Let's Talk Midlife Crisis Podcast
Hosts Ashley & Traci are creating a community and empowering women going thru midlife and aging, exploring the topic of midlife crisis an all its complexities. This is a space where we can come together to share our stories, our experiences, and our perspectives on this pivotal moment in our lives.
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8 Tips To Beat Hot Flashes
Ever wondered how to conquer those relentless hot flashes or manage weight gain during menopause? Today, we're unpacking eight game-changing tips to help you stay cool and hydrated while navigating the unpredictable world of hormonal changes. Ashley and Traci offer their heartfelt stories, from the dawn of menstruation to the rollercoaster of menopause, sharing real-life experiences that resonate deeply. Tracy even dives into her personal journey through perimenopause, leading to an ablation procedure, while Ashley talks candidly about the struggles with menstruation post-childbirth, shedding light on the enduring nature of these hormonal shifts.
Hydration is more than just a buzzword—it's your secret weapon against the discomfort of hot flashes. We're talking about practical strategies to keep you refreshed, like deep breathing exercises and boosting hydration with products like Liquid IV. Beyond just water, we explore how to counteract the dehydrating effects of coffee and alcohol, and even recommend cooling products like fans and cool packs. Whether you're battling the heat or just looking for ways to stay comfortable, these tips are designed to offer you some much-needed relief.
Weight gain and disrupted sleep are common midlife hurdles, but they don't have to be insurmountable. Discover why staying active is crucial, with exercise recommendations ranging from walking to yoga, and the benefits of having an exercise partner or utilizing apps like ClassPass. We also address natural remedies and over-the-counter supplements that can help alleviate hot flashes and improve sleep quality, such as THC. Join us in this episode as we share actionable insights to help you manage these midlife changes, ensuring better health and well-being. Don't forget to engage with us on our website or social media to share your experiences and find more tips on navigating menopause effectively.
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Hello and welcome to let's Talk Midlife Crisis with your hosts, Ashley and Tracy. Pull up a chair for your seat at the table as we talk about eight tips to beat hot flashes. I don't know. I think this is going to be a good one. I think anybody who's ever suffered from hot flashes is going to appreciate any kind of tips?
Speaker 1:I know I will yeah so if you're struggling with huge, the huge bummer of menopause and hot flashes, listen now for a few simple tips to prevent them or reduce them. So, interestingly enough, I think the research has found that hot flashes are caused by hormonal fluctuations, with a decrease in estrogen levels during menopause, and a few factors that make them worse or more frequent are neurotransmitters, such as serotonin, which we just touched on a couple episodes ago and disruptions of the body's thermoregulatory system.
Speaker 1:Interesting. Yeah, I thought it was kind of interesting and I don't have hot flashes as much as I used to. They've definitely subsided quite a bit over the last few years, but I still have them okay how long have you? Been having. You know, they probably started when I was about 50, so, and I started perimenopause at about 40. Wow, yeah, so, and I'm trying to think so, in 2017 I would have been 51, and I say that because that's when I started menopause.
Speaker 2:Okay right officially started menopause one year after not having a cycle, so you were in perimenopause for over 10 years. Okay, this is terrifying because I started around 40, yes, and I'll be 46 this year, and so I'm like hopeful that this is just gonna be like a 10-year thing, but no, well, 10 maybe, but I mean, and like I said before, I think that they talk about the hormonal changes from the time you start until the end time.
Speaker 1:So, wow, really, there's for women, unfortunately, I hate to break the bad news, but once you, you know, start your cycle, all the way to the end, it's always going to be something, something. Yeah, I was fortunate that through most of my life. Um, I do recall that childbirth impacted my cycles and how, you know, regular they were, or you know, heavier light and just different things like that. Right, it was kind of impacted after childbirth each time and, um, yeah, it's, it feels like there's just always something for us. Yeah, I think I.
Speaker 2:So I started um menstruating pretty young I was 12 and I think that I was pretty. I mean, I don't remember really having any issues um until I had children right but I had children five years later. Right, you know I was very young when I started, yeah, and yeah, I definitely noticed a change after my first, and it's only gotten worse. I mean, I started having problems with like cysts that weren't rupturing and things like that, yeah.
Speaker 2:So I started having a lot of issues after my first child, which just continued. And then, obviously, you know, once I hit perimenopause, I was having really crazy issues and had the ablation done, um, and did that help? It? Did it did it helped immensely, um, and for me it was a very heavy flow and to the point where I thought, if I keep losing this amount of blood'm gonna die right, right, yes um, so yeah, hysterectomy was an option for me. Um, I just didn't want to do something that invasive, right?
