English singer-songwriter Jessie J has handled many well being struggles all through her life. In 2025, she underwent remedy for early-stage breast most cancers, and as a baby, she was identified with a coronary heart situation referred to as Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. In her 20s, she was identified with two extra situations: endometriosis and adenomyosis.
“I’ve at all times had obscure well being points that [doctors] can’t determine,” the singer lately advised Girls’s Well being. “Nothing has damaged me. And I consider I’ve gone via all of the issues I’ve to assist individuals—even when it’s simply to put in writing songs about it.”
Endometriosis and adenomyosis are comparable gynecological situations, and it’s frequent for individuals to expertise each on the identical time. Endometriosis happens when tissue much like the uterine lining grows exterior the uterus, whereas adenomyosis entails that tissue rising into the uterine muscle wall. Each situations are related to signs resembling continual ache and heavy durations.
When Jessie J was identified, her physician suggested her to think about a hysterectomy—a surgical process to take away the uterus and cervix. As a substitute, she selected a special method and made modifications to her weight loss plan.
“I went vegan, and it improved my signs to some extent the place I may stroll with out ache,” she defined. “My interval began to manage, I misplaced all the problems I had with irritation in my physique, and I used to be capable of get pregnant and go full time period 10 years later.”
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Can altering your weight loss plan heal endometriosis?
It’s necessary to notice that there isn’t a analysis to counsel that going vegan is a treatment for endometriosis or adenomyosis. Nevertheless, analysis signifies that eliminating sure meals, resembling dairy and processed meat, might assist cut back irritation that may worsen signs.
In December 2025, a research carried out on the College of Edinburgh surveyed practically 2,400 individuals and located that many reported improved signs after slicing particular meals from their diets.
Greater than half stated their signs improved after lowering alcohol consumption, whereas 45 p.c reported advantages after slicing out gluten and dairy. Almost 40 p.c stated lowering processed meals, together with processed meats, made a major distinction, and 30 p.c reported enhancements from following a plant-forward Mediterranean-style weight loss plan.
Whereas Jessie J is now not vegan, she continues to eat a plant-forward weight loss plan wealthy in complete grains, fruits, and greens. These meals are recognized for his or her anti-inflammatory properties and can also assist cut back extra estrogen, in keeping with specialists. Analysis suggests extra estrogen can stimulate the expansion of endometrial-like tissue.
“What we all know from research up to now is that weight loss plan could also be useful within the prevention and remedy of endometriosis and ache related to it,” Leah Tsui, MS, RDN, LDN advised VegNews. “One research that mentioned lowering dietary fats and growing dietary fiber discovered that it diminished circulating estrogen concentrations, which might be a possible profit for people with endometriosis, as it’s an estrogen-dependent illness.”
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Charlotte is a VegNews editor and author based mostly in sunny Southsea on England’s southern coast.
