Empowering Women with PCOS: A Functional Medicine Approach with Dr. Natalie Underberg: Episode Rerun
The Root Cause Medicine Podcast
Kate Kresge
4.8 • 581 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Dr. Natalie Underberg shares the causes, strategies, and lifestyle changes necessary to effectively manage Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS). They dive into: 1. What is PCOS? 2. Challenges of PCOS diagnosis and management 3. Exploring the Rotterdam criteria 4. What causes PCOS? 5. Dr. Natalie's bits of advice As a seasoned researcher with over a decade of experience studying PCOS, Dr. Natalie is a distinguished expert in her field. In addition to earning her doctoral degree, she has devoted countless hours to advanced functional medicine training through the Institute of Functional Medicine and Apex Energetics, as well as intensive coursework in internal disorders through the American Board of Chiropractic Internists. Dr. Natalie was personally diagnosed with PCOS in 2010, and has since been dedicated to educating, empowering, and advocating for women who also grapple with this complex condition. Alongside her work helping women with PCOS, Dr. Natalie specializes in assisting women with infertility and other hormone-related issues from a holistic perspective.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the Root Cause Medicine podcast, many women are being misdiagnosed or mislabeled due to either |
| 0:05.9 | presence or lack thereof of that polycystic ovarian morphology. So tons of women on Instagram will |
| 0:12.6 | follow me and say, well, all of these things sound like me that you mentioned, but I don't have |
| 0:17.8 | cysts on my ovaries, so I know I don't have it. And I'm like, |
| 0:21.3 | okay, let's take a step back here. You only need two of the three diagnostic criteria, |
| 0:25.7 | which I'll talk about. And if you have two of those three, then you fit in that PCOS category. |
| 0:31.9 | Hello, hello. I'm your host, Dr. Carrie Jones. And today I'm talking with my good friend Dr. Natalie Underberg all about PCOS, our polycystic |
| 0:42.2 | ovary syndrome. |
| 0:43.7 | She is a prolific educator on the topic, so I couldn't think of a better person to bring |
| 0:48.9 | in and answer all your top questions. |
| 0:52.9 | What is it? |
| 0:54.1 | What are the common symptoms? How do you test for it? And what do. What is it? What are the common symptoms? |
| 0:55.6 | How do you test for it? |
| 0:57.0 | And what do you do about it if you've been told you have PCOS? |
| 1:01.7 | Before we get started though, I want to talk to you about something that comes up pretty |
| 1:05.6 | often on this podcast. |
| 1:07.3 | And that, of course, is lab testing. |
| 1:09.8 | You see, testing is one essential way to understand the root cause of an illness. |
| 1:14.6 | If you are an integrative or functional medicine practitioner, |
| 1:17.6 | chances are you're placing a ton of orders with a ton of different labs. |
| 1:22.6 | The Root Cause Medicine Podcast is created by Rupa Health. |
| 1:26.6 | Rupa Health. |
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