Speaker 1:and the same for me. It was recommended, but I decided to to not move forward in that direction.
Speaker 2:I did that. Um right, I was probably about 42 when I did that, and so it's been a few years now. And she said at the time let's just hope this gets you through menopause, right? So I thought, oh okay, so this might be pretty quick that's funny.
Speaker 1:Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like it works that way. It doesn't seem quick at all. Even in retrospect it's like, wow, yeah, the last you know 18 years for me has been this roller coaster of hormones and stuff. And and I feel for people, because I feel like in what I started to say, it was, you know, from the time I started menstruating, menstru, I never had significant issues right With flows or cramping or different things, and it took me quite a few years, and probably after I had children, to even correlate some of the things my hormone levels and just different things to noticing changes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and associating that to and correlating that to, you know, my monthly cycle. And oh, well, that's what it is. And it probably took me a decade to figure that out, like, oh, it's, you know, it's your cycle and that's why. And and it's funny because in my mind I always think, well, I feel like I used to have a bad week, right, like you know, you would go through your, your cycle and you'd have that week and then you would bounce back for the other three weeks, but then I felt like, as I continued to age, that that time period of you know having issues increased and then the time of me feeling normal again decreased equally.
Speaker 2:I always joke that I have there's one good week now, then it was down to.
Speaker 1:It was a good week and now it's like I feel like I'm in this complete different cycle there's.
Speaker 2:You know, before you start the week, you start the week after you're still bloated.
Speaker 1:You know, yes, yes, and so I don't know. It's just crazy, poor women, we just take the brunt of it all. But so now, um, so I was experiencing hot flashes earlier, you know in my early 50s and stuff, when I was full-on menopausal. Um, you know, I'd be sitting at work and you just feel it. It's like oh yeah, from a head to toe flush, and what got me was like I remember, like it was like I could feel the sweat beads forming on my head. You know what gets me is.
Speaker 2:I mean I'll feel it hit my face first and then kind of go down my body and I literally can touch my cheeks and they are radiating heat Heat. Yes, it's insane, yes.
Speaker 1:And I would feel that way, Like I would go to touch my head and I would touch my hair and you could just feel it that way, like I would go to touch my head and I would touch my hair and you could just feel it, yeah, um.
Speaker 1:And then they somewhat subsided over the years, which you know, gratefully so, but I would still. I think now I still find that I have issues, but more so when I sleep, and maybe it's night sweats, but I don't always sweat like. I had times, periods where I would wake up and just be soaking wet and that was the grossest feeling it was just on top of everything.
Speaker 1:It just felt gross, um, but I don't feel like I'm sweating or wake up wet anymore, but I wake up hot and so like I fling the covers off and then I must doze off and then I'll get chilly, so then I'll put the covers on. So for me right now, it's this whole thing of throwing the covers off and putting them back on, and and not so much that I end up waking up soaking wet thankfully, because that was just the worst feeling oh, it's terrible, but it's still that temperature regulating while you're sleeping that disrupts my sleep, and, um, and again, just trying to figure out ways to combat that and any tips, of course, that we can find that will help absolutely, and things that we can share. So, yeah, take it. So yeah, definitely we'll take it. Um, I stumbled upon this facebook group called still for her um, and she's coming up with a, a gummy oh, for menopause symptoms. So I and I know that not everyone is open to that type of treatment, but for those of you that are, the website is stillforhercom and you can find that in our podcast description and on our website web resource page. But her name is emily black and they're getting ready to. They're still doing a lot of research and getting things, um, you know, approved, okay, for, uh, general sales and stuff like that. But, um, but, they're coming up with a product and they actually have on the website a quiz or a questionnaire what's your menopause persona?
Speaker 1:So I took this quiz. It's a quick 20 questions and some of the examples of the questions are you know, how do you? And I thought this was interesting, which is why I want to get examples to the questions. So an example question is how do you like to accessorize your living space? I thought that was pretty interesting and how that would calculate into the results that you you an idea and a personalized roadmap to, um, you know, prescriptions or homeopath treatments and, um, unmade, unmedicated paths. Okay, should you choose to go that route, right, um, and everything is a personal right and what works best for you and not for you.
