Sex appears to be a cure for headaches, researchers have suggested.
A team of neurologists found that sexual activity can lead to “partial or complete relief” of head pain in some migraines.
The study, from the University of Munster, Germany, suggests that instead of
using a sore head as an excuse to refuse sex, making love can be more
effective than taking painkillers.
Their research, reported in Cephalalgia, the journal of the International
Headache Society, found that more than half of migraine sufferers who had
sex during an episode experienced an improvement in symptoms.
One in five patients left without any pain at all, while others, in particular
male sufferers “even used sexual activity as a therapeutic tool”, they
added.
They suggested that sex triggered the release of endorphins, the body’s
natural painkillers, through the central nervous system, which can in turn
reduce, or even eliminate, a headache.
