I’ve been diagnosed with endo. I wish I lived near DC to participate in the study! Lol. I’ve have two surgeries within one year because of my endo. First surgery was to remove a cyst on my ovary and remove my Fallopian tubes. They found endo when I had the first surgery. It was unknown until then. I’ve always had painful periods. Throwing up, can’t walk, can’t go to work, etc. It was recommended to have an IUD, so I got one, to help with the endo. I had a constant period for 6 months!! It was terrible. Even emotionally I didn’t feel myself. I still had a lot of pressure and discomfort on my left lower abdomen. I had another ultrasound about four months after my first surgery and my cyst grew back (not surprising in hind sight since I had continuous bleeding for 6 months, not heavy, but not zero), so I had another surgery to remove the cyst and more endo. Long story long, I’ve adopted a plant based diet and I no longer need to take 8 ibuprofen on my first day of my period. I don’t miss work because of it and I can function through it. My periods are lighter and shorter overall. Pain was a HUGE motivator to change! I’m so glad I did! I’ve read Dr. Barnard’s book Your Body in Balance and it’s changed my life! Thank you for creating content like this to help gals out there like me find hope and clarity that they are not alone and don’t need to keep living in pain!

I hope participation in the study goes nationwide!

Rough disease. One thing about watching a lot of nutrition videos is I get to be thankful for many diseases I do not have. Right now, I occasionally have mild knee pain when hiking intensely or walking long distances. Rheumatoid arthritis is another I was reminded of by a testimonial on Mcdougall's channel. A woman solved severe problems with a whole food-plant based diet. It is highly motivating to see someone brought to tears about a condition that was so debilitating and they turned it around with a diet change. :-)

My sister was diagnosed almost 2 years ago after spending her entire life with very painful cycles, thinking it was normal. That of course was because no doctor paid attention to the disease due to the obvious paternalistic bias in medicine. I'm trying to help her adopt a more plant-based diet to handle most of the symptoms. I'm confident I'll succeed, specially knowing that she has decided that she wants to increase the chances of having children by limiting the number of cysts, etc. which already reduce her chances of getting pregnant. I just need to get her off cheese ASAP and the rest will come eventually! Thanks for doing this so much needed research!

I suffered from this in my youth, and I blame drinking milk. Should have been drinking wine instead. Vegetarian for the last 40 years, happily so.

Too bad it's only in DC

I'm to old now to participate in your study.

@malkiaperry9883

2 жыл бұрын

Me too. :(

Can old women have endometriosis

@Preemanoj

Ай бұрын

Yes! Irrespective of age.

Control groups for such diet interventions are stupid.

I'm all for using a vegan diet to improve quality of life for people suffering with debilitating diseases, but do we really need to use misleading graphs to make that point?

@elissadavis5657

2 жыл бұрын

?……..who told u the graphs r misleading ?

@RiDankulous

2 жыл бұрын

What graph? I know your criticism is well meaning but we need to know specifics if there's a complaint so we can describe about it. I see one graph after a quick scan of the video was the Fat and Endometriosis slide which has a graph taken directly from a medical study in peer reviewed research journal.

@sharebear3804

2 жыл бұрын

Just to clarify, I am a vegan and take no issue with the message of this video. The misleading part I was referring to was the fact that the y-axis break was not displayed... making it appears as though there is a larger gap in the data than if the increments we're shown accurately. Even that small difference is worth making the change to a vegan diet, but the difference between the two bars appears larger due to a lack of a break displayed on the y-axis. I hope that makes sense.