Controlling Menopause Hot Flashes with Laughter.

Do hot flashes make you laugh? I don’t think so. But what if I told you that laughing could help control hot flashes? Really? Controlling hot flashes is possible just by having a good laugh.

How is this possible when some doctors tell you that controlling hot flashes is a matter of taking some potentially deadly synthetic hormone like Premarin or Prempro? There are other ways to control hot flashes with natural progesterone cream, but the Federal Trade Commission is busy making sure that women have fewer choices by hounding manufacturers and distributors out of existence. So laughing seems like a good, natural, home remedy for the most annoying of menopause symptoms.

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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!)

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Just how does laughing help in controlling hot flashes? The benefits of laughter range from decreased stress hormones to lowering high blood pressure and heart health. Several surveys show that women who control stress well seem to have fewer hot flashes during menopause.

There are many physical changes when we laugh. Muscles stretch throughout the face, neck, and body; respiration increases; pulse and blood pressure rise. All these actions put more oxygen into the bloodstream. Laughing is like a mini-workout without the work. It makes you feel good, is contagious, makes everyone around you feel good, and is just plain fun.

Some exercise like walking is among the list of best natural remedies for hot flashes. As you exercise, endorphins are released into the bloodstream and that makes you feel your best.

Laughter is thought to release endorphins into the brain. Endorphins are produced in our bodies occurring naturally in the brain and bloodstream. Endorphins are similar to the narcotic morphine in their functions. They act by locking into receptors in the nervous system for chemicals that transmit pain message to the brain. Once the pain causing chemicals are blocked, they are prevented from transmitting their messages.

Two recently released studies from researchers at the University of Texas-Austin at the annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine in May 2009 demonstrated the benefits of laughter.

Ten healthy adults in one report watched either a documentary on Nazi death camps or a comedy. Researchers found that the blood vessels were more relaxed from the comedy and that the depressing documentary had the opposite effect and was harmful to the vascular system. Blood vessels of those watching the death camp video were more constricted by about 18%.

Seventeen healthy adults ranging in age from 23-42 in another study watched either a half hour comedy or a half hour documentary in separate sessions a day apart. Blood flowing through the carotid arteries – the main arteries that bring blood to the face and brain – was monitored. Blood flow increased with laughter while watching the comedy, and stayed at a higher level for 24 hours. Blood flow stayed the same from watching the documentary.

So, flip over to the comedy channel, have a good laugh, and get those hot flashes under control.
 

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