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The best way to eliminate hot flashes

Hot flashes in a menopausal woman comes from the aging ovaries inability to ovulate any longer and finally the shortage of eggs and withdrawal of and then chronically low levels of estrogen. Mostly hot flashes occur in women transitioning through menopause, but women who have low estrogen for other hormone imbalance reasons can have hot flashes as well. Not really something a man will ever experience. Many women will have only months to just a few years of significant hot fla

Myths debated in menopausal hormone use

1. Extended use of hormones is not necessarily bad. There is no upper age limit prescribed by research. 2. Dosages don't need to be adjusted as you age, they probably should be. 3. Bioidentical Hormone Therapy (BHT) may be safer and like your body's hormones, but this can be a myth as well. BHT means any menopausal hormone therapy that is identical to a hormone produced in the female body, but these aren't the only hormones we produce and not the only ones which are safe. For

Herbal Solutions for hot flashes: Red clover

As the clover begins to blossom we can remember that it used to be boiled and used commonly in medical tinctures and ointments. It contains many beneficial components including calcium, chromium, phosphorus, and potassium. Red clover and it's extracts may be placing this plant, not typically consumed by humans into the newest category of superfoods derived from herbal medicine. New data is emerging on red clover extracts showing that it can be slightly beneficial by it self t

Do this to avoid hot flashes

For women with hot flashes they are treatable. Severe symptoms will require medication, for those with mild symptoms they should try life style and simple modifications like your diet, your activity, your clothing, and your weight. Paced breathing is one of the best strategies to try, but you need to do it twice a day, and it's best if also combined with muscle relaxation techniques. As part of dietary modification look at your caffeine intake which definitely can worsen symp

Hormone replacement therapy for migraine relief

1.Migraines should be diagnosed by a health care provider. Migraine sufferers have headaches, but often they will have warning symptoms as well. Some of the warning symptoms are vague and some are more typically recognized as migraines. These may be nausea, light adversity, odd sense of smell or even vomiting. These non-headache neurological symptoms that occur when the pain starts are known as auras. Recent studies have shown that it is actually more common to have migraines

Hormonal Vertigo

These gals have a reason to be a bit dizzy, but have you ever felt that way without an explanation? When females feel dizzy or have a condition called vertigo there are many possible explanations actually tied to hormones. Experiences of vertigo may be tied to any one of these hormonal explanations or you may be experiencing Hot Flashes, or inner ear problem, medication side effects, dehydration, or just a plight of disorientation to surroundings. Vertigo is a sensation of im

Hot Flashes in your 30s? It may be a heart risk

More and more young women are suffering from high blood pressure, cholesterol abnormalities, and heart disease. We now have discovered a correctable cause of some of these cases. 1. Hot Flashes elevate blood pressure. This can happen whatever age you are. 2. Numbers of HF matter. In fact the authors from Canada and Australia in Menopause Vol 19 report noted that for each additional night sweat the blood pressure climbed 2 mm of Hg. Interestingly there was a drop in blood pr

Hot flash or sleep disruption, might just be a chicken or the egg problem

Not all women with menopausal hot flashes will complain of poor sleep, many do, and it's just now being revealed as to whether sleep disturbances trigger the hot flash, or the hot flash triggers the sleep disorder. So the chicken or the egg!. Poor sleep is common however and, we need 7 hours of sleep, approximately, but more and less can be associated with many health complaints. Lack of sleep can cause disordered thinking and weight gain two of the worst consequences of lack

Do you need bioidentical progesterone treatment?

You hear the word progesterone used often for hormonal management. This general class of hormone, and it's synthetic varieties is about ubiquitous as any medication in current use. 1. Natural and synthetic progesterones have different roles in our bodies. If a compound acts like a progesterone its classified as a "progestin" and this class of medicines is very broad and some form or other is in the birth control pill, its made by the ovary, it's made by the placenta, it's us

Yes, this is a hot flash

You are talking to an important client, all of a sudden, a hot flash hits you. Or you think a hot flash hit you. Red, sweating, flooding, shakin'? A hot flashed defined medically is a set of 'vasomotor symptoms' triggered by 'thermoregulatory dysfunction.', don't even try to say "thermoregulatory" fast Medically speaking this is a set of electrical signals that we regulate this through a circuit of information: the core of our body sending temperature signals to the various

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