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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

Yes, you could use a bit of a laugh.
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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.

Why is it that some people gain more weight than others? Here is one explanation.
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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.

Just in time for Easter! If you have to have sweets, eat the "cooler" ones.
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No HRT offered after the WHI study. My hot flashes were horrid until I followed a diet of food choices based on their thermal properties as described in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Gave up "hot" foods, ate fewer "warm" foods and ate more "neutral," "cool," and "cold" foods. Relief!

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?

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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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.

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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JEWELED RICE This is an easy-to-make, minimally spiced version of Persian wedding rice which will be less likely to incite hot flashes.

Celebrate the first day of Spring (also Persian New Year or Nowruz) tomorrow with this colorful recipe.
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The Best Time to Eat and Why Work with your body’s rhythms to help minimize two conditions made worse with menopause.

Gaining weight in menopause? Here is a great synopsis of the current thinking and what to do. menopausedietplan.substack.com/p/the-best-t...

CHICKPEA CURRY Serves 4

Here's a somewhat "cooled" down recipe for a chickpea curry. Enjoy!
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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.

Is Mother Earth having hot flashes and night sweats? How seaweed can help subdue these symptoms for you and her.
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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 ...

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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GUACAMOLE DIP & CORN TORTILLA CHIPS Easy to pull together and a crowd pleaser.

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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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.

All fired up for the big game on Sunday or just fired up in general? #hotflash
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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).

What you can do for winter hot flashes: lesliegirmscheid.substack.com/p/hot-flashe...
Feel free to share. #hotflashes #menopause #TCM

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.

My latest article: lesliegirmscheid.substack.com/p/the-right-...

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.

For those of you highly sensitive persons undergoing perimenopause, this one's for you. lesliegirmscheid.substack.com/p/perimenopa...

I’m feeling this so hard, right now. Menopause sucks.

Or at least a dirk like Claire from Outlander.

HOT FLASHES! What the Hell Can I Do? When I say hot flashes are my passion, there is no affection, only an ardent desire to help those who are plagued deal with this misery.

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Me, too. I finally learned that each time I went down to the basement for something to just bring up a roll of paper towels. That was usually the reason.

Who knew that estrogen was a mild anti-inflammatory agent? I sure didn't.

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.

My second Substack newsletter (free to subscribe) came out today. #hotflashes #menopause #perimenopause
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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...

Just starting out and catching up. Here's my first Substack article from November 5th, 2024. open.substack.com/pub/lesliegi...

AutisticMenopause.com Visit the post for more.

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 can only guess.

She is, I just saw some entries. Also HotFlashDiet here for help with choosing foods to avoid and those that will help cool out hot flashes. Check out my website at www.hotflashdiet.com