Hot flashes usually occur in women who are starting to go through menopause, their hormone levels are changing, with around 85% of women experiencing these unpleasant symptoms at some point. While hormone replacement therapy and other medications can reduce hot flashes, not all women want to undergo this type of treatment. Magnesium and vitamin E are two alternative treatments used to limit hot flashes.

Hot flashes usually occur in women who are starting to go through menopause, their hormone levels are changing, with around 85% of women experiencing these unpleasant symptoms at some point. While hormone replacement therapy and other medications can reduce hot flashes, not all women want to undergo this type of treatment. Magnesium and vitamin E are two alternative treatments used to limit hot flashes.

Magnesium and hot flashes

Taking 400 to 800 milligrams of magnesium per day (depending on the type of intestine if taken orally, with introduction through the skin the doses are smaller because absorption is higher and that is 90%) helps women in menopause. Why is that so?

Because magnesium affects the production of stress hormones – if the body is sufficiently supplied with the mineral magnesium, it can neutralize the increased release of cortisol in the body.

And menopausal women and their bodies go through one of the most stressful stages in their lives with the very process of losing their periods. Something that is responsible for the reproduction and hormonal level of every woman ceases to exist, or even better, it shuts down in the body and stops working forever.

Tocopherol or as we call it vitamin E and hot flashes

Translated from Greek, tocopherol means the one who brings offspring, improves the function of the sexual organs in women, normalizes hormones, the secretion of estrogen and progesterone, contributes to the maturation of oocytes, egg cells that are released from the ovaries during ovulation.

Evidence of the benefits of vitamin E. A study published in “Gynecological and Obstetrical Research” in 2007 showed that taking 400 units of vitamin E per day in combination with magnesium (why magnesium? Because vitamin E needs it to work its mechanism in the body) reduces frequency of hot flashes by about 57 percent and stops weight gain problems by about 32 percent. I would like to remind you that vitamin E should not be taken by heart due to the possibility of side effects. But if it is taken through diet we can be sure that it will help in its natural form.

Recommended use

For moderate to severe hot flashes, doctors often prescribe a drug that contains estrogen. And vitamin E itself normalizes the secretion of estrogen in a natural way.

Food containing natural vitamin E: Swiss chard, parsley, avocado, olives, almonds.