What Uterine Fibroids Reveal About Heart Health

Dr. Joseph Mercola - Take Control of Your Health

Briana Mercola

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Women with uterine fibroids face a significantly higher long-term risk of heart disease, meaning fibroids act as an early warning sign of deeper cardiovascular strain rather than a localized reproductive issue
The increased risk shows up early, often years before traditional heart disease symptoms appear, giving you a key window to address underlying metabolic and vascular stress
Fibroids are linked to chronic inflammation, impaired blood vessel function, and disrupted energy metabolism, all of which contribute to heart disease development over time
Addressing root causes such as low cellular energy, poor metabolic flexibility, and vascular stress helps reduce both fibroid progression and cardiovascular risk
Lifestyle strategies that support energy production, reduce inflammation, and improve circulation shift your body out of survival mode and lower long-term heart disease risk

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0:00.0	Are you ignoring a warning sign that often shows up years before chest pain, abnormal labs,
0:06.0	or a formal diagnosis of heart disease?
0:09.0	Welcome to Dr. Mercola's cellular wisdom.
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0:22.4	Hello and welcome to Dr. Mercola's cellular wisdom. I'm Ethan Foster.
0:26.7	Today we're looking at what uterine fibroids may be telling you about your long-term cardiovascular risk
0:32.4	and how early steps that restore energy, reduce inflammation, and protect your circulation, can change
0:39.3	the trajectory.
0:40.5	I'm a Lara Sky.
0:42.6	Fibroids are commonly described as benign and confined to the uterus, but the pattern
0:47.2	behind them points to something bigger.
0:49.7	Chronic, metabolic, and vascular stress.
0:52.8	When tissue grows in the wrong place or at the wrong time,
0:56.9	it signals that your energy regulation and repair systems need attention. A large study in the
1:02.6	Journal of the American Heart Association followed more than 450,000 women with fibroids and over
1:09.1	2.2 million without, tracking cardiovascular outcomes for
1:13.7	up to a decade in premenopausal women ages 18 to 50 with no prior heart disease.
1:20.3	The goal was simple. Determine whether fibroids forecast, systemic cardiovascular strain.
1:32.3	Within one year of diagnosis, women with fibroids were more than twice as likely to develop atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease compared with peers without fibroids, and over 10 years
1:38.3	their long-term risk was about 81% higher. The risk doesn't spike briefly and fade. It rises early and stays elevated,
1:47.0	which reframes fibroids as an early alert.
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