“Endometriosis may be a major explanation for disability and compromised quality of life in women and teenage girls.” It “is a chronic disease which is under-diagnosed, under-reported, and under-researched…[and for patients, it] are often a nightmare of misinformation, myths, taboos, lack of diagnosis, and problematic hit-and-miss treatments overlaid by a painful, chronic, stubborn disease.”

Pain is what best characterizes the disease: pain, painful intercourse, heavy irregular periods, and infertility. About one during a dozen young women suffer from endometriosis, and it accounts for about half the cases of pelvic pain and infertility. It’s caused by what’s called “retrograde menstruation”—blood, rather than taking place , goes up into the abdomen , where tissue of the uterine lining can implant onto other organs. The lesions are often removed surgically, but the recurrence rate within five years is as high as 50 percent.

Endometriosis is an estrogen-dependent disease, so might the anti-estrogenic effects of the phytoestrogens in flaxseeds and soy foods help, as they seem to try to to in breast cancer? I couldn’t find studies on flax and endometriosis, but soy food consumption may indeed reduce the danger of that disease. What about treating endometriosis with soy? While I couldn’t find any studies thereon , there's another food related to decreased carcinoma risk: seaweed.

Seaweeds have special sorts of fiber and phytonutrients not found in land plants, so so as to urge these unique components, we might got to incorporate sea vegetables into our diet. Seaweeds, may have anti-cancer properties, including anti-estrogen effects. Japanese women have among rock bottom rates of breast, endometrial, and ovarian cancers, also as longer menstrual cycles and lower estrogen levels circulating in their blood, which can help account for his or her low risk of estrogen-dependent cancers. We assumed this was thanks to their soy-rich diets, but their high intake of seaweed may additionally be helping.

When seaweed broth was dripped on human ovary cells that make estrogen, estrogen levels dropped. Why? It either inhibits production or facilitates breakdown of estrogen. it's going to even block estrogen receptors, lowering the activity of the estrogen that's produced. this is often during a Petri dish , though. Does it happen in women, too? Yes.

Researchers estimated that an efficient estrogen-lowering dose of seaweed for a mean American woman could be around five grams each day , but, apparently, nobody has tried testing it on cancer patients yet. However, it's been tried on endometriosis, as I discuss in my video the way to Treat Endometriosis with Seaweed.

Three women with abnormal menstrual cycles, including two with endometriosis, volunteered to feature a small amount of dried, powdered bladderwrack, a standard seaweed, to their daily diet. This effectively lengthened their cycles and reduced the duration of their periods—and not just by a touch . As you'll see at 3:14 in my video, subject 1 had a 30-year history of irregular periods, averaging every 16 days. Taking just a quarter-teaspoon of this seaweed powder each day added 10 days onto her cycle, up to 26 days, and adding a daily half-teaspoon increased her cycle to 31 days, nearly doubling its length. Furthermore, as you'll see at 3:38 in my video, all three women experienced marked reductions in blood flow and a decreased duration of menstruation. For 30 years, subject 1 had been having her period every 16 days, and it typically lasted 9 days. are you able to imagine? Then, by just taking a daily half-teaspoon of seaweed, her period came just one occasion a month and only lasted about four days. most significantly , within the two women affected by endometriosis, they reported “substantial alleviation” of their pain. How is that possible? There was a 75 percent drop by estrogen levels after just a quarter-teaspoon of seaweed powder each day and an 85 percent drop after a half-teaspoon.

Of course, with just a couple of women and no control group therein study, we'd like bigger, better studies. But, that study was published quite a decade ago and not one such study has been published since. many women are suffering with these conditions. Does the research world just not care about women? The more pointed question is: who’s getting to fund the work? but a teaspoon of seaweed costs but five cents, so a bigger study may never be done. But, with none downsides, I suggest endometriosis sufferers provides it a try.

For more on endometriosis, see my video What Diet Best Lowers Phthalate Exposure?, and, to find out about the anti-estrogenic effects of the phytoestrogens in flaxseeds on carcinoma , see Flaxseeds and carcinoma Survival: Clinical Evidence.

Interested in more on sea vegetables? See:

Which Seaweed Is Most Protective Against Breast Cancer?
Wakame Seaweed Salad May Lower vital sign
Cancer Risk from Arsenic in Rice and Seaweed
How to Boost Your system with Wakame Seaweed
I recommend staying faraway from kelp and hijiki, though. Why? See an excessive amount of Iodine are often as Bad as insufficient .

Learn more about other natural remedies for menstrual problems:

Dietary Treatment for Painful Menstrual Periods
Flaxseeds for Breast Pain
Ginger for Nausea, Menstrual Cramps, and Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Fennel Seeds for Menstrual Cramps and PMS
Benefits of Ginger for Menstrual Cramps