Black Cohosh

Do you get hot flashes? Along with edamame, you may want to take the herb black cohosh, which my patients find to be very helpful. Black cohosh stabilizes the functioning of the autonomic nervous system, which can decrease hot flashes and night sweats.

I recommend that women who are perimenopause begin supporting their body with black cohosh and edamame. If more support is needed, consider fish oil. Canadian researchers studied 91 women with hot flashes (an average of 2.8 a day) and found that those who consumed fish oil had an average decline of 1.6 hot flashes a day, compared to an average decline of only 0.5 in the placebo group.