New evidence originates on why women are afflicted by more migraines then men. And this is appropo today because I am using a migraine only at that moment! Yes, yes! It’s migraine time, today, so I totally get it when Dr. Andrew Charles, director of the Headache Research and Treatment plan in the UCLA Department of Neurology, describes a migraine like a “spectacular neuro-physiological event.” What’s much more interesting is that Charles, along with neurologist Jan Lewis Brandes, founder of the Nashville Neuroscience Group, believe that migraines are more prominent in females since they are so intrinsically tied to hormones. Aw, gee, great.
Says Brandes, girls and boys tend to have equal amounts of migraines – until puberty. When girls begin menstruating, as well as their hormones begin fluctuating, girls experience dramatically more migraines. That’s due, say doctors, to increases of estrogen within their system. Buuuuuuuuut, on the other hand, doctors aren’t really sure. Because migraines are totally confusing and unclear and no-one really knows what causes them.
But! Based on treatheadaches.com, the bottom line is lowering the number of migraines people have. Because apparently, “migraines beget migraines.” In effect, as you have increasingly more migraines, your brain is permanently impacted. “We’ve started to see from researchers the frequency of migraine attack is related to permanent changes in the brain, and i believe that changes the playing field for patients and people of us who take care,” said Dr. Brandes.? “We really should think carefully about how to control the regularity of attacks and extremely have to do it earlier rather than later.”