Migraines Attack Women More Than Anybody
There are basically 10 differences between men & women.
There are many crucial health differences between men and women. Yet many women do not know that they react differently to some medications, are more vulnerable to some diseases, and might have different symptoms. The Society for Women's Health Research brought attention to sex differences in initiating the groundbreaking 2001 Institute of Medicine report, Exploring the Biological Contribution to Human Health. Does Sex Matter? The report emphasized the need to better understand the importance of sex differences and translate that knowledge into improved medical practice and therapies.
Below are some vital facts about sex differences in health care that you probably do not know.
Women are strickened by migraines extremely more than men. Heart Disease: Heart disease kills 500,000 American women each year, that’s over 50,000 more women than men. The disease also strikes women, on average, 10 years later than men. Women are more likely than men to have a second heart attack within a year of the first one.
Depression Women are two-to-three times more likely than men to suffer from depression, because a woman's’ brain makes less of the hormone Serotonin than a mans does.
Osteoporosis Women comprise 80 percent of the population suffering from osteoporosis, which is attributable to a higher rate of lost bone mass.
Smoking has a more negative effect on cardiovascular health in women than men. Women are also less successful quitting smoking and have more severe withdrawal symptoms.
STDs Women are two times more likely than men to contract a sexually transmitted disease, and more likely to experience significant loss of body weight, which can lead to wasting syndrome.
Anesthesia Women tend to wake up from anesthesia more quickly than men an average of seven minutes for women and 11 minutes for men. Drug reactions: Antihistamine and antibiotic drugs could cause different reactions and side effects in women and men.
Autoimmune Disease Women are known, three out of four people, to suffer from autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus. Alcoholic women produce less of the gastric enzyme that breaks down ethanol in the stomach. Therefore, after consuming the same amount of alcohol, women have higher blood alcohol content than men, including allowance for size differences. Some pain medications (known as kappa-opiates) are more effective in relieving pain in women than in men. As we already know, our bodies are definitively different!
Traditional Medicine Misses
The current medical system of treating isolated symptoms completely misses the whole complex system of a normal woman’s bodily processes. The consequence?Most migraine sufferers are bounced between different doctors throughout the years. Starting with their family physician, then seeing a neurologist, a cardiologist, a rheumatologist, an ear-nose-and-throat practitioner, a chiropractor, a pain management specialist, a physical therapist, internist and even psychiatrists.
Some Doctors Will Simply Send You Away
Since they can’t seem to help you, they just give their apologies and send you away. Others write you a new prescription every time you visit. It’s the easy way out keeping you quiet until the next migraine hits. But when nothing else works, many migraine sufferers turn to “miracle cures” out of desperation. But at the end of the day all the expensive prescription drugs, herbal remedies and stressful runarounds are really just that, an expense.
Any & All Areas Of Treatment, Right?
Many of you have migraines so severe you’ve reached for anything that will ease and lighten the torment. Massage therapists, herbalists, yoga, crystal healers, and anybody that will claim wondrous migraine cures. Finding the only thing lightened was your cash and or checkbook. That’s why The Women’s Health Institute of Texas decided to tackle this health-problem head on. Women need an absolute cure. No more useless remedies. There’s something that will banish migraines forever and the Institute will set on a journey to find the truth.
Did it succeed? Of course, it did!
The Institutes success rate is now at an astounding 80%. Four out of every five women following this treatment plan will significantly reduce or completely eliminate their migraine headaches.
Medications like Imitrex, Zomig and Maxalt are helpful after a migraine headache begins but we figured out how to eliminate migraines altogether.
- Andrew Jones, M.D.
But what the scientific explanation behind this cure? Here are the facts:
Research shows women are 300% more likely to suffer from migraines than men and that’s low-balling it.
The Women’s Health Institute believes it’s more like a 10 to 1 ratio of women to men migraine sufferers.
So here is the question.. Why Do Migraines Target Women? Let’s first rule out the obvious
* It can’t be diet, since men and women generally eat the same foods
* It can’t be stress, since men and women both feel stress
* It can’t be pollution, or environmental, since both men and women live in the same environment
* It can’t be work-related, since there are very few jobs that are not shared by both sexes
* It can’t be caused by vision problems, since both men and women require glasses or contacts
So why is it that women are 300 - 1000% more likely to suffer from migraines?
The answer is deceivingly simple and has been biting us on the butt for an eternity! Women are far more likely to suffer from migraines because of Sex Hormones! That’s right, sex hormones is the villain! Take a look at the following facts and see if the sex hormone theory starts making sense to you.
* FACT #1: Approximately, 60-80% of menstruating women suffer from migraine headaches around the same time of their monthly cycle.
* FACT #2: Migraine headaches tend to get less severe after menopause.
* FACT #3 Migraine headaches usually disappear during pregnancy, but reappearing immediately after birth.
This last fact is the first clue towards the cure. During pregnancy, your body begins to produce large amounts of sex hormones. Amazingly, when increased levels of these hormones are present, migraines completely disappear. Ask yourself this: Along with your migraine headaches do you have one or more of the following conditions as well?
* PMS * Heavy periods * Painful periods * Post-partum depression * Uterine fibroids * Ovarian cysts * Infertility * Hysterectomy at an early age
OR
* Have you ever taken Birth Control Pills? This is a major question. Saying YES to any of the above conditions is a very strong sign you’re probably deficient in one or more crucial sex hormones. What was found is simply this:
Correct the Hormone Deficiency Eliminate The Migraines
Correcting the hormone deficiency through natural, bio-identical hormone replacements makes a drastic difference in treating migraines, in most cases completely eliminating them in women.
Traditional Hormone Replacement Useless
Traditional hormone replacement therapy (HRT is vastly different from this natural hormone therapy and just doesn’t work in treating migraines. Traditional HRT uses synthetic, counterfeit chemicals that are not biologically identical to those in your body. Some of these drugs (like Premarin) are actually made from horse urine. Thought I would share this not very pleasant thought with you.
For therapy to work, only biologically identical hormones will do. natural hormones that are identical to the ones produced in your own body and not some substance that starts off in a mares bladder.
Womens Health Institute - The Natural Alternative
The Woman's Health Institute of Texas (located in a small suburb outside of Houston), specializes in treating women's health issues through natural hormone therapy. They’ve been quietly going about the business of treating gynecologic and female medical problems and in the process discovered how to eliminate migraines in headache patients.
When treating patients for PMS, infertility, ovarian cysts, uterine fibroids and menopausal symptoms, patients found their migraine headaches would disappear in the process. medical school training never mentions migraine headaches were related to sex hormone deficiencies. Why? For one simple reason, it just wasn’t known.
This link between sex hormones (also called ovarian hormones) and migraine pain was never taken into account, even though the most common drugs used to fight migraines, the triptans (i.e.. Imitrex, Maxalt, Zomig) - primarily work through another hormone called serotonin but when the dots were all connected, everyone was extremely surprised with the results.
You see, As mentioned, most hormone therapy uses synthetic, counterfeit chemicals only resembling hormones, merely mimicking their effects. There’s a reason for this: Natural substances can’t be patented. Without a patent, there’s no profit to be had in developing the pill. To be honest about it, those giant drug companies want you to continue suffering because.. They want your money!
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