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Always Tired in the Afternoon? Here Are 13 Possible Reasons Why—and What to Do About It

You’re powering through your day like a boss. A Zoom meeting here, a report there—yup, you’re feeling unstoppable. Nothing can bring you down. That is, until it’s 4 p.m., and all of a sudden, you want to take a nap. You wonder where your energy has disappeared to as you slog through email after email, wishing that quitting time wasn’t a whole hour away.

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6 Surprising Reasons Why You Keep Waking Up with a Headache

All of us want to wake up and start the day feeling refreshed. But a surprising one in 13 of us will experience the opposite feeling—more specifically, a morning headache.

Yep, it’s entirely possible to wake up with a tension headache that you feel as soon as you begin to stir. The Mayo Clinic describes a tension headache as a diffuse, mild to moderate pain that often feels like a tight band around your head.

Max Kerr, DDS, diplomate of the American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine with Sleep Better Austin, says that tension headaches are different from other headaches because they tend to originate from muscular or connective tissue. Migraines and cluster headaches, meanwhile, tend to occur due to changes in your blood vessels and nerves.

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