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Can Exercise Help with the Symptoms of Endometriosis?

Can Exercise Help with the Symptoms of Endometriosis? (0:26)

Exercise can help with the symptoms of endometriosis by increasing endorphins and serotonin. Women that are overweight have worse symptoms and exercise for weight loss helps too. In this video, Kevin Windom, MD, discusses the benefits of exercise.

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[MUSIC] I think exercise is great value in everything, and if someone suffers from chronic pelvic pain or someone suffers from pain with endometriosis, exercising can often times increase your endorphins and increase serotonin, and helps you deal with your pain in a little better manner.

Also it's been proven that people who are overweight have the worst problems with endometriosis, so by exercising we'll keep your weight down, it will definitely help with endometriosis.