From the best surgery to natural therapies, This EndoLife Podcast empowers you to live and thrive with endometriosis and its co-conditions through a holistic, functional medicine approach. I’m covering all the topics that often aren’t discussed in the doctor’s office, whether that’s how to eat well for endometriosis, how to treat the endo belly or just what exactly is SIBO? Come join myself (and my guests!) as we dive into anti-inflammatory nutrition, gut health, hormones, pain science, ment ...
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PHGG for Endo Belly, SIBO, IBS and Gut Dysbiosis
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Today I want to talk about another short chain fatty acid booster, which also supports long term gut healing and symptom relief, and that’s partially hydrolysed guar gum. PHGG is a soluble fibre derived from the guar bean plant, it is not exactly the same as the food ingredient guar gum. PHGG is broken down by enzymes from guar gum, and dissolves i…
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Last week we talked about certain fruits, vegetables, beans and lentils that can boost the short chain fatty acids called propionate and acetate. Alongside butyrate, which you can increase with resistant starch rich foods such as cold oats, green bananas and cooked and cooled potatoes and rice, these guys help to lower inflammation, heal gut issues…
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Propionate and Acetate - Can These Short Chain Fatty Acids Help You Fight Endo belly?
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Last week we talked about the most beneficial short chain fatty acid for endo - butyrate. Short chain fatty acids are types of healthy fats that are produced by good gut bacteria when we eat fibre. They eat the fibre, and the process of this, known as fermentation, produces short chain fatty acids. To get the low down on endo and short chain fatty …
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Butyrate and Resistance Starch - How Can They Help You Fight Endo and Endo Belly?
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Last week I talked about short chain fatty acids and their benefits for endo, and why people with endo need to focus on these to help manage the disease. Today, I want to talk about how to boost one of these types of short chain fatty acids, called butyrate. Read more. Show notes SCFAs/Butyrate https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cellular-and-infe…
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What Are Short-Chain Fatty Acids and Why Do They Matter for Endo?
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Short chain fatty acids are types of gut friendly fats that are produced when good bacteria in our large intestine eats fibre. So, when healthy bacteria eat let’s say, beans, it will ferment our food, and create gas. Along with that gas, it creates short chain fatty acids. Short chain fatty acids are one of the key reasons gut health is so importan…
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Chronic fatigue is one of the biggest complaints of clients and students when they come to see me. But endo isn’t solely responsible for fatigue, there are usually a number of culprits, that can be associated with endo or are worsened by endo. If you’d like to learn more about the causes of fatigue in the endo community, I’ve linked to a podcast ep…
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Protein for Surgery Recovery - How Much and Which Types?
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Today I want to continue on with the theme of foods for surgery recovery. And today, we’re talking about protein. In my training on endometriosis surgery recovery, the importance of protein intake, and good quality protein intake, was really emphasised - and with good reason. Protein is essential for tissue repair, and whilst we need lots of nutrie…
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I’ve had a couple of clients work with me recently ahead of their very first surgeries. We’ve been doing a lot of prep to ensure that they heal well, have an easy recovery, and to minimise the chances of recurrence or severe recurrence, as much as we possibly can (though of course, there is no guarantee with endo). As a result, I wanted to do an ep…
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How to Use Kiwis for Constipation with Endo
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To follow on with our episode on flax seeds and chia seeds for constipation, I wanted to add another one into the mix. For those of you who haven’t listen to that previous episode, I’ve linked it in the show notes. Additionally, if you’re wondering why constipation is a problem for many in our community, there can be numerous reasons, ranging from …
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How to Use Flax and Chia for Constipation with Endo
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Many people with endometriosis, including about 60% of my clients, suffer with constipation. Is this because of endometriosis directly? Not exactly. There are several reasons someone with endo can have constipation, whilst this episode isn’t about that, here’s a quick low down on some of the key causes: Endo – Of course, whilst this isn’t the case …
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Three Non-Food Related Ways to Manage Blood Sugar
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Blood sugar is the measurement of glucose in the blood stream at any one time. Glucose comes from complex carbs, like vegetables, beans and whole grains, and simple carbs, like flour, pasta and honey. Complex carbs break down slower in the gut, resulting in a slow but steady drip of glucose to our blood stream, whereas simple sugars break down very…
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REPLAY: Using Somatic Therapy to Recover From Chronic Pelvic Pain with Dr Tara Morrison
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Dr. Tara Morrison is Birth Trauma Specialist and Holistic Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist who specialises in whole-person care for pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond. We actually met several years ago when we were both training at the Integrative Women’s Health Institute, so it was a real pleasure to have her on the show! Tara uses trauma-informed S…
