Hot Flushes & Night Sweats (Ep 4)

What The Peri? - With Kirsten Cooke · Aug 6, 2026 · 36m · transcript

Have you ever been mid-sentence in a meeting, or standing at the front of a room full of people, when a wave of heat rolls up your chest and neck, your face flushes, you start to sweat — and you have to carry on as if nothing's happening? Or woken at 3am drenched, heart pounding, wide awake, wondering what on earth is going on with your body? Hot flushes and night sweats are the symptom everyone jokes about — and the one almost nobody actually explains. I've had one hit me mid-class, microphone on, teaching Reformer in front of a full studio. I know that exact kind of alone.

This week I'm…