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1BChapter 2 – All About Uterine fibroids
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How Do Your Hormones and Menstrual Cycle Affect
Fibroid Growth?
While most doctors will admit that they do not know exactly what causes
fibroids, they do know this: a woman’s hormones can – and do –affect the rate
of growth of fibroids and may even be an underlying cause of their formation
in the first place.
Holistic practitioners often refer to the hormone web when explaining to
patients how their hormones may be affecting their fibroids. Unless every
aspect a woman’s hormonal system is working at peak capacity, problems
(such as fibroid tumors) may occur. Hormones that are blocked from getting to
the right cells, will settle somewhere else – maybe even the uterus – and can
induce those cells to begin reproducing unnaturally. That, they say, may be
one cause of fibroids.
Traditional medical practitioners, agree with some aspects of that theory. They
do admit that hormones play a part in the formation and growth of fibroids, but
blame instead an increase in estrogen and progesterone in the female body. It
has been cited by researchers that fibroid tumors grow more quickly when
high levels of these two hormones are found in the patient’s body. That may
explain why the two most common times to experience fibroid growth is during
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