Endometriosis Therapy: Not Only Hormones and Surgery - The Importance of a Holistic Approach

Massimo Bardi
In: American Journal of Biomedical Science & Research · 2023 · vol. 18(5) , pp. 469–480 · doi:10.34297/ajbsr.2023.18.002510 · W4385352439
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This review explores holistic, non-hormonal and non-surgical endometriosis therapies, including nutrition, supplements, osteopathy, fitness, ozone therapy, acupuncture, and psychological support, to complement traditional treatments and improve patient quality of life.

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This review discusses endometriosis as a chronic, estrogen-dependent condition affecting women of reproductive age, summarizing existing hormonal and surgical approaches and why symptoms often recur after treatment discontinuation. The authors review literature on supportive, non-hormonal strategies—framed as a “holistic” approach—that aim to complement standard care, including dietary patterns (e.g., differences in vegetable, omega-3, red meat, trans fats; possible roles for olive oil antioxidants; and evidence for dairy intake and risk reduction from a meta-analysis), as well as mechanistic discussion of oxidative stress and specific compounds like green tea catechins (EGCG) and resveratrol, supported by preclinical findings in experimental endometriosis models. A key limitation emphasized is that no therapy is capable of curing endometriosis, and that alternative/supportive therapies are not intended to replace hormonal or surgical treatments. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it focuses on a holistic, adjunctive framework (including nutrition and antioxidants) intended to support symptoms alongside conventional hormonal and surgical management.

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Abstract

Endometriosis is a pathology that affects just under 10% of women of reproductive age and is characterized by symptoms, sometimes very severe, which manifest themselves as dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia and chronic pelvic pain. Many women with this disease are also infertile. To date, there is no therapy that cures the woman who is affected by it. Hormonal therapies and surgery tend to cure the symptoms and slow down the course until menopause, a period in which, in the vast majority of cases, the disease resolves itself. The Authors intend to evaluate, through the review of the literature and the experience of “insiders”, a range of therapeutic forms that do not want to replace hormonal treatments or surgical techniques, which are still the subject of discussion, but which aim to support of these to try to make the life of women with endometriosis the best possible. Thus, a new concept was born for the Authors on how to deal with endometriosis: the concept of “holism” which leads us to evaluate this pathology in a complex of therapeutic globality, without excluding a priori ways of treatment wrongly considered ineffective and therefore “not officers”. We will address the concepts of adequate nutrition associated with the use of supplements and antioxidants, with the help offered by osteopathy, fitness, ozone therapy, acupuncture, up to the psychological support.

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