80% of Women Develop Fibroids—Here's Why!

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Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 13 October 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Fibroids decrease in size after menopause, yet pregnancy, exposure to HRT, and birth control pills can cause fibroids to enlarge. Obesity, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and PCOS also increase the risk of fibroids. Black women have a 3 to 9 times higher risk of developing fibroids.

Estrogen is the primary driver of fibroids and endometriosis. A fibroid is a growth in the uterus, but it differs from uterine tissue in several ways. Fibroids are very sensitive to estrogen and have increased estrogen receptors, more of the enzyme aromatase, less oxygen than the uterus, and more inflammation.

Many health problems and risk factors associated with fibroids are related to low vitamin D. Vitamin D has incredible properties that may help inhibit the growth of fibroids.

There is also a vast amount of anecdotal evidence in support of using vitamin D to shrink fibroids.

Be sure to take vitamin D with the cofactors magnesium and vitamin K2.

DATA:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4209245/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18423458/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23467803/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22302692/

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0:00.0	You know when I heard this statistic up to 80% of all women develop some type of fibroid
0:06.6	by age 40 mind-blowing. Like why? That is so weird. And the last thing that a woman wants is a hysterectomy with all the side effects, not to mention a fibroid.
0:17.0	So I pulled a string and I found something fascinating I want to share with you.
0:21.0	Let's first take some clues about fibroids. Number one, they actually decrease after menopause. That's interesting. So why would that be? Well, it's probably related to estrogen, right? We're gonna get there.
0:32.7	When a woman goes through pregnancy
0:34.6	or is exposed to HRT or birth control pills,
0:37.9	there can be an enlargement of the fibroid,
0:39.5	which sounds like it's also related to estrogen.
0:42.3	Then we have the relationship between obesity,
0:44.8	type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure,
0:47.0	and polysistic ovarian syndrome,
0:49.1	all increasing the risk of fibroids.
0:51.6	Why is it that black women are three to nine times more at risk
0:56.3	for getting fibroids? And of course the common theme with this is estrogen.
0:59.4	estrogen is a growth hormone, it's a primary driver of fibroids and endometriosis.
1:04.8	All right, let's look at what a fibroid is.
1:07.0	Uteress tissue.
1:08.2	What is a uterus?
1:09.5	It's a muscle.
1:10.5	And so the difference between the fibroid and the uterus is a fibroid is a growth from the uterus.
1:16.0	And so it grows out of the uterus tissue in a fibroid.
1:20.0	It's very non-elastic. There's a lot more collagen in a fibroid.
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