Dietary strategies for reducing symptoms associated with endometriosis: a literature review

Fabia Regina Silva Cavalcante, Cicera Caline Pereira, Rayanne de Araújo Torres
In: REVISTA INTERDISCIPLINAR E DO MEIO AMBIENTE (RIMA) · 2024 · vol. 6(1) , pp. e248 · doi:10.52664/rima.v6.n1.2024.e248 · W4394621966
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This literature review evaluated the role of nutrition in treating endometriosis, finding that a healthy diet and micronutrient supplementation are important for women with the condition.

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This literature review evaluated the role of nutrition in treating women diagnosed with endometriosis, focusing on symptom reduction and pregnancy-related difficulty. The authors searched PubMed, VHL, and SciELO for full-text articles in English and Portuguese published between 2013 and 2023, using health descriptors for endometriosis, women, and diet. Based on the included studies, the review concludes that adherence to a healthy diet and micronutrient supplementation—specifically vitamins C, D, E, and B12 and minerals zinc and potassium—are important for women with endometriosis, while the study does not present quantitative effect estimates or explicit limitations within the excerpt provided. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — a literature review of dietary strategies and micronutrient supplementation for reducing endometriosis-associated symptoms.

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Abstract

Endometriosis is an inflammatory pathology characterized by changes in ovarian tissue in women, of reproductive age. People with this disease present symptoms ranging from dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, chronic pelvic pain, chronic fatigue and difficulty getting pregnant. Therefore, this study is a bibliographical review of the literature with the objective of evaluating the role of nutrition in the treatment of women diagnosed with endometriosis. Thus, the health descriptors (DeCs) used in English and Portuguese were endometriosis, woman and diet using the databases (PubMed, VHL and SciELO), using as subsidies the articles available in full, in English and Portuguese and published in the last 10 years (2013 to 2023). Finally, based on the findings, it is possible to point out the importance of adhering to a healthy diet and the relevant role of micronutrient supplementation, such as vitamins C, D, E and B12 and the minerals Zinc and Potassium, for women with endometriosis.

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endometriosischronic_pelvic_paindysmenorrheadyspareunia

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