Gut Health

Endometriosis: 3 Ways To Soothe Pain and Get Your Life Back

If you suffer from endometriosis, you know what it’s like to live with periods so painful that they keep you curled up in bed… unable to live your life the way you want.

This nearly unbearable condition makes it impossible to function at work or school, and can severely affect your quality of life.

Along with the crippling pain, endometriosis can take a huge emotional toll. You may live with anxiety, frustration, or embarrassment surrounding your condition.

And if you haven’t been properly diagnosed – as many women haven’t – you may also have to deal with people in your life that think you’re exaggerating your symptoms.

Endometriosis is real, unfortunately common, and horrendously under-diagnosed.

But regardless of whether or not you have an official diagnosis, it can seem like there’s no way out of the struggle and excruciating pain… but that may be about to change…

Because there are some simple and impactful things you can do to minimize your symptoms… get some real relief… and take back your life...

  

A Closer Look at Endometriosis 

When you have endometriosis, tissue that should develop as the inner lining of your uterus grows in other parts of your body where it’s not supposed to be. This tissue can show up on the outside of your uterus, on your ovaries, in your fallopian tubes, even on your bladder.  

And because this tissue *acts* like your uterine lining, every time you get your period this extra tissue thickens, breaks down, and sheds. The problem is that unlike the actual lining of your uterus, this tissue has nowhere to go… so it gets stuck.

The excess and immovable tissue can cause a lot of problems, including:

  • Inflammation in your pelvic and abdominal region
  • Irritation of surrounding healthy tissue
  • Build up of scar tissue
  • Ovarian cysts called endometriomas
  • Sticky bands of tissue that can make other tissues get “glued” together
  • Infertility

Over time, these issues cause increasing damage and become much harder to treat. And the health challenges they cause – including intense pain and cramping, excessive bleeding, and GI symptoms like diarrhea  – get more severe and debilitating.

 That’s why it’s crucial to get a correct diagnosis as early as possible…

 And to start taking steps immediately to address two main factors that drive endometriosis: inflammation and estrogen.

 

Endometriosis and your gut

The Connection Between Endometriosis Symptoms and Your Gut

Even though endometriosis counts as a gynecological condition, it has strong connections to your gut microbiome – the trillions of bacteria in your gut.

In a healthy gut microbiome, beneficial probiotic bacteria vastly outnumber harmful pathogenic bacteria. Those probiotic bacteria support wellness and vitality in dozens of crucial ways, like keeping estrogen at healthy levels and ensuring your inflammatory response is healthy and controlled.

But when your gut microbiome is out of balance – a condition called dysbiosis – there’s an overgrowth of pathogenic bacteria. 

And those harmful bacteria can cause a lot of health problems, and that includes playing a part in the development and progression of endometriosis. 

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