Diets high in fat, with meat and dairy products that are loaded with xeno-estrogens play a role in contributing to the formation of painful lumps. The fluctuating levels of estrogen account for the cystic nature of inflammation and swelling common with PMS sufferers. This unprecedented extension of the menstrual cycle has a devastating effect on women, specifically on hormonal areas, such as breasts and ovaries. Women also continue with their menstrual cycle until the age of 52-54, rather than at age 50 or younger a generation ago. Young girls are beginning to menstruate at the age of 10, whereas the age of menstruation began between the ages of 14 and 16 just one generation ago. In my opinion, synthetic hormones in our environment, along with growth hormones and estrogens that are fed to livestock, mimic estrogens that encourage the proliferation of this condition in most women. Consequently, the probing, squishing, X-raying, and routine biopsies that many women experience due to the fibrocystic structure of their breasts may, in fact, result in more trauma and increase the risk of developing malignancy. This disease itself is not dangerous, but it does complicate breast self-examination since it is difficult to identify a new lump amongst existing ones. Some women feel that their breasts become so painful that they can’t bear to touch them and have trouble sleeping at night due to the pain. The severity of these symptoms may range from month to month in the same woman. The symptoms of fibrocystic breast disease (FBD) may range from mildly annoying in some women, to extremely painful in others. One has to ask the question, “What would contribute to the rise of this condition so early in life, and what would happen to these girls and women over the years if they continue on this path?”

In fact, I am seeing this condition increasingly in younger and younger women. Cysts are likely to develop in women ages 30 to 50 however, the youngest patient that I’ve evaluated was a 12-year-old with multiple cysts in her breasts.

Alexander Mostovoy, H.D., D.H.M.S., B.C.C.T.Īs a clinical breast thermographer, I see more and more fibrocystic breast cases than any other abnormality of the breast.

Fibrocystic breast changes