— Ines Kallmeyer

This period of perimenopause before it totally leaves the building, uh, can be a very long time. And I'm sorry about that. So again, you have to go back to your foundation, I hope you're eating a diet that is flush with fruits and vegetables, no pun intended. Um, and that you will have more hot flashes if you have more of an overprocessed diet. If you drink a lot of caffeine, if you eat a lot of foods that are really high in salt where you retain water, um, if you eat foods that are really high in sugar, all of those are gonna prompt hot flashes. Um, and it's okay to drink alcohol like one glass a day. I looked into this all for you. Um, but if you're drinking too much alcohol, that's also not gonna be really great. Now plants have what's called phytoestrogens, which means they're plant estrogens. So you can mimic some of the estrogen you're losing by eating plant estrogens. Soybeans is the, is really high in, in, um, phytoestrogens. And again, I'm not talking about the supplement, I'm talking about the, you know, soybeans, tofu, that type of thing, ami, um, but so do flax seeds and nuts, uh, bell peppers, green beans, carrots, zucchini, all of those have, um, estrogenic like components. You'd have to be careful if you had an estrogen positive breast cancer. I'm just talking in general now. Um, you wouldn't want to eat a ton of phytoestrogens, um, but you can eat some of them. Um, you also wanna make sure your diet is anti-inflammatory 'cause inflammation will make those hot flashes go. Um, just take off. So Omega-3 from like fatty fish, um, and anti-inflammatories like turmeric and spices, all of that is really gonna help. And if you walk your way over to Chinese medicine, they actually have a list of foods that they call cooling. And that would be your apples, bananas, spinach, broccoli, green tea and eggs. It helped to cool. Um, I actually am doing some Chinese medicine right now for the covid that I got. And they're always telling me to drink green tea and eat eggs to cool myself down. So if that's how you, if that's what you follow, then you could try that out and don't cover this part of your body. You cover this part of your body, you're gonna flash, you're gonna keep flashing.