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REPLAY: The Three Key Causes of PCOS and How to Get a Diagnosis with Rachel Dutton
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Rachel Dutton a.k.a The Period Whisperer is pretty much one of the most knowledgeable women to grace this podcast. She is not only a women’s health coach, but a yoga teacher, reflexologist, aromatherapist and womb massage therapist to name just a few of her credentials. Rachel specialises in women’s health and fertility - including PCOS. As a PCOS …
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REPLAY: How Adhesions from Surgery Can Cause Endo Belly and Five Tips to Prevent Adhesion Formation Post-Surgery
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Maybe your periods are better, your chronic pelvis pain is better, things are improving. But after a few months, the endo belly comes back. Or maybe you get it for the first time ever. You’re bloated all the time or maybe you bloat badly after meals, or maybe it gets worse over the day? Perhaps it’s also accompanied by IBS issues like constipation,…
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REPLAY: Endo Belly? A Plea to Get Tested for Coeliac Disease - and Six Surprising Symptoms
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Today on the show I am talking about one of the possible root causes of your endo belly – coeliac disease. Now, before you turn this podcast off because you think you don’t react to gluten, I am literally begging you to listen. I have noticed a trend in my clients to dismiss coeliac disease as a possibility, because they don’t have immediate reacti…
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REPLAY: Strategies to Alleviate Premenstrual Endo Bloating Before Your Period
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This week I want to give you some tools to actually alleviate that bloating, now you know why it’s happening. I’m going to give you two types of tools, one set to deal with in the moment of bloating and another set for which are long-term strategies to help you to address the root cause. So, let’s start with the tools you can use in the moment. Man…
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REPLAY: How Are Interstitial Cystitis, Endometriosis and SIBO Connected and How Can They be Treated Together?
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You may remember back in late August I was promoting an event I was speaking at; the wonderful IC Retreat, a virtual 3 day event hosted by Joana Bartlett - all about empowering IC patients with tools, knowledge and support. My presentation was a deep dive into the connection between interstitial cystitis, endometriosis and SIBO and how to manage th…
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REPLAY: How to Manage Early Menopause, Medically Induced Menopause and Natural Menopause with Endometriosis, with Susan Clinton
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Today is a special episode, because my mentor, the woman who coached me through my coaching training, Susan Clinton, is joining us! Susan Clinton is a board certified women’s health physical therapist, a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Manual Therapy, and a board certified health and wellness coach - to name just a few of her hats! She…
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REPLAY: Four At-Home Ways to Boost Your Migrating Motor Complex If You Have Endo Belly or SIBO
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We are taking a short season break, so in the meantime, I’m revisiting some old episodes that have been asked about or requested over on Instagram. Enjoy and see you soon with some new episodes! The migrating motor complex is a wave like emotion that occurs in the small intestine, not large, between meals and overnight. This wave motion clears out …
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How to Optimise Digestion for Less Endo Belly
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Today we’re doing another clip from my course, Live and Thrive with Endo 2.0 as I am still getting over covid and what has turned out to be several of the most stressful days I’ve ever experienced (more on that another time). During the past couple of days, I’ve not had access to the internet and so I wasn’t able to share that the course doors were…
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Today I have an exciting episode for you! I’m still full of covid or flu, on top of preparing for my course Live and Thrive with Endo 2.0 which begins on Monday, and packing to take our rescue kitten back to the UK - today! So, there’s a lot going on - no wonder I got sick! So, instead of doing a replay episode, I thought I’d give you a peak into w…
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Stuck With Endo? Here’s Your Roadmap
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So today, as you’ll be able to hear in this intro, I am pretty damn sick, so I cannot record a full episode for you. Instead, I am sharing my recent free masterclass, Creating a Roadmap for Endo Healing. For this masterclass, you’re going to need to get comfy and grab a note book and a pen because we’re literally going to be designing your endo man…
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Okay so today I am taking my IG Live series to the podcast, because for the life of me, I cannot get my IG Lives to not have that strange ticking/buzzing sound in the background! So, I thought it would be better to answer the questions I’ve had submitted here. Today I am answering “What is the number one thing to manage endometriosis?” Read more. I…
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FREE Masterclass: Creating a Roadmap for Endo Healing
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If you’re feeling overwhelmed by your symptoms, all the info on endo or you’re just stuck not knowing where to start, and you want clear, actionable and effective steps to guide your endo journey, I invite you to my free signature masterclass... Creating a Roadmap for Endo Healing Masterclass (It's back and it’s new and improved!) In this two-hour …
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Endo Q&A: How to Manage Endo Fatigue and Brain Fog
