Can you cure Endometriosis?
- Pete Houchin
- Aug 19, 2022
- 6 min read
Updated: Aug 22, 2022
If you're reading this you probably have Endometriosis or you have a loved one who does. Roughly 1.5 million women in the UK have it and approximately 10% of the worlds female population. It's a big problem, but generally not life threatening which means very little is done about it
Contents
What is endometriosis?
What are the current main treatments you'll receive
What are the causes of Endometriosis?
How to begin to change those causes.
Devices that can help.
The cause nobody is considering - this is BIG
You already know that it causes stomach pains, excessive period pains, lower back pain, can affect your bowel movements and perhaps most importantly your fertility and sex life.
In turn this can lead to fatigue, depression and difficulties with work and relationships.
Not only that women diagnosed with Endometriosis will often have other reproductive diagnosis' like PCOS or fibroids and possibly musculoskeletal injuries such as a "slipped disc" and in my experience also leg pains, hip and knee problems.
What is endometriosis - what's actually happening?
I'll get onto the reasons in a bit but what is physically seen under scans or through surgical intervention is where the body creates womb cells or fascial tissue where it doesn't belong.
When tissue in the body grows where it doesn't belong this can create an immune response where the white blood cells attack the "foreign" tissue.
Imagine that for some reason your body created some bone tissue in your lungs. It's up to the immune system to break down that bone and remove it from the lung. It isn't supposed to be there. In Endometriosis, uterus tissue grows outside of the uterus.
The problem comes when the tissue cannot be cleared up as fast as it is created OR The immune system damages so much tissue in it's efforts to clear away the "foreign" tissue it creates a chain reaction of damaged cells that continually need clearing away.
In turn this creates swelling, pain, tiredness and all of the symptoms you've been experiencing.
Once this has begun the inflammatory markers in the body increase overall and can create problems, not just in the uterus and lower abdominal area, but all across the body.
According to the NHS/WHO there is no cure for Endometriosis
Treatments include:
Painkillers and anti-inflammatories
Hormone therapy - HRT or contraceptive solutions like the pill or a coil
Surgery - either to remove some of the affected tissues or eventually hysterectomy.
Sometimes they'll help, other times they won't.
Here's the thing - none of them deal with the causes.
What could be the causes of endometriosis?
Endometriosis is an inflammation problem.
Inflammation is the cause of the majority of health problems in the modern world.
To understand and heal endometriosis we must understand inflammation and the causes of inflammation.
Major factors when it comes to inflammation
Sleep
This is when our body does the majority of it's healing. We're constantly replacing cells but how well we sleep, for how long and it's quality plays a big factor in how well our body recovers.
Movement/Exercise
Our organs are designed to move and be moved, particularly in our abdomen. Unfortunately in the modern world we are required to sit for large parts of our day. The abdomen is rarely moved in ways that it was designed to do. It must bend and twist to keep healthy tissue growing in the right directions internally. Even people who exercise frequently don't get much abdominal movement, particularly twisting.
Breathing
Breathing deeply into the stomach, using our diaphragm creates movement in the internal organs. Not only will deep nose breathing increase the amount of oxygen your cells will absorb it also helps with digestion and decreasing inflammation by moving lymphatic fluids and expelling waste through the air you get rid of
Stress
When we're stressed and tired our body simply doesn't have the resources to repair properly. Stress is a major cause of inflammation and regular, relatively minor stressful situations can have a significant impact on our body's ability to rest and recover.
Sunlight
We spend much of our days indoors with very little natural sunlight. Sunlight helps to thin our blood, recharge our Energy producing engines (mitochondria) in our cells. When mitochondria aren't creating Energy with high efficiency they can also be a cause of inflammation.
Nutrition
High sugar/high carb diets also have an inflammatory effect on the body. Eating frequently also doesn't give the intestines a chance to recover between meals. There are many diets and styles of eating that will help reduce inflammation, whether that's keto, IF, vegan/vegetarian or something else, a low inflammation diet will help. Focus on natural foods, non-processed, you won't go too far wrong.
