Hot Flashes Are Not Something to "Tough Out”!
Almost 80% of women experience hot flashes and contrary to popular belief, those flashes typically last 7 to 10 years. The impact on work, sleep, sexuality, and quality of life is irrefutable. Even if you are willing to spend years dressing in layers and being exhausted, what is now appreciated is that the impact of hot flashes goes far beyond the misery of feeling like you are in a sauna. There is scientific evidence that hot flashes increase the risk of developing heart disease and other serious medical conditions.
◆Hot Flash Hell: A gynecologist’s guide to turning down the heat, will walk you through everything you need to know about what to expect, how to know if you are in perimenopause or menopause, and all of your options to alleviate those all day, all night surges of heat. Follow Francey, a 49-year-old perimenopausal woman, who almost loses her job from her inability to function, as she explores lifestyle, hormonal and non-hormonal options to ultimately find a solution. There is even a guide to the use of cannabis (marijuana) including why it helps and what kind helps the most!
Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist’s Guide to Turning Down the Heat, is part two of Dr. Streicher's Inside Information Series, a collection of solution-driven and highly entertaining books targeting specific issues that mid-life women face as they navigate perimenopause and post-menopause. The reader will get to know 49-year-old Francey as she navigates vaginal dryness, hot flashes, dating, cancer, losing her libido, and incontinence. Each book in the series stands alone or can be read in combination.
Dr. Lauren Streicher is a best-selling author, a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University’s Medical School, the Feinberg School of Medicine, a Certified Menopause Practitioner of The North American Menopause Society, and the founder and Medical Director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Menopause and the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine. She is routinely interviewed as a reliable, accurate source for national publications such as The New York Times, Newsweek, the Associated Press, and dozens of magazines. She is the Medical Correspondent for Chicago's top-rated news program, the WGN Morning News, and she has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, NPR, Dr. Radio, Nightline, The Dr. Oz Show, Fox and Friends, The Steve Harvey Show, CBS This Morning, ABC News Now, NBC Nightly News, 20/20, and World News Tonight.