Speaker 1:But and another example question is what menopause relief products interest you most? And the available answers are sleep gummies with THC, peanut butter cups with THC, which is what I selected cortisol balancing probiotic with no THC and hot flash treatments. So, anyways, you go through the questionnaires. And another one is you know what menopause symptoms is most disruptive for you Anxiety, hot flashes, insomnia, weight gain because it is different for everyone. So they kind of personalize for you anxiety, hot flashes, insomnia, weight gain because it is different for everyone. So they kind of personalize for you okay, I like that, yeah, a plan and stuff. So I thought that that was pretty interesting. Anything I think at this point that will help, um, but I thought it was interesting.
Speaker 1:The questions that they asked yeah, that's really funny and I understand the ones about thc because they're trying to come up with a, a gummy product, you know, for menopausal symptoms and and how many people are actually open?
Speaker 1:to even that type of treatment. Yeah, um, but some of the tips and tricks that we wanted to share with you today, um, and some of these are just obvious. You know, maybe dress in layers, right, like wearing lightweight, and strip breathable fabrics, and and if you don't already know that, then perhaps you're not even having those symptoms yet. But, um, I personally have to have loose fitting clothing. When I was younger, I, because I'm thin, but I'd always wear tight fitting you know things and stuff.
Speaker 1:And now you can see, it's all about comfort and and breathability, right, and the airflow I need, especially in our desert summers, which readily approaching so quickly. But I need it, like I wear sundresses a lot because I just need that airflow to be able to, you know, keep myself cool. But but that's number one on the list of our tips and tricks today. Number two, of course and we're pretty familiar with this one here again in the heat of the desert is to stay hydrated. Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, and even though I think that we're so prone to the awareness of staying hydrated, I still struggle with it. Yeah, um, all around, yeah, and so you know, obviously there is a lot of awareness around it, but I just I think a lot of people like their coffees yeah, like their and and they don't realize that. Yeah, that's, that's fine if you have a cup or two in the morning, but it's also dehydrating yes and alcohol 100 right so now you're having to increase the amount of water you've needed before you had the coffee.
Speaker 1:Yes, you know yes.
Speaker 2:So I think it's really hard for people to hydrate to the level that they should be 100%, 100% To the level that they should be.
Speaker 1:Yes, and I am definitely in that. We've talked about it before. I drink soda. I drink very little water and in my mind I always relate back to when my children were young and they would be sick or whatever, just trying to keep them hydrated and the doctors would say it's okay. If it's Kool-Aid, it's okay, like, as long as they're giving the fluids. You know receiving those fluids, and something that I've used before and don't use regularly but do recommend, is that liquid IV.
Speaker 2:Oh I love it and there's a new one. I wish I could think of the name of it. I just bought it and tried it and it was so good, but it's another. It's very similar to liquid IV. I think it's probably their up-and-coming competition yeah because I'm seeing it a lot more.
Speaker 2:But yeah, those are great. They have a lot of different flavors and you know people tend to get a little leery of things like that because they have sugar in them. Right, a little bit of sugar for you is okay, right, and quite honestly, the best form of sugar for you is cane sugar. Anything that has sucralose or stevia or any of those like fake sugars I like to call them Right. They're actually not good for you, no, so don't be afraid. You know that it has a little bit of sugar in there, whether it be for sweetness or whatever purpose they put it in there for. But yeah, those things I mean they work.
Speaker 1:To use it If you don't. I have friends that drink quite a bit. You know that hydrate on a regular basis and continually.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Right, and so they are not one that would perhaps turn to something like that Right, but I also think you know when you are dehydrated, your blood sugar also drops.
Speaker 2:Yes, so if you're drinking liquid IV to hydrate yourself, you need that little bit of sugar to get your blood sugar where it should be.
Speaker 1:Right, so yeah.
Speaker 2:They kind of go hand in hand. Yeah, they do they, or where it should be.
Speaker 1:Right. So yeah, they kind of go hand in hand. Yeah, they do, they do. But, very important, it doesn't matter what your climate is, what time of year it is. I tend to drink more in the summer because I'm thirsty. It's hot, right? No-transcript? Practice deep breathing. So engaging in a slow, deep breathing exercise during a hot flash can help with the body's stress response and reduce the intensity of the symptoms it kind of does. I used to use that for work when we would do pitches and different things right.
Speaker 1:So you got to go into a cold room and you got to be on and it was like agency after agency after agency, and we would go in and we would pitch for the business and and we would be outside and in some cases, depending on the venue of where you know these pitches were taking place, you could hear the other agency before you. We tried to always be the first in right to set the bar, but, um, but you could hear people in there, but we would be outside and we would. My boss was, you know, taught me deep breathing exercises. You know you breathe in through the nose, right out through the mouth, you know, and you do it slow and continually to help with anxiety.