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As part of Endometriosis Awareness Month I’m answering your questions over on IG live and I get a really good response when I share these on the podcast last as well! So, that’s what this week’s episode is. Just a heads up, I’m not sure why but the IG Live recording has a weird buzzing, ticking sound, which we’ve tried to remove, but you may still …
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Endo Q&A: Birth Control, Period Flu, Hysterectomies and Painful Sex
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As part of Endometriosis Awareness Month I’m answering your questions over on IG live and I get a really good response when I share these on the podcast last as well! So, that’s what this week’s episode is. Just a heads up, I’m not sure why but the IG Live recording has a weird buzzing, ticking sound, which we’ve tried to remove, but you may still …
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High and Low Oestrogen Levels and How to Test Correctly
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This week we’re staying on our theme of hormone testing and we’re looking at oestrogen. There are a number of signs to look out for with oestrogen dominance or excess, and they pretty much all fall under the PMS umbrella, but here are a few tale-tell signs that I often see with clients. If you’ve noticed symptoms of hormonal imbalances but you’d li…
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(Trigger warning: This episode discusses infertility) Okay so this week we’re moving onto hormones and how to test for them. Today, we’re beginning with one that I see a lot of my clients having problems with and that’s low progesterone. I did a progesterone 101 a year or two ago which covered everything from what progesterone is, to what it does i…
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Today we’re continuing our theme of nutrient deficiencies that can disguise themselves as endo related problems. And today, we’re talking about B9, otherwise known as folate. Read more. Need more help or want to learn how to work with me? Free resources: This podcast! Endometriosis Net Column Endometriosis News Column Newsletter Instagram Ways to w…
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A week or two ago and I did an episode about low vitamin D levels and the symptoms that can disguise themselves as endo symptoms or endo related issues, and today, I want to talk about low B12 and how it can affect our population. So, let’s get straight to it and look at common B12 symptoms and how we may mistake them for endo problems… Read more. …
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REPLAY: What is The Menstrual Cycle and How to Know If Yours is Healthy
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Today’s episode is a replay as I have been in and out of hospital all week undergoing testing for coeliac disease and chronic appendicitis. As you can imagine, these appointments have eaten into both my time and energy, so I am resharing an old episode today! One that I think provides you with a great foundations for the rest of the year. Today I a…
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Signs You’re Low in Vitamin D and How it Affects Endo
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Recently, I’ve had a lot of low levels or deficiencies show up with clients. Many of them were experiencing low moods, cyclical pain or heavy menstrual bleeding, fatigue, heart palpitations, aching muscles, and overall feelings of inflammation. Whilst yes, these can all be due to or linked to endometriosis, we have to be careful about blaming every…
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Today’s episode is continuing with the theme of why some of your conditions may be worse in January, and today, we’re focusing on endometriosis. Before we get into it, this is a short episode where I am giving you an overview of some of the ways these things can affect people with endo, but it’s not an exhaustive list. In fact, each of these topic …
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It’s a New Year and perhaps you’re feeling the pressure to get up and go, but you can’t get yourself out of bed. Maybe you’re in more pain than usual, perhaps you’re more depressed than usual or maybe you’re experiencing extreme fatigue and energy crashes? If this is you, please know you’re not alone. As I return to work, I’ve received many emails …
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REPLAY: New Year Meditation for Endometriosis
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With a new year beginning, I am resharing a very old meditation episode. This episode is a visualisation meditation to help you envision how you want to feel in 2024. I use this visualisation exercise with every one of my clients, to help them see the big picture they want for their health and then to take that big picture and break it down into sm…
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Signs You’re Low in Iron and What to Look For on Blood Tests
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I am seeing a bit of a growing trend with my clients and students – and that’s low iron levels. But they’re not alone. Iron deficiency or low iron levels are extremely common, in fact, iron deficiency anaemia is the most common nutritional deficiency in the world, with menstruators being one of the most affected groups. The problem with this, is th…
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REPLAY: Aamina's Story: Overcoming Ovulation Pain, Leg Pain, Nausea and Vomiting with Endo
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This festive season, I wanted to reshare a good news story for those of you suffering with pain and symptoms over the Christmas or New Year holidays, or for whatever reason, struggle with this time of year. I know sometimes it can feel hopeless, and that’s why I love to share these client stories: because they offer hope, they show us what’s possib…
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How to Minimise Sugar Impact This Festive Season
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The Christmas season is typically, a time of excess for those who celebrate – and even for those who don’t, New Year’s is right around the corner. For many people, we increase our intake of sugar, alcohol, processed foods, etc. and that’s okay – this episode isn’t about judgement. I love Christmas, including all the food that comes with it, but for…
