During the treatments, the women wore skin monitors with electrodes and
kept diaries of when they had hot flashes, how often, how severe they were, and what might have triggered flashes, such as stress, spicy
foods or being in a hot room.
An elimination diet is cutting out, perhaps slowly, one by one so you don't have a lot of withdrawal symptoms, cutting out coffee, cutting out alcohol, cutting out fried
foods, and then you cut out meat, and then you cut out oils, and then you cut out carbs, and then you cut out cooked vegetables and you get down to the point where you are just eating raw and you see how you feel, and you
keep a
diary during that time.