Low Vitamin C, Endo and Period Pain: What You Need to Know

Today we’re continuing with our series on endo and period pain and their associations with low nutrient levels. Today, we’re talking about vitamin C.

Vitamin C is an anti-inflammatory antioxidant, which means it can help lower inflammation and also prevent oxidative stress - a process that triggers inflammatory reactions in the body and is involved in endo pain and progression. It also has antiangiogenic effects, which means it prevents the formation of new blood vessels, which endo relies on to grow.

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Endo, period pain and prostaglandins

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6790261/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7068519/

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/09513590.2011.588753

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4512562

Vit C antioxidant properties

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27521769/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27125410/

Vit C and endo or dysmenorrhea risk

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3484190/

https://jcdr.net/articles/PDF/1308/2311-final.pdf

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10227355

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s12978-024-01895-x.pdf

Vit C supplementation for Endo

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/2021/5529741

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3484190/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27125410/

https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jog.12050

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0020729207005772

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3484190/

https://rbej.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12958-023-01126-1

Vit C supplementation for dysmenorrhea

https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/13/6/1308

High antioxidant diet and endo

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/12/2773

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

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