Cooling Down Hot Flashes
I once had a dreadful time with hot flashes in October of 2012. I remember that date because of my traumatic experience. I was prescribed oral antibiotics. It took me almost a week to start putting those pills in my mouth. It went against my inherent belief system, but I worked really hard to change my mindset to follow the doctor’s instructions. I think it was a 7 or 10 day course. Around the last day or two, I developed wrenching abdominal pain that lasted several days and hot flashes for several weeks. I was way too young for this symptom, but now I knew what it felt like for the 80% of American women who endure hot flashes.
Men get flashes too, they’re called night sweats. Somehow these boiling up sensations have become a mystery symptom that no one understands. For a woman that lives through these episodes, it feels daunting to imagine tolerating this malady for the rest of your life. I’m glad I went through my temporary events so I could learn that it doesn’t need to occur forever.
I have seen women with hot flashes that ranged from seconds of sudden heat to 15-minutes of profuse sweating. I once met a 70-year old woman from another country who was here visiting family for a short while. Her son brought her in and said she had a hot flash every 35-minutes for the last 25-years. Even through the night! Fortunately she was overall very healthy so it only took a few Ondamed sessions to decrease the frequency to 2-3 times a day. and none during the night.
When a female has a menstrual cycle every month her body not only sheds the uterine lining, she also releases built-up hormones and toxins. Women who stop menstruating lose out on this detoxifying benefit every month. As the window of fertility closes and cycles become inconsistent, hormones and toxins remain captured and disruptive. This is why the terms hysterical and hysterectomy have emerged. “Hyster-” means uterus. All those pent up trouble-makers bring a woman to the edge. Emotions flare as a means of dispelling the provocateurs that we call toxins gathered in the uterus and liver. Have patience dear men. There’s no need to yank out our private parts or name call for these outbursts; there are other options abreast.
Somewhere along the line, the birth control pill and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) became the standard of care for interrupting symptoms. Fortunately, HRT has gotten a bad wrap over the years and with good reason. Taking exogenous hormones may have a temporary chemical benefit but the long-term result is additional liver congestion. After having plenty of success with resolving those symptoms naturally, I know there are other ways of ending this suffering.
Hot flashes (and night sweats) have to do with the liver. All hormones are converted and processed in the liver. When the liver gets overburdened it depends on the skin to help create a quick detox sweat to take off some of the load. That means a flash of heat to open the pores. Ongoing heat influxes may mean there is a lot of harmful products that need to be cleared out in a hurry. Biofeedback seems to work like a charm at releasing the liver’s toxic load.
Here are a few home care options that can help.
Limiting consumption of processed foods with long shelf lives and ingredient names you cannot pronounce.
Avoiding seed oils, particularly corn, soy, cottonseed, canola and vegetable oils.
Avoiding sugar, especially high fructose corn syrup is a must.
Avoiding unnatural “fake” foods like GMO’s, “bioengineered” foods and our recently created imposter meats that confuse and clog the liver.
A gall bladder (AKA liver) cleanse here is the recipe
Using a Far-Infrared sauna or exercise to break a sweat is a “controlled toxin burn”.
A high quality liquid mineral supplement from the sea containing all 92 minerals.
Herbs such as Black Cohosh (women) and Red clover.
Homeopathics such as Sepia (women) and Hepar Sulph.
There are others but we’ll keep the list abbreviated for now and add to it in other articles.
Now I consider hot flashes a blessing in disguise and an important message to the mind. They are a means of helping unburden the liver with it’s 24-hour per day tasks. Thank you body for having the wisdom to help fix me!
Dr. Julie Wilson 6009 N Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL. 60646 773-481-9988
http://drjuliewilson.com