If you have fibroids then I really urge you to continue reading. I hope sharing my story will help you as well. Educating yourself on how and why your fibroids are growing out of control will be one of the best things you can do for yourself. It's not hard for you to educate yourself. I'm not a doctor or anything and I was able to do it on my own and shrink my fibroids without any surgery. It's the first step towards getting your body back to being healthy. In fact I wish I had done it earlier in my life.
When I first got fibroids I had a myomectomy to remove them. But they grew back and I was devastated. So I had another surgery. Then they grew back again. I couldn't believe it. That's when I decided I had to do something different because I couldn't just keeping having surgeries. I had to figure out what was causing this in my body and how could I stop it. Well I did it! I figured it out and I shrank my fibroids in 3 months. I realized that surgery, whether its a myomectomy surgery or the newer procedure UFE, just removes the fibroids or kills the existing fibroids in your body. Surgery does not stop the real problem that is making your body grow large fibroids. Surgery does not take care of the real source that's causing the fibroids to grow and that's why you need to do something else besides or along with surgery to come to complete healing.
This is what I have learned. Fibroids grow because there is too much bad estrogen in your body. Estrogen feeds fibroids and they grow bigger and bigger. Once you take the steps to stop the excessive amounts of bad estrogen flowing through your body then your fibroids will starve and then they will start to shrink and die. Having too much estrogen in your body can be very harmful because not only can it produce fibroids but studies show that too much estrogen is also what feeds lots of cancers such as breast cancer, ovarian cysts and other diseases. That's why you have to fix this problem in your body. You have to do something right away and stop living with this problem. Fibroids can just be the tip of the iceberg if you don't do something to stop the real problem of too much bad estrogen. Fibroids are just benign tumors (non-cancerous). But when that same excessive amount of estrogen flows through your body starts to produce other tumors elsewhere in your body then those tumors can start off benign, but then turn cancerous. Do your research and you will see all sorts of other diseases that are linked to having to much bad estrogen in your body. It's called Estrogen Dominance.
I not only had uterine fibroids but I had lots of small cysts(tumors) inside my breasts. They cysts in breasts were not cancerous but I always kept an eye on them with a mammogram and ultrasound. Before I educated myself I never knew the cause of the cysts in my breasts were related to cause of my uterine fibroids. Excessive estrogen caused both, so once I started to control the estrogen in body them my fibrods shrank and the cysts in my breast went away completely. I've had mammograms and ultrasounds of both my uterous and breast to confirm the shrinkage. This was a huge accomplishment because now my risk of developing other cancers and other diseases and illnesses has been seriously reduced.
When you have too much estrogen you may already have other problems going on in your body that you don't even realize is related to having too much estrogen. So once you fix the estrogen problem you'll see other improvements in your body. I've already mentioned that too much estrogen can cause other cysts or tumors in the body. Also it causes things like PMS, hair loss, acne, infertility, dry eyes, hormonal imbalance, weight gain, thryroid dysfunction and other things. Do some research and you will see that Estrogen Dominance is serious and fibroids may not be the only thing going wrong in your body.
So I know you're wondering what I've done to decrease having too much bad estrogen flow through my body.. Well first let me say that I discovered that estrogen enters your body through a lot of different ways. This is why this problem affects so many people. Estrogen comes from not only from the foods we eat, but even simply through the environment and everyday products we use. Our liver is the organ that metabolizes all the estrogen in our bodies. The liver is really fantastic when its working correctly and at optimal levels. The liver protects our bodies from a lot of harmful contaminants in our bodies.
When your body has too much estrogen and other contaminants then your liver is overloaded. Your liver is just overworked and so lots of that estrogen and other contaminants just stay in your body causing you all sorts of illnesses that you have and probably didn't even know were related to an overloaded, overworked liver. Besides not metabolizing estrogen correctly, an overworked, overloaded liver can also prevent your body from fighting off bacterial and virus infections. So as a result of a weakened liver you may find yourself getting sick more often, and having other illnesses like out of control allergies, constant sinus infections and other virus and bacterial related illnesses where doctors have probably been prescribing you antibiotics.
So to shrink your fibroids you will need to do three things. First strengthen your liver. That means detoxing your body from other contaminants so that you give your liver some help. Stop making it work so hard on it's own. Then your liver will strengthen and regenerate itself stronger. Once your liver is strengthened then it will be able to work better and get rid of the bad estrogen in your body correctly. Then you won't have a build up of estrogen in your body causing the fibroids and other related illnesses and diseases. Right now your liver is probably completely overloaded. Now when I say detox your liver I mean this has to be ongoing and everyday. So I don't mean those crazy 7 day detox diets or other short term fixes. Those things are temporary. You need something you do permanently to keep your body in constant state of good health. Sure those short 10 day detox programs will detox you in the short term , but as soon as you stop it will just build back up again. You have to do something sustainable everyday. You have to do something that you can maintain everyday.
