Why does my lack of caffeine after having it all the time cause headaches? Like it doesn’t make sense to me.
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Your body naturally has a little bit of caffein inside it (part of your chemical make-up). When you drink caffeinated beverages the amount in your body goes up. As you continue to keep that level up your body gets used to the higher level being there and begins to perceive it as “the normal amount”.
So when you take the caffein out of your diet, for a little while you may experience symptoms of withdrawal which is basically your body reacting to a lack of what it thinks it needs.
Pain is a feeling our body uses to tell us something is wrong. So in this case, a headache is telling you that you are missing caffein. Technically your body is wrong because you don’t need the caffein, but you’ve tricked it into thinking that it does.
I hope this makes sense, maybe someone can explain it better.
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