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Your Inner Thermostat

In a small lab study, women without hot flashes had a 0.4 C comfort zone between sweating and shivering. Women with hot flashes: 0.0 C.

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A hot flash isn’t random. It’s your thermostat.

In a small lab study of postmenopausal women, those without hot flashes had a 0.4 °C buffer between sweating and shivering. Those with hot flashes had none, so a small rise in body heat may be enough to set one off.

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The studies behind it

  1. Freedman RR, Krell W. Reduced thermoregulatory null zone in postmenopausal women with hot flashes. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1999;181(1):66-70.

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