By the time you feel thirsty, dehydration is already underway, and for the migraine brain, the effects arrive sooner and hit harder than they do for most people. The fastest way to rehydrate is not to drink more plain water.
Most people think about hydration as something to catch up on after a workout. The research says the opposite, pre-workout is the more critical window, and arriving at exercise already electrolyte-sufficient changes how your body performs and recovers. For migraineurs, the stakes are higher: exercise accelerates sodium loss through multiple pathways simultaneously, and the drop in extracellular sodium that follows a poorly hydrated workout can push the nervous system toward its threshold.
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