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Fertility Friday | Fertility Awareness Mastery for Women's Health Professionals

FFP 627 | New Research: Women With PCOS Don't Actually Have More "Cysts"

Fertility Friday | Fertility Awareness Mastery for Women's Health Professionals

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Alternative Health, Sexuality, Health & Fitness

4.8869 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Lisa  continues her PCOS series by reviewing a newly published research letter titled "Ovarian Cysts in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome", a cross-sectional analysis of nearly 2,000 women asking one key question: do women with PCOS actually have more pathological ovarian cysts than women without PCOS? Contrary to what the name implies, the study found no statistically significant difference in pathological ovarian cysts between the two groups. Lisa contextualizes these findings within a foundational understanding of the menstrual cycle, explaining how insulin resistance may interfere with the normal progression toward ovulation, resulting in arrested follicular development rather than the presence of abnormal cysts.

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0:00.0

If you've been listening to the podcast and following my work for a while, you already know

0:06.3

how much I recommend beef liver as a regular part of your diet. The research is clear. These foods

0:13.5

are game changers for fertility and menstrual cycle health. We've covered the research on the podcast

0:19.7

many times, and I've seen firsthand how

0:24.1

beneficial it is to incorporate liver with clients time and time again. So I'm excited to introduce

0:32.0

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0:42.8

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0:46.3

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0:48.9

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0:53.2

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0:55.8

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1:03.7

This is the Fertility Friday podcast, episode number 627.

1:14.0

As promised, in today's episode, I am jumping into a second part of my impromptu PCOS, or should I say

1:23.5

PCOM series.

1:26.0

In last week's episode, I talked about the name change. After many years of

1:31.5

discussion, finally they have changed the name to really focus on the metabolic aspects.

1:39.9

I had mentioned in last week's episode another new paper that came out last week that was looking

1:46.2

specifically at the ovarian cyst part of the conversation. And so in today's episode, I'm going

1:54.0

through that research paper because I think the findings are worth talking about. I think

1:59.3

it's worth having its very own episode.

2:02.7

And it is something that I've actually thought of just based on learning about the menstrual cycle, how it works, how the processes work.

2:11.5

So we're going to be talking more about ovarian cis in today's episode and how it relates or potentially doesn't relate to PCOS.

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