Wondering what vitamins to take for sore breasts?
Or wondering can taking vitamins make your breasts sore?
The only reasons why you may be thinking these things would be because you have breast tenderness. They may or may not be related to your menstrual period and PMS.
The fact is that there are vitamins that help tender breasts feel better. Let’s go through them one by one, listing how much vitamin is in the usual dosages, too.
Vitamins to Reduce Sore Breasts
Vitamin E – Don’t believe any media reports that vitamin E won’t help you. If you’re a woman, you need vitamin E for your breasts, period. That’s during your period, after your period and all month long. Vitamin E protects your breasts from free radical damage that can destroy cells.
It works with selenium to prevent breast cancer. In fact, if your selenium levels are low, you’re almost guaranteed breast cancer around the corner. Vitamin E protects selenium and vice versa. A good amount of vitamin E to take daily is 400 IU. That’s only one little capsule.
In an early study on Vitamin E, 100 women with pain and PMS during their period were divided into two groups. One group received only 50 mg vitamin E for 10 days before their period and 4 days during their period for three months. The other group got a placebo. Seventy-six percent of the group receiving vitamin E had improvement in their condition while 29% of those in the placebo group had improvement. Both groups experienced pain and PMS between two and 6 months after the study ended.
Vitamin D – Deficiency of this vitamin causes the genes for over 300 different diseases to be turned on. A lot of the genes for diseases can be related to causing breast issues. Vitamin D deficiency is associated with cancer, too, although sore breasts are not a symptom of breast cancer in 93% of cases.
Vitamin B – The B complex of vitamins is made up of several vitamins: vitamin B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B12, B15, biotin, 
folic acid, PABA, choline and inositol. Many of these vitamins run metabolic processes and some of them cause PMS symptoms when there’s a vitamin deficiency.
Vitamin B6 specifically may be one of the best vitamins for breast tenderness because it acts as a diuretic. If your body is accumulating fluids, they’ll accumulate everywhere, not just in one location. When vitamin B6 is added to the body, it will decrease some of that fluid accumulation. Even with only a little bit of the congestion in the breast removed, your tenderness will decrease.
Vitamin A – Vitamin A works in conjunction with vitamin E and vitamin C. These three antioxidants replenish each other. When one of them is low, the others will step in and regenerate the low vitamin. However, if you’re low in all three vitamins, then your body will suffer. At this time, no one knows how vitamin A really works to decrease soreness in the breasts, but no doubt, it’s tied to the free radical quenching. Dosage is 10,000 IU daily for sore breasts.
Vitamin C – This vitamin besides being an antioxidant, is also a diuretic so it has potential to reduce breast soreness. Dosage: Anywhere from 500 mg to 4000 mg daily.
A period vitamin includes all these vitamins as well as minerals and herbs. The combination of ingredients is more powerful than taking them individually. It’s the easiest way to reduce breast tenderness during PMS.
