Aging and Hot Flashes: Surprising Causes and Finding Relief | Dr. Hana Kahleova

A compound that can impact the aging process also seems to affect the severity of hot flashes.

Advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) are often overlooked, but should get a closer examination to slow down the aging process, reduce hot flashes, and improve overall health among women.

Dr. Hana Kahleova shares what AGEs are, what foods have the most, and how different ways of cooking can substantially increase the amount of AGEs. There can be a big difference in the levels for the same food depending on whether it is grilled, boiled, microwaved, or eaten raw.

Dr. Kahleova joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room Podcast with details and insight the foods that fight aging, reduce hot flashes, and improve your health.

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[annefricker]

I only ever had feelings of blushing but never had hot flushes during menopause. Menopause was not traumatic it was the opposite in fact. I wasn’t at the beck and call of ever changing hormone levels.
I put that down to not taking the contraceptive pill or injections etc. Not messing with my hormones.

I limited dairy in my diet at the age of 20 when I realised it put weight on.
I always ate lots of green veg and fruit and veg in general.

When I reached 60 I stopped eating dairy and meat.

[lalalemontini]

This is perfect timing! I need a refresher course now that I'm older. 😊

[suemichaelsen]

Dr. Barnard and other Lifestyle Drs taught Heart Health in Rockford, IL, 1998, with Hans Diehl, PhD. I'd just started getting intense hot flashes. All stopped and never returned, just by stopping dairy and all animal products. Thank you, Dr. Barnard, very much.

[kathysharp]

I had horrible night sweats (permenopause). A year and a half ago, I started using a prescription compounded hormone cream, and that helped immensely. Around the same time, I started eating more WFPB, but it took me several months to get all the way to WFPB. Recently, I ran out of my hormone cream. I learned that it was helping with my mood, but without THE hormone cream, now that I'm fully WFPB, (1) the severity of my mood instability has improved a good bit, and (2) my night sweats are 99.9% gone (with the remaining ones being infrequent and very mild). Yay plants for food 😊 Oh, and I no longer have afternoon fatigue. Pretty sure that resolved when I cut out refined sugar (and any inside talk sweaters) and refined grains (like white bread).

[tanyavella]

I was part of this group! The results were amazing!

[AH-cymd]

I gave this a go, the easy part is eating the soybeans daily, the hard part is that you have to avoid foods that are 3gms or more fat per serving; I did my best at compliance, but didn’t get any noticeable reduction in the hot flashes. Fortunately they’re not as bad as some others experience, it’s been almost three years now, so hopefully the transition will be over soon🤞🏻

[kathryntokarska]

I was going mad not getting enough sleep with hot flashes, waking sweatty, then cold, and back again. Soy beans helped but only for a while and not all the way. A day in a Korean spa and it was gone, I kid you not. Maybe coincidence but so unlikely. I sat in several saunas, including ice, then had a scrubbing of entire body. They scrubbed a lot of dead skin. Then 1 hour massage with I think it was coconut and raw sugar, I can't recall exactly but I remember it was slick and had a hard part. Could it be lymphatic system was stimulated, moved?

[hayleevmealone]

Awesome short one, I love it when Doctor Kahleova is on Exam Room, such an inspiration and wealth of knowledge!

[louisehibbert]

I went WFPB (after being veggie)when i was getting terrible peri symptoms. It improved everything a lot, but i still went through cycles of hot flushes. But i wasnt making a special effort with reducing fat to a really low level. Interesting info, but its just so complicated when there are so many variables to people's diets 🤯

[amandaw]

i suggest you rename this “How to reduce Ages and News on Hot Flashes” as the beginning of this video has fascinating and helpful info for anyone —many may skip this great video if they don’t suffer from Hot Flashes. thanks for the great video!!

[mistygirl]

WFPB diet is the best HOWEVER after twelve years I still have horrible hot-flashes every 45 minutes!!! Soy and diet have not helped me at all. Elimination of one hot flash for me per day is not a payoff for me personally.

[AnHourOfWolves]

I always enjoy these research findings. One potential issue with the study that wasn't addressed was that the control group did not have a treatment of any kind according to the discussion. There is a lot of research that shows any intervention can have an impact similar to placebo. Ideally we would have seen the control population make some change, even if it wasn't in the A.G.E. implicated foods to account for the treatment effects. I do appreciate the discussion on unraveling the affect of soy and A.G.E.s though. Thanks!

[gerard]

To get a true picture of what type of eating did what, would you not have to separate meat from the standard American diet? The observational study on hot flashes stated one group continues with their normal diet and the other participants ate a vegetarian or vegan diet( can’t remember which one). But then all the references are about meat as if the comparison was between a carnivore diet and vegan/ vegetarian diet. So since we don’t know what the other part of the omnivorous diet was, how can we make a proper assessment of what would benefit us individually?

[immersiveexperiences]

Dr. Chuck Carroll, could you recommend or share the names of a bariatric multivitamin and a calcium vitamin ?

[biancamontgomery]

When I keep my diet to only whole fruits, veggies and no highly processed foods my hot flashes are gone

[optimaldietcoach]

No surprise that the results were better with a plant-based diet. Great studies tho, to back up this info!

[lalalemontini]

Does tofu count towards that daily soy recommendation?

[VerifiedVegan]

Why wasn’t the comparison to ROASTED potatoes/vegetables(AGEs are most present in grilled or roasted foods)Boiled potatoes don’t seem like a fair comparison. For reference I’ve been Vegan 30+ years….

[amprionnsa]

*Note:* "The analysis included only the women who completed the trial and the dietary data.", which was only 63 out of the total 84 subjects.

100% funded by PCRM therefore obviously biased.

[kikiob]

So was it the soybeans or the vegan diet? The added soybeans should have been a different vegan group.