Hot Flash Tip of the Week

When you eat:

• chips and salsa
• jalapeno peppers
• food made with distilled vinegar
• tabasco sauce
• chili powder.... you get the idea!

These foods can cause your hot flashes to be hotter
AND last longer! Whew! You don't need that!
Even though the stuff tastes great, it's not worth
it. Your endocrine glands (ovaries, thyroid, adrenals,
pituitary, hypothalmus, parathyroid, pancreas)
suffer with the added burden of breaking down
such difficult foods.

When hot peppers such as jalapeno, cayenne, and
habanero are eaten on a daily or even weekly
basis, it certainly does its job. It makes your
food taste hotter, and makes you feel very warm.

These peppers are also high in many nutritive
healing qualities such as Vitamin C, vitamin A,
as well as building strong blood circulation
throughout the body. However, in my clinical
practice, I have found that the hot peppers
eaten during womens hot flash season, seems to
stimulate the hormone producing glands too
much.

Try this:
Take the above foods out of your eating regime
for 30 days. See how your hot flashes are effected.
On a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being very HOT), rate
your flashes. You should definitely see a difference!

On the Lighter Side

In the beginning God covered the earth with broccoli and caulifower,
spinach, green and yellow and red vegetables of all kinds, so Man
and Woman would live long and healthy lives.

Then using God's bountiful gifts, Satan created ice cream and
doughnuts. And Satan said, "You want hot fudge with that?"
And Man said, "Yes!" and Woman said, "I'll have another with
sprinkles". And lo, they gained ten pounds.

So God said, "Try my fresh green salad".

And Satan presented crumbled blue cheese dressing and garlic
toast on the side. And Man and Woman unfastened their belts
following the repast.

God then said, "I have sent you heart healthy vegetable and
olive oil in which to lightly saute the wholesome vegetables".

And Satan brought forth deep fried coconut shrimp, chicken
fried steak so big it needed its own platter and chocolate
cheesecake for dessert. And Man's glucose levels spiked
through the roof.

God then brought forth running shoes so that his children
might lose those extra pounds.

And Satan came forth with a cable TV with remote control
so Man would not have to toil changing the channels. And Man
and Woman laughed and cried before the flickering light and
started wearing stretch jogging suits.

Then God brought forth lean meat so that Man might consume
fewer calories and still satisfy his appetite.

And Satan created the ninety-nine cent cheeseburger and said
"You want fries with that?" And Man replied, "Yes! And super
size 'em!" And Man went into cardiac arrest.

God sighed and created quadruple bypass surgery.

And Satan created HMO's.

How Premarin came to ruin Womens Health

..so back to Robert Wilson (would have loved to meet him in a dark alley!)...
He thought that the estrogen therapy would keep women young, healthy,
sexy and keep our you know what from shriveling up!

Remember, it was Wyeth and Ayerst that funded him. Once they saw
how huge his success was from his book promotion, they went on to
develop Premarin (which most of you know by now is made from
pregnant horse urine).

Due to excellent marketing campaigns, premarin became the fifth
leading prescription drug of America!

Women take note! We have been exploited mightily! If it were not
for the Womens Health Initiative stopping the study, we might still
be in the dark about the effects of Hormone Replacement Therapy.
Study and question every angle about the medicalization of meno-
pause.

Understand that while it is a natural occurence in your life, the
symptoms are not! You don't have to continue suffering. You
don't have to worry about getting breast cancer, uterine cancer,
heart attacks, or strokes. There are many, many options now
available to you that can balance your hormones naturally.

Do your homework, stay tuned to my blog, and reap the
results!

The Medicalization of Menopause

Nothing gets me hotter than when the pharmaceutical industry sells us another pill - but forgets to tell us about the side effects!

" Menopause " long ago...
... was first used in 1872. It actually comes from the Greek words, "month" and "cessation".
Believe it or not, by the late 1800's western medicine thought it was a medical crisis!They believed that symptoms were worse for women who had acted 'indiscreetly' - meaning,getting too much education, having too much sex, attempting to use birth control, or even being insufficiently devoted to husband and children.

A common prescription was to tell the women to live a quiet lifestyle centered on the family!

It only gets worse...
More drastic measures were often taken when the women complained that the prescription didn't seem to help their symptoms (is it any wonder?). Leeches were put on a women's ears on the nape of her neck to cure her complaints! Sounds disgusting! But guess what? I heard on a medical news report this year that they're trying it again in some hospitals. Scary!

Here comes the drug companies to the 'rescue'
In 1966 Robert Wilson wrote a best selling book, "Feminine Forever" which was funded by Wyeth and Ayerst a pharmaceutical company. Wilson stated that estrogen therapy could keep women young, healthy, and attractive. It was so natural! (according to him). Women could be replacing a hormone they had somehow 'lost' over the years.

Wilson was so excited about this estrogen discovery that in 1972 he wrote in the Geriatric Society, "[estrogen] can save women - breasts and genital organs will not shrivel. Such women will be much more pleasant to live with and will not become dull and unattractive".

Makes you wonder what we were like before this miraculous discovery!
(stay tuned ... part 2 coming in next post...)