If you‘re 48 years old and are flashing all day and all night, odds are your broken internal thermostat is a sign of low estrogen. BUT MENOPAUSE IS NOT THE ONLY THING THAT CAUSES HOT FLASHES! This segment goes through all the other reasons that someone has hot flashes. 
In this episode, Dr. Streicher covers:

What a woman experiences when she has a hot flash
Typical situations in which hot flashes are NOT because of menopause
Medical  conditions and medications that can trigger hot flashes


More Information on Hot Flashes

Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat

Episode 2:Think Your Hot Flashes Can't Kill You? Think Again!
Episode 23: Welcome to Peri-menopause
Episode 31 The TRUTH About Hormone Therapy: Does it CAUSE or Does it PREVENT Breast Cancer?
Episode 32: Are Your Hot Flashes Making You Foggy: Forgetful? with Dr. Pauline Maki
Episode 36 How to Know You are in Menopause if You Never Get Periods 

Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause. She is a certified menopause practitioner of the North American Menopause Society. 

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Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGN Morning News, and has been seen on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, NPR, Dr. Radio, Nightline, Fox and Friends, The Steve Harvey Show, CBS This Morning, ABC News Now, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and World News Tonight. She is an expert source for many magazines and serves on the medical advisory board of The Kinsey Institute, Self Magazine, and Prevention Magazine. She writes a regular column for The Ethel by AARP and Prevention Magazine. 
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Books by Lauren Streicher, MD

 Slip Sliding Away: Turning Back the Clock on Your Vagina-A gynecologist’s guide to eliminating post-menopause dryness and pain

Hot Flash Hell: A Gynecologist's Guide to Turning Down the Heat

Sex Rx- Hormones, Health, and Your Best Sex Ever

The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy