6 Nutritional strategies to heal your gut
In this final post of my series on gut health, I will give you 6 nutritional strategies to heal your gut. Because it’s all good and well to understand what might be wrong with your gut and what’s causing all the symptoms, but then what? But before I do so I need you to realise...
How Leaky Gut affects your Endometriosis
If you have endometriosis, it is very likely that you have Leaky Gut, if you have any of the symptoms that I mentioned in this post regularly. So you may be wondering how Leaky Gut affects your endometriosis. Well, firstly it is crucial to realise that Leaky Gut means you are not absorbing all the...
The immune-boosting nutrient you may not be getting from food
So now that we’re at the end of September and at the end of our focus on the immune system and Endometriosis, I need to mention one more immune-boosting nutrient. I didn’t mention it in this article because although some foods contain this nutrient, the body doesn’t absorb it very well from food if there...
Recipes that will support and improve your immune system.
So September has been about the immune system and how it affects your Endometriosis. Let’s recap. I started by explaining how your immune system differs from women without Endometriosis. Your immune system is triggered more easily and overreacts. If you missed the post, you can read it here. Then I explained how this overreacting immune...
Nutrients to build and support the immune system
Over the past 2 weeks, I’ve explored the role of the immune system and the inflammation is creates because it’s not functioning optimally. “Yes, and what do I do about it?” I hear you ask. Well, the good news is that we know which nutrients play a key role in the immune system and that...
How your immune system affects your Endometriosis
In last week’s post I explained how your immune system is different from women without endometriosis. (If you missed it, you can read it here). But you might be asking ‘So what?’ Well, your immune system affects endometriosis by creating inflammation. Although hormones play a part in your endometriosis, it is first and foremost an...
The Immune System in Women with Endometriosis
The immune system of women with Endometriosis has a significant impact on their symptoms because it is different from that of women without the disease. If I ask you what the immune system does, you’d probably know that it helps fight off disease. It helps to protect us from microbial pathogens, like viruses and bacteria...
Can you improve your fertility when you have Endometriosis?
Infertility affects 30 to 50% of women with endometriosis. So almost half of women who have endometriosis will experience infertility or difficulty falling pregnant. And in 25 to 50% of infertility cases endometriosis is a cause. For many women, trying to fall pregnant and not succeeding is the time when they finally find out that...
Leaky gut? Why it is a problem in Endometriosis
In my previous post I explained leaky gut: did you have some or all of the signs? You may have thought those were symptoms of your Endometriosis, and they are caused by your leaky gut. So why should you be concerned about having a leaky gut (besides finding the symptoms hard to live with)?...
Hormonal disease or immune system problem – that is the question
Most women assume that endometriosis, like any other menstrual condition, is a hormonal disease. One of excess oestrogen production. The conventional treatment is to try to shut down oestrogen production in your body – with the pill or medication that creates a menopause-like state. There definitely is a connection between Endometriosis and oestrogen, but an...