This EndoLife

This week on the podcast I’m interviewing Arin Nicole, who you may know better as Moonli on Instagram. Arin is a functional hormone and endometriosis nutritionist with a particular interest in working with women and uterus owners who deal with hormone and inflammatory issues such as endometriosis, fibroids, period pain, mood swings, PCOS, and more. Her aim is to heal the root cause of people's sym...

This week on the podcast I’m sharing a conversation I had with herbalist and Forage Botanicals founder Natasha Richardson. Natasha develops natural remedies for period problems, as well as incredible products for bladder problems, fatigue and stress. She has a Facebook group where she teaches menstrual health and wellbeing and kindly invited me on for a chat with her and her audience. In this disc...

Last week on Instagram I asked if anyone wanted to hear about my experience of two ECGs and a tilt table test as part of my ongoing chest pain investigations, and the majority of those who voted said yes! So, I wanted to record this whilst the experience was fresh in my mind. If you’re not sure why I had these tests, you can listen to episode ep.204/ the thing that’s been happening with my heart a...

Last week I wanted to take a minute to process the Roe v Wade verdict, and to deal with my own personal health issues, as the latter half of last week I was having heart tests performed for two days and was travelling back and forth to London, whilst not feeling too well as a result of the tests. I think all of us had info coming at us from so many different directions last week and I didn’t want...

So, some of you may know that for the past, I guess, three years now, I’ve been deep in the trenches with interstitial cystitis. I developed interstitial cystitis almost about 17 or so years ago, following a car accident when I was 17. I broke my left hip, my pelvis, my spine and my pubic ramus and was temporarily paralysed, and was then on bed rest for several weeks. During this time I had a cath...

On Christmas Day 2021, I thought I had a heart attack. It was Christmas night actually, maybe even the early hours of Boxing Day and I was woken up by one of the worst pains I have ever experienced. It felt like a metal clamp had locked around my heart and was squeezing it to the point of bursting. The pain radiated into my left arm and down into my hand, and my hand and lower arm were tingling an...

I’ve been noticing something for a while now. It’s always been a problem in society overall, I think it’s an issue that takes different form depending on the generation and the situation, and I’ve been acutely away of it throughout my endo career, but today I really want to directly speak to it because I am seeing it so much lately. Today I want to tell you that you don’t have to manage endo perfe...

Today I am sharing a conversation with one of my past The Endo Belly Protocol course students about her incredible mindset shift and empowerment journey with endometriosis. Simone had been feeling helpless, hopeless and like endometriosis was in control of her life, and that there was nothing she could do about it. She’d been let down by the medical system for years, had a long journey to diagnosi...

Today I am sharing a conversation with one of my past The Endo Belly Protocol course students about her incredible endo belly improvements and period transformation. Jess had been experiencing hormonal acne, light headedness and brain fog during her period, extreme bloating that made her look six months pregnant, painful periods, gassiness, abdominal discomfort and constipation. Since completing t...

You may have noticed that my podcast thumbnail has changed to say This EndoLife Podcast by the Endo Belly Coach. Yep! I have switched my website and all of the work I do from This EndoLife to The Endo Belly Coach – nothing is changing about my work, but I felt this title better encompassed my passion for endo and the endo belly. And to celebrate, I’ve just launched my course The Endo Belly Protoco...

In this second edition of my special endo belly IG live series, I’m really focusing on SIBO specifically, diagnosis, treatment troubleshooting and why you may get a negative test - even if you’re actually positive. And if you are genuinely negative for SIBO, I also talk about the other possible root causes behind your endo belly. So, here are the questions I’m answering today: What’s the differenc...

A little while ago I asked you guys what your questions were about SIBO and endo belly - and my gosh, did you come through with the questions! So I decided to record my answers in a few Instagram lives and then share them as a podcast episode so more people can have access to this information. Here are the questions I am answering in today’s episode: What came first? Endo or SIBO? Are there certai...

This episode is a special episode sharing a recording from a Q&A with participants from my recent Endo Belly Challenge. Over 150 people took part in the 4 week free challenge, and each week, they received an email from me with some education on the endo belly and what causes it and how to treat it, and then a related action step to help them minimise symptoms and begin treating the root causes...

