Diet and supplement changes for resolving endometriosis naturally along with suggested holistic modalities that can speed the healing process.
Official statistics estimate that between 6-10% of women suffer from endometriosis.
From the size and selection of menstrual pain remedies at the pharmacy, however, it seems that most women are completely unaware that curing endometriosis naturally is indeed possible.
What are Endometriosis Symptoms?
Endometriosis occurs when the lining of the uterus, called the endometrium, grows and thrives beyond the uterine cavity. The most common location for endometrial lesions to occur is the lining of the abdominal cavity, called the peritoneum.
Women with endometriosis suffer most commonly from pelvic pain, especially during the menstrual cycle. Â This pain can be debilitating and even threatening to health from excessive blood loss.
In addition to pain and bleeding sometimes all month long, endometriosis is also credited with as much as 50% of cases of infertility.
Other signs and symptoms of endometriosis include the following: (1)
- Pain before and during your period. Note that toxic feminine hygiene products can exacerbate the problem.
- Lower back pain.
- Pain during or after intercourse.
- Fatigue, infertility, chronic pelvic pain not just during your period.
- Painful bowel movements, constipation, diarrhea, painful urination during your period.
- Irregular or heavy periods.
When endometriosis involves the ovaries, tissue can grow and bleed over time forming what is called chocolate cysts. (2)
Conventional Treatments of Little Help
Unfortunately, if a woman visits her gynecologist about symptoms or complications related to endometriosis, only medication to control the pain or surgery for severe cases is all that is typically recommended.
If infertility is the result of endometriosis and a woman wishes to get pregnant, expensive fertility treatments are the order of the day.
This approach does not resolve the problem, however. In fact, it may actually worsen a woman’s hormonal balance over time causing other health issues later.
Endometriosis Relief Naturally
Fortunately, there is growing recognition that the pain and inflammation which characterizes endometriosis can be improved dramatically or even resolved completely with diet.
I myself suffered from endometriosis starting when I was a teenager. Diet change alone with no other treatments whatsoever completely resolved the problem. I’ve been in complete remission now for well over 20 years.
If you are also experiencing symptoms of endometriosis, there is hope! Whether the problems are new to you or longstanding, diet change combined with holistic therapies as needed work extremely well.
The reputable clinic Biodynamic Wellness in Solana Beach, California reports that the following dietary changes and holistic therapies below have proven to be very helpful to patients battling endometriosis.
If you need more detailed assistance, this clinic does zoom or phone consultations for those who do not live in the area.
Dietary Recommendations
Change of diet is crucial for natural resolution of endometriosis. Suggestions include both food and supplements to encourage the process.
- One tablespoon of high vitamin cod liver oil TWICE daily for 60 days.  After that, a daily teaspoon per day is sufficient for maintenance. Please note that most cod liver oil brands on the market extract the oil using heat. This processing alters the integrity of the oil and destroys nutrients. This source and this source both carry high quality brands that are raw and tested for purity.
- Traditional Diet with special emphasis on daily dietary fats. These include raw butter, ghee, and/or X-factor raw butter oil, egg yolks, organ meats and fish roe. (3) This article on five healthy fats to use in the kitchen can provide more specifics.
Holistic Therapies
Holistic therapies that can be implemented as needed in conjunction with Traditional Diet for curing endometriosis include:
- Rubus ideaus gemmotherapy, at a dosage of 1/2 tsp in water twice daily. What is gemmotherapy? It is a therapy that uses stem cell extracts of fresh buds, shoots, roots or stems from embryonic or mature plants. This modality is helpful for tissue regeneration, positive growth development and drainage of toxins. Rubus idaeus is derived from the shoots of the red raspberry bush. It is an effective remedy for drainage of the uterus and pelvic region. It also helps to tonify the uterus. Contact the staff at Biodynamicwellness.com for where to source.
- Use a castor oil pack once daily or nightly over the liver and pelvic region. Details on how to make and use a castor oil pack properly for reducing pelvic inflammation can be found at the link.
- Coffee enemas can be a helpful addition to the process as needed. See the linked article for details.
