As a nutritionist it makes sense that my main focus when helping clients is on what they eat. But food is not the only factor that impacts health. There are some key reasons why you should improve your environment as well. And that is the focus for this month.

When we use food to improve health, we are using and influencing biochemical processes in the body. The food and the nutrients it contains are little cogs in the various body processes that are involved in your Endometriosis.

Here are 5 reasons why you should go beyond nutrition and improve your environment as well.

1. The body doesn’t exist in a bubble, and the environment affects the body’s biochemistry directly. So it makes sense to minimise the negative effect of your environment if you’re taking the trouble of improving your diet!
2. We live in a highly toxic environment: we breathe in toxic air (even when you live in a lovely rural area); we put toxic chemicals on our skin; we drink water that contains toxic chemicals. All these toxins have a direct effect on your body's processes.
3. Modern convenience has increased our exposure to toxins, from the cookware we use to how we store food.
4. Your immune system is already super-sensitive. It reacts to things that it doesn’t need to in your food (read the posts on the Immune System) and it overreacts. It will be beneficial to remove as many environmental triggers as we can.
5. Toxins from the environment have a nasty habit of building up in the body, and the poor liver has a hard time trying to get rid of them. An overworked liver is not going to be helpful when trying to reduce your inflammation.

In my posts this month I will discuss how our environment affects your Endometriosis and suggest ways you might be able to increase the effectiveness of your diet by removing some of the toxic load the environment places on your body.