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She just released a new book called This EndoLife, It Starts with Breakfast: A nutrition guide & cookbook for living and thriving with endometriosis.
In today’s show Jess shares…
- Her story with endometriosis and what inspired her to start her blog and podcast;
- What has helped her feel better naturally including diet changes with focus on blood sugar balance, exercise, and recommended supplements;
- How to make holistic changes manageable and sustainable over time even when you’re on a budget;
- Her experience with a past eating disorder and what happened when she started to eat for endo and care for her body.
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About Jessica Duffin
Jessica Duffin is the endo warrior behind This EndoLife blog and podcast and lives in the UK. She has just graduated from the Integrative Women’s Health Institute as an Integrative Women’s Health Coach and is now about to embark on further studies to specialize in endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain.
Jessica writes weekly and monthly columns for Endometriosis News and Endometriosis Net, has both worked and volunteered for the UK’s leading endometriosis charity, has consulted on committees and working groups about endometriosis and played a key role in getting menstrual wellbeing taught in schools in England from 2020.
She has appeared in Women’s Health (online and print), Thought Catalog, POPSUGAR and Wellbeing of Women and has spoken about endometriosis on ITV and the BBC.
Connect further:
website: www.thisendolife.com
Resources
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Thank you again for this important and interesting podcast.
The finances part was briefly discussed and I wish I could find resources about how to minimize costs when you are following GF, DF, Organic Autoimmune diet.
Food costs are so high! I hardly eat out by the way, but if I do choose occasionally to eat outside I can only opt for the expensive options if I want to somehow stick to non-harmful food…
I am looking for advice on where and how to shop economically as well as how to cook economically. I wish there was a full podcast only on this matter. By the way, I tried shopping for veggies at the local farmers market rather than Wholefoods and it turned out to be more expensive. I tried Traders’ Joe’s but the organic fresh produce variety is low.
I am also never certain if I should opt for the cheaper nonorganic option if I buy at Wholefoods (they are supposed to maintain some kind of a standard?) And if so, what are the items I should really only buy organic.
Grocery shopping has become such a huge expense and that’s why I’m focusing on that but also any other lifestyle changes I have made that helped me with feeling better come with a high cost (natural cosmetics and cleaning supplies, acupuncture, etc.)
Hi Shiri! Thanks for listening and for the podcast idea.
I find Whole Foods to be super expensive regardless of buying organic or not. We have a King Soopers that has a decent organic produce section and also Sprouts. Do you have either near you? Also the Target by us carries a good selection of organic products at a very reasonable price. They may be the lowest I’ve found around.
I recommend checking out the Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 when it comes to figuring out which produce is worth investing in organic, and which you can buy conventional. Their website is https://www.ewg.org/.
I also did a Facebook Live on the topic of this in the past. Please check it out here: https://www.facebook.com/PeaceWithEndo/videos/471657373621686/
Much LOVE,
Aubree.