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Can you drink soy milk if you have uterine fibroids?

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Originally written 2011/04/20

You should probably not drink soy milk if you have fibroids because soy milk is said to contain phytoestrogens and there is a common belief that estrogen plays a big role in the development of fibroids. It is suggested that women with uterine fibroids should avoid ingesting foods that contain phytoestrogens. The Mayo Clinic is elsewhere cited as identifying lignans and isoflavones as the two main food types that provide phytoestrogens. Soy milk contains “significant amounts of phytic acid, alpha-Linolenic acid, and the isoflavones genistein and daidzein,” according to wikipedia.

Modification: Came across this site after writing the above and it appears if I am correctly interpreting the reading that the doctor, Michael Lam, MD, is saying the opposite of what I have said above. He seems to be suggesting that the isoflavones in soy is actually beneficial when you’re trying to treat the fibroids. You can probably contact him for clarification. I’m still trying to wrap my mind around it all in my effort to find ways to treat my large fibroids without going the recommended hysterectomy route.

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My name is Monica. I have fibroids. My fibroids are large enough that they have transformed my figure into something I am still trying to learn how to live with. In the meantime while I try to learn how to live with my fibroids I am also trying every possible method I can find to try to shrink them naturally because I am afraid of the idea of a hysterectomy. I lived with fibroids from 2007 - 2016. I started documenting my experiences on this blog in 2012. On March 7th 2016 I had a hysterectomy out of concern that I might have ovarian cancer. It did not turn out that I had ovarian cancer. The cancer scare forced the hysterectomy I was trying to avoid, and so, I became fibroid free as of March 7th 2016. I will try to keep this blog up and running in the hope that it will be of some use to others going through what I went through.

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