Why Did I Get PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome)?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 17 August 2021
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, I want to cover what PCOS is and what can cause PCOS.
Symptoms of PCOS:
• Infrequent or prolonged menstrual cycle
• Excess male hormones (androgens)
• Infertility
• Excess hair growth on the body
• Thinning hair on the head
• Acne
• Insulin resistance
Most websites will tell you that the potential causes of PCOS are genetic or maybe environmental. But, I think the missing piece that you need to know is that high androgens can be caused by high insulin. And high androgens may cause many of the symptoms of PCOS.
Unfortunately, insulin levels are rarely checked. You can’t really determine what’s going on with insulin by checking your blood sugar levels. You could actually have normal blood sugars and still have high levels of insulin.
If you’re not sure what causes high insulin, I have a lot of other videos on that topic. Watch those videos and start the Healthy Keto Diet and intermittent fasting.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. |
| 0:16.0 | Had someone recently commented on my YouTube channel. |
| 0:24.9 | They wanted to know why am I getting PCOS? |
| 0:29.3 | I'm not even 18 years old. |
| 0:31.5 | So I wanted to create this quick video on PCOS just to explain the simplicity of it so you |
| 0:36.2 | really understand it. Polycystic ovarian syndrome. |
| 0:41.1 | Poly means many. Then we have the word cyst. Okay, many cysts. But in reality, it's not true. |
| 0:49.6 | It's not really cyst. It's follicles, but I'm not going to get into that. But for right now, |
| 0:53.7 | just understand that |
| 0:54.7 | there's these little bumps growing and there's many of them on the ovary okay so we have polycystic |
| 1:01.2 | ovarian and then syndrome now a syndrome is not necessarily a disease it's suggestive of a disease |
| 1:10.0 | but it's a disorder having more than one symptom that suggests a disease. |
| 1:15.5 | Okay, so all right. What are the symptoms? In frequent or prolonged menstrual cycle. Excessed male |
| 1:23.2 | hormones as in androgens, infertility, excessive hair growth throughout your body, thinning of the |
| 1:30.0 | hair on your head, acne, and insulin resistance. Now, if you look up this condition on Wikipedia, |
| 1:37.6 | it will give you a lot of general information that is not very helpful. They'll talk about the cause being genetic. |
| 1:46.0 | They'll talk about the cause being potentially environmental. |
| 1:50.0 | Also, they will tell you that PCOS has no cure, |
| 1:53.0 | but it can be treated with metformin. |
| 1:55.0 | Anytime you're trying to figure out some mysterious medical condition, |
| 1:59.0 | realize that there's usually one key factor that you need |
| 2:05.2 | to know to figure it out. There's one piece of information that explains everything. And that is |
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