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What happens inside your body during a hot flash

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What happens inside your body during a hot flash
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For a woman in her mid-40s to mid-50s, it arrives without warning. She wakes up, overheated, wondering why it’s so hot in the house—until she sees the thermostat is set for 70 degrees, same as always. Or, she’s midway through a work presentation when heat rises from her chest to her face, and she wonders if the flush on her cheeks is visible to everyone in the room. 



It’s a hot flash—a rite of passage for the majority of women in either perimenopause, the years leading up to menopause, o

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