10 Tips to Prevent Headaches Naturally
One of the first signs of sensitivity to a toxin is a headache, so if you get headaches and aren’t sure why, you will want to explore your food and your environment and look for triggers. Click here to read our list of Common Toxins. For now, good digestion and bowel movements daily are signs that you are efficiently detoxifying.
Try to sweat regularly in a sauna or through exercise, take magnesium at bedtime (which will also help with sleep), and consider a regular colon cleanse.
7. Consider Food and Environmental Allergy Testing
Many people feel that if they were allergic, they would know it. But if you have headaches, that could be a sign of an allergy. In addition, so many people are not fully allergic, they are just sensitive. The only ways to know are to avoid a food completely for several weeks and see how you feel, or to get tested and see where you fall on the scale.
So many foods influence headaches including alcohol (especially wine); dairy; aged foods; highly processed foods such as meats with nitrates, MSG, sulfites, artificial colors and preservatives; dyes; and/or artificial sweeteners such as aspartame (NutraSweet). Any one or several of these in combination could be your trigger.
In addition, smells or environmental allergens could be the source. Cosmetics, air fresheners, carpets or furniture covered with anti-stain materials (or the use of after market anti-stain treatments), cleaning products, soaps, and bug sprays may pose problems. 
There are so many different toxins in our world and studies have shown that even people who live in remote rural areas have traces of dozens of toxic chemicals in their systems. We all have some exposure to toxins and these may well be a headache trigger.
For more information, read our articles, “Inflammation – Allergies and Sensitivities and “A List Of Common Toxins.”
Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Techniques have proven to be helpful with both food and environmental concerns so you may want to speak with your practitioner about this process.
8. Explore Natural Body Mechanic and Alignment
Many companies now offer free assessments to evaluate your proper body mechanics, head and alignment. Many chronic issues have been connected to poor posture and head and neck alignment; if you are experiencing chronic headaches, this is definitely something you should evaluate. Does your desk or computer space feel right or do you stand up and feel tight and tense? Do you come home with pains in your arms, fingers or back?
Do you grind your teeth at night? If so a mouth guard might do the trick or there is a procedure to realign how your teeth surfaces impact with each other.
Whether you think you might have body alignment issues or not, Pilates and yoga are great ways to release stress and improve alignment. Also pay attention to where your body feels tight: it may be the purse you are carrying, or the way you cradle the phone in you neck… or it may well be how you carry the burdens of your life. Many body workers say that shoulders experience tension when we feel we are bearing burdens in our lives and hips may be challenged when we are struggling with moving forward. Whatever your concerns may be, your body is trying to speak to you.
9. Alternative Therapies for Headaches
Often headache sufferers have other stresses in their lives and can benefit from touch therapy, massage, acupuncture, Reiki, Integrated Energy Therapy, the Emotional Freedom Technique, the Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais or other alternative therapies. A good massage therapist, chiropractor, or osteopath for cranial sacral therapy can work wonders – find a trained practitioner and ask for their support to break the patterns of your chronic headaches.