Though it should not be surprising to associate migraine with lack of sleep, new research further explains why such would contribute to the growing headaches people have to deal with. It all boils down to the proper safeguarding of proteins.
Using rats to prove the theory, sleep- deprived rats secreted high levels of proteins that arouse the nervous system and low levels of proteins that shut it down. In short, arousal proteins occur at levels that are high enough to cause pain.
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