Massage
Regularly getting a stomach massage or massaging your own stomach on a regular basis will assist in getting the internal organs moving and help to pump waste fluids back to the heart and kidneys where they can be processed and removed.
Heat and Cold Therapies
Saunas and cold plunges/cold showers assist the mitochondria in their energy production efficiency. Regular use of cold and heat therapy decreases inflammation in the body. 4 x 20 minute saunas per week has huge benefits on our health and longevity.
Cold showers are not only great for our internal energy production they are also fantastic for our mental health. If you have access to a sauna at your local gym/health centres please take advantage of it.
Aside from the lifestyle factors above there are a few products that are fantastic for overall general health.
Most of these lifestyle factors are covered in my Energised Sleep Program - designed to help you get restorative sleep, understand why it's so incredibly important to do. It's my number 1 thing to work on with my clients. Energised sleep will help you to create healthy routines around sleep, explain why it's much more important than we think and give a massive boost to your health, Energy and mood.
PEMF - Pulsed Electro Magnetic Frequency devices
These create magnetic pulses of Energy which pass harmlessly through your body, on their way through though they interact with your blood and body tissues helping them to naturally die (if they are damaged) and assist the function of healthier tissues.
Some devices are full body (a bit like a yoga mat), others are smaller like a thin pillow
For more information on PEMF devices click the button below - this is the company I get mine from.
Infra-red Devices (IR)
Infra-red light is part of the light that makes its way from the Sun down to Earth. Specific frequencies of Infra-red light (Near Infra-red and Far Infra-red) have been shown to have healing properties on soft tissues in the body. Clients have used them to assist with joint problems and long term gut problems. They should work equally well with endometriosis. Some devices are quite small and handheld others can hang on a wall.
EMR-tek are a company specialising in red light/infra-red devices. Not only that they also take into consideration the potentially harmful effects of other electromagnetic waves and minimise any risks you could get from those e.g. Wifi, internal wiring signals.
For endometriosis I would recommend the Firedragon - 20% off anything on site when you use my link below
Lastly, and possibly most important cause of all.
Emotions.
When it comes to our health and any conditions we may have one of the rarest things that people consider is our emotions, beliefs and life events that may be behind it.
When it comes to endometriosis we need to think about the location (reproductive organs), what types of tissue are there (in essence soft tissue and fascia, what we think about ourselves) and any life events that may have led to it (trauma, abuse, teasing/bullying)
Through working with clients as an Energy therapist and getting to know them it's been my experience that women I've seen with endometriosis and reproductive organ problems - whether that's ovaries, uterus or vaginal - have had some of these:
bad experiences sexually - some severe others not
low self-esteem about their body - even before endometriosis
confusion about their sexuality
negative thoughts about their ability as a mother - even if they don't have kids yet
worried that they won't be a good parent
feel like they are failing their kids - even though they're usually outstanding parents
feeling un-sexy or unattractive to potential partners
Often shy with barriers to having relationships
Difficult relationship with parents/close family members
Verbal abuse, harassment and disrespectful behaviour
Emotional stress is still stress and your body acts accordingly. It directs Energy to "heal" the stress, and in these types of cases it surrounds the organs of reproduction. It's an attempt to protect yourself from damage, unfortunately creating the opposite effect as often happens.
These are anecdotal causes and I couldn't say with any certainty this is the case for everyone. Working with Energy and knowing the causes I created an Energy meditation where I have recorded healing intention for all causes of endometriosis. I recommend it be used in conjunction with lifestyle factors such as sleep, exercise, sunlight and nutrition. Use it for 2-4 weeks, once per day. You can purchase and download from my shop for £9.00. It's yours forever.
Finally, I work with people 1:1 to help them heal many areas of their life. Whether that comes in the form of coaching, teaching them skills for physical or mental wellbeing or treatment for the whole body.
Book a free 30 minute video call to have a chat specifically about you and what you feel you need some work on.
About the Author: Pete is a Level 3 AMN practitioner, Coach, Reiki Master, massage, sports therapist and Personal Trainer - Dad of 2 crazy girls and passionate about helping people get out of pain to live their best life. Former Army Corporal Electronics Technician having served in all the best deserty places the Army could send you.
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