The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

Three common types of headache and how to treat them naturally. One major downside to having these

big prominent heads stuffed with consciousness spawning brain matter is that they sometimes ache. Nobody likes a

headache. You can find fetishists who enjoy pinching, slapping, biting, burning, and any matter of

objectively painful stimuli.

But there aren't headache fetishists.

No one's chugging a 32-ounce slurpee in search of brain freeze

or getting drunk for the hangover.

The difficult thing about headaches is figuring out why they're occurring.

Pain in other areas is different.

You can look at your hand if it's hurting and figure out why.

You can see the cut on your knee and know what's going on.

But you are your head and the headache is inside.

Your consciousness sits behind your eyes, observing reality and directing your role in it.

It's all a big mystery, or so it feels.

But that doesn't mean we're helpless.

There are many effective ways to manage, treat, and even blunt the painful effects of headaches.

There are different types of headaches.

To fix them, you'll need to first understand which type of headache currently affects you.

The three main ones are migraines, cluster headaches, and tension headaches.

Number one, migraines. These guys are serious business. I've been lucky enough not to suffer

from them, but I have several friends who do. Some migraines come with oras. In aura migraines,

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