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Hot flashes? Some foods make them worse and some can cool them out. Follow this site to find out more about The Hot Flash Diet and perimenopause. Sign up for my free newsletter at https://substack.com/@lesliegirmscheid. Also at www.hotflashdiet.com
Yes, you could use a bit of a laugh.
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21 Things it Would Take For Me to Have Another Baby
A million dollars, a sister wife, a government that doesn't suck balls
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April 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Yes, you could use a bit of a laugh.
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Why is it that some people gain more weight than others? Here is one explanation.
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Food Calories Are Not Created Equal
What has puzzled me for years is how little some people claim to eat, yet they still gain weight.
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April 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Why is it that some people gain more weight than others? Here is one explanation.
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Just in time for Easter! If you have to have sweets, eat the "cooler" ones.
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CHEESECAKE MINIs
These cupcake-sized cheesecakes are easy to make and are perfect for Easter especially if you use festive cupcake liners.
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April 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Just in time for Easter! If you have to have sweets, eat the "cooler" ones.
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You know you are on to something when Costco starts carrying a product. Beware, though, their vitamin K2 is combined with a high dose of vitamin D (5000 IU, which is way more than recommended).
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VITAMIN K2: The Vitamin You Don’t Know About, But Should
If there was a vitamin that could help you maintain bone strength, improve cardiovascular health, and perhaps protect brain function, wouldn’t you want to know about it?
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April 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
You know you are on to something when Costco starts carrying a product. Beware, though, their vitamin K2 is combined with a high dose of vitamin D (5000 IU, which is way more than recommended).
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Time to chill out--all you with hot flashes, that is. Here are some "cold" foods to add to your diet.
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CHILLING OUT HOT FLASHES WITH “COLD” FOODS
In Traditional Chinese Medicine each food has a unique thermal property. Hot flashes can be tamed by eating fewer “hot” foods and more “cold” foods, listed here.
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March 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Time to chill out--all you with hot flashes, that is. Here are some "cold" foods to add to your diet.
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Celebrate the first day of Spring (also Persian New Year or Nowruz) tomorrow with this colorful recipe.
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JEWELED RICE
This is an easy-to-make, minimally spiced version of Persian wedding rice which will be less likely to incite hot flashes.
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March 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Celebrate the first day of Spring (also Persian New Year or Nowruz) tomorrow with this colorful recipe.
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Gaining weight in menopause? Here is a great synopsis of the current thinking and what to do. menopausedietplan.substack.com/p/the-best-t...
The Best Time to Eat and Why
Work with your body’s rhythms to help minimize two conditions made worse with menopause.
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March 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Gaining weight in menopause? Here is a great synopsis of the current thinking and what to do. menopausedietplan.substack.com/p/the-best-t...
Here's a somewhat "cooled" down recipe for a chickpea curry. Enjoy!
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CHICKPEA CURRY
Serves 4
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March 5, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Here's a somewhat "cooled" down recipe for a chickpea curry. Enjoy!
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Is Mother Earth having hot flashes and night sweats? How seaweed can help subdue these symptoms for you and her.
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SEAWEED COOLS YOU… & THE PLANET!
Seaweed is a “cooling” food for hot flash sufferers. Seaweed farming lowers environmental CO2, perhaps reducing Mother Earth’s climate “change of life” symptoms, too.
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February 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Is Mother Earth having hot flashes and night sweats? How seaweed can help subdue these symptoms for you and her.
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February is Heart Awareness Month and women are just as likely to experience heart attacks as men, but they might not have the classic symptoms. Feel free to share and get the word out.
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Women’s Heart Attacks Can Be Different from Men’s
Heart attacks in women may present with different symptoms from men and may be due to conditions other than the usual epicardial coronary artery disease: SCAD, CMVD, vasospastic angina, and takotsubo ...
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February 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
February is Heart Awareness Month and women are just as likely to experience heart attacks as men, but they might not have the classic symptoms. Feel free to share and get the word out.
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Getting ready for the big game? Here is a recipe that is less likely to cause a flare of hot flashes.
