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Hot Flashes Explained

You are talking to an important client, all of a sudden, a hot flash hits you. Or you think a hot flash hit you. Red, sweating, flooding, shakin'? A hot flashed defined medically is a set of 'vasomotor symptoms' triggered by 'thermoregulatory dysfunction.', don't even try to say "thermoregulatory" fast  Medically speaking this is a set of electrical signals that we regulate this through a circuit of information: the core of our body sending temperature signals to the various centers that contribute to temperature regulation in the brain, the brain it self and the peripheral vascular system (your blood arteries and veins) which the brain signals to make the blood vessels dilate, i.e. release heat, and release it rapidly, or contract: conserve it, save it, store it, which as you know, goes more slowly. The core temperature is a powerful influence on how we feel and how we sweat. Our core temp has an upper threshold, called a set point, beyond which ...