Diet Recommendations and Endometriosis
It is important to remember that dietary change isn’t an overnight process and that everyone’s needs are different. One patient’s food triggers will be different from another’s. While it may take a little trial and error, some time and some effort, many find that eating an overall anti-inflammatory diet while avoiding their personal food triggers makes a significant improvement in their quality of life. Symptoms of other conditions that endometriosis patients often additionally suffer from such as interstitial cystitis, polycystic ovarian syndrome and irritable bowel syndrome also tend to improve with dietary therapy targeted specifically to each disorder.
We recommend a balanced diet rich in anti-inflammatory foods to help a patient in their journey to relief of symptoms from endometriosis. We understand that diet alone will not completely ameliorate the inflammation from the underlying endometriosis lesions, but we embrace and endorse dietary alteration to provide a metabolic environment in our patients that helps us provide a more thorough excision of disease and also helps to significantly reduce the amount and time period toward any recurrence of endometriosis disease. The Endometriosis Treatment Center of America recommends a dietary to regimen to help with
treatment and maintenance for the endometriosis patient.
Relevance
Endometriosis is an inflammatory disease that can be altered with diet. We provide dietary recommendations to help our patients to improve their quality of life and reduce recurrent treatments.
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