Sunsetmuse.
Yes hot flashes is definately hormonally related.
Especially if you are insulin resistant and recently you have put on weight due to this.
Putting on weight can change your hormones slightly - this happend to me...I went from 62 to nearly 80kgs.. towards 78 to 80kgs I started to have sort of hot flashes like I can imagnine older women in menopause have (perhaps not as bad but similar),
Anyway once on the metformin I lost 10kgs I went from 79 to 69kgs and Guess what - no more flashes.. feel SO MUCH better, no tiredness etc.
I think hot flashes means you have less estrogen.. so perhaps losing weight witht he help of met and low GI and exercise will make the flashes go.
Anyway it did for me. Hope this helps.
I know I had a lack of estrogen when I put the weight on as my body hair thinned and this is a sign of estroge going lower and I had the flashes at this time too. |