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Why Does Red Wine Always Give Me a Headache
Red wine headaches are one of the most Googled health questions in the world. The mechanism isn't fully understood — histamine, tyramine, tannins, and sulphites have all been proposed. A 2023 study found that querceti...
Why it matters
Red wine headaches are one of the most Googled health questions in the world. The mechanism isn't fully understood — histamine, tyramine, tannins, and sulphites have all been proposed. A 2023 study found that quercetin in red wine may block alcohol metabolism in some people, causing acetaldehyde to accumulate and trigger headaches. But which compound is affecting you, and how quickly, varies individually. Some people react to one glass. Others can drink several without symptoms. Normal helps you find your specific pattern.
When Normal helps
Normal tracks your red wine consumption — how much, which type, what you ate with it — alongside your headache symptoms over time. It confirms whether red wine is consistently the trigger and whether there's a threshold or timing pattern specific to your body.
How Normal finds it
Tell Normal when you drink red wine and when you get headaches. Over a few weeks it confirms whether it's the red wine specifically and finds any patterns around dose, timing, or combinations that determine whether you react.
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Start with your body
Normal finds the pattern behind how you feel.
Tell Normal what happened in plain language. It connects your food, sleep, movement, stress, and symptoms over time.