Hot Flashes? What You Can Do To Help…

Bioidentical Hormone Replacement in Melbourne, FL

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Hot flashes can make you miserable! Here are a few tips to help curb the heat and lower the frequency of events.

Avoid the triggers
Avoid alcohol (especially sweet white wines), caffeine, sugars, spicy foods, and hot soups and drinks that actually trigger or worsen hot flashes.

Chill out
Reset the thermostat in your house to 68 degrees. Sleep researchers observe that sleeping in a cooler room can lead to deeper, more restorative sleep. Night sweats can also be triggered by changes in room temperature, so if you start off cool and use minimal covers you are less likely to awake in a sweat as your body warms up through the night.

Get moving
Exercise daily to release tension held in the muscles, which will allow your body to truly relax. Exercise also triggers endorphins: the “feel good” hormones that help you feel calmer and increase your overall sense of well-being.

Hormone replacement

Bioidentical progesterone is known to dramatically reduce the strength and frequency of hot flashes by keeping estrogen and progesterone balanced and less prone to erratic fluctuation. Studies have shown up to 80% relief from hot flashes in women using bioidentical progesterone in a “Goldilocks” dose—no more, no less than the body needs to mimic natural physiology.

Take your vitamins & minerals

Anti-stress multi-vitamins and trace minerals include vitamins like C, B-complex, and E to help quell hot flashes and get you through the night without breaking a sweat. Trace minerals such as zinc and selenium may also help.

Eat your veggies
DIM, or dindolylmethane, is the active ingredient in cruciferous vegetables; it promotes proper hormone metabolism and helps improve estrogen/ progesterone equilibrium to steady the hot flashes and related symptoms. Try eating plenty of broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, cabbage, and kale, and/or taking additional DIM in supplement form.

Don’t forget the herbs
Phytonutrients such as magnolia, red clover, dong quai, black cohosh, and rhodiola.

IF YOU HAVE DECIDED TO GET HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY MAKE SURE IT IS BIO-IDENTICAL AND PRESCRIBED BY A FELLOWSHIP TRAINED, BOARD CERTIFIED PHYSICIAN WHO HAS BEEN SPECIFICALLLY TRAINED IN HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY

Essentials Medi-Spa and Rejuvenation Center
Michael F. Lesser, MD. FACC, FSCCT, FAARM – Medical Director
Board Certified: Advanced Metabolic Medicine, Anti-Aging and Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement
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