I wasn’t able to get pregnant with my endometriosis by just changing my diet.  Yes, my diet was a life saver as I was no longer in pain.  I knew there was something else missing as my mother had me, my grandfather’s mother had 6 children, there was a way.  I just needed to figure out what it was!

One of the ways in which Endometriosis doesn’t grow is when you are PREGNANT!  But, how do you get and stay pregnant when you have Endometriosis?

Little back story.  My great-grandmother on my maternal grandfather’s side was born around 1900, she had 6 successful pregnancies.  The Endometriosis came from my mother’s father’s side of the family.  My mother was my grandfather’s 8th child and she was born in 1961.  I was born in 1984.  The reason I’m telling you this is look at the years and the quality of life.  I unfortunately don’t know my great-grandmother’s history with Endometriosis as she is no longer living, she did live to be in her 80s.  She was also diabetic and blind when she passed. 

This is just my theory.  In the 1940s, when my grandpa’s sisters were at the age of having their period, if they had pain with their periods, all food then was pretty much organic as you didn’t have chemical laden foods with herbicides or pesticides.  You also didn’t have genetically modified foods.  Sweet potatoes weren’t really part of their diet nor was soy. 

Everything was made at home from scratch.  They couldn’t afford to eat out like a lot of folks do now.  There were no additives like cottonseed oil, canola oil, soy.  Cleaning supplies were more natural like vinegar and baking soda.

So, if my great-aunt’s did have pain, they were still able to get and stay pregnant and being pregnant for most of their child bearing years, stopped their Endometrial tissue growth by being pregnant.

Fast forward 40 years to 1980 when my mother was 19-years-old. 

My mother had already been having Endometrial pain from cysts at about age 15.  My parents were married in 1981.  Sometime prior to my arrival in 1984, my mother had miscarried her first child.

My mother always had the endometrial pain, she never found a solution.  By, the 1970s/1980s look what happened to our agriculture? 

Pesticides and herbicides were in full swing, new man made junk was on the shelf in boxed foods, boxed foods became more popular as they were a quick meal for the busy working woman. 

Anytime a company has to use flashy marketing and super convincing words in their marketing that has ingredients you can’t pronounce, STAY FAR FAR AWAY!  Big food companies were trying to create HUGE margins, by cutting out the healthy ingredients for man made junk that was and still is cheap.  They only care about how much money they make, not what it does to your health!  So everyone was cutting corners on what was healthy to no longer healthy. 

What else boomed in the 1980s?

Obesity.  I wonder why?  Let’s think about this.  Cottonseed oil, canola oil, soy, sunflower oil, high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated syrup,

… sadly it is every where.  The only way you can avoid these bad oils is to cook from scratch at home.

So food was not what it used to be.  What else came about in this time period?  So many, many, more cleaning supplies!  So harsh, we now had poison control with Material Data Sheets (MDS) that would tell us what horrible ingredients were in them and how we should protect our body to use them.

Naturally it wouldn’t be until later when companies would actually investigate the harmful effects these chemicals would have on our bodies.

What else do these chemicals contribute to?  Cancer.  That’s not the purpose of this information but food for thought.

When my mother was about 35-years-old (1996) she had her fallopian tubes removed.  Fallopian tubes are supposed to be smaller in diameter than your pinky finger and my mother’s were the size of polish sausages.  Then since the endometriosis didn’t stop growing at this point, she had a partial hysterectomy to see if that would stop her Endometrial Pain.  For those of you who don’t know how your female anatomy works, you need your fallopian tubes to get pregnant.  My mother’s partial hysterectomy didn’t stop the pain.  When my mother was 37 (1998), she had a full hysterectomy.  She no longer had a period, and what did she instead still have to deal with?  Menopause and all the symptoms the come with it.  It was not a fun time period for my mom.

(staying pregnant CUT back on SUGAR)  Sugar feeds endometriosis, also prevents gestational diabetes)