Believe it or not, looking at the world through rose-colored glasses can stop a migraine in its tracks. A study published in Family Practice News journal found that a high percentage of migraine sufferers could obtain almost immediate relief by decreasing the amount of light that their eyes were exposed to. They did this by wearing red colored lenses at the onset of migraine symptoms. Most people that found relief did so within several minutes! The probable mechanism involved with this is that after entering the eye or ear, light and sound stimulate a part of the brainstem called the mesencephalon (me-zen-seph-a-lon) before stimulating the brain. This part of the nervous system is often “wound up” or fragile and more excitable in migraine sufferers. The natural light that we are used to seeing is actually a blend, or spectrum, of many different wavelengths.
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