04/23/2025
🥦🥑FOODS THAT MAY POSITIVELY AFECT ENDOMETRIOSIS
To fight inflammation and pain caused by endometriosis, it’s best to consume a nutrient-dense, well-balanced diet that’s primarily plant-based and full of vitamins and minerals. Add these to your diet:
✅Fibrous foods, such as fruits, vegetables, legumes, and whole grains
✅Iron-rich foods, such as dark leafy greens, broccoli, beans, fortified grains, nuts, and seeds
✅Foods rich in essential fatty acids, such as salmon, sardines, herring, trout, walnuts, chia, and flax seeds
✅Antioxidant-rich foods found in colorful fruits and vegetables, such as oranges, berries, dark chocolate, spinach, and beets
🌞🌞Foods to avoid with endometriosis
Certain foods can worsen endometriosis pain by boosting inflammation or estrogen levels. Limit or avoid:
❌Alcohol: Wine, beer and spirits can make endometriosis symptoms worse. At most, have one or two drinks per week.
❌Caffeine: Limit your daily caffeine to 400 milligrams or less. One cup of coffee can have over 100 milligrams, depending on how it’s brewed.
❌Fatty meat: Some red meat is good, but limit your overall saturated fat intake to 10% of your daily calories.
❌Processed foods: Many packaged foods contain pro-inflammatory ingredients like added sugar, saturated fat and trans fat. They’re also low in the stuff you need like fiber, zinc, magnesium and healthy fats.
❌Sugary drinks: Fruit juices, sodas and energy drinks are often high in sugar, which makes inflammation worse. Aim for less than 26 grams of sugar each day.
