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Very few young kids suffer from migraines. Most people develop migraines in their teens or later. Why does this happen?

Researches has indicated that migraines is caused due to hormonal development. But the main reason as to why migraines develop in young people and to avoid this we have to play our hands right.

Why?

As stated in my earlier articles on migraines, I have mentioned that the main cause for migraines is oxygen deprivation to the brain.

The basic reasons for the cause of this deprivation are:

1) We quantity of oxygen we inhale is low because our breathing passages are not open enough and the muscles that control the lungs are not effective enough.

b} The percentage of oxygen that reaches the lungs which actually goes into the blood stream is very low. The main reason is because of bad breathing habits that is caused by ineffective muscle control in the lungs.

3) Due to tension in the neck muscles the blood stream through the neck is constricted these muscles are actually supposed to help the heart pump blood up to the head but instead they block it.

d} The muscles around the head creates tension. But these muscles are often stiff and do the opposite.instead of being flexible and help the heart to pump the blood to various areas of the brain .

What is the reason teenagers are developing migraines?

The kids under the age of five or six runs and plays all day, hardly siting down to eat dinner. They sit down on the floor with their plates and this the position nature wanted from us.

Then school begins. Hours are spent sitting on uncomfortable chairs, leaning over schoolbooks. The older kids get, the more they sit. They sit in school, in front of the TV and computer, talking to friends, eating supper. More sitting, less running, jumping, rolling and crawling.

Some muscles become weak due to little use while others take over their task. The muscles that were meant to control our lungs are now used to balance our body. The neck and shoulders get stiff and blood doesn’t flow through like it used to as our back was not meant for all this sitting.

In “less developed” countries where people do not sit on chairs, migraines are much less common and sometimes almost non-existent.

Worries and anxiety grips us as we grow older. The teenage stage is the toughest state in many people life.

Many teenagers unconsciously develop the habit of freezing and they stop breathing for several seconds when faced with tough decisions. This habit often follows them throughout their life and can cause repeated migraine and headache attacks.

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