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Benefits of magnesium for endometriosis Magnesium is the fourth most abundant mineral in the human body (after calcium, potassium and sodium) and the second most intracellular mineral. That is, inside the regular cells of muscles, bones, and soft tissues (rather than serum and red blood cells).1 Because of its abundance in the body, magnesium plays […]

The vicious cycle of stress and endometriosis If you’ve tried everything—conventional or natural—to relieve your endometriosis and/or adenomyosis, and you still aren’t feeling better, maybe its time to think about stress. Now, I know some women are resistant to the idea that stress could have anything to do with their symptoms. But that’s probably because […]

(updated June 9, 2022) When the nurse practitioner gave me my diagnosis of adenomyosis (over the phone), in the same breath, she told me I would probably have to have a hysterectomy. My story is not new. Thousands of women in our Facebook Group have been told the same thing. This is because conventional medicine […]

Way back, as early as 1987, researchers observed that a large percentage of endometriosis patients had “classic” characteristics of autoimmune disease.1 Similarly, autoantibodies—antibodies against one’s own body tissues—were detected in adenomyosis patients a few years later.2 More recently, HLA-G, a gene prevalent in several autoimmune diseases,3 was found in a significant number of patients with […]