1349: PCOS Underlying Causes and Critical Info to Know

CONSISTENT by Primal Potential

Elizabeth Benton

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5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

🧠 Episode Summary:

If you’ve been told that PCOS is all about insulin resistance and high testosterone, you’ve only been told part of the story. In this episode, we’re digging into the hormonal chain reaction that causes those symptoms—starting with unopposed estrogen, low progesterone, and disrupted thyroid function.

You’ll learn:

Why estrogen isn’t the enemy (and when it is)
How estrogen increases free fatty acids and triggers insulin resistance
The overlooked connection between thyroid, cortisol, and your cycle
What to do if you can’t get the right labs from your doctor
What tests actually give you answers—not more questions
How to support your hormones without crash dieting or chasing carbs around
My go-to tools, supplements, and strategies for PCOS, hormone repair, and metabolic balance

This episode is both dense and actionable—bookmark it, take notes, and share it with someone who’s tired of being told to just “cut carbs” and “lose weight.”

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Transcript

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0:00.0	If you want to be more consistent, you're in the right place. I'm Elizabeth Benton. Welcome to
0:07.1	Consistent, a podcast by Primal Potential that is for all of you who feel frustrated by your lack of
0:13.3	progress or overwhelmed by all the change that you want to make in your life. Here, we stop frantically
0:20.5	chasing new habits and start
0:22.6	strategically building a structure of consistency. Let's get into it.
0:29.1	Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the primal potential podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton.
0:34.6	As promised, we are talking about PCOS today, polycystic ovarian syndrome.
0:43.3	Polycystic multiple cysts, right, on or around the ovaries. And a syndrome refers to a diagnostic
0:52.9	criteria that's like the presence or absence of certain things.
0:57.1	So something is often a syndrome when multiple boxes are checked.
1:02.0	There's a presence of certain diagnostic criteria, a collection of different things.
1:09.0	That is what we are talking about. I not long ago put up a
1:13.5	question box on our primal potential Facebook group and Instagram and said, hey, what do you guys
1:18.8	want me to talk about? You know I love the geeky science stuff. And several people said PCOS.
1:25.7	Now, to the uninitiated, you might be like, that's weird and random.
1:30.6	But if you are familiar because you've maybe experienced this before, you know somebody who has,
1:37.6	you know that this can be really frustrating for a lot of different significant areas of life.
1:43.5	PCOS can make weight loss trickier. PCOS can make
1:47.2	fertility a real challenge. And this first entered my life when I was probably about 15 or 16 years
1:54.6	old. I went to my first ever gynecologist appointment and I was told that I had PCOS. I was told it was the
2:05.6	reason that I was overweight. I was told that I probably wouldn't lose weight, and I was told
2:10.3	that I would likely never get pregnant naturally. And just to be clear, they were wrong about all of
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