I just started the massive eating diet and it is a good plan. But ever since i started to incorperate fish oil capsules ALA into the mix i started to get these bad headaches. Does any one know if this could be the cause and has anyone else had this problem? your feed back is very important i am in pain here.
I am assuming that you mean fish oil and lipoic acid (ALA). As a doc, I can tell you that anything can cause anything. But it is not likely for either of these two to cause this problem. Try this: stop one of them, and see if the headaches go away. If not stop the other. If the headaches do go away, then one at a time reintroduce the supplement and see if the headaches come back. If you try this once or twice you should have your answer.
I know headaches are generally caused by stress and/or blood pressure in certain areas of the brain. In other general terms, headaches are used to tell the body something isn’t always right. Sometimes when people work out and do a heavier workload than they should, they get headaches. Headaches also occur when you are hungry (perhaps most common). I don’t see how ALA or fish oil would do this to you. Odds are this pain you are feeling is temporary. It could be from the ALA or fish oil (maybe body isn’t used to it?) but I see no links in them causing that (haven’t done much reading on fish oil though aside from them having essential fatty acids in them). I would evaluate if anything different in your daily routine changed that might’ve caused the headache. Don’t confuse a problem that you made for yourself (maybe excessive weightlifting) or a problem that just recently came to you put you under a lot of stress (girlfriend being bitchy, bills, work, etc…). Furthermore, don’t generally assume it is the fish oil or ALA. You might then get a placebo-effect problem where each time you take these supplements you will psychosomatically induce your own headaches and might even get another headache from the other thing that initially caused it! Re-evaluate your day and single out the time you got the headache and what you were doing when you got it. See if you can find any links. If you can’t and the headaches persist, I’d contact a doctor.
I’m alergic to some preservatives and they give me - literally - crippling headaches. Have you changed your diet at all besides the pills (you said you’re just starting massive eating, but are you eating new foods?) Try eliminating tings one at a time to see what the cause is. I have about a 20 minute window after eating something ‘bad’ before I find out the hard way that I shouldn’t have eaten it.