Your immune system is one of the key contributors to your Endometriosis. If you’ve been reading my posts for a while, you’ll know that I approach Endometriosis as an inflammatory disease, not a hormonal disease. I focus on your digestive and immune systems to reduce the severity of your symptoms. So, what is the biggest...

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...

Despite what you might have heard or read, it is inflammation, not hormones, that underpin your Endometriosis symptoms and the progression of the disease. Hormones do play a role, and I’ll write a separate article about that, but they’re not the driving force. And there is good, bad and ugly news about this inflammation. Let’s...

Meal planning is crucial to make sure you are prepared AND have the necessary ingredients to make meals that are right for you. One of the main challenges you’ll have to deal with when changing your diet is that you’re fighting your routines. And if you rely on being able to whip up a meal...

The first 13 weeks after your egg has been fertilised are crucial for the development of the embryo, and also contain the highest risk of miscarriage. Let’s look at reducing the risk of miscarriage first. Why does miscarriage occur? Underpinning your Endometriosis is chronic, systemic inflammation. That means your uterine wall is likely to be inflamed...

If you are trying to fall pregnant naturally, spending some time considering how to optimise your ovulation is important. After all, it has taken your egg around 4 months of hard work to get ready for it (if you haven’t read my article on egg quality, you can read it here) Ovulation happens when a...

Reduced egg quality is the key factor in fertility for women with Endometriosis and/or who are over 35 years old. What is egg quality, and why is it so important? And of course, what can you do to improve it? We are born with all the eggs we’ll ever have. When we were a foetus...

There is a lot of ‘noise’ around gluten and whether or not you should remove them from your diet. My viewpoint is that only if gluten are causing your problems should you remove them. And because you have Endometriosis, removing gluten from your diet is an important strategy. Let me explain why. There is a...

I want to start with the concept of Leaky Gut (or intestinal hyperpermeability), because most women with Endometriosis have it, often without realising it.. In a normal, healthy, gut the lining provides a barrier between the gut and the bloodstream. Only fully digested food, once it’s broken down into the smallest molecules, will be able...

Endometriosis is not an hormonal disease but an inflammatory disease. So let me explain the relationship between endometriosis, inflammation and your microbiome. We are host to billions of bacteria, making up your microbiome. The balance of these bacteria impacts virtually every function in your body. We know that in women with endometriosis that microbiome is out...