. The food ideas & recipes I came up with - are what this blog is all about. It's a work in process, since I am trying to come up with new ideas all the time. The challenge is - they can't be on the foods-to-avoid list. I'll share these ideas, and will talk more about what I learned about the foods-to-avoid as this blog continues.
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