Kendra has an instagram feed that can make anyone hungry! She posts such beautiful pictures of food, that I had to know the story behind her Paleo life. Come to find out she struggles with endometriosis, and after eating Paleo her symptoms slowed down and it has helped tremendously. Food really is the new medicine. Read to find out how to Kendra has been treating endometriosis with diet.
Growing up my diet was very unhealthy! I was addicted to sugar and junk food! In high school my lunch usually consisted of pizza, donuts and Doritos. Eating this way caused my body a lot of pain but I just ignored it. It wasn’t until 2010 that I started to think more seriously about what I was putting Into my body when my mom was diagnosed with uterine cancer. I started adding more vegetables to my diet, but I was still eating lots of processed foods. Then in 2011, when I started blacking out from excruciating pain in my left side, I realized my body was very sick and went to see my doctor. A few months later, I had surgery and was diagnosed with endometriosis (a debilitating autoimmune disease). During surgery they removed a lot of the endometrial growths on my internal organs and a large cyst in my ovary. I had suspected from a young age that something was really wrong with my body, yet no doctor could put their finger on it. I was fed up and needed real answers. Could my illness be related to what I was putting into my body? After surgery my doctor started throwing medications at me left and right telling me they were the only answer to keep my endometriosis under control. I didn’t want to be taking pills the rest of my life and felt like there was another way, so I refused them and began my own research on nutrition and natural healing. I found that a lot of people with my disease were feeling better doing gluten free, soy free (soy mimics estrogen in the body and fuels my disease) and dairy free diets and healing with food instead of medication. I did this for awhile and started to feel better, but just felt like something was missing.
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