Very interesting you mentioned fad diets a little while ago. Is there a fad diet that seems to be more common among women going through menopause than others? Yes, they try keto and a lot of women to combat the weight gain, especially around the midsection and keto, does work with hot flashes.
It resolves hot flashes for a lot of women, but the problem is they can’t stay on it. They don’t feel well after a while with in the absence of carbs. You know the adrenals and the thyroid start to conk out a bit and become really sluggish and energy levels begin to drop and weight loss plateaus.
So I think keto is great, short term. I actually just did a whole Youtube video on this keto, i think, is great for like a month, maybe three at most, but then also what people don’t realize is keto diets can really drive up your TSH, your thyroid stimulating hormone, to super duper high levels. So short term, I think it’s okay. But long term, you really need to add carbs, or at least adding carbs on your workout days, to help up regulate your thyroid and keep you feeling energized, help you sleep well, all of those things and long term.
Again. The hot flash issue can also be solved with hrt. If you solve it with diet, that’s great, but the the other issue i have with keto is a lot of people get a fatty liver on it so or it exacerbates an already fatty sluggish liver.
So i’m. Not a fan of keto long term and the reality is, i don’t know anybody who sustains it like the most excited. Dieters are the dieters who’ve been on it. You know the first week they’re. Like i’m doing keto, i’m doing whole30.
I’m, doing a cleanse. I’m like great. What’s going to happen to you day 31 right? Where then, what and like i? I have a really close girlfriend from college on and she every year it’s, the same 10 pound yo-yo every january, it’s.
Buying a treadmill, then the treadmill got traded in for the peloton and then like, and then you know every year toll 30 up and down up and down up and like just sustain you got ta just sustain and build in the ridiculously boring gloriously unsexy habits of Consistency there’s, no magic formula; it’s, just um.
You mentioned about the the keto and the hot flashes. What’s? The mechanism by which keto might help hot flashes? I don’t. Think i’ve run into that for a preview yeah. I’m, not exactly sure myself joe, i really uh anyone pipe in on the listener comments.
I’m, not sure i haven’t delved into the research. Yet i’m, not sure. If it’s, blood sugar versus adrenal support um, you know a lot of hot flashes can be triggered by um hypoglycemia. So i and the adrenals you know and and menopause by the way.
So this is a backward answer, a back route securities route. To get to your uh question. I do that a lot myself yeah i mean menopause – is an adrenal issue. If your adrenals are in a poor state or your hormones are in a poor state because you’ve, been you know, a lot of people.
I see go on the pill at age. You know 16 to 18., then they go off at to have kids. Then they go back on marina or iud and then menopause hits and their hormone production is so severely depressed and then it just keeps getting lower and lower and lower.
That is one issue that can cause the hot flashes. Okay, so your adrenals have kind of taken a beating over the years and you’re tired and then you’re drinking wine, a lot or eating a lot of sugar to kind of numb.
Just dial check out the stress right. So by the time you hit your 50s, your adrenals are poor. Maybe your stress, uh management, hasn’t, been great up until now, and so uh keto. You know higher protein diets.
Keto’s. A lot higher than fat, even but higher protein diets, um with fat, are going to sustain your blood sugar and support your adrenals. And so, when you’re and your adrenals really help regulate your blood sugar balance, along with your pancreas, of course.
But um when your blood sugar is more stable, you’re less prone to making hot flashes is the short answer.
