Symptoms — hot flashes & night sweats

Hot flashes and night sweats — unpredictable, uncomfortable — and unnecessary

Hot flashes — the flagship symptom of menopause — can seriously disrupt your life. They can occur without warning, creating embarrassing episodes especially if your face flushes, or if you routinely perspire through your clothes. As night sweats, they can wake you from a sound sleep, with your pajamas and sheets soaked through.

When you have a hot flash, the temperature-regulating area within your brain — in the hypothalamus — is “tricked” into trying to get rid of extra body heat. The hypothalamus sends cool-down signals telling your blood vessels to dilate, your heart rate to increase, and your sweat glands to open up wide.

The result is a sudden, intense — and unpleasant — rush of heat, often accompanied by drenching perspiration, dizziness, and even heart palpitations. You may also feel nauseated or weak, and have a crawling sensation on your skin.

Hot flashes — indicators that something bigger is going on

When your body is trying to juggle a lot of demands — and isn’t getting enough support — the ability to balance hormones is overwhelmed. This resulting hormonal imbalance gives rise to hot flashes or night sweats — often the first symptoms women notice as they approach the midlife transition in perimenopause. For many women, hot flashes and night sweats persist right through menopause.

Other factors that can contribute to hot flashes:

• If you have high levels of anxiety, it can make you up to five times more likely to experience hot flashes and night sweats.
• Certain foods like sugar, caffeine, alcohol, and hot spices are known to trigger hot flashes in some women.
• Women with hot flashes and night sweats often report related symptoms of hormonal imbalance, such as insomnia, anxiety, fatigue, and headaches.

What about HRT or single-bottle options for hot flashes?

Today, the choice to use HRT (hormone replacement therapy) is a personal one but it used to be conventional medicine’s go-to solution for menopausal symptoms. Single-ingredient supplements from the drug store or so-called “magic pills” don’t address the underlying problem of hormonal imbalance and cannot offer the lasting results that more comprehensive approaches do.

There are effective, natural options that work to restore balance to the three key hormones that fluctuate during perimenopause and menopause: estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone. These options offer the best long-term relief — without subjecting you to the known risks and frequent side effects of HRT.

A better solution — natural relief for hot flashes and night sweats

When you reduce the demands being made on your body while increasing support, you will see a decrease in both the frequency and severity of your hot flashes and night sweats, and it will help relieve other symptoms of hormonal imbalance.

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For more detailed information, see our full article on hot flashes and night sweats in menopause.

 

Last Modified Date: 02/27/2012