The Real Cause of Hot Flashes and Night Sweats (Not Menopause)

Most people think that hot flashes and night sweats are simply typical menopause symptoms, but what if that’s not actually true? Uncover what causes hot flashes and night sweats so you can finally address the real problem.

We’re going to talk about the real cause of hot flashes and night sweats. [music] People will tell you it’s just related to menopause, but if that’s actually true, why do some women get hot [music] flashes and night sweats even before menopause? And other women go through menopause and they don’t get hot flashes or night sweats. And millions of women are taking estrogen every single day, yet they still get up at 3:00 in the morning soaking wet. And some actually are getting hot flashes every hour through the night.

The standard advice is just to keep taking more hormones. Guess what they found? They found that hot flashes are not a hormone deficiency. In other words, there’s not a direct correlation between hot flashes and high estrogen or low estrogen. And if hot flashes and night sweats were just an estrogen deficiency, it’d be very simple.

You just need to take those hormones and everything would be solved, but that’s not what happens. And hot flashes are different than night sweats. Hot flashes have to do with the speed of a hormonal drop. When a woman has the ovaries removed, many women actually go right into severe hot flashes creating this sudden drop of estrogen. And then other women that go through menopause, they have this gradual decrease of hormones like estrogen and they don’t get hot flashes.

So, hot flashes really are caused by the speed of the estrogen dropping, which actually sends an alarm to your brain, specifically the hypothalamus, which just happens to contain a thermostat in your brain, a little bundle of nerves that are called kidney neurons. It gets triggered to get super hot. It lasts 3 minutes. It’s going to create a lot of blood flow. And then actually your skin is going to sweat to cool you down, but then you’re going to be shivering afterwards.

In addition to dropping estrogen, stress can also activate this. If you look at the newest drugs that they use for hot flashes, they’re not hormones. They’re certain chemicals that block the receptors in the thermostat. Now, if you’ve been watching in my videos, you know that I’m always looking for alternative things that can mimic drugs with less side effects. And the question is, is there a natural version of something that can block these receptors, too?

And the answer is, yes, there is. And it’s called genistein. This actually is made out of soy, but this is not the typical soy that you would get at the grocery store. This is a very specific extract of soy that has the capacity to influence and put the brakes on these neurons. And from my research, they’ve done randomized controlled trials on this, and there’s been significant results.

You would want at least 54 mg twice a day, okay, of using this compound right here. Now, I know people will ask, what about black cohosh? There’s not a lot of good research that shows that black cohosh is a good remedy for hot flashes, unfortunately. Now, because magnesium glycinate also helps turn on the brakes in the brain, I would also recommend taking magnesium glycinate 400 mg a day. So, the remedy for hot flashes would be these two things right here.

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Night sweats are actually different. Night sweats can last 60 minutes, and they usually happen between 3:00 a. m. and 4:00 a. m.

in the middle of the night when you’re trying to sleep. Very, very annoying. Night sweats are more related to blood sugar than this problem right here. Even though this problem can trigger night sweats, okay? But they’re two different things.

Because at night you’re actually trying to sleep and you’re not eating, right? So, what happens if your blood sugar is not very stable, you will have up to five waves of blood sugar issues from high blood glucose to low blood glucose because the body is always trying to keep things level. And if your blood sugar is a little out of control, as soon as the blood sugar goes high, you’re going to have insulin push it down, okay? So, you’re going to have fluctuations of blood sugar at night. And when that blood sugar is low at 3:00 a.

m. , what’s going to happen is your body’s going to have to deal with that. And the way that it stabilizes that and brings the blood glucose back up is it triggers adrenaline. Adrenaline is the key neurotransmitter that mobilizes quick energy glucose from the liver to raise your blood glucose. Well, guess what?

In the middle of the night when you have adrenaline flowing through your veins, that can cause you to wake up with your heart pounding. So, if you have more night sweats, what you need to do is you need to fix your blood sugar. And the best way to do that is do not eat after dinner. Put a little sign, the kitchen is closed, no snacking. But not only this, I would recommend cutting down your carbohydrates so you’re on a low-carb diet and you’re also not eating between meals.

That’s called intermittent fasting. Just have two meals. The first one at lunch and the second one at dinner, but then nothing after that. That is going to greatly help you decrease these night sweats. So, a lot of people ask me, “What supplements do I recommend?

” Now, of course, I’m not biased of my own high-quality supplement line, but if you go to Amazon and Dr. Berg supplements, you’ll find more information. There’s another thing that you can do is very simple, before bed, have some apple cider vinegar. Take a tablespoon in a glass of water, mix it up. Don’t take it straight.

Take a straw and drink maybe 8 oz of water with 1 Tbsp of apple cider vinegar. This has been known to help also stabilize your blood sugar, so we don’t get this up and down thing right here. So now you have a few different natural remedies that can help you not only reduce hot flashes, but night sweats as well. I think the best thing for you to learn now is really how to stabilize this blood sugar. To get your body in a state of ketosis where you don’t have these up and down blood sugar glucose spikes.

And for that information, you need to watch this video right here. Check it out.