Speaker 2:So I could see, and it does work yeah, I mean, I think you, I personally, when I I mean my a lot of my hot flashes are during the night, I'll wake up, but if I get one during the day, you do get this sensation of panic. Yes, like, okay, here it comes.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:You know, hopefully it doesn't last too long. Right, and depending on what you're doing, if you're talking to somebody or you're- in a social gathering. It's kind of embarrassing because you feel your face go big red. Exactly so. There's some panic.
Speaker 1:You're like everybody knows, yes, so that, yeah, the breathing, that that makes a lot of sense. It does, but I don't think I wouldn't have thought of that off the top of my head. Um, using cooling products, which is, you know, I guess, another kind of a no-brainer, but, um, you know, applying a cool pack or using fans to, you know, create that air circulation and provide instant relief, which is funny, because if you've ever seen a woman going through a hot flush, and pretty much it gets to the point where, if you've been going through this for a little while, you don't care anymore, oh, yeah.
Speaker 1:You don't care if you're in a crowded room, you grab something, anything, a piece of paper and you start fanning yourself and you're just like going to town.
Speaker 1:Something that I learned young, because I grew up here in Arizona and we have some outside concert venues and you know concerts in the summer, even at night here the heat is so excessive Is that I would go into the restroom and get a paper towel and wet it and put it on my neck, the back of your neck, neck the back of your neck, around the back of my neck. And it's funny because back in March we went to a spring training game oh yeah and it was probably the hottest day of the year.
Speaker 1:We had amazing seats. They were right like second row, right behind home base and uh, but there was no shade and it was just so hot and I was just on fire. And then after the spring training, it was a day game. You know. It started at one o'clock, so it was over what? Three, four o'clock, which is the hottest part of the day right, and we still had to walk to our car and so on the way out, you know, we all took a restroom break and in the restroom I grabbed some paper towels and I, you know, got them wet and put it around my neck and it was instant relief instant relief.
Speaker 1:So, um, and don't be ashamed, I didn't care. My friends were laughing at me and you know, my youngest daughter was with me and they're like are you okay? And it's like oh, I'm much better now. I'm like aren't you guys hot? It was like I was on fire, and I don't think that had anything to do with a hot flash, so to speak.
Speaker 2:It's Arizona. I am finding, as I get older, that the heat here in Arizona is a lot less tolerable than when I was younger.
Speaker 1:Yes, right, every year it seems to intensify, doesn't it? Yeah, I don't know Okay. Doesn't it? Yeah, I don't know Okay. So tip number five and this is a struggle, even for myself, I'm going to admit it maintaining a healthy weight. So, unfortunately for all of us who've put on weight with menopause, including myself, I noticed one of our pictures that we use for the podcast. I was wearing shorts because it is getting warmer.
Speaker 1:I have dimples in my legs and whatever, but I've always been like so thin yeah right, like so thin and I still am, but I have cellulite and I have dimples and I have this and I do have weight gain, but my weight gain isn't anything like most, you know, women experience in a lifetime, not to mention in menopause. So I'm not even going to play that card. Yeah, but I have experienced weight gain and everyone told me when I was younger oh wait till you get older, you know your metabolism is going to change You're going to gain weight.
Speaker 1:And I have gained weight and it's healthy. I'm still at a healthy point and, and I have gained weight and it's a healthy. I'm still at a healthy point and and it hasn't exceeded, you know, yeah, anything significantly concerning, yeah, but, and it's not like women don't worry about their weight anyway right exactly yeah, so, but I think that, unfortunately, it is something that will impact your hot flashes. Oh absolutely, I'm I'm sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I think it's. I think it's very challenging when you put on that unwanted weight and it's not really for any specific reason. You're still trying to eat healthy, you're still trying to get active in whatever form, and you just can't do anything about it. But it's just, yeah, it's something that you just kind of struggle with. It's part of the whole process.
Speaker 1:Just keep plugging through Exercising, you know, and because of that it will help you Right Overall with you know, not only weight gain, but with the hot flashes, absolutely. So you know you got to power through and nobody wants to exercise anymore. Listen, I shouldn't say that it's hard to get in, you know, yeah, exercise anymore. Listen, I shouldn't say that it's hard to get in, you know I, yeah, you were so involved with exercise and so, you know, consistent with it.