I used Xango juice. It's simple, easy, and taste good. It's an all natural juice that is derived from a natural mangosteen fruit that has been used for centuries to cleanse the body of toxins. For the first 3 months I drank 2 oz three times a day to completely detox my body. Now I just drink 1 oz 3 times a day to maintain my healthy state and a strong liver. You'll see lots of other improvements once you do this. By detoxing my body continuously everyday and strengthening my liver to work more effectively all sorts of things have improved. My body is no longer a breeding ground for other illnesses. If you want to use Xango juice then see the link on this page and you can order it at a discount or email me.. It's not cheap, but well worth it. Because of all its benefits I stopped spending less money on all the other things I was doing to counteract my health issues because of the excess estrogen. Like acne medicine, tylenol for fibroid pain, facials for acne, tons of tampons, no more cold medicines because I haven't been sick in 2 years. I could go on and on. The money is worth it since I got rid of all that bad stuff.
Second thing I did is to decrease the amount estrogen in my body. Detoxing your liver will help metabolize the estrogen that gets into your body. It will also make your liver strong. That 's what I used the Xango juice for. But you also want to control how much estrogen you allow to come into your body. I did this several ways. For starters take a look at your diet. If you eat or drink too many things that cause estrogren levels to increase then you need to cut back some. Estrogen causing foods are things like dairy products with hormones in it, meat with hormones in it, caffeine, sugars. I just cut back on these things and I didn't eliminate these things completely, but you should be aware that they cause your estrogen levels to rise. So be careful and eliminate as much as you can to give your body some relief, especially if your diet is really poor right now. Any amount of cut back is better than what you're doing now, no matter how small a change will help you. By putting less estrogen in your body then it will help get rid of it faster and keep your estrogen levels at a safe level. Also try to get more fiber in your diet it will help, and nowdays there are so many easy ways to do this.
Thirdly, I used a natural dietary supplement that also helps control the amount of estrogen in my body. Watching what you eat is a good step, but I also needed a dietary supplement. Supplements helped a lot for what I was missing in my diet. Face it, hardly any of us get enough vegetables. Green tea is a supplement that has been proven to be very effective by researchers to reduce fibroids because of the positive effect it has on estrogen in your body. To get the right amount I skipped drinking a bunch of green tea everyday and so I just use a pill supplement. I realized I could get better effects with a pill. I use a mega green tea extract. Decaffeinated!! that 's important. NO caffeine. It has 98% polyphenols and that's the ingredient that has been proven to help shrink fibroids. See the link on this page of the one I use. By the way green tea also helps increase your metabolism which can help you shed a few pounds if you need to. Another supplement is DIM. I really urge you to get this. It's that good! It also helps in the metabolism of estrogen. You can get this at a vitamin store too. This supplement is great. DIM is the supplement that's in certain vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, kale. It also got rid of all my hormonal acne that used to pop up around my cycle time and in between as well. Taking it in pill form helps me get all those benefits that help control the estrogen in my body. See the one I use in the link. Another supplement that worked for me is Eleviv. It's a product made by the same company that makes the Xango juice. The eleviv has green tea in it with some other stuff that helps control your hormonal balance and control that estrogen. Eleviv is what I started with at first. It's not cheap so once my fibroids shrank, then to cut my cost I switched to the green tea extract and DIM supplement pills to maintain the shrinkage and not let the fibroids grow back. I also like the DIM much better. See the link above for how to order this supplement or email me. Like I said the Eleviv is not cheap, but the DIM and Green together is cheaper and I've been able to maintain my shrinkage. I take 4 dim per day. 2 in AM and 2 at Dinner.
So that's my story! When I combined the Xango juice to detox each day, boost my liver function and rid my body of toxins and then I combined it with a dietary supplement to control the estrogen and also cut back somewhat on some estrogen causing foods, then my fibroids shrank in 3 months. Also the cysts in my breast were completely gone within 3 months. No more heavy bleeding, cramping, pms, acne, anemia , or low iron. This is ongoing. You'll see results within the first 2 weeks then improvement every week. Your fibroids will shrink more and more each month and your menstrual cycles will get better and better each month. Your life will improve and your energy levels will rise as your body is restored Whatever you do, be prepared to do it consistently, maybe a lifetime. If you start this and then stop then most likely within months your body will fall back into an unhealthy state again and all your bad illnesses, fibroids etc will just come back over time. Consistency is the key!
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Good Luck!
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I order my DIM online because it's cheaper than buying it in a health
food store. On this blog is the link where you can save $10 on your order and
get free shipping if you want to start using DIM and any of the other
supplements I use. I posted pics on this blog and the name of the
supplements I take. Dim (4 per day) , Green Tea (1 per day), Vitamins 2
Per day, and drink Mangosteen Juice.
UPDATE: I recently switched from Xango Mangosteen to Genesis Mangosteen. There are a lot of junk juices out there, so it took me awhile to find a quality one that's on the same or better quality level as Xango, but at a cheaper price. Here is the name/link of the one I use now. http://www.vitacost.com/genesis-today-mangosteen100
This juice has all the important factors. It's 100% mangosteen, not mixed with other juices. PLUS it has the WHOLE fruit in it, including the outter Rind which is where the best nutrients are. Many of the mangosteen juices on the market sacrifice quality and cheapen the juice by adding water, other fruit juices and they don't use the rind which is the MOST beneficial part. The juice costs $32 for 32 oz. I drink 1-2 oz per day, so one bottle will last about a month, so I buy 2 bottles ($64) at a time to last almost 2 months. The xango juice is much more expensive it cost $120+ $25(Shipping) =$145 to last the same time. So I was happy to finally find this brand of mangosteen juice because I save a lot of money without sacrificing quality.
Take Care,
Deborah
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