I was shoved birth control with PCOS…now what?

The PCOS Podcast by A Cyster & Her Mister

PCOS Weight Loss

Health & Fitness:alternative Health, Nutrition, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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#256: Were you prescribed birth control right after being diagnosed with PCOS? Same here! But did they mention it wouldn’t actually heal your symptoms? In this episode, we dive into the truth about PCOS and the birth control pill—covering what your doctor might not have shared, like the potential side effects and how to safely stop taking it without throwing your hormones off balance. This episode is for you if: - You’ve been told birth control is the only way to manage your PCOS - You’re currently on the pill, but struggling with the side effects - You want to stop taking the pill without your PCOS symptoms coming back Download The Cysterhood App, the largest community of PCOS women learning to lose weight & reverse symptoms with daily meals & workouts designed for PCOS! What’s Your PCOS Type? - Take the quiz! Supplements for Women With PCOS (https://ovafit.org/metabolism-plus/) Ovasitol: 15% OFF (https://ovafit.org/ovasitol/) Testosterone Relief Tea (https://ovafit.org/testosterone-relief-tea/) CONNECT WITH US: Website (https://pcosweightloss.org/) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/pcos.weightloss/) Tik Tok (https://www.tiktok.com/@pcos.weight.loss) Pinterest (https://www.pinterest.com/pcosweightloss/) While Tallene is a Registered Dietitian and Sirak a Personal Trainer, this podcast provides general information about PCOS. It is not meant to serve as fitness, nutrition or medical advice related to your individual needs. If you have questions, please talk to a medical professional. For our full privacy policy, please click on the following link: (bit.ly/PCOSPrivacyPolicy) Links included in this description may be affiliate links. If you purchase a product or service with the links that we provide, we may receive a small commission. There is no additional charge to you! Thank you for supporting our channel so we can continue to provide you with free content each week!

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0:00.0	So one of the things that I personally didn't know before starting birth control
0:03.6	was that the pill is going to shut down my estrogen production and the
0:07.9	synthetic estrogen in the pill is like 10 times more potent than my natural estrogen.
0:14.0	This can lead to estrogen dominance,
0:16.0	making it really hard to lose weight.
0:18.0	Dr. said you got peace,
0:20.0	COs, now go on, on girl just lose some way
0:24.6	To like to the symptoms into my own hands and reverse them naturally
0:31.6	So I became a dietitian and help my sisters feel the best they ever fell
0:38.0	Take a step in my direction if you want to prove them along, take control of yourself, join a sister and a
0:48.0	mystery.
0:51.0	So I hope everyone enjoyed the Instagram stories we posted in Paris.
0:55.0	Yeah, we talked too much about in the last episode but it was a really fun trip and what was your favorite part about it?
1:01.0	My favorite part was, I think it was the baking class.
1:04.6	Oh, because something really funny happened afterwards. So we had this macaron baking class and it was so much fun.
1:12.1	We learned how to make macarons, which are gluten-free French cookies.
1:16.0	Dairy-free. I don't know if the feeling is dairy-free. There's chocolate, which probably has milk in it.
1:21.0	But it was gluten-free. And one of the interesting things I learned about
1:23.8	macarons is that it like dates back to the early 1800s and they would make this like back back
1:29.6	then it's like one of the first like French pastries and it's made with almond flour and I think it's really
1:35.4	impressive because it's a very complicated cookie to make especially if you don't
1:39.0	have a kitchen aide so like I don't know what these people were doing back then but it
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