• UCLA Health
  • myUCLAhealth
  • School of Medicine
UCLA Obstetrics and Gynecology

UCLA Obstetrics and Gynecology

UCLA Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • About Us
    • Chair's Welcome
    • Giving
    • Job Listings
    • News
    • Webinars
  • Clinical Programs
    • Chronic Pelvic Pain Program
    • Family Planning
    • Fertility and Reproductive Health Center
    • Fibroid Treatment Program
    • Gynecologic Oncology
    • Gynecology
    • Labor and Delivery
    • Maternal Fetal Medicine
    • Nurse Midwives
    • Minimally Invasive & Robotic Surgery
    • Obstetrics
    • Women's Pelvic Health
  • Conditions Treated
    • Cervical Cancer
    • Cervical Insufficiency
    • Congenital Abnormalities
    • Endometriosis
    • Fibroids
    • Hirsutism
    • Infertility
    • Menopause
    • Ovarian Fallopian Tube and Primary Peritoneal Cancer
    • Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)
    • Pregnancy
    • Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)
    • Recurrent Pregnancy Loss
    • Reproductive Surgery
    • Sexually-transmitted Diseases
    • Urinary Tract Infection
    • Uterine / Endometrial Cancer
    • Vaginal Yeast Infection
    • Vulvar and Vaginal Cancer
    • Vulvodynia
  • For Patients
    • Appointments
    • Clinical Updates
    • FAQs
    • Find a Doctor
    • First Visit
    • Health Plans
    • Help
    • Locations
    • Medical Records
    • Patient Stories
    • Patient Videos
    • Physicians Update
    • Pregnancy
    • Prescription Refill
    • Resources
    • Testimonials
    • Vital Signs Newsletters
    • Webinars
  • Research
    • Women's Reproductive Health Research Program
    • Clinical Trials
  • Education
    • Residency
    • Fellowship Programs
    • Calendar of Events
    • Medical Students
    • Contact Academic Office
  • Contact Us
    • Our Locations
  • Our Expert Team
  • UCLA Health
  • myUCLAhealth
  • School of Medicine

UCLA Obstetrics and Gynecology

Clinical Programs

Clinical Programs

Clinical Programs

  • Chronic Pelvic Pain Program
    • Find a Doctor
  • Family Planning
    • Contact Us
    • Find a Doctor
    • Insurance Information
      • Covered CA
      • Help for the Uninsured
    • Newsletters
    • OBGYN Patient Assistance Fund
    • Patient Resources
      • Surgical Abortion (First Trimester)
      • Medical Abortion
      • Surgical Abortion (Second Trimester)
      • Medical Versus Surgical Abortion
      • FAQ: Post-Abortion Care and Recovery
      • Abortion Care
    • Referring Physicians
      • Useful Documents for Referral
    • Special Programs
      • Title X Family Planning Program
    • Testimonials
  • Fertility and Reproductive Health Center
    • Dr. Dumesic - Video Bio
    • Egg Freezing
    • Find a Doctor
    • Fertility FAQs
    • IVF Class Overview
      • IVF Class Videos
      • IVF Class Testimonials
    • Male Fertility - The Men's Clinic at UCLA
    • Patient Instructions
    • Oncofertility
    • Patient Education
    • Clinical Trials
    • Testimonials
    • What's New
    • Women’s Reproductive Health Research Program
    • News
  • Fibroid Treatment Program
    • Find a Doctor
    • About Fibroids
    • Fibroid FAQs
    • Fibroid Treatment Options
      • Watchful Waiting
      • Medical Therapy
      • MR Guided Focused Ultrasound
      • Uterine Artery Embolization
      • Hysteroscopic Myomectomy
      • Robotic & Laparoscopic: Myomectomy & Hysterectomy
      • Open Surgery: Myomectomy & Hysterectomy
      • Alternative Therapy
    • Fibroids Definition
    • Fibroids Testimonials
    • Fibroids Webinars
    • Fibroids Contact
  • Gynecologic Oncology
    • Gynecologic Cancer Overview
    • Ovarian Fallopian Tube and Primary Peritoneal Cancer
    • Cervical Cancer
    • Uterine / Endometrial Cancer
    • Vulvar and Vaginal Cancer
    • Webinars
    • Find a Doctor
  • Gynecology
    • Find a Doctor
  • Labor and Delivery
    • Find a Doctor
  • Maternal Fetal Medicine
    • Find a Doctor
    • Alpha-fetoprotein Testing
    • Amniocentesis
    • Chorionic Villus Sampling
    • Down Syndrome Screening
    • Multiple Marker Screening (MMS)
    • Neural Tube Defect Screening
    • Non-stress/contraction Stress Tests (fetal heart rate testing)
    • Ultrasound Examinations
    • Umbilical Cord Blood Sampling
  • Nurse Midwives
    • Meet Our Nurse-Midwives
      • Shadman Habibi
      • Dee Dee Dirks
      • Miriam Mivehkar
      • Anna Peery
      • Eyelle Sacher
      • Stacie Wolcott
    • Family Stories
      • Kai's Birth Story
      • Eleanor's Story
      • Jennie & Mike's Story
      • Charlotte's Birth Story
      • Jerry & Amy's Story
      • K & T's Story
      • Laura & Kevin's Story
      • Lauren's Story
      • Laury's Story
      • Melissa's Story
      • Samantha's Story
      • The Georges' Story
      • The Schauers' Story
    • Pregnancy
    • Resources
    • Suggested Reading
  • Minimally Invasive & Robotic Surgery
    • Find a Doctor
    • Robotic Surgical System
  • Obstetrics
    • Find a Doctor
  • Women's Pelvic Health
  • Chronic Pelvic Pain Program
  • Family Planning
  • Fertility and Reproductive Health Center
  • Fibroid Treatment Program
  • Gynecologic Oncology
  • Gynecology
  • Labor and Delivery
  • Maternal Fetal Medicine
  • Nurse Midwives
  • Minimally Invasive & Robotic Surgery
  • Obstetrics
  • Women's Pelvic Health
  • Find a Doctor
  • About Fibroids
  • Fibroid FAQs
  • Fibroid Treatment Options
  • Fibroids Definition
  • Fibroids Testimonials
  • Fibroids Webinars
  • Fibroids Contact
  • Watchful Waiting
  • Medical Therapy
  • MR Guided Focused Ultrasound
  • Uterine Artery Embolization
  • Hysteroscopic Myomectomy
  • Robotic & Laparoscopic: Myomectomy & Hysterectomy
  • Open Surgery: Myomectomy & Hysterectomy
  • Alternative Therapy
  1. Home
  2. Clinical Programs
  3. Fibroid Treatment Program
  4. Fibroid Treatment Options
  5. Alternative Therapy

