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Meno herb and returning hot flushes
As a regular reader of your articles, I recently stopped taking HRT and switched to Menoherb. This has helped enormously, especially with my painful periods, but after four months, the hot flushes have come back. What else should I be doing?
The human body is no respecter of medical textbooks and does not maintain the kind of status quo clinicians might wish for. In other words, it is in a constant state of change and flux and so, as you are experiencing for yourself, a natural remedy that works for you today, might not work as well tomorrow.
If this happens, the first thing you need to do is adjust the dosage you are taking. Menoherb is a hugely popular mix of phytoestrogens – plant chemicals such as Red Clover that mimic hormones in the body – that has become a widespread natural replacement for HRT.
The maintainence dose, if you are taking Menoherb to help alleviate the symptoms of both perimenopause and menopause is two capsules a day, but since the hot flushes have returned, you need to increase this for a while to two capsules, three times a day.
You will not overdose because phytochemicals are a thousand times weaker than synthetic hormones and they also work, cleverly, to raise or lower hormone levels, depending on what the body needs; i.e. you can use them to accommodate the fluctuations I describe above.
Another nutrient that will help alleviate hot flushes if you take it alongside Menoherb is vitamin E. This works to support vascular function and reduce inflammation. The therapeutic daily dose is 400 IUs (International Units). You can mail order both these remedies from Victoria Health (0800-413596) where Menoherb costs £18.95 for 90 capsules and where Lifetime’s vitamin E is £11.95 for 90 soft gel capsules.