Why Endometriosis Symptoms Deserve Full Medical Evaluation

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Endometriosis is not what you have been told. This isn't just a hormonal issue, and in fact, we are now seeing men develop endometriosis. Endometriosis is hugely linked, and this is proven in the research, to the gut and the immune system and oxidative stress. Oxidative stress then goes on to damage neighbouring cells. And now you end up with all of these cells that are damaged and not really functioning properly, but they're also not quite dead, and they slowly proliferate, and they drive up inflammation even further.

Is because estrogen is high, you get histamine release. Let me be precise here, because this is where a lot of people are going to get misled. Not everything she said is wrong, and that's quite frankly, the reason for making this video, because it's a partial truth. Is more dangerous than a lie. Endometriosis does involve inflammation. It does involve immune signaling. Oxidative stress does matter. Gut can affect inflammatory environments. But that's not the same thing as me agreeing with her, let alone explaining away the disease.

So let's actually clarify some of this misinformation. First and foremost, the line about men developing endometriosis is just wildly inaccurate. Male endometriosis is not some just natural extension of the disease. It is exceptionally rare. And the times that we have seen it, there was external factors attached to it, such as someone going through prostate, therapy for. For, estrogen therapy for prostate cancer, cirrhosis. So the liver, Had alter hormone metabolism, chemical exposure, or people going through transgender therapy. So, no, this isn't a factual point.

It's an exception being used to fit a narrative. Because males simply do not carry the machinery to allow endometriosis to exist in the body. Even if I were to inject myself with endometriotic cells, they're just not gonna take second. She's talking about downstream biology, pretending that gut imbalance is the root. Because lipopolysaccharides come in a toll. Like receptor 4 gets activated, which results in oxidative stress, cytokines, and all of this shaping the environment. Well, yes, this is part of endometriosis. That doesn't explain it as a whole.

Because if it did, then why isn't it that everyone with this bias that's walking around, why don't they have endometriosis? Or let alone, let's use her original point, why don't men with this bias have endometriosis? Okay, cause endometriosis is not just a leaky gut with an inflamed environment. It's active ectopic tissue that has survival programming built into the cell. The medical literature is extremely clear on this. But let's also address this hormonal balancing that she's trying to kind of push through.

Right. If she truly understood disease pathology, she'd understand that estrogen is also the fuel, it's not the engine. And the progesterone resistance is the primary driving factor. So progesterone is the brakes of the system, and they have essentially been removed from the lesions. So, yes, oxidative stress, inflammation, all of these things. But The fact is that she's missing major pathology so you can balance your hormones and estrogen dominance and all that. There's key pieces missing in this pathology of hers. Third, the explanation, that cell.

The cells are just bad biology. She's describing the cells that they're damaged, barely alive, sort of dead, and they're just lingering and multiplying and. And this is not just what endometriotic cells are. They're not. That these lesions are very active. They're extremely stable. That's why they're not considered cancer. They have, allogenicetic components in the cell. That's why you can look at it under a microscope, and it still looks like an endometrial cell. It's just that they have the machinery that is immune modulating.

It's. It's programmed based for survivability. That's. It's by word that it lands. It has genetic components that push estrogen receptor sensitivity. So even if you have perfect estrogen levels, you could have heightened estrogen receptor beta receptors that are being activated by small amounts of estrogen. So, no, it's not just hormone balancing. And let's jump to histamine, all right? Because histamine is, again, a partial truth. Histamine does matter. And endometriosis, especially considering that mast cells and their inflammation, they are in pain signaling.

They're intricately combined, intertwined. But s. High estrogen signaling does not immediately equal high histamine release. And this is not a universal law, because if we did see this, a woman walking around with high estrogen would be basically a mast cell. Activation syndromes, and that's simply not the case. Again, we don't see that histamine has more than just one simple job of calming T cells. It is a complex receptor dependent, so they push different immune responses. And it's far more complicated than a master class version she's going to try to explain, which I'm sure there's something attached on the back.

The core issue here is not that she's wrong because she's mentioning the god toll like receptor 4, oxidative stress, cytokine, histamine. She's wrong because she's speaking as if naming these tiny little pieces and the grander scheme of things is explaining the fire. She's barely explaining the smoke, as she's so evidently said, she's not even getting to the fire. So when you do that with endometriosis, you risk convincing women that they can think their way out of lesion. Lesion biology with a simplified framework.

That's not education, that's oversimplification with consequences. Also, excision should not be casually disregarded. For some women, this is literally the only option left, especially with invasive or heavily adhesive disease phenotype types, because there's nothing in this world that's gonna remove that. You need a specialized surgeon to remove those things so you can get that freedom back, that you can actually live without being having a frozen organ or frozen pelvis. Okay, so yes, that challenge the hormone only model. Yes, challenge hysterectomy.

And, you know, it's being handed, handed out like a cure. I agree with a Lot of points that she said, but it does not replace severe misinformation being represented as a masterclass solution, and Demetrios does deserve more respect than that.