Today on the Root Cause Medicine podcast.

Any woman who has irregular cycles and has a lot of facial hair or this jawline acne,

those are the classic symptoms.

And of course, it also can manifest as infertility because if you're not ovulating,

you're not going to easily get pregnant.

In fact, you can't get pregnant if you don't ovulate.

That's why PCOS is the number one underlying ideology of female infertility. And then it goes beyond that.

One of the things that is now recognized finally is that PCOS is a high risk status for pregnancy.

If a woman with PCOS gets pregnant, it needs to be recognized by

their obstetrician that this woman is high risk for every potential complication of pregnancy.

Hello, hello. I'm your host for today, Dr. Carrie Jones, and I am so excited to talk with one of

my absolute favorites, Dr. Felice Gersh.

We are talking all about PCOS, or polycystic ovary syndrome.

Dr. Gersh is one of the first dual board certified integrative gynecologists in the United States.

She's a prolific educator on the topic of women's hormones.

I have learned a lot from her over the years.

And she's also a best-selling author on books, such as those around PCOS.

PCOS is the number one endocrine disorder in reproductive-aged women in the United States.

It is an important topic, as it not only involves your hormones, but it can increase your risk

for conditions such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Therefore, she dives deep into all the facts about it, your symptoms to watch out for, lab work

to evaluate, and more.

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