While I didn't have electric and couldn't be on the computer I read some old health books of mine.

One was by a woman whose newsletter I used to subscribe to, It was called Women's Health... something like that.

She is/was very big on magnesium.

For instance she was talking about how in other countries where there is much less emphasis on drinking milk and getting calcium, there is actually a lower incidence of osteoporosis...

She explains this by saying that in those countries where they aren't trying to get calcium, extra calcium, that the ratio of calcium to magnesium in the diet is more natural...more healthy. She says that when there isn't enough magnesium to match or exceed the calcium intake that headaches, bone spurs and other less than fun things occur.

One of the things she talked about was how the aspirin study that showed that an aspirin could stop and even prevent heart attacks, was not able to be duplicated in England.

She surmised that this was because in the US where the study was done originally, the aspirin is buffered (contains magnesium) whereas in England it does not.

So she suggests that simply taking magnesium would do the trick.

She says that a magnesium capsule/tablet is more effective than an aspirin for headache...

I've been trying it, and so far with the small stress headaches it has been working.

(And since I've been taking more magnesium I've had no cramps... like in my feet and legs.)