Alternative Therapy

Share this

Uterine Fibroids Treatment Options

Fibroids Treatment: Alternative Therapy

Alternative Therapy

Advances in medicine and technology are astounding, nonetheless the critical elements of our well begin are often quite basic and holistic. Although we treat individual conditions with individual therapies, we recognize that many aspects of our lives interrelate with others including but not limited to:

  • Stress
  • Sleep
  • Diet
  • Nutrition
  • Exercise

Unraveling these relationships may change how discomfort from fibroids is perceived by individual women. Women with mild symptoms on watchful waiting or those who desire holistic approaches are welcomed by the UCLA Fibroid Treatment Program. By modifying many of these factors with any combination of nutrition and lifestyle counseling, vitamin and herbal supplements, homeopathy and bodywork therapies, symptoms may be decreased or even eliminated.

Fibroids Treatment: Alternative Therapy: Exercise

For example, nutritional modifications such as a decrease in the intake of inflammatory foods (caffeine, alcohol, processed junk foods) and environmental hormones (red meats and dairy products with estrogens) with an increase in the intake of anti-inflammatory foods, whole fiber and organic foods may improve symptoms.

This can be performed with lifestyle modification, the use of herbal supplements and/or procedures like acupuncture, to decrease or eliminate fibroid related symptoms. These approaches can also be complementary to traditional allopathic medical and surgical approaches including watchful waiting, MRgFUS, UFE and robotic surgery.

The UCLA Uterine Fibroid Treatment Program recognizes that this approach is valuable for many patients and may decrease the need for medical, surgical and radiological therapies. We help women desiring these approaches to find a suitable practitioner to address these needs. Of course, the decision to have any form of treatment is an individual one. We just want you to know there are alternative treatment methods and physicians who may help you.

We encourage you to understand your options and make a treatment choice that's comfortable for you.

Like Us on Facebook Follow Us on Twitter Subscribe to Our Videos on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Connect with Us on LinkedIn Follow us on Pinterest
UCLA Health hospitals ranked best hospitals by U.S. News & World Report
  • UCLA Health
  • Find a Doctor
  • School of Medicine
  • School of Nursing
  • UCLA Campus
  • Directory
  • Newsroom
  • Subscribe
  • Patient Stories
  • Giving
  • Careers
  • Volunteer
  • International Services
  • Privacy Practices
  • Nondiscrimination
  • Billing
  • Health Plans
  • Emergency
  • Report Broken Links
  • Terms of Use
  • 1-800-UCLA-MD1
  • Maps & Directions
  • Contact Us
  • Your Feedback
  • Report Misconduct
  • Get Social
  • Sitemap
Like Us on Facebook Follow Us on Twitter Subscribe to Our Videos on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Connect with Us on LinkedIn Follow us on Pinterest