Expert: Imran R. - 4/16/2006

Question
Hi Imran how are you? My 21 year old doughter has endometriosis it started 6 months ago and around her periods she gets these intens pains. Do you know of anything that can heal her for good. Incase you don't know what this is, here is a web site that shows on a 3 minute video exactly what it is. Oh! Imran can you please help? she is suffering alot, Here is the web site www.endocenter.org  Thank You.

Answer
Hello again Silvia,

Thank you for your question.  

To quote Dr. Carolyn Dean.

"Stress definitely has a role in endometriosis, as do most chronic diseases, but let's go back to the basics. Endometriosis, in the simplest possible terms, is tissue from the uterine lining growing where it shouldn't. During healthy menstruation, women shed their endometrial lining, or the endometrium, each month. The material is expelled from the body as part of the monthly menstruation. While many women would probably like to bypass this inconvenient and sometimes painful monthly routine, it is the key to life itself.

However, in the 5.5 million North American women with endometriosis, cells from the uterine lining have migrated from where they're supposed to be -- inside the uterus -- to other parts of the body, most often within the pelvic area, on the bowel, bladder, ovaries and the outside of the uterus. It's sometimes called retrograde menstruation. Rogue endometrial tissue has been known to migrate as far as scar tissue on the arms and legs.

This misplaced tissue develops into growths that respond to the menstrual cycle in the same way the lining of the uterus does. Triggered by hormonal signals, the tissue builds up and sheds each month.

While menstrual blood flows out of the body through the cervix and vagina, endometriosis tissue and the cells it sheds have no way of leaving the body. Trapped between layers of tissue, they cause inflammation, scar tissue, adhesions and bowel problems. Endometriosis can lead to intense pain and reproductive difficulties.

Stress enters the picture to cause uterine tension and toxicity, often prompted by poor lifestyle choices and worsened by nutrient deficiency-especially magnesium. Cycles of stress and deficiency create a pattern of hormonal imblance throughout the body and in some women focus on the uterus. Specifically in endometriosis, uterine muscle tension and spasm in the fallopian tubes, due to magnesium deficiency, can contribute to uterine blood and tissue migration.

Current scientific theory points to estrogen dominance as a major factor in endometriosis. According to many integrative medicine practitioners, bringing progesterone and estrogen into natural balance will frequently result in symptom relief and, in some cases, even shrink rogue endometrial tissue.

Normal estrogen levels may cause some breast swelling or nipple tenderness in the few days before the onset of your period. It's often the way you know it's coming. However, when you have an overproduction of estrogen, often called estrogen dominance, those estrogen symptoms are magnified.

In addition to stress-triggered estrogen production, we are seeing women with out-of-whack hormones related to environmental estrogens, known as xenoestrogens.

We have seen xenoestrogens wreak havoc in wildlife and fish affecting sexual development and fertility. It's only in the past decade that we turned the magnifying glass on ourselves and found sperm abnormalities and serious female fertility issues created by xenoestrogens.

Xenoestrogens most often enter the body through the food supply such as meat and dairy products from "hormonally-enhanced" animals.

That's why recent Italian research showed that women with the highest consumption of meat and dairy products increased their risk of endometriosis by 80 to 100 percent, while those who ate a diet rich in green vegetables and fresh fruit reduced their risk by 40 percent."

I would further add that your daugher should avoid all soy products except fermented soy; miso and soy sauce are fine.
Soy contains goitrogens which hinder thyroid function and soy is also an endocrine disrupter.

It is important to consume as little sugar as possible and extremely important to avoid all synthetic/artificial sugars: splenda,sucralose, aspartame, acesulfame potassium, nutra-sweet.

These are detrimental to our health. Some of these sweeteners are even found in chewing gums, drinks and store bought vitamins, so it is important to be careful to read labels.

Also, to help balance endocrine function it is important to get to bed by 10PM daily.

Endometriosis being a problem caused mainly by estrogen over production can be remedied by normalizing estrogen levels by cutting out xeno-estrogens and by enhancing progesterone levels using a natural cream.

Read more about xenoestrogens here:
http://www.endo101.com/xeno.htm

Natural progesterone cream is reccomended to balance estrogen over production and to highten falling levels of progesterone. I advise your daughter use the "Fem-Rite" cream found here:   
www.trinity.my4life.com   

I also strongly advise the use of "transfer factor rio-vida" to build and strengthen her immune system.

Once the endometriosis is under control and her health has returned to normal, please ask her to cut down the use of Fem-Rite to half, and use it from then onwards 2 weeks on, and 2 weeks off. The low dose of natural progesterone will be enough to help keep her hormones in balance and help strengthen her bones.

You can purchase the two mentioned products from the above site at a discount, please email them for details.

Best wishes

Imran R.