Are you are one of the millions of women suffering month after month with the debilitating effects of endometriosis?
Instead of bombarding your body with drugs or resorting to surgery to manage the problem, try diet change first!
This combined with holistic methods for curing endometriosis naturally will give you much-needed permanent and nontoxic relief!
References
(1) Â Endometriosis: Treatment, Symptoms, and Causes
(2) Ovarian Cysts: Symptoms, Causes, Types, and Treatment
(3) Traditional Dietary Guidelines
Interesting and thought provoking post but there isn;t a lot of real diet information on here…. can you point me in the right direction to get some more solid and specifics on diet changes. I have stage 4 ENDO and have been trying to get pregnant for 4 years =( I made big diet changes 10 months ago and had surgery in May but I am still suffering.
I bought a receipt book for the endo diet, and so far i have had to look up most of the foods in it. I bought this $30.00 book because i only good reviews on it. I am thinking that this diet is for someone who is either a cook or a vegitarian. The food is all really expensive and i will have to go to about 4 different places to buy all of my foods plus my family does not want to be on this same diet. Thats double the bill. Not looking to good so far.
Your article is inaccurate, and I don’t think you should be incouraging diet as a “cure” as there is no proof of a cure, helping the pain symptoms maybe but a cure? The only way to find out if you have endometriosis is to have surgery, if you haven’t had surgery you may not have it at all! Sure eating these foods might help with the pain aspect of endometriosis the sad fact is everytime you have a period it will grow which is why pregnancy helps and why constant birth control is essential. By sticking to this diet with no surgery and no birth control you are essentially masking the symptoms of pain and letting the endo grow bigger and bigger which can lead to huge problems if you still want to have children, I think it’s very irresponsible to claim this is a cure its not, it is to help with the pain, and don’t get me wrong anything to help the pain is brilliant but you need to continue with birth control to make sure it does not grow out of hand!
Wow Lottie sounds like you need to do more research! The doctors etc have got you brain washed!!! Look up everything to do with the birth control pill, endometriosis, diet. It’s amazing what you will find. Don’t take what a doctor says to you as gospel. Do you know how many billions they make from sick people?? They make more money from cancer patients keeping them sick till death then a cure. Do you know how many cures for cancer have been discovered and stopped because they make more money from their so called treatments that don’t work? Think about it. Why do doctors have such a strong reaction to other doctors who actually have success stories with patients that live to tell them. Go and research find the truth my friend.
I found this thread when I was trying to find did anyone else cure endometriosis with diet and exercise.
After years of trying to work out a cure and spending a lot of time and money with doctors/hospitals, I sort of ended up accidentally finding this diet for myself. It definitely works for me. I thought I felt better and I had just started taking normal cod liver oil, so I increased it and took 3 or 4 teaspoons of that daily. I also took body builders whey powder once a day. Those two things made a huge difference. I’ve been taking iron supplements for years, but because I was having such heavy periods, every 2 or 3 weeks, the supplements made no difference. Now though, I notice my iron levels are almost right, because I have much lighter periods, up to 31 days between – WHAT a relief. Oh and another thing I noticed, when I stopped eating sunflower spread and started on good old butter, I felt better!!! I take green tea, which I don’t enjoy drinking at all, but I believe it is very good for me. Every second day I dissolve a Vitamin B complex tablet in my water I take for my walk. For the past year, in every weather, I walk 8 miles a day in a gorgeous forest, breathing in all the air, believing the plants and trees are secreting healthful air for all my cells.
I’ve been through so much with endometriosis, in the end, I just listened to my body and tried to feed it as much good food, nutrients as possible. Sometimes now I feel I want to cut codliver oil down to barely a teaspoon, so I must have enough of whatever was missing. I wish I’d have just stopped listening to doctors and saved myself years of very bad health. I was suffering menopausal symptoms, fuzzy head, frequent heavy periods. The contraceptive pills with the awful side effects, from depression, to making periods heavier, the horrid internal probes for ultrasound, invasive tests, feeling sick and tired all the time, the months I felt poisoned with HORRIBLE mirena coil and all the bleeding, and sickness, it has been a loooooong, difficult road. But good nutrition and old fashioned common sense has me flying around with the figure and energy of a fit teenager.