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How to Minimise Alcohol Impact This Festive Season
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Today I want to talk about alcohol and the holiday season. I think most of us listening will be increasing alcohol intake over the new few weeks, and the reality is, alcohol does have an impact on our hormones and inflammation levels, setting the stage for lower progesterone levels, increased oestrogen levels and more inflammation. These can all re…
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Why I Don’t Recommend Rushing Into an Elimination Diet for Endo
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This episode is a bite size episode – so expect practical tips and easy to digest information, without all the deep dive science. If you’re after more information, I’ve linked to some further reading in the show notes. Today I want to do a bite size episode on elimination diets – specifically, why I don’t recommend rushing into them straight away. …
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Low Stomach Acid and Endometriosis: Four Common Symptoms
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Today is a super quick episode, as I wanted to give you guys a bit more of a bite size one as I know some of you have been loving those. And just a reminder, these bitesize episodes are not heavy and full of information and research, but I will link to a couple of extra episodes for further information if you want to do a deeper dive. So today, I w…
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REPLAY: Sarah's Story - From Full Body Pain and Fatigue to a Full Life with Energy
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Today’s episode is a replay for two reasons. Firstly, we’ve been on the road for four days heading to Italy so I’ve not been able to record a new episode this week, and secondly, I’m having a Black Friday Course Bundle Sale, and so if you’re wondering whether these courses could help you, I thought I’d share a success story from one of my course st…
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How to Manage Your Endo and Take Action During a Humanitarian Crisis
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Today’s episode is one I’ve been mulling over for a while. The situation between Israel and Palestine has divided the world, and I didn’t want to add my voice to just basically add another voice into the chaos. I wanted to do something that felt useful and relevant - and so today’s episode, is part of that. Today I want to talk about ways to manage…
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Listener Question: How Do I Reduce Endo Belly Bloating?
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Okay, so this week’s listener question is “How do I reduce bloating in the moment?”. So, this person is looking for short-term strategies for when bloating kicks in. Now, before I answer this, what I want us to consider is why the bloating is happening in the first place. There is always a root cause and so the key to long-term relief with the endo…
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REPLAY: Endometriosis and Fibroids with Arin Nicole
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Today’s episode is a replay because… I have covid! Yes, you may have noticed we didn’t release an episode last week and we just didn’t have a choice in the matter, neither of us were well enough to even put out a replay and I had no voice, so I couldn’t even record an intro. In this episode, I’m interviewing Arin Nicole, who you may know better as …
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Why You May Be Waking Up at 2AM Each Night
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Many clients come to me for their endometriosis symptoms, often pain, bloating or menstrual irregularities, but when we work together, we look at the bigger picture and explore all of their symptoms, not just the classic endo ones, as it can give us more info about what’s going on. And when we do this, much of the time, sleep problems come up – esp…
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Listener Question: Are Flaxseeds Bad for Endo?
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Listener question: “Is flaxseed good or bad for endo? There is so much mixed info out there about it around increasing / decreasing eostrogen. Is there a better type of flaxseed - oil, roasted seeds, ground seeds, tablets high in flax?” Okay, I’m glad you asked this question because it comes up a lot and it’s not a straightforward answer. Flax is a…
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REPLAY: How Hormones Impact ADHD, and the Link Between ADHD, EDS, and Dysautonomia and Pain Syndromes with Adele Wimsett
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We’ve been travelling from Montenegro to Romania and unfortunately this combination of a busy period and a new environment has really kicked off my POTS and MCAS and so I haven’t been able to record my episode this week. So, today I am resharing my interview with Adele Wimsett, who is talking to us about ADHD and the connection with endometriosis. …
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REPLAY: PCOS, Blood Sugar, and Endometriosis with Megan Hallett
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As some of you may know, September is PCOS Awareness Month. So, before we move into October, I want to wrap this month up with a replay of one of my favourite interviews with registered nutritional therapist, Megan Hallett. I’ll leave the old intro in as it gives you a dive into Megan and her work, but one of the reasons why I wanted to share this …
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Listener Question: Can I Eat Porridge When Eating for Endo?
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So, as you know, I (and many other practitioners) use blood sugar regulation and anti-inflammatory nutrition to help manage endo. Today’s episode isn’t about that, but to give you context, we do this because blood sugar imbalances drive up inflammation and therefore pain, they can trigger hormonal imbalances and they can worsen fatigue. In terms of…
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