"Unhealthy lifestyles and genetic conditions can lead to the pancreas overproducing insulin. This excess insulin stimulates the ovaries to produce large amounts of the male hormone testosterone, which may prevent the ovaries from releasing an egg each month, thus causing infertility. High levels of insulin also increase the conversion of androgens (male hormones) to estrogens (female hormones), upsetting a delicate balance between the two and having a direct effect on weight gain and the formation of cystic follicles or ovarian cysts." http://pcos.insulitelabs.com/
Insulin affects so many things - and female hormones. I assume that even post-menapause insulin may still "mess" with hormone balance. Fast 5 and zero carb controll insulin. Since starting fast-5 my pms has become so much better and my periods are shorter and lighter. I only expect it to get better on zero carb.
this could be a reason why your hot flashes have gone away. If you search "low carb hot flashes" in a search engine you will find many people talking about how this has helped them.
rebecca
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@gmail.com > wrote:
I don't know for sure, but my own dietary expliots seem to have stopped "night sweats" for me. I don't think mine were what you call hot flashes though.Asian women, it is said, do not get hot flashes. Some people attribute this to soy, but I basically think the Asian diet makes the whole metabolism work differently, in somewhat the same way Fast-5 does. I basically am doing both: my diet is more Asian than American, and that jump-started my weight loss again. (I don't do soy much though, so I don't think soy is the issue. Soy doesn't have much effect on me one way or the other).
The thing about "carbs" though is that there are a whole lot of issues with them, besides the "carbs". For instance:Potatoes: Contain solanine, which is basically a toxin. Some people handle it better than others.Wheat: About 1/4 of the population has an immune reaction to it, some worse than others.Packaged bread/cookies: Contain a ton of additives, all of which have effects. In the US, iron is added, and the added iron might have something to do with hot flashes.Fruit: contains a fair bit of Vitamin C, which causes iron to be absorbed better (again, may affect hot flashes). Fruit also contains fructose, which is not handled well by a surprisingly large number of people.I'm not on a low carb diet, but most of my carbs come from non-enriched white rice, honey, or fruit (but I don't eat fruit with meat). This works nicely. I don't know why honey would work better than sugar, but it seems to. Plus it tastes better.
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Doris <doris.krucker@yahoo.com > wrote:Hi gys------------
Im on f5 for about 9 months or so.I started lowcarb high fat last sunday
because I just wanted to try it.I was curious how this works for me.
And now all my hotflashes just vanished!?
Well, I never expected this and now I wonder if it will last or if this
is just momentary.
Anyone out there got a clue?
I do love the lowcarb highfat food and I stay on it to see whats happening.
Lots of greetings from Switzerland
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