Thanks for the info! I had surgery for endometriosis 2 months ago and I still have severe pain. I should change my diet starting today. I’ll be trying accupuncture and herbal remedies.
I was told the same thing. They cannot test for endo they can only open you up to see it. I was; however, diagnosed with polycystic ovarion syndrome with all the same symptoms of endo.
I’m two bottles away from completing the 60 day, 2 Tbls. cure. I would like to see some more comments from others who decided to try this. I, like Kimberly would also like some more information on the dairy aspect of it. I really love my raw milk cheese and milk. I have managed to quit the milk but still sneak some cheese/cheese curds. Have wondered though if being raw is a whole different story.
I’m not sure if there has been improvement or not. I just started the phase 1 diet to fight fungus 2 weeks ago and that has put a whole different twist on things. I would suggest to anyone interested in natural health and healing to check out The Fungus Link by Doug Kauffman. He also has a show called Know The Cause on CNT. In the past couple weeks I have learned a lot on the incredible role fungus plays on our health.
I’ve been studying all this for the past 7 years and this recent information has tied all I have learned together. It makes so very much sense as to why we can take supplements and do so many of the “right” things, but until we address the fungus issue we will continue to struggle with health issues. It’s HUGE! Check it out.
Let’s hear from some of you others on this journey with the FCLO. Thanks!
Sarah or anyone else who’s still reading this thread- can someone please help me understand if RAW cow’s milk is bad for endometriosis? Many endo diet suggestions list cutting back all forms of dairy…but of course you’d want to cut back all of the pasteurized/homogenized stuff. But what about raw? Should I be cutting back on that also?
(please, no!)
I too have suffered 20 years with endometriosis. I eat a great diet including tons of FCLO, bone broth, raw milk, fermented food, GF, no sugar, organ meats, etc. In fact, I am a WAPF chapter leader so I need to practice what I preach!;) However, although MANY of my health issues have completely cleared up; the the life-sucking endo remains. I believe there really is something to be said for the diet of our parents and grandparents and what we consumed as children. Which in my case was all low-fat, processed, and artificially sweetened…all the things preventing normal hormone production during the critical years of puberty. So although I have exhausted my avenues with MD’s, ND’s, herbs, acupuncture, nutritionists, cleanses, etc. the only thing left, sadly, is surgery which has helped in the past. That is why, I believe, our preconception diet, prenatal diet, and our children’s diet is so very crucial to the health of future generations. We must get the word out! So, thanks Sarah for all your efforts!!
I had surgery in May, I was stage 4. I had a miscarriage in July (my first ever positive test) and have had no luck since. I have been a vegetarian for 17 years and avoid most dairy and wheat. I think I need to make some more big changes. I have had no relief since surgery and I am getting SO frustrated and exhausted. My symptoms seem to be worse when I hit the luteal phase of my cycle and last until day 3 of my period. Ovulation is horrible which makes conception a challenge…. Ugghhhhh it’s all so frustrating!!
I suffer from PCOS. I went on the paleo diet almost two years ago. I was on it for a year before starting the GAPS diet 10 months ago. My health has improved so much, but I still suffer from the horrible symptoms on day 2: terrible pain (like seeing stars!) and cramping, nausea, headaches, heavy bleeding, overall weakness, etc. I have tried some homeopathic remedies such as taking Vitex, Veratrum Album, Belladonna, Cramp bark when the pain starts and putting on a heating pad. The pain has been so bad the past couple of times, I had to take Ibuprofen the past couple cycles (I only took 2 pills, one time on the 2nd day). Does anyone have any other suggestions? It is so unbearable!! I am doing everything else right – I do NOT cheat on the GAPS diet and I drink broth every day, have fermented foods with every meal, eat lots of fat. I don’t know what else I can do!
Try the raw food diet. It cured me of my endometriosis and made my overall health so much better!