Hot flashes can have very serious health complications and should not be lightly dismissed. If they interfere with a woman's sleep they can devastate a woman's health.

There are not many absolute requirements for optimal health, but a good night sleep is one of them.

Sleep impairment is such an important requirement for health, that this is one of the few exceptions I will consider using estrogen in the short-term to relieve the hot flashes if a person fails to respond to black cohosh.

However, estrogen has its own complications, the main one being breast cancer.

So, effective alternatives are appreciated.

Clearly, it appears that the newer antidepressants maybe helpful in the treatment of hot flashes. We can thank Eli Lilly, the maker of Prozac, for this information as they funded the study.

However, it is clear that these antidepressants also have their own side effects as the article notes.

Interestingly the antidepressants only worked 50% of the time and placebo worked a full 1/3 of the time.

Now, let us not so quickly dismiss the placebo effect. It is a very real effect and was nearly as potent as the drug.

One truth that most of us really don't appreciate is that whatever you focus your concentration, attention and belief system on, you are likely to receive some beneficial results.

Unfortunately, traditional medicine has never formulated a system to take advantage of this physiological truth.

But guess what folks, others have done it for you.

Positive mental attitudes clearly work, but they don't work for everyone. The reason they tend not to be universally effective is that many people's belief systems are blocked or psychologically reversed on the specific issue.

Even though they desperately want something, their subconscious is retaining a belief that contradicts them from achieving the goal. This is frequently due to previous friends or well-intentioned relatives who made an impression on their brain at an earlier date.

Fortunately there are tools that will help you eliminate this emotional block.

The main tool that I find helpful is EFT . It seems to work profoundly well for removing these types of blocks and thus allowing the full power of your mental capacities to stimulate and produce desired physical changes in your body.

From a hot flash perspective, I have seen EFT work for many women where estrogen did not even seem to help. I routinely use EFT to help people resolve many of their long-standing physical complaints.

For simpler problems self-administered EFT can be quite effective. For more complex problems, you will most likely want to work with a knowledgeable health care and EFT practitioner. You can review my EFT Resource page for further details.

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