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Adenomyosis

It’s about time I wrote about Adenomyosis because I know that quite a few of you either have both Endometriosis and Adenomyosis, or just Adenomyosis. With Endometriosis, there is endometrial-like tissue outside the uterus, often on the ovaries, outside of the uterus, the bowel, the bladder, and other organs and tissues in the pelvic or...

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Using Artificial Intelligence to plan your meals

A couple of months ago I was in a consultation with a client and we had been talking about how helpful it is to plan your meals weekly so you don’t have improvise. Changing your diet is hard because a lot of what we eat and when is habituated, meaning you don’t really have to...

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Pros and cons of taking supplements

You may have considered, or are already taking supplements. But have you considered the pros and cons of taking supplements? Often, when you go see a doctor for a specific health complaint, you walk away with a medication prescription, a pill to take to make you feel better. And as a society, we’re quite enamored...

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How to get enough calcium from your diet if you’re cutting out dairy

One of the key strategies I recommend to reduce your Endometriosis symptoms is to remove dairy from your diet (read more about why here). But for most of us, dairy is our main source of calcium in our diets, and you may be worried that without dairy, you won’t get enough calcium. So in this...

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How inflammation affects your fertility and how diet can help

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...

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Why Googling ‘healthy eating’ could worsen your Endometriosis symptoms

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...

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Bowel movements: the importance of monitoring your number two’s

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...

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Fighting the odds: Shelley’s pregnancy success story

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...

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When should you start to work on your fertility?

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?...

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Endo-friendly foods to reduce Endometriosis symptoms naturally

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...

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