This EndoLife
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, mental health, sex, energy and living life well with endo.
Episodes
Today I wanted to talk about the low FOMDAP diet, but not for the reasons you may think.
Today, I don’t actually want to talk about it specifically for IBS/SIBO (though we will touch upon that again), I want to talk about its benefits for histamine, because the low FODMAP diet can actually be a way to lower histamine levels.
Show notes
Low FODMAP diet info
Finally, about two months later, I am wrapping up my series on certain vitamins and minerals and their association with period/endo pain when low.
Now, just to recap and highlight, the key nutrients we see associated with more severe menstrual or endo pain when low, or shown to improve menstrual/endo pain are:
Vitamin A
Vitamins B1, B6 and B12 (for those of you wondering, folate - otherwise known as B9 - hasn’t been associated wit...
Some of you may know that I recently completed the elemental diet for SIBO treatment, and today, I wanted to share my experience with the particular formula I used.
Show notes
Endometriosis, SIBO, LPS and the microbiome connection
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9660426/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39959963/
Most people with endo are struggling with symptoms, and so the last thing they need is to also struggle with nutrition changes.
That’s why today, I wanted to offer you a quick change that can make a big improvement.
Enter kiwis.
Show notes
Kiwis and gut motility
https://www.theendobellycoach.com/podcast/kiwis-for-constipation?rq=kiwis
Endo and oxidative stress
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1477-7827-7-54
https://pmc.nc...
Today I want to do a short episode on a slightly different topic, and that’s how to think of or how to approach your healing journey.
So, in my training with Dr Jessica Drummond at the Integrative Women’s Health Institute, we were taught to always start each coaching session with a celebration - typically, this celebration is tied to our work and the client’s well-being. So, it might be something as small as they ate an apple that w...
So last week I shared my number one strategy for ensuring your meals are blood sugar balancing.
Today, I want to provide you with some key blood sugar super foods that can really help you on your way to balancing your levels in the short term and in the long term, which in turn, will improve your inflammation and oxidation levels - essential for endo management.
Now, obviously, we’ve already discussed the role of fibre from veggies, ...
Okay so the past few weeks I’ve been talking about blood sugar and how to identify if blood sugar dysregulation is an issue for you.
This week, I want to give you the number one strategy for beginning to stabilise your blood sugar. Now, I have talked about this before in the context of other episodes, I’ve done some lives on the topic and put them out as episodes, and I’ve linked to articles I’ve written, but I don’t think I have ev...
Last week we discussed signs and symptoms of dysregulated blood sugar levels. Now, if you were concerned, I recommended speaking to your GP, however, often if you’re not pre-diabetic or diabetic, they’re not very concerned about your levels, and won’t really spend the time to get them under control.
So, today, I wanted to share how to take your own glucose readings, so you can see what your blood sugar levels are doing over the day,...
If you follow my work or have coached with me, you’ll know that blood sugar balance is an absolute staple to my approach for managing endo.
Whilst this isn’t an episode into how blood sugar affects endo, to give you a short explanation - blood sugar imbalances can have a significant negative impact on hormones, gut inflammation and the microbiome, and raise both oxidative stress levels and prostaglandin levels, both are key to endo...
This one is a super quick episode today, as I didn’t want to do another replay, but also I don’t have the time at present to continue with our series on pain and nutrients, as those episodes take about a day to research and write up. So, today I want to talk about something that I’ve been discussing with two clients lately, and it occurred to me, that you might benefit as well.
Regulating the nervous system and our stress response ...
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome is a group of 13 conditions which all affect connective tissue (collagen) in the body. Most are rare, but one type called hypermobility EDS is common. Because the intestines are made from soft tissue, EDS affects digestion and often causes IBS symptoms. It is a major risk factor for developing SIBO, because it slows down motility. If you have EDS and SIBO, you will be chronic - but you can still live well! An...
Dr. Linda Bluestein is a board-certified anesthesiologist, integrative pain medicine physician and former ballet dancer who specialises in coaching and educating dancers and other athletes and individuals at increased risk of hypermobility disorders.
Dr Linda’s own experience with h-EDS eventually led her down a career path change that has seen her help countless others to live well with hypermobility and avoid chronic pain developm...
Do you get full body pain? Does it affect your muscles, nerves or joints? Do you find that you need to rest after walking or find you tired more easily than others?
It might not just be endometriosis.
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome is a group of 13 conditions which all affect connective tissue (collagen) in the body. Most are rare, but one type called hypermobility EDS is common - and out of those with this type of EDS, 6-23% have endometri...
You all know I’ve been fascinated with the world of chronic pain science for a long time now. In fact, I did an episode on lowering pain signals through calming the brain and nervous system back in 2019 but I’ve been on a continuously evolving research journey since. And this research has led me to Curable, an app for chronic pain, that works by helping to reprogram the brain and nervous system so we can unlearn pain pathways and r...
Today we’re continuing with our series on low micronutrient levels and the impact on period and endo-related period pain.
Vitamin A is an antioxidant, which may have significant benefits for endometriosis pain.
Show notes
Oxidative stress, endo and period pain
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1477-7827-7-54
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5625949/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7602455/
https:/...
Today we’re continuing with our theme of micronutrients and their impact on endo pain and period pain. Today, we’re talking about B12.
Research on the use of B12 for pain suggests that B12 can reduce chronic pain (and menstrual pain) through various methods.
Firstly, B12 can inhibit the production of the inflammatory prostaglandins which are responsible for pain and inflammation, and are found to be especially high in people ...
Today we’re continuing our series on nutrients and their effects on period pain and endo pain, and this episode is about B6.
Now, we’ve already talked a lot about the powers of B6 for hormonal health, but what about its effects on pain?
B6 can support us with pain reduction in a number of ways.
Show notes
B6 pain relieving/anti-inflammatory properties
Today we’re continuing on with our discussion around micronutrients and their impact on endo and period pain
In this episode, we’re beginning with the first of the B vitamins, B1, otherwise known as thiamine.
Read more.
Show notes
B1 properties
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.21.639433v1.full
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5625949/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4825494/pdf/GJHS-6-144.pdf
Period pai...
Today we’re continuing with our series on endo and period pain and their associations with low nutrient levels. Today, we’re talking about vitamin C.
Vitamin C is an anti-inflammatory antioxidant, which means it can help lower inflammation and also prevent oxidative stress - a process that triggers inflammatory reactions in the body and is involved in endo pain and progression. It also has antiangiogenic effects, which means it prev...
Today we’re continuing with our series on endo and period pain and their associations with low nutrient levels. And I was going to make today’s episode all about vitamins, but there are so many vitamins to cover, that I thought it would be less overwhelming to break them up, so today, we’re starting with vitamin E.
However, before we get into today’s episode, if you haven’t listened to the previous episodes in this series then you’l...
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