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My headaches mostly went away with daily flaxseed oil or fish oil. I have no particular reason to expect you'd see the same, but it's easy to try. I take 1 or 2 tablespoons of flaxseed oil per day.
I recently tried drinking oil for the Shangri-La diet and it made me want to puke; is there some tasty preparation you recommend?
It's available in capsule form.
If you do take oil in capsule form, I suggest biting one open every once in a while to check for rancidity. Also, store them in the fridge.
One gets the impression you make sure your revolver's unloaded by putting it to your head and pulling the trigger.
The taste test seems more reliable than smell. I sidestepped the issue and take liquid fish oil instead.
You could grind seeds in a coffee grinder, as BillyOblivion suggests. (I don't because the extra stuff in seeds disagrees with another body issue of mine.) Sometimes I take around 5 gelcaps a day while traveling, which isn't as effective but makes most of the difference for the headaches.
What I do is put on a swimmer's nose clip, drink the oil by alternately taking in a mouthful of water and floating a swallow of oil down on top of that; follow up with a banana or something because I've found taking it on an empty stomach to disagree with me; have a bit more water; then take off the noseclip. The clip is mainly to help with Shangri-La appetite control, which I consider just a bonus.
The first time I took this it gave me heartburn -- starting with a smaller amount the first couple of times might be smart.
I didn't usually grind them. Well, not in a grinder. I just ate them and let my molars and stomach acids and gut bacteria do the work.
You can get flaxseed in, well, seed form and mix it into salads and other foods.
It's kinda like sunflower seeds, only a lot smaller.
I'd recommend flaxseed oil even without headaches. It's done some cool stuff for me.
Barleans makes some flavored flax seed emulsion that is surprisingly palatable (this stuff). Gel caps are another option, but a tablespoon is roughly a dozen gel caps.
I tried drinking olive oil a couple times and felt like puking too. Flaxseed oil doesn't do that to me, even 4 tablespoons at a time.