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22BHow 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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