About Endora

According to the World Health Organization, endometriosis affects roughly 1 in 10 women of reproductive age. That’s 190 million women worldwide living with labour-level pain, fainting, cancelled plans, and a medical system that took an average of 7 years to diagnose them.

After diagnosis, most of them were handed the same options: birth control to mask symptoms, ibuprofen to get through the day, surgery that often didn’t hold. None of those options were built for endometriosis. They were built for other things and handed to us because nothing better existed.

That’s the problem Endora was built to address.

I was 16 the first time I knew something was wrong. Not bad cramps. Something that put me on the bathroom floor for an hour, that felt like being in labour except without the baby at the end.

Over the next 15 years, I saw more doctors than I can count. I tried birth control, every supplement people recommended, a TENS machine, and a heating pad I used for 17 hours a day. I have the burn scars to prove it. I was told I was being dramatic. I was told this was just womanhood. I was offered a hysterectomy at 28.

I remember thinking, What if I want to have a child one day? But also... what if I just wanted to have a life? Because what I was doing wasn’t living. It was staying alive.

When symptoms came back after surgery, I was lying on the floor with my heating pad, scrolling Reddit at 3 am, when I saw a post that changed everything: removing the tissue won’t remove the pain.

Endo isn’t just a period problem. It’s three systems breaking down at once. An estrogen loop that feeds itself. An immune system that stopped doing its job. A nervous system that’s been rewired by years of pain to stay stuck on high alert. Nothing I’d tried supported all three. Nothing anyone had tried did.

So I went into full research mode. Reddit threads. Medical journals. 2 am deep dives. I kept finding the same five ingredients coming up over and over in endo communities, backed by peer-reviewed clinical research. I made a spreadsheet. I started connecting the dots. And it turned out they were each targeting one of the exact systems that needed support.

I partnered with a clinical formulation lab. I spent months on dosages, on bioavailability, on which forms of each ingredient actually absorb. I didn’t want something that sounded good. I wanted something that could genuinely support the quality of life for women with endometriosis, because nothing I’d found was doing that.

That’s Endora. Named after me, because I couldn’t find it anywhere else.

— Dora, Founder

Endometriosis receives approximately $2 per patient per year in research funding. Women weren’t required to be included in clinical research until 1993. The average time from first symptoms to diagnosis is still nearly 7 years.

I built Endora because the system wasn’t going to fix this on its own. Because I lost 15 years to this disease, and I know what it feels like to be dismissed, gaslit, and told to just take the pill.

The goal isn’t a cure. There is no cure. The goal is to give every endo warrior a supplement that supports the underlying systems contributing to their symptoms, not just something to get through the day.

Made with endometriosis in mind. Built on peer-reviewed clinical research on each of its five ingredients. By someone who has been exactly where you are.

To every endo warrior who found us: you’re not crazy. Your pain is real. You deserved better from the system, and you deserve better from the products you try. That’s what Endora is trying to be.

Not a miracle. A real option. Finally.