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Does anyone know if there is anything I can do about these fibroids? Is there a special diet or supplements? How about a pregnancy tea? Help! 
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I don't know Ruth, and it looks as if no one else does either.  I hope you are feeling better and that you get some answers to this post from ladies in similiar situations soon. Drink that water!!!!
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I just ran across this recently. Maybe there is something you can use. The author is pretty 'earthy' and I she seems new-ageish, but she is one of the top herbalists for women's health.
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Bridget wrote:
I just ran across this recently. Maybe there is something you can use. The author is pretty 'earthy' and I she seems new-ageish, but she is one of the top herbalists for women's health.
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I just saw this. Thanks, Bridget. I'll take a look at it.
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Several years ago, when I asked CCL about dietary changes and fibroids, I received the following response from Keith Bower:
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Fibroids are considered a sign of estrogen dominance. During your pregnancy your body will have a rest from the production of estrogen, so there is not much else you need do for this time and during the postpartum amenorrhea. Our suggestion would be to consider ecologically breastfeeding your baby to extend this natural hiatus from ovarian estrogen as long as nature allows.
Once you return to cycles after childbirth, you might follow the nutritional and herbal approaches below to reduce estrogen dominance. While you are pregnant and nursing, be cautious of any supplement that might contain estrogen precursors, such as flax oil, evening primrose, red clover, and unfermented soy products. These could "feed the fibroid" even though you are in a natural state of rest from estrogen. There are also some environmental sources of estrogen (xenoestrogens) that might also influence this, such as exposure to petroleum fumes, formaldehyde, pesticides, and any chemical with a phenol ring in it.
The progesterone your baby is supplying right now is the best antidote to estrogen dominance. If it were possible to stay pregnant and nursing right up until premenopause, you might avoid fibroids without doing anything else. Estrogen dominant disorders were once called "nuns' diseases" because women who bore children seldom had them. However, there are a few possible reasons why even mothers of large families who ecologically breastfeed are starting to exhibit these diseases. I've mentioned the estrogen-pollution from chemical sources. There are also estrogens added to livestock feed, which make it through animal fat and dairy products. Another possible source may be widespread use of birth control steroids and their effect on pituitary-hypothalmic regulation of natural sex hormones. These steroids make it into our drinking water and it doesn't take much concentration to have adverse results. Your hypothalmus monitors estrogen levels in parts per TRILLION (picograms), so almost homeopathic amounts could cause changes in a woman's uterine myometrium.
Another possible reason for these diseases could lie in the effects of modern-day stressful living on progesterone production.
Progesterone is the "master molecule" from which stress hormones as well as sex hormones are made. A mother with the demands of young children and insufficient help may find her store of available progesterone depleted due to the overwhelming demands on her thyroid and adrenal glands, which produce progesterone. There is no corpus luteum from ovulation at this time to help supplement progesterone. Such a situation could lead to further estrogen dominance and enlargement of the fibroids.
My wife wound up in this condition and developed a cantaloupe-sized fibroid shortly after the return of her postpartum cycles. By Providence we were able to find a good OB-GYN who consented to remove the fibroid and save her uterus. (Three other doctors demanded she have a hysterectomy for her "hopeless condition.") She started using natural progesterone cream around that time, and her fibroids have not returned. Her cycles are now the most regular that they have ever been and this fosters balance among the hormones as well. Long, delayed ovulations increase the amount of time during the cycle under which the woman's body is subjected to estrogen. She also started drinking bottled water, and lots of it. Nothing helps the body remove toxins better than adequate hydration of the tissues.
You might want to consider some of the approaches below after your cycle returns. Do not do anything during the pregnancy without first consulting your doctor. AVOID the natural progesterone approach during pregnancy. The baby is already supplying plenty of progesterone. Only a obstetrician is competent to manage the administration of supplementary progesterone during pregnancy.
Hope you have a healthy pregnancy and a happy baby,
God bless,
Keith Bower, CCL
From our Counselors' Notebook:
Fibroids are benign tumors that are dependent on estrogen for their growth. They will often shrink considerably or disappear completely after menopause, when estrogen levels naturally decrease.
Nutritional Approach:
Concentrate on a diet low in estrogenic foods, such as fat, meat, dairy, eggs. Eat whole grains, fish, fresh fruits, organic chicken, greens.
Food fiber helps increase the intestinal clearance of estrogen.
Vitamin B6 helps clear excess estrogen.
Hormonal Approach
Natural progesterone treatment: (What your Doctor may not tell you about Menopause, John R. Lee M.D.; Warner Books, 1996, available from CCL)
Progesterone cream may help. Depending on the amount of progesterone in the cream, 1/8 to 1/2 tsp. of the cream daily may help. Best way to know if you are taking enough is whether or not your symptoms are relieved. Recommended amount of progesterone is 400 mg per ounce of cream.
If a woman is premenopausal and uses progesterone cream before ovulation, it may signal the brain to suppress ovulation and thus could suppress the body’s own production of progesterone. If the cream is used after ovulation then it will just augment whatever progesterone is released by the ovary (The John Lee M.D. Medical Letter, October 1998, Pg. 7).
Wild Yam Cream:
John Kippley recommends using wild yam cream. Begin using the cream on the third day of temperature shift or Peak +3, and discontinue it on the first day of heavy bleeding. Use 1/8 tsp. twice a day. Apply the cream by gently rubbing into skin: back of the hands (nights only), inside of elbows, inside of upper arms and upper legs, neck and face. Vary the place of application to keep the absorption rate high.
Wild yam cream is not a progesterone cream. Therefore it is not a hormone. Women experience a progesterone like response when using the cream. The active ingredient is diosgenin. The diosgenin molecule is very close to the natural human progesterone molecule. In theory, the diosgenin of the wild yam provides the nutrient that enables the corpus luteum to produce ample amounts of progesterone.
There is some variation in the amount of diosgenin available in different brands of wild yam cream. The marketers of one brand, "Born Again", state that it contains the highest amount of diosgenin-0.12%. However, this test did not include some brands available only through multi level marketing- such as Resolve.
Precautions: Both flax oil and wild yam may increase your thyroid activity. Therefore, if you are currently on thyroid medication, discuss with your physician the symptoms of too much thyroid and how you should cut back on the medication if and when your thyroid starts to perform normally under the influence of either or both of these nutrients.
Herbal Approach
Take 2 Chaparral Capsules (see below) 3 X a day for 3 months (Herbal Healing for Women; Rosemary Gladstar; Simon and Schuster, 1993).
1 part chaparral powder 1 part yellow dock root powder
1 part pau d’arco powder 1 part vitex (chaste berry) powder
Shepherd’s purse (including seed pods and flowers): A renowned remedy for women who are hemorrhaging from the uterus. Drink the tea freely, at least a cup daily. Use the tincture by the dropperful, placing it directly under the tongue if the flooding is severe. Results may be seen as quickly as a few hours.
Women with fibroids may need to continue daily use of shepherd’s purse for several months. |
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