Intense head pain, light sensitivity, nausea, and vomiting are among the common migraine and pre-migraine symptoms that can force you to put your normal life on hold for hours, if not days. Fortunately, over-the-counter and prescription medications can ease the side effects of a migraine. But if you'd rather take steps to prevent a migraine in the first place, supplements that are known to help reduce migraine attacks, including magnesium, may help.

A 2012 review of migraine prevention studies in Neurology noted that magnesium consumption could probably decrease migraine episodes. Meanwhile, a 2009 review in Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics came to a similar conclusion about the essential mineral. According to Dr. Nada Hindiyeh in an American Headache Society interview, magne

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