Ask an Endo Surgeon | Does Diet Affect Endometriosis?

Dr. McHale explains the impacts of diet on endometriosis as an inflammatory disease.

Dr. Melissa McHale, M.D., is a Gynecologic Surgeon and Endometriosis Excision Specialist. She has performed over 300 complex excision of endometriosis cases and she has extensive experience with sacral neuromodulator implants, transvaginal ultrasound diagnostics, and the management of pain and fertility in endometriosis patients. Dr. McHale completed her OB/GYN residency at Johns Hopkins before completing a two-year fellowship with Dr. Andrea Vidali, a world-renowned surgeon specializing in endometriosis, miscarriage, and reproductive immunology at Braverman Reproductive Immunology and Endometriosis Surgery.

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I'm Dr. Melissa McHale. I'm with Pelvic Rehabilitation Medicine in the Bethesda office. And one of the questions that I get asked all the time is about diet and nutrition and endometriosis. Is there something you can eat that's going to make endometriosis go away or make it more manageable? And the short answer to that is there's nothing that you can eat that's going to change endometriosis itself.

It's not going to cure endometriosis, or make endometriosis itself sort of change the natural course of the disease. But, there are things that you can do in terms of your diet that will decrease inflammation overall, and so some patients do see benefit from following an anti inflammatory diet in terms of their symptoms themselves.

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Anti inflamatory diet has helped a lot !