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This is JJ Virgin, four time New York Times bestselling author, celebrity nutrition expert, and Fitness hall of Famer. I've been on a lifelong quest for answers to the toughest health questions, and now I'm sharing what I found with you. Welcome to Ask the Health Expert Amyg gearing from Instagram asks any help for hot flashes? I've got a couple tricks. Stay with me and I will be.

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All right, let's talk hot flashes. And what are some of the things that you can do to minimize them? I don't know that anything can actually prevent them, but we sure can make them a heck of a lot better. So I'm going to throw some of my favorite supplements to you. First of all, remember, if you're heading into menopause, there's some really important things to do here. Number one, make sure that your thyroid is functionally, optimally. I don't mean in normal ranges, I mean optimally. That means your TSH is going to be somewhere in the 0.5 to 1 range. And then make sure that your antibodies are low, like extremely low to zero, and that your free T3 and T4 and reverse T3 are all looking awesome. So work with the functional medicine doctor there because that is going to be super important for how all of your hormone cascade. Ditto vitamin D because vitamin D is a pro hormone. So make sure those are both looking good. Vitamin D, your 25 hydroxy vitamin D is in the 20 is in the 60 to 80 Ngs per ML range. And then make sure you're taking really good care of your adrenal health, your cortisol, your dhea, because as you start to go through menopause you are going to depend more on your adrenals and producing some estrogen through them. So you need to take really good care of your adrenals during this time. So this is a great time to do meditation, some restorative yoga, getting massages, you know that self care stuff that seems to fall off your list. This is time to put yourself first. Now next thing is really look at your diet. Obviously you want a very blood sugar balanced diet. So shout out to sugar impact diet that can help you do that. And then look where you can boost some phytoestrogens from food. Some of my favorites for that are flaxseed meal. Freshly ground flaxseed meal is amazing here. Also great for bone health, sesame seeds and garbanzos. So hummus, tahini, flax, working in some of those here can be super helpful. And then also the supplements that I really love. Annatto E has some amazing research on helping with hot flashes. It also can help with bone health and heart health. So these are all critical for menopause. So I would look at taking Annatto E annattotokotrienols and the brand I like there is designed for health, 300 milligrams a day. On that I would Also look at a product called Femguard plus Balance by them and I'm going to shout out a couple ingredients that can be super helpful here. We talked about things that help with hormone balance. Black cohosh, Vitex and Polygonum can help here tremendously. They also have some things in there that can help with detoxifying estrogens, bad estrogens. So things like chrysan and dim can be super helpful there too, as well as broccoli sprouts and eating broccoli and broccoli sprouts. Super important. And then here's a hack. Ready? Because if you are turning your bedroom air conditioning way down and your partner's getting upset, here's what you can do. You can use a chili pad now. I was using one of these before. They recently upgraded them. They've gotten out the EMFs. So this is fantastic because it's got cool water that runs through it so it cools you down. So you lie on this pad and it will cool you down. You can actually make it warm or you can make it cold. So it's fantastic. If you have different body temperature needs than your partner, this is an easy way to solve it. So Chilipad is a great hack there. And again, remember, this is a time where there's not a whole lot of margin for error during menopause, so you've got to do everything possible to take care of yourself. Balance your blood sugar, manage your stress, optimize your thyroid function, eat well, exercise well so that you can get through this as easily as possible. Good luck and let me know how it goes. And if you've got a question, remember, all you need to do is DM me JJ Virgin on Instagram. And also, if you've not subscribed to the show yet, subscribe to JJ.com, it's easy. See you next time. This is JJ with Ask the Health Expert. I do this five times a week, so make sure you never miss a show by going to subscribetojay.com.

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