Hi there friends, I am new here on the forum. My sister is also suffering from PCOD. Really good guidance and amazing support here. Thanks a lot.
PCOS diet help
- Thread starter RobS1
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Generally, women with PCOS catch they are able to take over their symptoms and trim their uncertainty of other medical bother by controlling their diet and conduct choices with a PCOS diet. Women who bloom with PCOS know that food is medicine. The patch PCOS diet foods can heal your most challenging symptoms.
I know there are good PCOS dietitians at Dietitian Fit & Co. You can contact them for your wife's health. Hope you can find solution from them.
AloeSvea
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It often boils down to - don't expect good advice from medical professions on nutrition! They know as much, often, about nutrition as the next person - in terms of random chance. (This is a line I said to a friend of mine over coffee recently.) She was horrified that all the advice she has received from medical professionals might be flawed! But there you are. She is overweight recently crossed over into obese I would say, like many folks in today's food environment who keep believing the 'low fat high carbs' mantra, and she is on statins even though she has not had a cardio vascular event, and clearly high risk for metabolic disease - indeed - artherosclerosis can be seen as a metabolic disease, I believe.
I feel well able to say this, categorically, about not expecting good nutritional information from medical professionals, as I saw many experts as a young woman with PCOS and there was narry a whisper let alone comment on the role of excess carbs in the presence of dietary fat, and on insulinemic food, on causing the hormonal imbalances and all those ghastly wee cysts on one's ovaries. Now I am senior aged with insulin resistance for ever, probably damaged mitochondria, certainly my fat cells, and the genes involved in metabolism. So I get to say this, loudly, I believe. (I can remember one night a few years ago when I read how long knowledge about excess glucose and insulin has been around for, so I could not understand how those particular dots were not connected when it came to PCOS and diet....)
First line of treatment for PCOS - absolutely lower the carbs! Eat healthy fats. Lower those carbs and processed foods and modern vege oils heaps! Get the fat cells functioning normally again (they work like an organ, and give hormonal messages, responses etc). And as a senior aged lady, I feel like I can be a 'wise woman' on topic, with adult children now, my PCOS preceedng the pregnancies - a senior aged lady with weight loss resistant type two diabetes (well - not entirely, I can get to something called 'incomplete remission', meaning I can get to intermediate hyperglycemia/prediabetes blood glucose levels, but not into the healthy zone) - don't get your dietary advice from medical professionals. See them as excellent diagnosticians, and orderers of tests and referrals to specialists. See the specialists likewise. But go online for dietary information, and listen, look, read, pay attention.. Come in here. And experiment. Your confusion will be blown away. (And hopefully - those cysts too on the ovaries.)
My wish is that no woman with PCOS goes on to develop T2D - we have the knowledge already, the dots have been connected. The dots are in the diet.
I feel well able to say this, categorically, about not expecting good nutritional information from medical professionals, as I saw many experts as a young woman with PCOS and there was narry a whisper let alone comment on the role of excess carbs in the presence of dietary fat, and on insulinemic food, on causing the hormonal imbalances and all those ghastly wee cysts on one's ovaries. Now I am senior aged with insulin resistance for ever, probably damaged mitochondria, certainly my fat cells, and the genes involved in metabolism. So I get to say this, loudly, I believe. (I can remember one night a few years ago when I read how long knowledge about excess glucose and insulin has been around for, so I could not understand how those particular dots were not connected when it came to PCOS and diet....)
First line of treatment for PCOS - absolutely lower the carbs! Eat healthy fats. Lower those carbs and processed foods and modern vege oils heaps! Get the fat cells functioning normally again (they work like an organ, and give hormonal messages, responses etc). And as a senior aged lady, I feel like I can be a 'wise woman' on topic, with adult children now, my PCOS preceedng the pregnancies - a senior aged lady with weight loss resistant type two diabetes (well - not entirely, I can get to something called 'incomplete remission', meaning I can get to intermediate hyperglycemia/prediabetes blood glucose levels, but not into the healthy zone) - don't get your dietary advice from medical professionals. See them as excellent diagnosticians, and orderers of tests and referrals to specialists. See the specialists likewise. But go online for dietary information, and listen, look, read, pay attention.. Come in here. And experiment. Your confusion will be blown away. (And hopefully - those cysts too on the ovaries.)
My wish is that no woman with PCOS goes on to develop T2D - we have the knowledge already, the dots have been connected. The dots are in the diet.
