‘I was bed-bound with endometriosis for half the month – until I changed what I ate’

She’d experience “agonising pain”, brain fog, nausea, fatigue and extremely heavy, 10-day long periods, until she was diagnosed at 21. “I started to do a little bit more digging and some research, and saw this link between inflammation and endometriosis,” Richards says. What’s the harm?”Previously, she ate what she considers a normal diet for someone of university age, “with no nutritional background or information”. To make the mushroom and walnut paste, heat the olive oil in a pan over a medium heat. Make the caramel sauce: Heat the coconut cream, coconut sugar, maple syrup and sea salt in a small saucepan over a low/medium heat.