No one knows where Endo comes from or why women have it.
In my case, it was hereditary. My mother wasn’t diagnosed with it until she was an adult, even though she suffered from it once starting her period.
I suffered from it as well. Yes, that was past tense. I’m 40-years-old, later this year, I started my period at the age of 9. The pain was not so bad the first couple of years, but by the time I hit the 7th-grade, I couldn’t go to school when I had my period.
Sleep was the ONLY thing that made the pain stop.
To read my story, click here.
I am here however, to tell you that it is possible to recover from endometriosis without pharmaceuticals or surgery. Now, I’m not a doctor and am not prescribing anything to you. I can however share my experience and path and that may indeed change your course with this disease.
You can fight endo with positive outcomes. It is possible to do this without prescriptions, birth control, or even possibly without a partial or full hysterectomy. Get all your answers before going down this road!
It is possible. I know it is possible because I succeeded.
What you eat plays a HUGE role in your pain management as well as your fertility, but so does your environment. Did you know that if you have endo you are estrogen dominant? Your body isn’t able to make the amount of progesterone that is needed to keep your hormones balanced let alone successfully carry a baby to term. Or if you are eating wrong and not paying attention to the toxins in your life.
If you are suffering with (supposed) infertility or have had a miscarriage or two, I am so sorry. I had 2 miscarriages before I did a deep dive into the disease.
There is HOPE! I hope a doctor doesn’t tell you that you will NEVER have children! I was told that and I have 3 beautiful children!
Remember when I said you are estrogen dominant?
Estrogen isn’t just a hormone your body makes. Estrogen is also a hormone you can eat and absorb through your skin as well as absorb from food that is free of estrogen in its natural form.
How is that possible? Plant based estrogens are also called phytoestrogens, the most common one is SOY. Chemical based estrogens are endocrine disrupters such as plastics, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, laundry detergent, dish washing soap, and so much more! Here is an example, when you place leftover food that doesn’t contain any estrogens into a plastic container and then reheat the food in that same container, the plastic leaches into your food. When you then eat the food that was warmed up in the plastic container you are consuming xenoestrogens from the plastic, which leached into your food. Throw out all your plastic containers! Switch to glass!
EVERYTHING that makes contact with your skin enters your blood stream within 20 seconds! Think about that for a minute. What does your typical day look like? Get up and take a shower… the shampoo, conditioner, soap/body wash you are using, is it safe? What about the lotion you may put on after your shower? Or the deoderant you put in your underarms or the perfume you spray on your body? Or the toothpaste you put on your tooth brush? Or the mouth wash you use after you brush your teeth? Then you perhaps eat breakfast. What are you eating? Other than obviously ideally eating something healthy, not all foods are healthy when you have endo. How are you preparing your food? Are you microwaving your food killing all the nutrients or are you frying eggs on a teflon nonstick pan? It’s not even an hour into your day and the toxin over load is intense!
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How do you know if a chemical estrogen exists in your personal care products or cleaning supplies? I used the free site EWG Skin Deep website to type in the product I was using, to tell me whether or not it was good for my health or not. However, if for some odd reason they can’t find your brand, you can go to this page at the bottom and type in all of the ingredients on the label and get a report this way.
Skindeep will show you colors with number similar to this:
Naturally, the greener the number the better it is for your body. You’d be surprised how dangerous some of your every day products truly are!