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PCOS Diet Plan

Up to 92 per cent of women who have PCOS (polycystic ovarian disease) are eventually able to conceive after appropriate low-calorie diet. Losing weight by counting calories does not restore fertility absolutely every time, but for about 40 per cent of women who have PCOS it is all that is needed to restore the hormonal [...]

Relation of PCOS to Insulin Resistance

For over 50 years gynecologists treated PCOS (polycystic ovarian disease) as if it were just a disease of the ovaries. In the early days of PCOS treatment, doctors would see if levels of a hormone called LH (luteinizing hormone) were high. If this hormone were out of balance, doctors would assume it was keeping eggs [...]

Natural PCOS Treatments

There have been many research and medical studies that focus on treating PCOS from a medical standpoint, but there are alternative treatments which could yield good results for women as well.  It is known that PCOS causes women to be overweight because of insulin resistance, but once the woman loses weight the symptoms for some [...]

PCOS Causes and Symptoms

PCOS is one of the most common hormonal disorders in women of childbearing age in the country, affecting countless numbers of females.  The condition is also referred to as Stein-Leventhal Syndrome and most women that have the problem experience a variety of different symptoms.  PCOS is responsible for between 5-10% of all cases of infertility [...]