Women with endometriosis experience multiple kinds of pain. Emerging research suggests that oxidative stress plays a role in endometriosis. That raises the possibility that antioxidants could help the pain.
That’s the question a new meta-analysis of 5 controlled studies asked. The answer, happily, was that over 7 times as many women reduced their chronic pelvic pain, almost twice as many reduced their painful periods and over 5 times as many reduced painful intercourse on the combination of vitamins C and E versus placebo.
PLoS One. 2024;19(5): e0301867.