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GUACAMOLE DIP & CORN TORTILLA CHIPS
Easy to pull together and a crowd pleaser.
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February 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Getting ready for the big game? Here is a recipe that is less likely to cause a flare of hot flashes.
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All fired up for the big game on Sunday or just fired up in general? #hotflash
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Super Bowl or Super Flash Sunday?
Super Bowl party food & overeating can both increase hot flashes. Here are food and drink suggestions to reduce the “heat” of spicy, heavy foods and alcohol.
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February 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
All fired up for the big game on Sunday or just fired up in general? #hotflash
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What you can do for winter hot flashes: lesliegirmscheid.substack.com/p/hot-flashe...
Feel free to share. #hotflashes #menopause #TCM
Feel free to share. #hotflashes #menopause #TCM
Hot Flashes? What Can I Eat? Citrus!
Hot flashes can be reduced by eating “cooler” foods, including most citrus and using them to balance “warmer” foods in recipes like Citrus Chicken (provided).
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January 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
What you can do for winter hot flashes: lesliegirmscheid.substack.com/p/hot-flashe...
Feel free to share. #hotflashes #menopause #TCM
Feel free to share. #hotflashes #menopause #TCM
My latest article: lesliegirmscheid.substack.com/p/the-right-...
THE RIGHT STUFF: Choosing Vaginal Lubricants & Moisturizers
Experiencing hot flashes during the menopause transition is bad enough, but many women also experience coincidental vaginal symptoms as estrogen wanes.
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December 30, 2024 at 10:23 PM
My latest article: lesliegirmscheid.substack.com/p/the-right-...
For those of you highly sensitive persons undergoing perimenopause, this one's for you. lesliegirmscheid.substack.com/p/perimenopa...
Perimenopause & the Highly Sensitive Person
With diminishing estrogen, or rather, the roller coaster of its erratic, fluctuating levels during perimenopause, anything can happen, and not just to the targeted female organs.
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December 17, 2024 at 8:29 PM
For those of you highly sensitive persons undergoing perimenopause, this one's for you. lesliegirmscheid.substack.com/p/perimenopa...
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I’m feeling this so hard, right now. Menopause sucks.
December 7, 2024 at 10:39 PM
I’m feeling this so hard, right now. Menopause sucks.
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My second Substack newsletter (free to subscribe) came out today. #hotflashes #menopause #perimenopause
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HOT STUFF! Foods to Avoid If You Have Hot Flashes
Despite the provocative title, this article isn’t about the song by Donna Summer. Rather, it’s about how edible “hot” foodstuffs provoke hot flashes in women undergoing the menopause transition.
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November 19, 2024 at 8:54 PM
My second Substack newsletter (free to subscribe) came out today. #hotflashes #menopause #perimenopause
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Just starting out and catching up. Here's my first Substack article from November 5th, 2024. open.substack.com/pub/lesliegi...
PUT OUT THE FIRE: Extinguishing Hot Flashes
Have you noticed certain foods seem to be linked to hot flashes? Of course, you have. Round up the usual suspects—red wine, liquor, spicy foods. But, sometimes, avoiding just these notorious hot flash...
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November 19, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Just starting out and catching up. Here's my first Substack article from November 5th, 2024. open.substack.com/pub/lesliegi...
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Being prepared for #perimenopause can help a lot - I had no idea what was going on when mine began. I didn’t know I was #Autistic back then either.
I’ve been doing research on Autistic #menopause with colleagues (two more papers are due out soon) please see: www.AutisticMenopause.com
I’ve been doing research on Autistic #menopause with colleagues (two more papers are due out soon) please see: www.AutisticMenopause.com
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November 10, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Being prepared for #perimenopause can help a lot - I had no idea what was going on when mine began. I didn’t know I was #Autistic back then either.
I’ve been doing research on Autistic #menopause with colleagues (two more papers are due out soon) please see: www.AutisticMenopause.com
I’ve been doing research on Autistic #menopause with colleagues (two more papers are due out soon) please see: www.AutisticMenopause.com