Speaker 2:I know, but that's what I'm saying. Even back then I was always like oh, I have right, so now, it's more of a struggle.
Speaker 1:So, for those of us that aren't, you know in that regular, you know cycle, cycle of exercise and or yoga, because that is exercise or any kind of cardio. Implement it in the smallest regards, whether it's just walking or any type of exercise. Yeah, um a, it'll help with your weight gain, which will also, in turn, help with hot flashes, but also the exercise will as well help with not only reducing your weight, but it really helps with digestion too and metabolism Right.
Speaker 2:So it's very healthy, which I think is what a lot of the weight gain in midlife is contributed to is because your metabolism slows down, right. So, yeah, staying active in any way that you can will help that.
Speaker 1:And if you don't have somebody, I think it would be great to have an exercise partner. We've actually never exercised together. As I look at you right now and my hand's going over to you, like, oh, it would be so great to have an exercise partner. We both know that's never going to happen and that's fine and I could even if it did, I could never keep up with you. But we have actually exercised, but not in a gym fashion like we've been to the beach and when you walk to the down the sand into the ocean.
Speaker 2:That in itself is a workout.
Speaker 1:Um, so we've had, you know, different types of exercises, but I think it's sometimes more motivational and helpful if you have somebody, yeah, and to exercise some people prefer to go to like a class that's what I was just saying yeah, there's actually um this app and I think it's available in any city in the country.
Speaker 2:Um, a friend of mine actually just told me about it and it's called class pass. Um, basically, it shows you classes in your area, anywhere from crossfit, if you want to go that intense, to Pilates or yoga Cycling.
Speaker 1:The orange cycle thing is big here.
Speaker 2:Orange Theory yeah, there's a lot of different classes available in your area that you may not know about. And this is a really cool app because basically you buy points and you can go to a class and use so many points for the class and you decide how much you want to spend on points every month. So let's say you want to spend $20 a month, let's say that gets you 10 points and you want to go to a class that is 3 points. So it's actually a lot cheaper than going directly to these places and paying full price for the class or a membership Right. And I think a lot of it is for people to get trial from you know, yeah, from um, people that are interested in looking for different things and ways to work out.
Speaker 1:So and see if you like it before you come in. So I just signed up for it.
Speaker 2:I haven't used it yet, but I'm really excited um. Yoga is something. Yoga and pilates is something that I really want to look into me too, yoga especially yeah um, so yeah, I'm excited and and some people need that they need a class right and then you can connect with other people.
Speaker 1:They need to be held accountable. I gotta be there at 8 o'clock.
Speaker 2:I paid for this.
Speaker 1:I gotta go with other people and you might even meet somebody, right, right that maybe you can go and you know, have a cup of coffee we just said that but or a tea or something afterwards, or lunch, or just you know, communicate with and and you see them there regularly, and then you feel a part of a community, right? So, yeah, so don't if you're by yourself and you're like, oh, I don't really want to. You know, do something by myself. You know, put yourself out there and take a class, or you know know, download in that app or any app that would, you know, provide guidance and where you can, you know, join something, and and don't get disappointed if the first one, you know you're not really feeling it or yeah, there's a lot of options yeah, there's so many options out there, so I'm sure that eventually you'll find something that you know works for you, and yeah
Speaker 1:um, you know that you feel comfortable in and that helps you excel. So that number six avoid triggers. Oh, yeah, so certain. You know factors like spicy foods, caffeine, alcohol, stress can trigger hot flashes in women.
Speaker 1:And that kind of makes sense to me because mine happened when I was still in the office, you know, and people would come into my office and we would have meetings, or I would be sitting in a confined space, you know, maybe a conference room or something like that, and you just feel it coming on. You know, and I would always, you know, excuse myself and go to the restroom and, you know, maybe even splash water on my face or or just in, sometimes, conference rooms, although most of them are kept at a very cool temperature to keep everybody awake, by the time you start adding all these bodies, humans, in there. The temperature, yeah, it gets warm. So often I would excuse myself and maybe, you know, go into my office, or you know, outside of the conference room where you could feel the air conditioning, and maybe, you know, go into my office, or you know, outside of the conference room where you could feel the air conditioning, and or, you know, sometimes you just have to pick up that piece of paper and fan yourself.
Speaker 1:I was so fortunate to work with mostly women. Um, so I don't know, I don't know, I I just feel blessed by that. I. I work with a lot of men now and it seems almost foreign to me, but I just feel like they couldn't understand where I didn't have any problem before, like I knew people had my back yeah, you know so, but spicy food I mean.
