Endometriosis – Start With A Natural Approach
Natural Treatment of Endometriosis
We have had a consistently high rate of success with a combination of dietary changes, nutrient support, emotional healing, and alternative therapies – such as acupuncture (using fine needles to pierce the skin at strategic points and relieve pain) and phytotherapy (the use of plants and plant extracts for healing). The primary aim is to eliminate the underlying causes of endometriosis and support your body’s healthy metabolic function. These steps can help relieve the symptoms of endometriosis, but they also are important preventative measures for your overall health. We recommend all women follow these natural steps, no matter if they think they have endometriosis or not. Many women that have endometriosis also have a condition known as systemic yeast, and find when the yeast is treated, the symptoms of endometriosis are much improved.
If you are struggling with endometriosis, and you are eating a high-sugar and/or high-carbohydrate diet, you can be virtually certain that your diet is causing you trouble. Your food intake is speaking to your genes in ways that they just don’t want to hear. One of my favorite sayings is “Food is information – and your best medicine.”
Eating a sweet and starchy diet gives your body all the wrong messages. Instead of telling your cells to remain insulin sensitive so they can continue to store sugar from the carbohydrates you eat, you are telling your cells to become insulin resistant. Instead of telling your blood sugar to remain at nice, even levels, you are inviting it to spike and crash. Instead of instructing your insulin to remain at healthy levels, you are asking it to go out of balance. The message to your body with a sweet and starchy diet is “Gain weight, add stress to the system, and start a hormonal cascade that will create unwanted symptoms.”
So if you are struggling with hormonal symptoms, your body is sending you a message. It is trying to tell you that you are feeding it the wrong Information – information that it needs different foods to keep your hormones healthy. And when you rebalance your hormones, it will do wonders for your skin, your hair, and your overall sense of vitality and well-being, in addition to helping you lose weight. For more information, take our Hormonal Health Assessment.
Some of the simplest steps are:
- Change your diet to minimize xenoestrogen exposure. As much as you can, eliminate nonorganic dairy products, beef, and chicken – because organic foods contain no added growth hormones. Increase nutrient-rich foods, especially cruciferous vegetables (broccoli cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, kale, cabbage, and bok choy), soy, cold-water fish (small fish when possible) and fiber, all of which support hormonal balance and help clear extra estrogen from the body.
- Follow a whole foods diet, carefully watching your carbohydrate intake, to support healthy insulin metabolism and also support overall hormonal balance. This includes limiting alcohol intake. Remember to eat protein at each meal and at each snack to keep the hormones more stable.
- Maintain healthy levels of body fat to limit endogenous estrogen production. Body fat is a secondary production site for estrogen, so being overweight often means excess estrogen.
Supplement with vitamins and minerals (especially calcium and magnesium) to make up for what is lacking in your daily food intake – pharmaceutical grade is the best. Click here to learn about Women to Women’s Multi Essentials.
- Supplement with phytotherapy to gently return hormone levels to normal.
- Supplement with omega–3 essential fatty acids as a natural anti-inflammatory. Click here to learn about Women to Women’s EPA/DHA Fish Oil Support.
- Minimize exposure to xenoestrogens in your environment. Don’t microwave food in plastic wrap or containers, use ceramic bowls in the microwave and try to minimize the use of plastics for food storage. Store the food in glass containers.
- If you have endometriosis, consider adding acupuncture with pelvic massage to the above. Castor oil packs will help reduce pain and inflammation. We also recommend you check out the innovative therapeutic approach developed at Clear Passage Therapy.
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