Nollywood actress Ini Dima-Okojie has shared her journey of making significant lifestyle changes to combat her recurring fibroids.
Three years after surgery to remove the fibroids, she has adopted a holistic approach to manage her condition, including a strict dietary regimen.
In a social media video, she discussed the foods she has cut out in hopes of reducing the fibroids.
Among the items she has given up are rice, meat, bread, caffeine, pasta, noodles, and more. Ini Dima-Okojie explains:
“So I’m currently on a holistic journey to shrink fibroids. That means I have to go on what I call a fibroids diet and these are some of the things I’ve had to give up. Red meat, so lamb, cow, ram, goat, sausages, processed meat, any form of red meat. White carbs, so white pasta, noodles, rice, bread. Dairy, so cheese, whole milk. Refined sugar, so cookies, cake, condiments, processed food in general.
Carbonated drinks, caffeine, high sodium foods like soy, things that are really high in salt.”
Ini Dima-Okojie stated that these foods are high in estrogen, which can contribute to the growth of fibroids. She added:
“We are avoiding these things because they are high in estrogen and you don’t want that because those make the fibroids grow. All of these are useless if you’re not keeping your stress levels down, but I live in Lagos, God help me.”