7 reasons why you have constant hot flashes and what you can do about it

Deep in your brain there’s a small area (the hypothalamus) that works like your body’s thermostat. Normally you have a wide comfort zone: your temperature may rise or fall a little without anything happening.

But because of the disrupted serotonin balance during menopause, that comfort zone becomes razor-thin. The smallest nudge (a cup of tea, a crowded room, a bit of exertion) is now read as "too hot".

Your body raises the alarm and does what it always does when overheating: open up the blood vessels and sweat to cool down. You feel the result as a hot flash: that sudden wave of heat and perspiration.

So the hot flash itself is not a defect. It’s your thermostat overreacting, partly because your serotonin is out of balance.

Menopause often coincides with a busy phase of life: work, growing or leaving children, caregiving, a mind that doesn’t stop at night.

During prolonged stress your body produces a lot of cortisol. And here’s a problem: under stress your body prefers to use serotonin’s building block (tryptophan) for another route, leaving less for producing serotonin.

Less serotonin means an even more sensitive thermostat, and therefore more and more intense hot flashes. There’s a reason many women notice their hot flashes peak at the most stressful moments.

Do you wake up at night, drenched in sweat, and then lie wide awake tossing and turning?

That’s no coincidence. Serotonin is in fact the building block for melatonin, your natural sleep hormone. Less serotonin often also means less melatonin, and therefore worse sleep, quite apart from the night sweats.

This creates a vicious circle:

• Too little serotonin → sensitive thermostat → nighttime hot flashes
• Nighttime hot flashes → poor sleep
• Poor sleep → more stress and fatigue during the day
• More stress → even less serotonin

The longer this lasts, the deeper you sink into the circle: tired, irritable and not comfortable in your own skin. Supporting your serotonin production can help you break this pattern.

You’ve probably already tried everything: sleeping cool, less caffeine, breathing exercises, maybe even a diet. Sometimes it helped for a while, but the hot flashes kept coming back.

That’s not a matter of not trying hard enough. It’s a matter of building blocks. As long as you only adjust your behaviour but ignore the neurochemistry underneath, you keep mopping the floor with the tap running.

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