If you are reading this article you may already be worried about how your Endometriosis affects your fertility. And Endometriosis definitely has an impact on your fertility. If you’ve been reading my articles, you’ll know that Endometriosis is an inflammatory disease. So in this article I want to delve a bit deeper into how this...

Before I started writing this article, I Googled “healthy eating for Endometriosis”. Would you like to guess how many search results that gave me? More than 2 million!   There were book recommendations with diets and diet plans. And many webpages that tell you which food to eat and which to avoid. That was just...

With the gut playing such an important role in your chronic inflammation and therefore your Endometriosis, your bowel movements are a powerful tool for monitoring your gut health. Constipation, diarrhoea or alternating between the two are common Endometriosis symptoms. When you start to change your diet to help manage your Endo, it helps to develop...

Endometriosis affects fertility but that doesn’t mean that there is no hope. Nutrition can be a powerful tool to improve your chances of falling pregnant, and Shelley’s story is a good example. She came to me at the end of 2021, and she had just one focus: she wanted to improve her changes of a...

When you have Endometriosis, your fertility will be affected. It doesn’t automatically mean that you will be infertile, but you are likely to find it more difficult to fall pregnant. But the good news is that nutrition can help to improve your fertility! But when is the best time to start working on your fertility?...

Endo-friendly foods are foods that help you reduce your chronic, systemic inflammation (if you’d like to find out how inflammation affects your Endometriosis, watch this video). They are the foods you should try to eat more of and add to all of your meals as much as you possibly can. Antioxidant rich foods Let me...

Iron deficiency is very common amongst people with Endometriosis. There is a bit of a vicious cycle between iron deficiency and heavy and long bleeds during your period: heavy and/or long bleeds increase your iron deficiency, and iron deficiency causes longer and heavier bleeds. Iron plays a very important role in many body processes, such...

Soy is a key food for many of you and it can be confusing to know whether it will help with your Endometriosis or make your symptoms worse. Although Endometriosis is not caused by an excess of oestrogen (one of the 2 female hormones), Endometriosis is an oestrogen-dependent disease. This means that your Endometriosis responds...

I have a philosophy about the best approach to managing your Endometriosis. I call it the buffet style approach. You know the food buffets you often see in hotel restaurants. I like them because it allows me to create my own meal from the ingredients that are there. I can mix and match, based on...

As with gluten, milk products are getting a lot of ‘noise’. For a long time it had a bad rap as one of the key contributors to heart disease. We now know better, and for many people, milk products are a healthy food. However For some of you, removing dairy altogether, or at least...