How To Cope With Hot Flashes

4. Vitamin E

Vitamin E has antioxidant properties in the body, which help reduce hot flashes by lowering overall inflammation. A 2007 Iranian study found that women who took four hundred international units of vitamin E daily for four weeks had significantly fewer hot flashes. Vitamin E is easily obtained from food sources such as nuts and seeds; however, supplementing appears to work quite well also. Aim for four hundred international units a day taken with meals as vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin that requires dietary fat for proper absorption.