1h 3 min
Ep02: Starving Your Endo Monster with Anastasia from @EndoHackPlan Healthy, Strong, Brave
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- Salud y forma física
Ok... wow. In our very first interview on the podcast we speak to Anastasia, founder of the instagram account @EndoHackPlan. Her story from start to finish left us speechless, and her in-depth knowledge about the vast intricacies of endometriosis should put (many) doctors to shame.
For Anastasia, her endo pain began at the age of 14 years old. She was living in Russia at the time and lived through the Chernobyl explosion when she was 5, so she was convinced that her pain was a side effect of this trauma. The doctors simply told her "that's just the way it is with women" and shared her assumption that her pain was due to Chernobyl.
Two years later - at only 16 years old - her doctors diagnosed her with PCOS and told her she was infertile.
She then moved to the United States at age 29 and "learned how to live with the pain." But five years later an unexpected trip to the emergency room led her down a different path. Her endo changed for the worst, and she could feel it.
What happens next nearly left Anastasia dead from sepsis after the doctors at the ER diagnosed her incorrectly. She walks us through her path to (finally) getting a diagnosis more than 20 years after her first symptoms and what she does now to hack her endo into nonexistence.
📌 Some topics we cover:
- Teetering on the edge of suicide due to the pain
- Is birth control good or bad for endo - and how much should we trust our doctors?
- Life as husband and wife, and where endo fits into that. Or does it?
- Her grandmother's advice that changed how she looked at the relationship between diet and the body
- Does Russian medicine view endometriosis differently than the United States?
- Yoga. Is. Not. A. Cure.
- Leaky gut
- Liver damage
- Infertility
- The role your lymphatic system plays
- Can the simple act of walking ease your pain?
- How to stay positive in the face of tragedy with a loved one.
- What does a comprehensive approach to endometriosis look like?
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Where to find Anastasia:
https://www.instagram.com/endohackplan
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Where to find us:
https://www.emmavalentina.com
https://www.instagram.com/emmavalentina/
https://twitter.com/_EmmaValentina_
https://www.facebook.com/healthystrongbrave
hello@emmavalentina.com
🔥
Get on the waitlist for our heating pad, cramp-friendly pants!
https://www.emmavalentina.com/shop/persephone
💌
want to be on the next episode? DM us on insta or shoot us an email, we would love to have you!
Ok... wow. In our very first interview on the podcast we speak to Anastasia, founder of the instagram account @EndoHackPlan. Her story from start to finish left us speechless, and her in-depth knowledge about the vast intricacies of endometriosis should put (many) doctors to shame.
For Anastasia, her endo pain began at the age of 14 years old. She was living in Russia at the time and lived through the Chernobyl explosion when she was 5, so she was convinced that her pain was a side effect of this trauma. The doctors simply told her "that's just the way it is with women" and shared her assumption that her pain was due to Chernobyl.
Two years later - at only 16 years old - her doctors diagnosed her with PCOS and told her she was infertile.
She then moved to the United States at age 29 and "learned how to live with the pain." But five years later an unexpected trip to the emergency room led her down a different path. Her endo changed for the worst, and she could feel it.
What happens next nearly left Anastasia dead from sepsis after the doctors at the ER diagnosed her incorrectly. She walks us through her path to (finally) getting a diagnosis more than 20 years after her first symptoms and what she does now to hack her endo into nonexistence.
📌 Some topics we cover:
- Teetering on the edge of suicide due to the pain
- Is birth control good or bad for endo - and how much should we trust our doctors?
- Life as husband and wife, and where endo fits into that. Or does it?
- Her grandmother's advice that changed how she looked at the relationship between diet and the body
- Does Russian medicine view endometriosis differently than the United States?
- Yoga. Is. Not. A. Cure.
- Leaky gut
- Liver damage
- Infertility
- The role your lymphatic system plays
- Can the simple act of walking ease your pain?
- How to stay positive in the face of tragedy with a loved one.
- What does a comprehensive approach to endometriosis look like?
👇
Where to find Anastasia:
https://www.instagram.com/endohackplan
🎗
Where to find us:
https://www.emmavalentina.com
https://www.instagram.com/emmavalentina/
https://twitter.com/_EmmaValentina_
https://www.facebook.com/healthystrongbrave
hello@emmavalentina.com
🔥
Get on the waitlist for our heating pad, cramp-friendly pants!
https://www.emmavalentina.com/shop/persephone
💌
want to be on the next episode? DM us on insta or shoot us an email, we would love to have you!
1h 3 min