Because the 'engine' behind your Endometriosis' growth and spread is inflammation, your immune system and digestive system will need to be healed, and nutrition can play a powerful role in this.

But what does an Endometriosis diet look like?

It basically consists of two key steps, with an optional third.

Step one is to follow an anti-inflammatory diet. The purpose of this step is to start healing your gut, improve your microbiome and reduce your inflammation. For most of my clients, this diet is sufficient to reduce their symptoms significantly after one month. In an anti-inflammatory diet you remove all the foods that are known to be inflammatory as well as some foods that are causing specific problems in Endometriosis. You also add lots of anti-inflammatory foods.

Most of my clients remain on the anti-inflammatory diet indefinitely. Once they get used to this way of eating they find it quite easy to stick to. Especially because the feel so much better, sometimes after only just one month!

Step two is to follow a low-histamine diet. The purpose of this step is to determine whether you may be histamine intolerant. I wrote about histamine-intolerance in this post. It means adjusting the anti-inflammatory diet by removing all the foods we know are high in histamine or help release histamine from food.  Fortunately, you only need to be on a low-histamine diet for a short time to be able to find out if histamine is a problem for you. It is crucial, though, that you have been on the anti-inflammatory diet for at least a month before you add the low histamine diet to your eating regime. If you start step 2 too early, you will not be able to tell whether the reduction in symptoms is because of the low histamine diet or the anti-inflammatory diet.

If you are wondering if your current diet may be making your Endometriosis symptoms worse, you can find out in my free online workshop: "How to work out if what you EAT is making your Endometriosis symptoms WORSE". You can sign up here