The endometriosis diet is about consuming foods that will enrich and nourish you; its about foods that will support your body, balance your system, and provide a bed-rock to support your healing.
Having the knowledge of which foods can cause problems by triggering inflammation and make your symptoms worse will help you to avoid this issue. There are many foods that can cause inflammation and this will put your body under additional stress. This added stress can escalate to affect your stress hormones and in-turn will make your symptoms worse with increased perception of pain.
The way we perceive pain is through the chemical pathway caused by prostaglandins, and eating the wrong foods will increase the bad prostaglandins and in-turn will increase levels of pain. Also, increased levels of inflammatory prostaglandins correlate to the amount of menstrual pain experienced.
To help you understand the various issues around diet, inflammation, and possible harmful foods the following articles should help shed some light.
You will also find advice about various helpful supplements which are of benefit for certain symptoms of endometriosis. There are particular supplements that can really help with the inflammation of endometriosis, while others can help to support your immune system.
Preparing for the Diet
Research & theory to the diet
Chemistry in the diet
Caution with certain foods
Grains Gluten & Wheat
Individual supplement benefits
Healing teas and juice
Aminos, Probiotics and healthy juice