Endometriosis: Diet Trims the Edges, It Does Not Cure a Surgical Disease

Summary

Endometriosis is a real, often-severe, estrogen-driven inflammatory disease with a notorious diagnostic delay (commonly cited around 7 years), and anti-inflammatory or Mediterranean-pattern eating, omega-3 and regular exercise can genuinely take the edge off symptoms for some women AND none of it cures, shrinks or reverses the disease, whose actual treatments are excision surgery and hormonal suppression; the flagship guideline (ESHRE 2022) makes NO recommendation for any diet or exercise to reduce pain, the lifestyle evidence is mostly observational and modest, and the "heal your endo natural