A Common Workday Feeling Could Be Fueling Your Headaches, Research Says

Lingering stress after work may keep the body in fight-or-flight mode, raising headache risk.

That chronic stress can worsen migraines and tension headaches by lowering pain thresholds.

Poor sleep and muscle tension can further amplify these headaches and make them harder to manage.

The takeaway: unwinding after work may help protect both sleep quality and headache health.