Fibroids Nutrition

Frequently Asked Questions

1. QUESTION:
   Nutrition and Uterine Fibroids?
   Hi All! I’m hoping someone can guide me in the right direction for improving my nutrition while trying to treat my uterine fibroids. I may need surgery, but in the meantime, I’d like to make sure I’m helping with my diet (or at least not aiding growth.) I’m aware that I should be avoiding meat products, sugar, spicy foods, dairy and caffeine. Those are the no-brainers. But, I’m getting conflicting info on foods such as: apples, cherries, plums, peanuts, brown rice and oats. These, and others, are on both the “avoid” and the “add to your diet” lists. Anyone have any info and/or suggestions on places to get info? Thanks all.

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2. QUESTION:
   Uterine Fibroids? Any luck shrinking them?
   I was researching nutrition and herbal supplements. I was wondering if anyone has had results.

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     I take a product called DIM(Diindolymethane) it helps to metabolize hormones and helps to produce good estrogen. There are several things that balance hormones calcium d-glucarate, which takes the used or excess estrogen from your body. I also take “cinnamon and Poria” it is good for fibroids and ovarian cysts. There is a product that eats up fibrin, which is what fibroids are made of “Vitalzym” it contains enzymes serrapeptase and protease among other enzymes and ingredients to rid your body of the fibroid. There are several others that contain serrapeptase and nattokinase, that are used for eating the fibrin in your body “Neprinol” and “Fibrovan.” I would go to energeticnutrition website and read about fibroids or go to Dr. William Wongs website www.totalityofbeing.com he talks about fibroids and treats them. There is also a product called UOClear that I forget what website but just type it into google and I am sure that you will find it. The Dim is helping me with the excess estrogen that my body produces that contributes to estrogen growth. The vitalzym i have not taken yet, but will soon. Also stay away from soy or soy based products, meat that is not organic especially red meat, caffeine(if you need energy take some “maca” everyday) thats if you drink it, eat plenty of fiber(this helps your body to get rid of the excess estrogen) if you don’t it will just go back into your body causing further problems, lots of fruits and vegetables.
     Vitex is also good talk to an herbalist about the amounts that you should take.

3. QUESTION:
   Natural Treatments for Breast Fibroids?
   My dear friend (who’s 25 years old) had a breast exam last year and was told she has a breast fibroid about an inch long. As she refuses to get radical treatment like surgery, she’s hoping to at least reduce if not eliminate the growth through alternative means such as nutrition, herbs, energy treatments (qigong, reiki, etc.), and others.

   Maybe someone else out there has experience dealing with this condition?

   Where I live, in Eastern Europe, there’s not the best patient awareness (i.e. doctors helping patients know more) about alternatives, and the info on the web is confusing to me and my friend.

   
   
   

   Please, if you have information about this, let me know. We’re not looking for a prescription, simply helpful advice from others who’ve perhaps faced this themselves.

   Thank you.

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     Hi Natalie, I know 3 therapy for this disease: it is Surgery, Dietary Therapy, and Medicinal Therapy.

     For your friend I have consider dietary therapy – considered to be quite effective for the treatment of breast fibroids. Doctors recommend the following nutritional therapy plan to control breast fibroids:
     * Your friend need switch over to a low-fat, vegetarian diet because a high-fat diet not only causes obesity, but also results in imbalanced oestrogen levels, which is the primary cause of the development of breast fibroids.
     * Your friend need start taking lots of cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage, and high fiber foods like apples. All these increase oestrogen excretion.
     Vitamin-B rich foods such as brown rice, wheat germ and wheat germ oil, and nutritional yeast are also beneficial.
     * Your friend need avoid taking caffeine foods like chocolate, carbonated sodas, concentrated starches like pastries and fatty dairy foods, hormone-laden meats and refined sugars.
     * Also need avoid fried, sugary and salty foods, especially smoked or preserved meats during your menstrual period.
     * Your friend need eat diuretic foods, like cucumbers and watermelons, and dark green leafy vegetables to neutralize and flush out the toxins.
     * And drink plenty of water every day.
     These not complex change on diet can destroy problems your friend, Doctors also most often recommend oral contraceptives to decrease symptoms of breast fibroids.
     If this treatments is not work for your friend, when the breast fibroids fail to disappear even after several attempts at removing the fluid, so exists is only one choice – Surgery. Surgery will involve removing the fibroid lumps from the breast.
     Jason Homan

4. QUESTION:
   Diet and disease: How many of the diseases we experience in America are caused by the food we eat?
   How much are we spending on healthcare to treat diet-caused illnesses?