The episode you’re hearing today is a replay of a past episode. As it’s IBS Awareness Month, and because so many of us with endo have IBS, I wanted to share with you my most foundational, actionable and informative episodes on endo belly, IBS and SIBO. Now because these episodes are old, I may not refer to some of the resources I provide on the endo belly, so I wanted to remind you of the services...

The episode you’re hearing today is a replay of a past episode. As it’s IBS Awareness Month, and because so many of us with endo have IBS, I wanted to share with you my most foundational, actionable and informative episodes on endo belly, IBS and SIBO. Now because these episodes are old, I may not refer to some of the resources I provide on the endo belly, so I wanted to remind you of the services...

The episode you’re hearing today is a replay of a past episode. As it’s IBS Awareness Month, and because so many of us with endo have IBS, I wanted to share with you my most foundational, actionable and informative episodes on endo belly, IBS and SIBO. Now because these episodes are old, I may not refer to some of the resources I provide on the endo belly, so I wanted to remind you of the services...

The episode you’re hearing today is a replay of a past episode. As it’s IBS Awareness Month, and because so many of us with endo have IBS, I wanted to share with you my most foundational, actionable and informative episodes on endo belly, IBS and SIBO. Now because these episodes are old, I may not refer to some of the resources I provide on the endo belly, so I wanted to remind you of the services...

The episode you’re hearing today is a replay of a past episode. As it’s IBS Awareness Month, and because so many of us with endo have IBS, I wanted to share with you my most foundational, actionable and informative episodes on endo belly, IBS and SIBO. Now because these episodes are old, I may not refer to some of the resources I provide on the endo belly, so I wanted to remind you of the services...

The episode you’re hearing today is a replay of a past episode. As it’s IBS Awareness Month, and because so many of us with endo have IBS, I wanted to share with you my most foundational, actionable and informative episodes on endo belly, IBS and SIBO. Now because these episodes are old, I may not refer to some of the resources I provide on the endo belly, so I wanted to remind you of the services...

The episode you’re hearing today is a replay of a past episode. As it’s IBS Awareness Month, and because so many of us with endo have IBS, I wanted to share with you my most foundational, actionable and informative episodes on endo belly, IBS and SIBO. Now because these episodes are old, I may not refer to some of the resources I provide on the endo belly, so I wanted to remind you of the services...

Today we’re continuing with our endo and IBS theme as part of my IBS Awareness Month series. Most of the clients who come to me have endo and IBS, now of course, I tend to see more of these clients because I am specialised in endometriosis, endo belly and SIBO, so naturally I attract these types of endo clients – but, generally, the majority of people with endo tend to have IBS problems in some fo...

It’s IBS Awareness Month and because IBS is so common within the endo community, I’m going to continue with this theme of IBS and endo belly, which I’ve been focusing on over the past few weeks. Now, one of the key causes behind IBS is SIBO. In fact, current research estimates that the majority of IBS cases are really SIBO cases, and as you’ve probably heard about 100 times by now, research estima...

Every time I meet a potential new client, I go through their symptom history with them. About 90% of the time, they tell me they have cyclical diarrhoea, and some of them experience pain with that diarrhoea. Naturally, many of them are really worried by these symptoms and are concerned it’s endo related, and that it mean there’s endo in or around the rectum, but the truth is, that it might not be...

Okay so today we’re talking about the all-important migrating motor complex. Let’s start with what the MMC, which is just what’s it usually abbreviated to for ease, actually is. The migrating motor complex is a wave like emotion that occurs in the small intestine, not large, between meals and overnight. This wave motion clears out any old food debris and bacteria once food has already passed throu...

Today we’re talking about the endo belly, but more specifically, constipation. Firstly, let’s quickly look at what the endo belly is. The ‘endo belly’ is not actually a medical term, but instead is a name the community has coined in reference to the severe bloating we often experience. So, there isn’t technically a set definition, but it is generally thought to be severe bloating/swelling that ten...