Endometriosis: A Key to Healing Through Nutrition

The keys to well-being are all around us. It is like a treasure hunt, but the treasure is not precious gems or gold; it is even more precious – health. For without that we can do nothing. Health is something which money cannot buy, but effort and willpower can take us a long way towards our goal. Strive to make it happen.

Feeling healthy and well is a right. Life without health can be intensely distressing. But it is important to fight to stay well, and one of the ways to help yourself heal is simply through eating good quality food. The word ‘diet’ is a misnomer. This is really just a Healthy Eating Life Plan – HELP – to bring you onto the road to recovery. It is an area of life over which you do have control. It is hoped that this book will inspire all women with endometriosis, and give you an insight into an area of self-help that is not difficult to follow. It will act to guide you, to choose food wisely, to enable you to absorb all the nutrients from your daily food intake, without making a meal of it.

Don’t count on anybody else coming along to relieve your stress.

Put yourself in charge of managing the situation.

Ron Pound

Take your health into your own hands and work with your body. Look after it. After all, it is designed to last almost a century, according to the latest research on ageing. At least a lifetime, and we all want that lifetime to be full to the brim.

Good luck on the road to recovery. There is light at the end of the tunnel. As Mary Lou Ballweg of the International Endometriosis Association, headquartered in the USA says ‘Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness’.

It is up to you. There are many paths back to health – nutrition, gentle exercise and relaxation all have their part to play. Bring them together in your own life. Be gentle with yourself and learn to pace yourself. When the body has been ill for some time, it takes a while to get it back on track. There is a need to nurture yourself back to health. Take your life in both hands and let’s go!

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

Mae West, Actress

SUMMARY

1 This book gives you the information about how endometriosis behaves and how nutrition may help you to combat the disease. Each chapter has a summary of all the key factors for you to follow, should you so wish.

2 Your body wants to be well. You are giving it a fighting chance to good health through choosing good quality food, fresh air, natural daylight and gentle exercise.

3 You are unique. Your body biochemistry is individual to you and needs treating as such. What works for one person may not work in the same way for you. Find out what suits you. Use your intuition. What feels right? Use this book wisely as a guide.

4 Your body cells use nutrients as building blocks to renew damaged tissues. These nutrients come from the freshest foods.

5 You can use your food choice to reduce inflammation and pain.

6 Arm yourself with a wide range of information which will enable you to choose wisely which treatments you feel are right for you. Never allow anyone to coerce you into having a treatment which feels wrong to you.

7 You can take control over what is happening to you by trying some self-help techniques, and working with your body, which is giving you signals that it needs help. Be gentle with yourself.

8  The medical profession has no cure for endometriosis and drugs and surgery can only suppress symptoms. Nutrition can help to speed up healing after surgery and, in some cases, can reduce the side effects of drug treatments.

9 Orthodox and complementary medicines can work alongside one another and enhance healing.

10 Develop your own Healthy Eating Life Plan – HELP yourself to heal.

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