   From the book Eat To Live by Joel Furhmen, MD:

   ..”People are completely unaware that most illnesses are self-induced and can be reversed with aggressive nutritional methods. …The medical-pharmaceutical business has encouraged people to believe that health problems are hereditary and that we need to swallow poisons to defeat our genes. This is almost always untrue.

   “…My clinical experience over the past ten years has shown me that almost all the major illnesses that plaque Americans are reversible with aggressive nutritional changes designed to undo the damage caused by years of eating a disease-causing diet. ….These conditions…can be effectively prevented or treated through superior nutrition. As their medical problems gradually melt away, patients can be slowly weaned off the medications they have been prescribed.”

   “Dietary-Caused Illnesses with High Prevalence”:

   –acne
   –appendicitis
   –atherosclerosis
   –diabetes (adult)
   –fibromyalgia
   –gout
   –high blood pressure
   –irritable bowel syndrome
   –macular degeneration
   –sexual dysfunction
   –allergies
   –asthma
   –constipation
   –diverticulosis
   –gallstones
   –headaches
   –hypoglemic symptoms
   –kidney stones
   –musculoskelatal pain
   –stroke
   –angina
   –arthritis
   –colonic polyps
   –esophagitis
   –gastritis
   –indigestion
   –lumbar spine syndromes
   –osteoperosis
   –uterine fibroids

   “Not only are common disorders such as asthma associated with increased body weight and our disease-causing diet, but in my experience these diseases are also curable with superior nutrition in the majority of cases. Asthma is an exampleof a disease considered irreversable that I watch resolve regularly. My patients routinely make complete and *predictable* recovery from these illnesses, predominantly through aggressive dietary changes. …Diseases that are considered irreversible I see reversed on a daily basis.”

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     Your info. works for me Amy. One of the major topics in our church is Health. Our Hospital is Loma Linda, Calif. We are killing our selves through our mouth. 5 food groups–Fruit, Veggies, Grains, Nuts, and beans. All washed good and all fresh. I see people totally live on this and they live to be very healthy….and old too. Do I follow this totally being an SDA. I really try. I did not grow up as a Vegetarian but my Boy and family are and they look great. I on the other hand am about 25 lbs over. It is hard to change old, bad habits but we can always keep working on it. With God nothing is impossible. Don’t ever give up doing the very best you can. If you have to eat meat once a week, be sure it is dead as a door knob. Disease comes in the blood and fat. Don’t eat that part. Leviticus 11 tells you the clean meats to eat if you want to follow the Bible from beginning to end and believes the Bible is for”ALL” man kind. Not just yours , mine but Ours. Pray before you go shopping and always have a meal before you go. This is the worst thing you can do is shop hungry. I go through so many Snow Balls this way. Big mistake. Remember it is so hard to learn and concentrate on God when you are sick. That is why He wants us to be healthy.Amy is right, you can reverse illnesses. I have seen that done too. Weight and bad habits is a big one for the U.S. Remember Goodies are a Goodie..not a staple.You get a goodie once a week, and that is it. If you really want to be healthier and lose abit of weight,you can do this, Your obedience to God to take care of this Temple,whom we house for the Holy Spirit, is not impossible. Think,make a list and don’t let your cravings run you. No more Mickie D..those things will kill you. God help us all in this area. Love always in Christ..missleslie

5. QUESTION:
   Uterine Fibroids? Any luck shrinking them?
   I was researching nutrition and herbal supplements. I was wondering if anyone has had results.

   • ANSWER:
     I found out I had fibroids while trying to get pregnant a few years ago. Have a bunch of them. They were the “good” kind on the outside of the uterus. When I got pregnant with my twins, they got huge, like the size of a baseball. After I had my girls they shrunk back down. At my last appt about a year ago, they were small again and not a problem. My twin sister went to the doctor recently and I think she has the “bad kind” but we are still waiting on the final test results. That kind I don’t believe shrink and she will probably have the operation to remove them.