05/04/2026
Hot flushes aren’t just hormones being weird (even if it feels that way sometimes).
There’s an actual mechanism behind them and once you understand it, you stop feeling like your body is working against you.
When oestrogen drops, it affects your hypothalamus. That’s the part of your brain that controls body temperature. It becomes hypersensitive. A tiny shift and your brain thinks you’re overheating so it triggers a flush to cool you down.
You’re not unfixable. Your brain is responding to a signal.
The question is what’s driving the drop.
Three areas worth investigating:
1. Your oestrogen fluctuation, not just where your levels sit on a single test, but how much they’re moving around.
2. Your cortisol — chronic stress amplifies hot flushes because it competes directly with your s*x hormones.
3.Your liver is responsible for clearing used oestrogen from your body. When it’s sluggish, oestrogen metabolites accumulate and symptoms get louder.
If you’ve been told to just push through surely you are done with that narrative, you deserve better answers than that.
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