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What Is Happening During Menopause Hot Flashes?

November 21st, 2008 by admin | Filed under Menopause Symptom.

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Menopause hot flashes are connected to changes in your estrogen levels. Estrogen is a class of female sex hormones produced by the ovaries, pituitary gland and by body fat. It is a fascinating hormone that in puberty to the help it gives in creating life.

During puberty, estrogen stimulates the development of adult sex organs and the adult female breasts, hips and buttocks. Estrogen helps to retain calcium in bones, regulates the balance of HDL and LDL cholesterol in the bloodstream and aids the maintenance of blood sugar level, memory functions and emotional balance.

Estrogen is mostly produced by developing follicles in the ovaries, the corpus luteum, and when you are pregnant, your placenta. You will experience hot flashes when the estrogen in your body is being depleted. Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH) stimulate the production of estrogen in your ovaries.

FSH or LH is very important in balancing your estrogen. It can cause you many reproductive problems if you have produce too much or too low of FSH or LH. When menopause occurs, women’s ovaries will stop secreting estrogen which plays important role in the process of ovulation. As a result, you will experience menopause and your body will go though several changes including hot flashes.
menopause hot flashes
Menopause hot flashes occur because the loss of estrogen affects hypothalamus where controls your body’s temperature. It will turn the heat up if there is not enough estrogen in your body. In response, your body tries to rapidly cool itself down by sweating and circulating blood through your body at a rapid speed. This causes things like hot flushes, night sweats, and erratic temperatures.

Most women start to lose estrogen up to two years before they actually stop having menses, so it is very possible to experience menopause hot flashes before you actually experience menopause. When you are finished with menopause, you will still have estrogen in your system, just not as much as you once did. This causes hot flashes in some women for up to five years after they stop having a period.

Hot flashes make you feel uncomfortable during menopause, however they won’t last forever. As the diminishing estrogen in your body balances out, menopause hot flashes do come to an end. Until that happens, taking natural menopause herb can compensate for your body’s loss of estrogen.

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