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...

I have so many clients who come to me because they have Endometriosis but also have other health concerns, such as thyroid disease, multiple sclerosis, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), asthma, dermatitis and varies allergies. Many of these other health concerns are auto immune diseases, or have some connection to the immune system. Endometriosis is not...

In my previous post I have you some suggestions on how to clean up your environment. It may not be something you can do in one big swoop, but if you change the products you use little by little, you will improve your health. In today’s post I want to talk about the hidden toxins...