Why PCOS Was Just Renamed (And What It Means for Women’s Health Globally)

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz

Dr. Mindy Pelz

Science, Health & Fitness, Perimenopause, Women's Hormones, Women's Health, Menopause, Live Like A Girl, Dr. Mindy Pelz, Alternative Health

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Millions of women have been told they have PCOS. Millions more have been told nothing is wrong at all.

Now, one of the most common hormonal conditions affecting women has a new name: PMOS, Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome. The change reflects what experts have long understood, this condition is about far more than the ovaries. It's deeply connected to metabolism, insulin resistance, inflammation, and hormone balance.

In this episode, Dr. Mindy is joined by Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi, renowned OB-GYN and co-host of the She MD podcast, along with entrepreneur and women's health advocate Mary Alice Haney. Together, they unpack why so many women go undiagnosed, why insulin resistance isn't always visible on the outside, and how lifestyle, nutrition, and early intervention can dramatically change a woman's health trajectory.

They also discuss the growing impact of environmental toxins, breast cancer risk, fertility, metabolic dysfunction, and what every woman should know before walking into her next doctor's appointment.

In this episode you'll learn:

Why PCOS was renamed to PMOS and what the change means
The three criteria used to diagnose PMOS
Why up to 80% of women with PMOS remain undiagnosed
How insulin resistance affects both lean and overweight women
Why birth control alone doesn't address the root cause of PMOS
Practical nutrition, lifestyle, and medical approaches to improving insulin sensitivity
How to become a stronger advocate for your own healthcare

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1:07.6	Hey, Dr. Mindy here and welcome to the Live Like a Girl podcast, where I bring you icons, disruptors, educators, scientists, and doctors that show you what can be possible when you love and celebrate the female body you are blessed to live in.
1:29.0	Let's dive in.
1:36.5	When I launched Fast Like a Girl into the world, I braced myself for a lot of things.
1:47.3	What I did not brace myself for was my inbox filling up with hundreds of thousands of messages from women in their 20s and 30s, all asking me some version of the same terrifying question. I don't have a period. What do I do?
1:55.8	I remember sitting with that genuinely shocked, not because periods stopping is rare, because it had become so
2:04.4	normal that these women didn't even know it was a red flag. They thought it was just what their
2:10.7	body did now. Here's what most of them didn't know. 15% of women in America live with a condition that hijacks their
2:21.9	cycle, their skin, their hair, their mood, and their metabolism all at once. And in some Middle
2:30.0	Eastern countries, that number climbs closer to 20%. And of all the women who have it,
2:36.9	somewhere between 70 to 80% are never diagnosed at all. They spend years being told their
2:44.5	labs are fine. Their ultrasound looks normal. They just need to eat less and move more. Sound familiar? Meanwhile, some of them
2:55.6	end up in eating disorder clinics instead of an endocrinologist's office because nobody connected
3:02.5	the dots. You know this condition by an old name, PCOS, polycystic ovary syndrome, a name that sent
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