This EndoLife
From the best surgery to natural therapies, This EndoLife Podcast empowers you to live and thrive with endometriosis and its co-conditions through a holistic, functional medicine approach. I’m covering all the topics that often aren’t discussed in the doctor’s office, whether that’s how to eat well for endometriosis, how to treat the endo belly or just what exactly is SIBO? Come join myself (and my guests!) as we dive into anti-inflammatory nutrition, gut health, hormones, pain science, mental health, sex, energy and living life well with endo.
Episodes
We’re continuing with our Study Spotlight Series on ‘Dietary Modifications and Supplement Use for Endometriosis’, and today we’re looking at dairy.
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DITTO - DITTO is a clinically studied PMS and PMDD supplement with 10 ingredients that target both the mental and physical challenges that come along with the menstrual cycle, developed by a PhD Nutrition Scientist. You can use the code: ENDOBELLY (all caps) for...
Today we’re continuing our Study Spotlight Series on the study: Dietary Modification and Supplement Use For Endometriosis Pain.
And today, we’re looking at the effects of peppermint supplementation. So first, let’s look at what this study found, that out of those who tried peppermint supplementation, roughly 26% experienced a reduction in pain.
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DITTO - DITTO is a clinically studied PMS and PMDD supplement wi...
Alice van der Schoot is a PhD nutrition scientist with a background in neuroscience. Her work brings together both fields to explore how nutrition can impact underlying mechanisms of PMS, PMDD, and period pain to reduce symptoms - from neurotransmitter function, to pain processing and inflammation.
Recognising that valuable research often remains hidden in academic journals, Alice founded DITTO to address the disconnect between sci...
Today we’re continuing with our Study Spotlight Series on the study Dietary Modification and Supplement Use For Endometriosis Pain.
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DITTO - DITTO is a clinically studied PMS and PMDD supplement with 10 ingredients that target both the mental and physical challenges that come along with the menstrual cycle, developed by a PhD Nutrition Scientist. You can use the code: ENDOBELLY (all caps) for 20% off any an...
Today we’re continuing with our Study Spotlight Series looking at the study: Dietary Modification and Supplement Use For Endometriosis Pain, and if you need a recap on this study overall, go to episode 365.
But today, we’re looking at supplements and specifically, magnesium.
Show Notes:
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DITTO - DITTO is a clinically studied PMS and PMDD supplement with 10 ingredients that target both the mental and physical ...
In this episode, I am continuing our Study Spotlight Series on the study: Dietary Modification and Supplement Use For Endometriosis Pain.
Today we’re looking at the dietary changes findings, and we’re starting with alcohol.
Show Notes:
This episode is sponsored by Mira, your at-home hormone testing device. Use this link and code 2DJESS20 to get 20% off the device and any future wand orders.
Study Spotlight
https://www.theendo...
This episode was inspired by a recent Substack of mine. I have a section in my Substack called ‘What I’m eating lately’ and it’s just a section where I share healthy meal ideas that support us with endo and our many chronic illnesses. I shared how I had started using whole seeds instead of spices for my interstitial cystitis, and I got a really positive response from others who had struggled with bland meals since their IC develope...
Okay, so we are travelling tomorrow and so I thought I’d just be doing a replay today because of time, but something happened with a client yesterday that I was so excited about, I really wanted to share. Now, I am going to be doing more about this in the future, so this isn’t going to be a deep dive episode as I just don’t have the time for that today, but I really wanted to get this info out there because I know so many of you ar...
Today we’re continuing with our Study Spotlight series on the study entitled ‘Dietary Modification and Supplement Use For Endometriosis Pain’. If you’re new to the series and want to understand what this study was about, the strengths and weaknesses and my overall thoughts on the study, go to episode 365, and the link to that is in the show notes.
Today, we’re diving into one of the supplements with the best response rate, and that ...
Today we’re starting a new series and that’s looking into a major new endometriosis study, and doing a deep dive into the dietary changes and supplements it analysed and individually investigating each of them, so that we have a broader understanding of each of these tools.
I won’t necessarily be doing one episode on the series every week, as there are many components of the study we’ll be looking at, so I don’t want to bore you guy...
In this week’s episode we are continuing on the ADHD and endometriosis theme, and I have another guest for you - this time, one you may recognise from the show previously; Natalia Kasnakidis.
Natalia is an award-winning Career & Performance Coach, Speaker and women’s health advocate – recently recognised by Management Today as one the UK’s 35 Women Under 35.
After being diagnosed with hEDS at 21, she rebuilt her health and confid...
Following on from last week’s episode about ADHD and menopause, I am resharing my interview with Adele Wimsett, who is talking to us about ADHD and the connection with endometriosis.
In this episode we discuss:
What ADHD is
Why it presents differently in females and cyclical people and what this means for diagnosis
How hormones affect ADHD traits
What impact hormones have on traits during different hormonal phases of a cyclical pers...
Dr Helen Wall is an NHS doctor, who runs a menopause clinic and is passionate about spreading awareness of ADHD in women, especially in perimenopause. She is a resident doctor on the BBC and a columnist for Woman Magazine.
With those of us with endo more likely to have ADHD, and symptoms worsening during perimenopause, I invited Dr Helen onto the show, to help us understand what ADHD is, how to look for the signs and symptoms, what...
Seed cycling. You might have heard of it, you might have tried it, you might have had your doctor dismiss it or you may think it’s just another wellness trend.
But admittedly, whilst it’s trendy, it’s not just hype.
Show notes
Flax studies
https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article-abstract/77/5/1215/2649961?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14749240/
Zinc
Okay so last week I said I had finished with the low FODMAP series, but I changed my mind! I wanted to do one more on the topic, and that’s for my endo peeps who also have postural tachycardia syndrome or dysautonomia, and/or Ehlers Danlos Syndrome.
Show notes
Low FODMAP diet info
https://www.monashfodmap.com/about-fodmap-and-ibs/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4918736/
EDS definition
https://www.ehlers-da...
Recently we’ve been talking about the low FODMAP diet and how it can be helpful for histamine issues and endometriosis symptoms… but what about what it was designed for - IBS, and by default, SIBO?
Show notes
Low FODMAP diet info
https://www.monashfodmap.com/about-fodmap-and-ibs/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4918736/
IBS and SIBO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv8LjTgpmP0
Last week I talked about the low FODMAP diet for lowering histamine levels and helping to improve MCAS or histamine intolerance symptoms, but today I want to talk about the low FODMAP diet specifically for endometriosis and what the research shows so far.
Show notes
Low FODMAP diet info
https://www.monashfodmap.com/about-fodmap-and-ibs/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4918736/
Studies referenced
Today I wanted to talk about the low FOMDAP diet, but not for the reasons you may think.
Today, I don’t actually want to talk about it specifically for IBS/SIBO (though we will touch upon that again), I want to talk about its benefits for histamine, because the low FODMAP diet can actually be a way to lower histamine levels.
Show notes
Low FODMAP diet info
Finally, about two months later, I am wrapping up my series on certain vitamins and minerals and their association with period/endo pain when low.
Now, just to recap and highlight, the key nutrients we see associated with more severe menstrual or endo pain when low, or shown to improve menstrual/endo pain are:
Vitamin A
Vitamins B1, B6 and B12 (for those of you wondering, folate - otherwise known as B9 - hasn’t been associated wit...
Some of you may know that I recently completed the elemental diet for SIBO treatment, and today, I wanted to share my experience with the particular formula I used.
Show notes
Endometriosis, SIBO, LPS and the microbiome connection
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9660426/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39959963/
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