There is so much attention on female issues like stress, mood swings, hot flashes (night sweats), lowered libido, fatigue, insomnia, but what about the men in our lives?

Male menopause happens as surely as female menopause occurs. The big difference is that with us women we know we’re having PMS or are going through menopause or are pre-menopausal because we have a measuring stick called menstruation – or lack of – and “everybody knows” they must tread carefully around us at certain times of the month. Of course, not all of us go through this, but you know what I mean.

Many men – and women – don’t even know there’s such a thing as male menopause so when a man gets moody or has lowered libido or gets aggressive or can’t sleep or is depressed, we women don’t always understand.  After all, it’s us who go through menopause, not them.  More on What About The Man or Men in Your Life?

A lot of attention is placed on vitamins and not enough on minerals. ALL the cells in your body depend on minerals as they are the spark plugs of your body.If you have enough minerals, your body can manufacture most vitamins it needs.

Working, exercizing, playing, walking, even working or driving in air-conditioned spaces cause the burn-up or excretion of minerals which can cause dehydration.

Drinking tons of liquids - even water - and still unable to quench your thirst is a sure sign that you are dehydrated, probably not from lack of liquid but from the lack of minerals.  More on Are Headaches Stopping You?

The Usual Solution

Headaches can be caused by any number of things. Taking pills is the most common solution most people use – over-the-counter headache pills. If chronic, many people get tests like MRI’s done, but it is rare that any abnormalities are found and they usually just continue taking their pain-killers.The usual solution is to suppress the symptom.

The Solution to the Problem BECOMES the Problem

Taking pills for headaches only covers the symptom for a while and then it usually returns, with more vengeance in many cases. That is because the pain-killers themselves start to CAUSE the headaches because they are essentially drugs and as the body can’t get rid of the leftover bits of drug, the excess gets stored in the fatty tissue of your body (this is part of your body's protective mechanism) and when you’re tired or stressed or exercising, they get released from the fatty tissue and spill back into your bloodstream, thus sparking off another headache. This becomes a bit of a vicious circle and often the time between headaches shorten with headaches lasting increasingly longer than before.

Solving the headache problem means getting to the bottom of what’s causing it and there are some simple things you can do to determine this. More on Headaches - The Source and The Solution