Hello my name is Dr. Susan Jewell and on behalf of Expert Village I'm going to talk to you about ways to live with menopause. Now, in this clip we're going to talk about alcohol. Now, I never ever recommend drinking alcohol. I think alcohol that has more bad effects than there are benefits. Now when you are a women either entering menopausal stage or actually in menopause, I think you that should avoid drinking alcohol drinking because especially binge drinking because alcohol actually induces more occurrences of and frequency of hot flashes. But if you want to drink alcohol, I just say ok reduce it to maybe half a glass of red wine you know a day. One of the effects of alcohol though is that you know when alcohol, say for example this is a blood vessel here, well when have, when you drink alcohol, alcohol here enters into your blood stream and your blood vessels. What it does is it causes the blood vessels to actually dilate. So dilates means it gets wider. So that what happens then is more blood is able to rush through, rush through the capillary. And when, when the blood actually gets to the surface of the skin more blood rushes to the surface of the skin and it causes more heat from the core body of the temperature to go to the surface. So, you're going to get even hotter. So that's why I feel that to drink alcohol when you're going through menopause is actually a detrimental effect on you and it makes it worse since your hot flash duration and frequency. So avoid drinking alcohol and that's my advice.