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Article: Rocket Science.(causes of hot flashes)(Brief Article)
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- Internal Medicine News
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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Aerospace technology is helping unlock a longstanding mystery of menopause-- the physiology of hot flashes. Using a NASA-developed telemetry pill that transmits data on core body temperature, Dr. Robert R. Freedman found that hot flashes are triggered by small temperature elevations. The thermoneutral zone--the body temperature range within which peripheral vasodilation, sweating, and shivering don't ...