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7 Fibroid-Fighting Foods You’ll Love

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A combination of the right foods is a powerful healing agent to the body that travels as chemicals through the body’s hormonal system. Our body absorbs the vitamins, nutrients and minerals food provides to sustain a well-adjusted and functioning body. 

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Hormone health is a wide variety of chemical processes regulating everything from height to sexual desire including reproduction, metabolism, skin health and more. 

Imbalanced hormones can create endocrine disruptions like producing too much estrogen that negatively affects a woman’s body. Disruptions include abnormal menstruation, heavy/painful periods, PMS, headaches, decreased sex drive, bloating, mood swings, fatigue, anxiety & depression, breast tenderness, endometriosis, fibroids, hormonal weight gain and more. 

This imbalance leads to conditions like fibroids. Since our eating choices influence our hormones, for better or worse, it will also be your eating choices that help combat and eliminate these conditions. 

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Below are seven categories of foods that can help naturally balance and support healthy hormone levels that will reduce or stop fibroid symptoms and improve female health. 

Here are 7 Foods For Fibroids:

1. Super Seeds

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Known as nutritional powerhouses, seeds are packed with healthy fats, protein and a range of micronutrients. They contain all the starting components necessary to develop into complex plants, which makes them so powerful. 

A diet that regularly incorporates the following super seeds will reduce or eliminate diseases like fibroids and other disruptions affecting female reproductive organs. 

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  • Flaxseeds – Flaxseeds contain lignans that help get rid of excess estrogen. Flaxseed is especially beneficial in helping women’s fertility by improving their chances of conception. Flaxseeds also help in promoting normal ovulation and in restoring hormonal balance. It also protects postmenopausal women from the risk of cardiovascular disease. 
  • Sesame Seeds – Sesame seeds are one of the worlds’ most ancient foods. Often used as a food and oil, they are rich in calcium, vitamin E, healthy fats as well as lignans like flax. They are high in copper, which is a mineral that acts as a precursor to estrogen. 
  • Pumpkin Seeds – Pumpkin seeds have a high nutrient value. In pumpkin seeds, omega 3 fatty acids and antioxidant quotients are superior. Studies show the benefits of complex carbohydrates, fiber, omega 3, and zinc on fertility. This helps stimulate blood flow to sexual organs and also ensures fluid supply to follicles for proper egg maturity. 

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Dr. Venkat, Director of Harley Street Fertility Clinic, says pumpkin seeds are considered one of the most important trace minerals to date for fertility. “Women should incorporate zinc into their daily diet when trying to conceive, as zinc is vital in the production of

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