E128: Endometriosis: Symptoms, Treatments, Diagnosis, Misconceptions & Holistic Solutions with Women's Health Nutritionist Alex Adele King
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Welcome back to the Happily Hormonal Podcast! In this episode, I had such an insightful conversation with women's health nutritionist Alex Adele King. We covered so much about endometriosis – what is, symptoms, real-life stories, misconceptions, treatment options, and holistic solutions.Bottom line: You have options.We discussed what dietary strategies can help with endo pain and symptoms and shared some practical tips to help you see results. Then, we wrapped up the conversation with an honest and vulnerable talk about femininity, intuition, menstrual cycles, and periods. In this episode:

• [01:34] Painful periods, heavy bleeding, and surgery at 13 years old: get to know Alex’s story of being diagnosed with endo at a very early age
• [08:55] What's Endometriosis? What symptoms should you look out for? 
• [11:15] How can you diagnose Endometriosis? Do you need surgery?
• [14:10] Misconceptions around Endometriosis and misguided treatment attempts
• [15:35] What foods can help with endometriosis?
• [22:10] Tips and resources to deal with endo pain and symptoms
• [27:30] Leaning into your feminine and your cycle can help too!
• [34:09] Changing our mindset around our cycles and period

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Disclaimer: Nothing in this podcast is to be taken as medical advice, please take informed accountability and speak to your provider before making changes to your health routine.This podcast is for women and moms to learn how to balance hormones naturally in motherhood, to have pain-free periods, increased fertility, to decrease PMS mood swings, and to increase energy without restrictive diet plans. You'll learn how to balance blood sugar, increase progesterone naturally, understand the root cause of estrogen dominance, irregular periods, PCOS, insulin resistance, hormonal acne, post birth-control syndrome, and conceive naturally. We use a pro-metabolic, whole food, root cause approach to functional women's health and focus on truly holistic health and mind-body connection.If you listen to any of the following shows, we're sure you'll like ours too! Pursuit of Wellness with Mari Llewellyn, Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark, Found My Fitness with Rhonda Patrick, Just Ingredients Podcast, Wellness Mama, The Dr Josh Axe Show, Are You Menstrual Podcast, The Model Health Show, Grounded Wellness By Primally Pure, Be Well By Kelly Leveque, The Freely Rooted Podcast with Kori Meloy, Simple Farmhouse Life with Lisa Bass