A new study shows that women who remain active by exercising through the menopause will experience fewer symptoms, and potentially stop hot flashes completely. Hot flashes are the most common menopause symptom, and the most troublesome. They can attack you during the day – when you’re working, or shopping, or delivering the speech at your son’s wedding – and they can even attack at night as hormonal night sweats. No matter when they happen, hot flashes are uncomfortable and miserable. Is regular exercise really the cure you’ve been looking for?
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Hot flash study
You may not realize it, but there are actually two different kinds of hot flashes. Scientists have split menopausal hot flashes into two different categories: subjective and objective. Many women experience true hot flashes, but sometimes they may also trick themselves into believing they’re having one; this is known as perceived hot flashes. In a recent study of menopausal hot flashes, scientists attempted to analyze only subjective hot flashes to learn more facts about this uncomfortable symptom.
Steriani Elavsky, Associate Professor of Kinesiology at Penn State, led the study that observed 92 menopausal women for 15 days. The scientists learned that physical exercise had a direct effect on hot flashes. Women who were active experienced fewer hot flashes in the 24 hours immediately following their physical activity. Elavsky also noted that women who are overweight or more sedentary in nature are more likely to experience perceptions of hot flashes, which feel like the real thing.
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Women who participated in the study to stop hot flashes were between 40 and 59 years of age, with mild-to-moderate menopause symptoms. None of the study participants were using HRT, hormone replacement therapy, to help manage their menopause. The women were given monitors that measured their skin moisture, and recorded the hot flashes they experienced during the study period. Because of the scientific equipment being used to monitor the women, scientists studied both objective and subjective hot flashes.
Stop hot flashes
The study showed that women who were not overweight and engaged in regular physical activity experienced fewer hot flashes, suggesting that something as simple as diet and exercise could help sufferers stop hot flashes or at least severely reduce them.
Many women fear exercising during menopause, because they believe it will raise their body temperature and trigger hot flashes – not stop them. “For women with mild to moderate hot flashes, there is no reason to avoid physical activity for the fear of making symptoms worse,” Elavsky explained. “Physical activity may be helpful, and is certainly the best way to maximize health as women age.”
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