Fibromyalgia is a mysterious condition. One of the most horrendous part of this disease is to feel severe pain in various spots of the body without any obvious cause.

Oftentimes the pain is extreme in one small, specific spot at a time.

Since there is most often no inflammation, injury, or other measurable cause of the pain, it was long written off as a “crazy woman’s disease” by ignorant doctors. People were actually and falsely told this was all in their heads.

But researchers from the University of Colorado had different idea about what “it’s all in the head,” meant. And with that discovery, a door has been opened for a very simple, natural cure for fibromyalgia.

The brain controls all pain responses throughout the body.

For example, if you suffer an injury, the nerve cells around the injury will send signals up to the brain. The brain will process the signals and then send new signals to your conscious mind that there is pain in this area.

You only feel pain because your brain told you to feel pain. If any part of this process was cut off, you would feel no pain. This is what happens, for example, with local anesthesia.

In the same way, your brain could send out signals that there was pain in a specific area without any actual source, just because a stimulation was applied to specific parts of the brain that control pain responses. This is what happens with people who lose a limb but still feel pain in it.

But if the fibromyalgia pain was caused by “false pain signals” from the brain, then what originally causes the brain to send out this false signal?

To find that out, the Colorado researchers enrolled 60 women; 35 suffering fibromyalgia, and 25 of similar age and background that did not suffer the disease.

As blood flow to different parts of the brain was scanned, the participants were shown different colors and they heard different sounds. At the same time they were asked to perform simple motor tasks such as touching the tip of the thumb with another finger.

The cortical region of the brain is responsible for visual and auditory signals as well as certain motor responses. Not surprisingly, the healthy participants showed blood flow to that region of the brain as they looked at colors or listened to sounds.

But this did not happen in the same way in those suffering fibromyalgia. In addition to normal responses, different regions of the brain, regions related to pain response but unrelated to visual and auditory signals, had blood flow into them. This did not happen with the healthy women.

It indicated normal visual and auditory signals caused the brain to fire pain responses.

This is actually something similar to what happens to migraine sufferers. Different foods, smells, stress, and emotions trigger inflammation in different parts of the brain that cause pain and visual impairments. Except with fibromyalgia, it’s the parts of the brain that cause pain throughout the body that are stimulated.

So what is the solution?

As you see from the research, it was really blood flow to different parts of the brain that was skewed. The brain soaks up to 40% of the oxygen that you breathe and this is affected if you’re lacking oxygen.

For both migraine, as well as fibromyalgia, an extremely effective way to tackle these diseases is called oxygen therapy. And most effective are specific techniques that load your body with oxygen.

Learn more about tackling Fibromyalgia using these simple techniques here…

Or if you’re suffering migraine, click here…