endometriosis

Providing realistic and customized support to help you finally get some relief from endometriosis

How We Can Help

Chances are if you’re here, you’ve been struggling with endometriosis for far too long. If endometriosis is ruling your life, you keep calling in sick to work or events because the pain is so bad, you are wrought with anxiety each time a new cycle approaches, or you’re sick of feeling like your body is attacking you, you’re in the right place.

Our team is here to help you take the guesswork out of navigating endometriosis, and provide you with a customized and realistic treatment plan.

What Is Endometriosis Anyway?

Endometriosis is a chronic and debilitating condition which presents as extremely painful, and often unbearable periods. We don’t fully understand why endometriosis occurs, or how it develops. At this time, likely causes include immune dysfunction, pelvic inflammation, abnormal hormone production, hormone resistance, imbalanced microbiome, and genetics. Endometriosis affects 1 in 10 women of reproductive age. It’s diagnosed in 5 in 10 women experiencing infertility, and 5 in 10 women experiencing chronic pelvic pain. In North America, it takes an average of 15 years for a woman to receive a proper diagnosis of endometriosis, which delays treatment and significantly reduces quality of life!

Common symptoms of endometriosis we often treat include:

• Extremely painful periods

• Chronic pelvic pain

• Chronic abdominal pain, low back pain, or hip pain

• Painful intercourse

• Painful urination or bowel movements

• Digestive symptoms including nausea, vomiting, bloating, diarrhea, or constipation

• Excessive menstrual bleeding and clots

• Infertility or difficulty getting pregnant

• Depression & anxiety

• Sexual dysfunction & relationship impacts

When left untreated, not only do the symptoms of endometriosis leave you feeling completely helpless, but you also become at risk for a number of complications including infertility, adhesion development, SIBO, and sexual dysfunction.

What to Expect

Whatever symptoms you are experiencing with endometriosis, our team will take the time to hear you, meet you where you are at, and teach you how to feel confident and comfortable in your body again. Our ultimate goal is always to dig deeper and find the unique underlying causes of your endometriosis, so that so that symptoms are corrected – not masked, you feel in control of your health again, and you begin to see your body as an ally and not the enemy anymore!

Conquering Endometriosis: Our 5 Step Program

It’s time to reclaim your endometriosis and feel great in your body again! This is exactly why we created the Conquering Endometriosis Program. This 5-step program will help you reduce your symptoms, prevent long-term risks, and take the guesswork out of managing your endometriosis, so you can get back to feeling like yourself!

Our 5-step program

1. Identify Barriers  - We complete extremely comprehensive intakes and lab testing to understand your general health status, your immune status, your hormone status, and identify where things are going wrong. We also send you home to complete symptom monitoring so we can start to pick up on your unique symptom patterns.

2. Support Foundations – This is where your treatment begins. We ensure the foundations of health are in place so your symptoms resolve faster and we’re maintaining these results long-term. This includes correcting things like immune function, digestive function, microbiome balance, and environmental exposures. Often just supporting these and putting them into place is all you need! We teach you how to implement foundational supports in a balanced way so you never feel restricted.

3. Customized + Targeted Supplementation – Once we receive all of your lab results and symptom diary we start targeting treatment specifically to you. This often takes the form of highly concentrated supplementation and is completely based on your unique physiology and barriers. In some cases of endometriosis, bioidentical hormones, and specifically progesterone, is recommended.

4. Optimize the Gut – Once foundations are in place, and we’ve removed underlying barriers through targeted supplementation, we look at further optimizing the gut. The gut is the foundation of lasting health in the body and has far-reaching impacts on our hormonal health and immune health. Optimizing this system is a must in order to maintain long-term results.

5. Maintenance – Once your initial concerns have been addressed, we create a new plan for you to carry forward to help sustain your results and prevent long-term risks such as infertility that often accompany endometriosis. Our goal at this point is that you’ve become such an expert in understanding your own body that you only need us for maintenance support quarterly or bi-annually!

If you’re struggling with endometriosis and want to learn more, we offer complimentary 15 minute consults with our chief Naturopathic Doctors focusing on hormone health, Dr. Alessia Milano, ND, Dr. Kelly Clinning, ND, and Dr. Jessica Nazareth, ND.