With Diving, One Less Headache
As if you needed another excuse to dive more often, new research is showing that professional scuba divers actually get fewer headaches than other healthy people.
The new study, published in the journal “Headache,” revealed that regular divers are 30 percent less prone to headaches. What’s more, divers in the study who got headaches averaged far fewer each month.
"Exercise would be useful to make our brain less sensible to stress and avoid that even slight stimuli could trigger migraine crises," said Dr. Robert Di Fabio, the study’s lead author. "Therefore, diving as well as other aerobic sports could help in reducing the number of attacks of migraine," he told Reuters Health.
Although Di Fabio made it clear that his study should not be applied to the wider audience of recreational divers, the next time you find yourself with a headache at work, why not take a dose of diving?
