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Wednesday 22 August 2012

WHAT'S THE BEST NATURAL REMEDY FOR Fibroids?

What's the best natural remedy for fibroids and their unpleasant symptoms?... well in my opinion and experience it's exercise.

But before I go any further I have to tell you that I absolutely hate exercising! and will do anything to avoid it!

So let me bring you bang up to date with the latest research regarding exercise and just how much of it we really have to do to reap the benefits or rather how little of it we should be doing!

But first let's look at why exercise is so important and so very beneficial to us fibroid sufferers.



Estrogen - American English spelling
Oestrogen - British English spelling

  • Many scientists and doctors now believe estrogen plays a large role in stimulating fibroid growth, exercise helps reduce and normalise estrogen levels 
  • Excercise can really help with menstrual cramps as it boosts circulation, prompts the body to release pain-killing endorphins and relaxes muscles
  • Stress is another antagonist for fibriods, exercise is a great stress buster and helps by lowering cortisol levels.  Excessive exercise stresses the body and raises cortisol levels!
  • Exercise can help you manage your weight and the amount of fat you store in your body.  The more fat you carry the more estrogen you are able to store in your fat cells, effectively 'feeding' your fibroids!
  • Exercise helps reduce blood glucose and manage your insulin levels.  Insulin is your fat storage hormone.  Too much sugar and unhealthy carbohydrates in your diet will spike your insulin levels causing your body to store more fat and prevent it from burning fat as fuel
  • For every additional hour of physical activity during the day, children fall asleep 3 x times quicker and sleep 20 minutes longer.  The same pattern holds true for adults!  Good restorative (healing) sleep helps balance our stress hormones!




EXCERCISE LESS... REALLY IS MORE!

If you lead a busy life, finding the time to exercise can be difficult or if you’re like me and you simply don’t like exercising then you’ll love this recent research into fitness that suggests that exercising just a few minutes each week can be just as beneficial as jogging round the park for an hour or so. 

More gain for less pain! Sounds too good to be true? ....read on! 

Professor Julian Baker from the University of the West of Scotland is at the forefront of this startling new research into fitness. His fitness regime involves short bursts with high intensity activity. For example you can run or step (anything that involves high intensity exercise) flat out for 30 seconds and then rest for 30 seconds. You then repeat this cycle 4 times over. Professor Baker’s research has found that pushing muscles to their absolute limit can improve your fitness. But what’s incredible about this fitness regime is that it lasts for only 4 minutes with 2 of them spent resting! Or put another way with only 2 minutes spent exercising! 

Professor Baker recommends that you would need to do the exercises about 3 times a week and your initial fitness level will depend on how quickly you improve your overall fitness. 

Current UK government guidelines recommend that we exercise 30 minutes to an hour a day of moderate exercise 5 times a week! 

The data compiled by the University of the West of Scotland suggests that this type of training improves above and beyond the benefits gained from exercising for 30 – 60 minutes. 

So how can a man or woman who is effectively only exercising for 2 minutes get the same or better fitness benefits as someone who exercises for longer. 

One line of reasoning is that if you do short burst exercising you’re working 250% harder in terms of the intensity of the exercise than say a jogger. The exercise for the jogger is much more gentles on the muscles where as the short burst exercises is pushing your muscles to the max, which has the maximum benefit on your fitness. 

Scientists are still trying to find out why this type of exercise should work but they do know that exercising to the absolute limit is more effective in reducing blood pressure and widening blood vessels and strengthening muscles. 

Depending on your initial level of fitness over a 5 week fitness period of exercising in short burst high intensity could result in a significant loss of body fat and loss of weight but could up your overall level of fitness by as much as 50%. 

If you haven’t exercised in a while don’t start running, stepping or any high intensity exercising straight off. You will need to build up from a gentle pace and see your doctor before you start any exercise regime if you have any concerns. Women who have fibroids need to get advice on their exercise regimens from a health care provider, especially those who are anemic, have additional medical conditions or bleed heavily during the menstrual cycle.

I think everyone no matter how busy and hectic a life they lead can find 12 minutes a week to exercise!

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