This cool fact is about how migraines change how you sleep.

Migraines affect about 14% of the world population, although frankly that number is probably

very low because a lot of people get migraines, particularly abdominal migraines, but because

they don't have specific headaches, they just feel like crap and they go on with life

never being diagnosed.

I would suspect that at least some of the time the number is closer to 30 or even 40%

where people have a migraine maybe once every month or two, but it's just not enough

to really bother.

People with chronic migraines can be debilitated.

What researchers have figured out though is that having a migraine pretty obviously would

make it harder to sleep, but no one had figured out what it did to your sleep cycle, the

amount of REM or DREAM and deep or restorative sleep that you get.

So they did a meta-analysis, which means they looked at all of the other research to see

commonalities and looked at 32 studies and these guys from the American Academy of Neurology

pulled together data from 10,000 participants across those studies.

And they found that both adults and kids with migraines get less quality sleep and particularly

less REM sleep or DREAM sleep.

And the REM stage of sleep has the most brain activity and the most vivid dreams and it's

important for learning and memory function.

Which with migraines also seem to get less sleep overall, but they do fall asleep faster

than kids with them.

Migraines probably just because they're tired a lot.

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