About 20 percent of American women have fibrocystic breasts, a condition in which small tender lumps can be felt within the breasts. Composed of distorted fluid-containing milk ducts and fibrous tissue, these lumps usually become tighter and more tender at the time of menstrual periods, when they may become so painful as to interfere with sleep.

Please note that we no longer talk about fibrocystic “disease,” since we now realize that this condition is merely a variant in texture of the normal breast. It is not precancerous. Nevertheless, fibrocystic breasts often become so tight and uncomfortable that many women need treatment of one kind or another to relieve the pain.

According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (244:1077), vitamin E may be what they are looking for. It was found that fibrocystic occurrences disappeared or decreased in 22 of 26 women who took this vitamin in doses of 600 units daily for 12 weeks. Possibly vitamin E acts as an anti-hormone, blocking the effects of the breast-stimulating hormone prolactin, which is normally produced by the pituitary gland.

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