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Summary: Natural progesterone can be used to treat migraines in certain people, but there are still debates on the efficacy of these treatments. Understand the pros and cons of taking natural progesterone when treating migraines with advice from a board-certified neurologist in this free video on migraines.
Dr. Alexander Mauskop, MD FAAN, is the director and founder of the New York Headache Center in New York City. He is a board-certified neurologist with extensive experience in the field...read more
"Hello I'm Alex Mauskop, I'm a neurologist here in New York City and I'm the director of the New York Headache Center. People often look for natural treatments and there is a movement now to use bioidentical hormones so natural hormones including progesterone, estrogen and another thing, there might be something to it but we really don't have a good scientific handle on the efficacy of these natural treatments. Very often natural hormones is a different form of a hormone. It's still is a medication, it's not a supplement. It just derived from natural sources as opposed to from animals like horse urine or another synthetic method. So natural hormones is still a hormone, still should be prescribed by a physician and as far as migraines, we do use estrogen supplementation daily for long periods of time in some people to stop their natural headaches but they're contraindicated in people who have migraine with aura. You should not take any estrogen if you have those."
eHow Article: Treat Migraines With Natural Progesterone
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