This EndoLife

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

https://ovarianresearch...

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

https://www.ibssmart.com/sibo...

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

https://...

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

https://www.monashfodmap.com/about-fodmap-and-ibs/

https://pmc.nc...

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/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5902457/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC451976...

Most people with endo are struggling with symptoms, and so the last thing they need is to also struggle with nutrition changes.

That’s why today, I wanted to offer you a quick change that can make a big improvement.

Enter kiwis.

Show notes

Kiwis and gut motility

https://www.theendobellycoach.com/podcast/kiwis-for-constipation?rq=kiwis

Endo and oxidative stress

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1477-7827-7-54

https://pmc.nc...

Today I want to do a short episode on a slightly different topic, and that’s how to think of or how to approach your healing journey.

So, in my training with Dr Jessica Drummond at the Integrative Women’s Health Institute, we were taught to always start each coaching session with a celebration - typically, this celebration is tied to our work and the client’s well-being. So, it might be something as small as they ate an apple that w...

So last week I shared my number one strategy for ensuring your meals are blood sugar balancing.

Today, I want to provide you with some key blood sugar super foods that can really help you on your way to balancing your levels in the short term and in the long term, which in turn, will improve your inflammation and oxidation levels - essential for endo management.

Now, obviously, we’ve already discussed the role of fibre from veggies, ...

Okay so the past few weeks I’ve been talking about blood sugar and how to identify if blood sugar dysregulation is an issue for you.

This week, I want to give you the number one strategy for beginning to stabilise your blood sugar. Now, I have talked about this before in the context of other episodes, I’ve done some lives on the topic and put them out as episodes, and I’ve linked to articles I’ve written, but I don’t think I have ev...

Last week we discussed signs and symptoms of dysregulated blood sugar levels. Now, if you were concerned, I recommended speaking to your GP, however, often if you’re not pre-diabetic or diabetic, they’re not very concerned about your levels, and won’t really spend the time to get them under control.

So, today, I wanted to share how to take your own glucose readings, so you can see what your blood sugar levels are doing over the day,...

If you follow my work or have coached with me, you’ll know that blood sugar balance is an absolute staple to my approach for managing endo.

Whilst this isn’t an episode into how blood sugar affects endo, to give you a short explanation - blood sugar imbalances can have a significant negative impact on hormones, gut inflammation and the microbiome, and raise both oxidative stress levels and prostaglandin levels, both are key to endo...

This one is a super quick episode today, as I didn’t want to do another replay, but also I don’t have the time at present to continue with our series on pain and nutrients, as those episodes take about a day to research and write up. So, today I want to talk about something that I’ve been discussing with two clients lately, and it occurred to me, that you might benefit as well.

Regulating the nervous system and our stress response ...