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What is really causing epilepsy and seizures
Hey, Matt Cook here, and whether you know someone with epilepsy or not…
This article is important because epilepsy is a condition which confounds the medical establishment.
You see, there are some treatments which are effective for some people, but…
…they come with some quite severe side-effects that many people understandably aren’t willing to put up with.
Other “treatments” include surgery to remove part of the brain or implanting a small electrical device!
There is also the option of a very high fat, very low carbohydrate, low protein diet.
This can be quite effective at preventing seizures but it’s very bad for your overall health.
What many people don’t know is that hormones play a huge role in the risk of having an epileptic seizure.
We have known about how these hormones affect epilepsy risk for decades…
The human research was carried out at the University of Umea in Sweden. This paper was published in Acta Neurologica Scandinavica.
The most likely person to develop epilepsy is a young woman who has just hit puberty and started menstruating.
Post-puberty menstruation is the next most risky time period for seizures.
These relationships were first noted in medical journals in the 1880s.
“It is generally accepted that an increased frequency of epileptic seizures may occur in conjunction with the menstruation of women (Gowers 1885).”
Of course, with menstruation comes a change in hormones – primarily estrogen and its antagonist progesterone.
“Given this situation it is not unreasonable to suspect that hormonal variations which normally take place during the menstrual cycle may in fact influence the frequency of seizures.”
Experiments in the 1950s showed that women injected with estrogen had an increased frequency of epilepsy-like electrical spikes in the brain.
“Logothetis et al. (1959) gave injections of estrogen to women with epilepsy. The EEG’s were found to be activated, i.e. the frequency of spikes increased.”
During those experiments, 25% of the patients suffered a seizure.
“Seizures were observed in four out of 16 patients in correlation with injections of estrogen administered.”
Those experiments also showed that progesterone had the opposite effect – decreasing the likelihood of seizures in response to higher estrogen.
“While to ascertain the extent progesterone seemed to dictate a diminished electroshock threshold dependent upon the amount of estrogen administered, progesterone seemed to have the opposite effect.”
In experiments carried out in the 1960s, researchers looked at the relationship between the likelihood of suffering an epileptic seizure and the levels of naturally produced estrogen and progesterone in blood…
“Nine periods in seven women with partial epilepsy have been investigated with respect to frequency of fits, and estrogen-progesterone levels in blood plasma.”
The researchers found that a higher estrogen to progesterone ratio was associated with an increased risk of seizures.
“Six cycles with ovulation showed a positive correlation between the number of secondary generalized seizures and the mean estrogen/progesterone (E/P) ratios.”
They also discovered that higher levels of progesterone predicted a lower risk of seizure – independent of estrogen levels.
“Seizures also showed a negative correlation to plasma progesterone levels.”
Elevated estrogen was also independently associated with an increased risk of epileptic seizures.
“Three periods without ovulation showed an increase in the number of fits during days of high estrogen.”
How does this relate to you as a man?
Men can have elevated estrogen levels too. In fact, it’s quite common.
Testosterone can start to turn to estrogen and create an imbalance.
And this can increase a man’s chances of epilepsy and seizures too.
Over the years I have read many cases of people using supplemental, bioidentical progesterone to control epilepsy.
Research from many decades ago shows why this may be a safe and effective way of treating the condition – when done appropriately.
This research also indicates that taking steps to decrease estrogen is another viable method to lower the risk of suffering epileptic seizures.
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