How Hot Flashes Causes Weight Gain At Menopause

Having hot flashes can be one of the causes for weight gain at menopause .

Menopause and peri-menopause are connected with the dangerous loss of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone in women and with the unwanted increase in total and belly obesity and hot flashes.

When a lady has hot flashes, her brain is screaming at her ovaries to make the compulsory estrogen her body requires to function adequately. Dismayingly, the ovaries aren’t listening and the only structure in a women’s body that is listening is the fat cells in the belly, hips and thighs in her legs.

That is due to the fact that estrone, the estrogen of menopause is only made in fat tissue. So with hot flashes, your body is starting to become devoted to making more fat so it can make more estrogen. I’ve seen weight gains surpassing 20 to 30 pounds over less than 5 years.

Regardless of what ladies do whether it is exercising, consuming less and eating smarter, they add weight. That’s because their body is prepared to make more fat. The better news is many reports have shown a dramatic improvement in stopping weight gain and tummy obesity with balancing of hormones.

And best of all, without hot flashes ladies will get a better night sleep which leads to more energy helping them to think more clearly. With menopause and falling hormone levels, there’s also a surge in the enzyme which causes fat development in the abdomen hips, and thighs of the legs.

Estrogen care decreases this fat forming enzyme which will lower the enlargement of the fat cell therefore decreasing fat formation in the stomach, hips and thights of the legs. There is hope. Unfortunately not all estrogens will reduce fat.

The topical bio-identical hormone cures have been shown to significantly reduce fat while the oral estrogen replacements, the artificial pony urine derived estrogens and the synthetic progestins have all been shown to add to weight gain and inflammation.

So if you’re having hot flashes and night sweats, don’t buy more fans, change your sheets each night or hide in the freezer. Get some help with bio-identical hormones and help your body stop fat forming in its tracks. Balancing your hormones will help you effectively lose pounds, sleep more deeply, think more clear, and feel more healthy and energized..

At Andlos Preventive Care Center, Dr. Robert Carlson, Sarasota, Florida treats many sides of growing older thru careful and safe hormone replacement care using bioidentical rather than synthesised hormones. By controlling hormones, Dr. Carlson says millions of baby boomers can be enjoying a dimension of health and approach to life that enables them to live their best healthy lives irrespective of their sequential age.