{"id":9729,"date":"2010-07-18T05:20:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T10:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=9729"},"modified":"2015-11-26T03:47:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T08:47:21","slug":"i-pickle-myself-into-hot-flashes-and-night-sweats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/i-pickle-myself-into-hot-flashes-and-night-sweats\/","title":{"rendered":"I pickle myself into hot flashes and night sweats"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote at I\u2019ve been making crisp, quick pickled watermelon rind <\/a>that I’ve been making pickles this week, and also the past two weeks eating – almost daily – Hummus and Babaganoush<\/a> with lots of fresh garlic and mediterreanean pickles<\/a> on the side.\u00a0 I love spicy, flavorful foods, especially when they’re low fat and healthy.\u00a0 Even when I eat a can of Campbell’s chicken noodle soup, I add a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar and a splash of srichacha sauce<\/a>. The past year I noticed I’ve had far fewer hot flashes than usual, but this week I began having them again and Friday night I had the night sweats for the first time in many months.\u00a0 As I looked over my food journal to remind me what I ate Friday, I saw that I’d eaten pickles all day long.<\/p>\n

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I Googled “do pickles cause hot flashes” and got a bunch of search results that say yes they can.\u00a0 My first thought was “Phooey!” and my second thought was that Friday I’d eaten far more pickles than I have in a year because I was testing recipes.\u00a0 My digestive tract loved the pickles but apparently my thermostat does not.\u00a0 Ok, one more reminder, everything in moderation.<\/p>\n

The biggest thing that helped me with hot flashes was to change how I thought about them.\u00a0 If I dreaded them coming and made a production of pulling my hair up, and fanning my collar and fanning myself, I seemed to stay in them longer.\u00a0 When I began noticing them with the thought that, this will be over in a moment, let me enjoy the little mini sweat lodge that is releasing toxins for me and making me lighter and clearer, they seemed to past faster.<\/p>\n

I do enjoy having less of them now, maybe I’m at the end of that cycle.\u00a0 Yay for evolution and yes, even yay for aging.\u00a0 I’m not getting older, I’m getting better.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Mystical Menopause, Sage-ing While Aging<\/a>
\nHot flashes are easing up just as I began enjoying them <\/a>
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