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Dr. Lizzie Alexander, PhD

Certified Integrative Nutrition and Health Coach

EF #13 Histamine Intolerance, Pelvic Floor Therapy and Surgery with Ashley Looft

Ashley Looft

Today’s episode is with the lovely Ashley Looft from the US, who has gone to some incredible lengths to work out why she had horrendous painful periods, poor health and numerous miscarriages. She explains how she found out she has PCOS and Endometriosis and then what she did to become pain free.

I love to hear true healing success stories that inspire you that it is possible to live pain free. There is a lot in the media at the moment about women taking a long time to get diagnoses, how they struggle with their day to day life, but little in the way healing stories. It is possible for women to use an integrative approach of medical and natural approaches to allow their bodies to heal and come to live pain free. Ashley shares her experience with overcoming histamine intolerance, and using physical therapy and surgeries to live a pain free.

Ashley Looft is a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner who helps women experiencing fertility and cycle struggles dig deep to find the root of their struggles and uses nutrition, supplements, and lifestyle to support their bodies in healing so that they can live their most healthy, happy, and fertile life. She came to this work through her own struggles with PCOS, Endometriosis, and 4 pregnancy losses. Ashley was tired of going to the doctor and being told that her only options were the pill or to get pregnant so she decided to take matters into her own hands and apprenticed with Nicole Jardim to become a Women’s Health Coach and then continued on to go to school for Nutritional Therapy. When Ashley is not working to help others she loves to spend time with her husband and two dogs traveling, reading, cooking, running, and hiking in the beautiful Arizona desert.

Here are some of the episode highlights:

  • Ashley’s diagnosis experience to find out she had Endometriosis
  • Taking 800mg of ibuprofen every 4-6 hours for days to no pain
  • Symptoms of histamine intolerance
  • Foods that make histamine intolerance
  • What is at the root of histamine intolerance
  • Why tailored gut healing protocols really work to improve your help
  • Working with a pelvic floor therapist
  • How to find a pelvic floor physical therapist / physiotherapist
  • What working with a therapist might involve – and why you shouldn’t worry about it!
  • What to do when looking for an expert Endometriosis surgeon
  • How Ashley became a Functional Nutrition Therapy Practitioner

Mentioned links

Further Endo Fertility resources:

This episode is sponsored by the Endo Fertility Resource Library where you can get your 3 amazing freebies: E-Book:

  • 5 Things I Learnt to Drop My Pain & Optimise My Fertility,
  • Your Guide to Super Sperm
  • 88 Ways I Dropped My Pain and Got Pregnant.

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