Women's Menopause Health Center

Hot Flash Control

Need to control a hot flash? As with any natural menopause program, using a high quality progesterone cream like Preserve progesterone cream to control hot flash symptoms is highly recommended. Exercise and diet also play key roles in hot flash control.

Diosgenin cream ingredients | Benefits diosgenin cream | How to use diosgenin cream.  |  Return to Eden Diosgenin (nicknamed Progesterone) Cream. Do you remember our newsletter last year detailing how Wyeth Pharmaceuticals was attempting to stop compounding pharmacists from prescribing natural progesterone (diosgenin) after their profits fell by more than 57%  from $2.07 billion in 2003 to $800 million in 2004 (after the WHI study had to be stopped)? Well, now they have gone after centers like ours making complaints to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).  The FTC's position backed by the big pharmaceutical companies is that Dr. John Lee, M.D.'s studies were not scientific and did not rise to the standard of FDA and National Institutes of Health studies, and that our claims about natural progesterone are false, unfair, deceptive, misleading advertising in violation of the law..  (Please read what Dr. Helen Pensanti M.D. has to say about this. Read on to how the study was conducted.)   This is an attempt to force women into taking unsafe proven cancer causing synthetic hormones using your tax dollar to harass natural hormone suppliers. We here at the Women's Menopause Health Center refuse to take away your choice of a healthy alternative to Premarin, Prempro and the other dangerous drugs. We are taking a stand against this heavy handed attempt to destroy competition. We are going to fight for your choice of a healthy way to get through menopause comfortably and safely. (Ed. note: This was from our newsletter last year. The continued harassment by the FTC has caused us to discontinue our wonderful product.  Do not be forced into taking something that can kill you. You may purchase safe progesterone cream at your local health food store, or find it a lot less expensively on line at places like ebay and yahoo stores. Do not let these heavy handed tactics destroy your health!)

Hot flashes are the most common complaint of menopause and hot flash control is the most common reason women use hormone replacement therapy. Some women have found apple cider vinegar an effective too in the control of hot flash symptoms and have shared their advice and recipes in Annie’s Mailbox (formerly Dear Ann Landers).

A June 2004 Annie's Mailbox picks up the hot flash topic with more apple cider vinegar recipes. Below is the portion of the column that deals with hot flashes.

Dear Annie: I saw your response to "Suffering in Marianna, Fla.," about putting apple cider vinegar in tea to relieve hot flashes, and I thought I'd send my recipe for a homemade salad dressing. This is a very tasty way to get your apple cider vinegar. I keep it in a jar in the fridge.

Apple Cider Vinegar Salad Dressing .

1 cup apple cider vinegar
1 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup fresh-squeezed lemon juice.

Mix ingredients, shake in a jar, pour on your greens and enjoy! -- A.L.

Dear A.L.: Thank you. Salad dressing may be a more palatable way for some women to get apple cider vinegar into their diet. Here's one more:

Dear Annie: Vinegar in tea? Surely you jest. I'm originally from the South, and we would never ruin our tea like that. I have a better suggestion:

Boil cored green cabbage and two or three medium potatoes. Remove the cabbage and potatoes from the broth. Now here is the good part. Take the broth and some apple cider vinegar, add salt and pepper to taste, and drink it like coffee. Our family has been doing this for over 40 years, and there is never a drop left. -- Milwaukee

Dear Milwaukee: For some people, vinegar in tea is easier to contemplate than potato-cabbage broth, but to each his own. Our thanks for the suggestions.

This recent round of apple cider vinegar recipes follows a letter published in January 2004;

Dear Annie: A while ago, I read a letter in your column from a woman in Canada who discovered her hot flashes disappeared when she started using apple cider vinegar. I'd like to know how much she took and how often.

I am a breast cancer survivor and had to stop taking hormones. I also cannot use soy products for the same reason. Now the hot flashes and night sweats are absolutely horrible. If there is any possibility that vinegar will help, I want to try it.

Thank you, and keep up the good work in your column. -- Suffering in Marianna, Fla.

Dear Suffering: Quite a few women wrote to us, asking for more details. Here is what we were told: Put one-half teaspoon of apple cider vinegar in a cup of tea (or other drink) once or twice a day. Can't hurt. Might help. Let us know.

And that letter follows a hot flash control letter from August 2003;
"I was taking apple cider vinegar for another health issue when I realized that my hot flashes had disappeared. I quit for three days, and the flashes came back with a vengeance. I am into my sixth month on apple cider vinegar and have only had hot flashes those two times. As for mood swings, I have had none. Drink real apple cider or apple cider vinegar, not pills."