— Mary Dee Glynn Roux

Mary, I will give you the guru of all gurus, which is Christine Northup, NO Northup, RUP. She has been around for 30 to 40 years and she has a website and the link is there for you. And she is the one person I would send someone to, uh, go to her website and click around there. The baseline from a nutrition standpoint, again, is foods that don't stimulate. So no ultra processed foods, no, you know, very low in added sugar. Um, anything that's a stimulant sometimes can make the hot flashes come on, uh, like caffeine and chocolate, there'll be some foods that might trigger you. Um, it's making sure that you're eating mostly plant-based, uh, meats that ha, someone actually asked me the other day, she said she'd been through menopause. She was in her seventies and said she'd been through menopause and had hot flashes. And when she eats meat, she still has a hot flash at night. And I said to her, that's called the meat sweats, right? Because some meat has hormones in it and you might, you know, have a flash because of meats. Um, so things like meats, I would decrease things like dairy, I would, um, eliminate while I was going through it, but making sure you get enough calcium because you're also gonna be at risk of losing bone and muscle. So making sure you get enough protein in calcium in your diet and vitamin D is really important. So making sure you have a whole foods plant-based diet, not that you can't eat other things, that you have a really good source of healthful fats. And so that is your Omega-3 fats that are in flax seeds, uh, chia seeds, hemp seeds, they're also in fatty fish, making sure that you have a really great hormonal, um, uh, fat balance with the healthful fats and you need to be pooping every day. And if you're not pooping every day, the hot flashes are not gonna go away. You need to eliminate toxins from your body on a regular basis. So making sure you get enough fiber so that you can eliminate, um, toxins in your body.

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