April 2022
Diet Doctor - Published Success Story
Third-party, time-stamped feature: "Decades of suffering relieved by keto." Not a clinical study - documented, published coverage of the recovery journey.
View sourceFree Personalised Endometriosis Evaluation
Endometriosis Relief Starts With Understanding Your Body.
What may be contributing to YOUR endometriosis symptom pattern?
If you've spent years trying different diets, supplements, medications and protocols without really knowing what applies to your body, this evaluation will help you start organising the clues.
This may be for you if…
You're not imagining the patterns. You just haven't had a way to organise them.
- You have endometriosis, or strongly suspect it.
- Your symptoms seem to change without explanation.
- You live with digestive problems alongside pelvic symptoms.
- Different foods appear to affect you differently.
- You are tired of contradictory dietary advice.
- You've managed symptoms for years but still don't understand your patterns.
- Stress and sleep appear to affect your symptoms.
- You're moving through hormonal changes and your symptom pattern is shifting.
- You want to understand what's worth investigating before another random protocol.
Why I created this
I didn't set out to solve endometriosis. I set out to understand one system, and others began to change.
My name is Roxeanne Hardenburg. I began experiencing aggressive menstrual, ovarian and digestive symptoms from around age 16. In 2003, at 23, I was diagnosed with Stage 4 bowel endometriosis after surgery for a very large ovarian endometrioma that had enveloped one ovary. Approximately 90% of it was removed.
What followed were years of severe pain, heavy and prolonged bleeding, recurring ovarian cysts, digestive problems, anxiety, hospital admissions, multiple surgeries, hormonal suppression and pain medication, while I still built businesses and a corporate IT career.
By my late 20s I was already investigating nutrition, nutrients, supplementation, Chinese medicine, herbs, homoeopathy and dietary triggers. My gut symptoms worsened again, and during lockdown in 2020 I hit a major health crisis and was largely bedridden for months. I started intensely researching and tracking low-carbohydrate nutrition, healthy fats, fasting, food reactions, gut health, inflammation and digestive function.
I'd initially set out to solve severe IBS and gut problems. As my gut symptoms improved, I unexpectedly watched my endometriosis symptom pattern change too. I healed by default. I was trying to understand one system, and other systems began to respond.
My professional strength is pattern recognition. I spent decades in technology, data, systems and problem-solving, and eventually applied that same reverse-engineering mindset to my own health: measure, identify a signal, research, correlate with symptoms, change inputs, track response, refine, retest. My last endometriosis operation was November 2021. I've remained out of hospital for endometriosis since, with long-term symptom remission. Not a promise of cure, but a very different life.
"I could either keep spending years guessing, or I could learn how to read the patterns."
Roxeanne's results are her personal case study and are not a guarantee of the same outcome for anyone else. Read the full disclaimer.
Documented along the way
"This wasn't a story I reconstructed years later."
Parts of my recovery journey were being documented, measured and shared publicly while I was still living through it, learning from it and refining what worked for me.
42
Chronological age
20
GlycanAge result
-22 yrs
Age difference
At chronological age 42, my GlycanAge result was 20 - 22 years younger than my chronological age. GlycanAge describes its test as measuring "inflammaging", chronic inflammation associated with immune ageing. This is not a diagnostic test, and it was a single measurement, not a before-and-after. In June 2024, Oura reported my cardiovascular age as 9 years below my actual age, with cardiovascular capacity noted as high.
Featured In.
November 2023
SA & Beyond Magazine - Editorial Feature
A 7-page editorial covering the recovery journey across years of tracking, testing and refinement.
View sourceDecember 2023
Reverse The Effects of Aging Summit - Guest Speaker
Invited speaker on essential oils, the endocannabinoid system and the personal recovery story.
View sourceJune 2024
Mastermind - The Game's Changed
Her story was selected for a short spotlight during the virtual Mastermind event while Tony Robbins was presenting.
View sourceJune 2025
Mastermind Monthly Magazine - Member Spotlight
Feature: "When the World Shut Down, She Opened Up - How Roxanne Turned a Crisis Into a Calling."
View sourceThese are published features and event appearances, not endorsements of Essential Farmaceuticals by the individuals or organisations named.