This is a very important question, and one that plagues many women who suffer from fibroids. The simple answer to why women get fibroids is that there is no absolute cause, or none that can be directly pinpointed.

The Causes Of Fibroids Confuses Experts

What medical researchers and physicians do know is that fibroids are greatly affected by changing estrogen levels, which play a part in the fibroid tumor development and growth.

The causes of fibroids can be genetic, hormonal, environmental or some combination of all of these. Confusing, eh?

In fact, doctors are sure that these risk factors and potentially causal agents all interact with each other to increase the likelihood of fibroid development.

Fibroids And Estrogen

When a woman’s estrogen levels increase, for example, during pregnancy, fibroids tend to grow at a more rapid pace.

Taking contraceptive pills (birth control pills) also floods the body with estrogen.

Women taking contraceptive pills, therefore, have higher levels of estrogen, and are more likely to develop fibroids. When women are in menopause, and levels of estrogen naturally decrease, fibroids also decrease, shrink or disappear.

Basically, it all ties into estrogen, which elevates a woman’s risk for developing fibroids.

The Fibroid Cure contains information on how to balance your hormones by decreasing the excess estrogen that causes fibroids to grow in the first place.

Uterine Fibroids: Causes And Cures

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