Weight Gain At Menopause - How Hot Flashes Are At Fault

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

Menopause and peri-menopause are linked with the damaging loss of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone in ladies and with the increase in total and tummy obesity and hot flashes.

When a woman has hot flashes, her brain is at her ovaries to make the compulsory estrogen her body needs to function correctly. Sadly, the ovaries aren’t listening and the sole structure in a women’s body that is listening is the fat cells in the belly, hips and upper legs.

That’s 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 exceeding 20 to 30 pounds over less than 5 years.

Regardless of what women do if it is exercising, consuming less and eating smarter, they still add weight. That happens 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 belly obesity with balancing of hormones.

And best of all, without hot flashes women will get a better night sleep which leads on to more energy so helping them to think more clearly. With menopause and falling hormone levels, there’s also a rise 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 expansion of the fat cell thus decreasing fat formation in the stomach, hips and thights of the legs. There’s hope. Unfortunately not all estrogens will reduce fat.

The topical bio-identical hormone cures have been shown to dramatically reduce fat while the oral estrogen replacements, the artificial pony urine derived estrogens and the artificial progestins have all been shown to increase 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 fridge. 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 weight, sleep deeper, think more clear, and feel more energized.

At Andlos Preventive Care Center, Dr. Robert Carlson, Sarasota, Florida treats many sides of growing older by way of careful and safe hormone replacement care using bioidentical instead of synthesised hormones. By regulating hormones, Dr. Carlson says millions of baby boomers will be enjoying a dimension of health and approach to living that helps them to live their best healthy lives irrespective of their sequential age.