Speaker 1:That just makes me sweat and thinking about it.
Speaker 2:So I'm see that's hard for me because I love spicy foods yeah, I go through my faces um.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I, I do too.
Speaker 2:I like stuff with a kick to it. The hotter the better. Yeah, if my upper lip isn't sweating, it's not hot enough.
Speaker 1:There you go there you go, but so it might be something that you want to back away from if you're in a situation.
Speaker 2:I never put the two together, but now here you want to have a sweat, yeah, if you don't want to sweat.
Speaker 1:And then prescriptions is number seven. We've talked about prescriptions a lot and how it's so important to communicate with your primary care doctor about what you're taking, right, and I think that it's ever so important during your menopause phases and you know stages I should say not phases, but um hormone, you know, especially if you're going through a hormone replacement therapy um, you know you have to communicate with your doctor your symptoms, your symptoms and how it's affecting you.
Speaker 1:As I said, it was probably a good two years where I tried to, you know, get regulated on hormones and I just didn't feel like I was ever at that balanced right balance stage that you know I was striving for.
Speaker 1:So after a couple of years I just decided to go el natural. But I think communicating with them is important and there might be prescriptions that you're taking that when you also take hormones they, you know, interact differently, right, so that could create, you know, some kind of a an effect or body heat or something like that. But I think it's just always important to you know, talk to your doctor, your primary care doctor, because and it actually took me many years, and it's probably only been maybe 10 years ago, that I realized that doctors don't communicate with each other oh gosh. So you have your primary care doctor and then, if you have anyone else, if you're seeing a gynecologist or anyone, and I think what blew my mind is, whenever you go to a specialist or you know a gynecologist, they always ask you who your primary care doctor is. So shame on me.
Speaker 2:I always assumed and you know what happens when you assume, but I always assumed that they were sharing information especially in a day and age that we're in now, with the technology we have.
Speaker 1:The technology and the oversharing of stuff and my primary care doctor. I used to have to bring him Like I had the incident with my back years ago. And then there was my gynecology and then I went to a homeopath. But I would bring all of my records to him, my primary care doctor, because nobody ever shared them with him. Oh, and it was just so mind-blowing to me. So don't make the same assumptions. Don't think that all of your doctors are talking to each other, right? So if you're going to a gynecologist for you know your menopause symptoms make sure that you communicate to them about what your pc is prescribing for you.
Speaker 1:I happen to take blood pressure medicine high blood pressure medicine I have for decades. I no longer have a problem with high blood pressure because I take my medication right. But what does that do when it's combined with other medications? Yeah, I don't know. I know some things like allergy medicines, like allegra. I can't take certain allergy medications, interesting because of my high blood pressure. Zyrtec is okay, but allegra isn't. And um, pseudofed is that, I think? Is that another one? Is that an allergy?
Speaker 2:medicine.
Speaker 1:It's just for sinus okay but I can't take that either, okay, so I think it's important to understand what you're taking and what works well with it and what doesn't work well with it, and there could be the chance that it is impacting hot flashes or giving you hot flashes and non-hormonal prescriptions as well.
Speaker 1:But just see your doctor and communicate is really, you know the best advice on that one. And then, lastly, our eighth um tip is supplements and natural medicine. So, all of the over-the-counter and traditional remedies, um, you know that they have out there cb, cbd, as far as a gummy is concerned, and CBD is in so many things right now, and, and as I was mentioning before about the, still for her, she's creating a gummy with which is a THC product. Okay, for menopausal symptoms, emily black, and it's still menopause.
Speaker 1:Um is, uh, her company, but the website, again, is still for hercom. But so they're trying to create a gummy, um, you know, for all of the menopausal symptoms, including hot flashes, which I personally would be open to, yeah, but completely respect those that you know prefer not to. Um, you know, venture down that road, but, you know, maybe find something different. Um, you know that's over the counter and a supplement that would help with the hot flashes and things like that, but, um, you know, they can really derail your life during mid you know, during menopause and mid life.
Speaker 2:So I mean I personally, like I said, most of mine occur at night and obviously it's affecting my sleep, so, which is also very crucial, you know a good night's sleep, so yeah for me. Um, it would definitely be beneficial to find some kind of supplement that would help me sleep, such as THC, but also help the other symptoms that I'm experiencing Right, and that just about wraps it up for today.
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