How To Cope With PCOS - The Natural Way
Marc Sandford
July 11, 2009
You have thick hair growth on your face, chest or back. Perhaps you're even losing it and have a receding hairline that's getting worse with time. You're unable to conceive and have brown/gray skin patches on your neck, knees, armpits, and elbows. Your neck and/or armpits have mushroom like over growths of skin called skin tags.
If these are your symptoms, then you are suffering from a condition called polycystic ovary syndrome or PCOS. There is a connection between having polycystic ovary syndrome and insulin resistance. Insulin resistance will result when the body doesn't properly respond to insulin in the blood which causes insulin levels to build up.
The increased insulin builds up testosterone levels and makes you gain weight where men tend to gain it: around the midsection. It damages the liver, predisposes you to getting diabetes, decreases good cholesterol, and leads to blockage of the arteries. It is also responsible for the symptoms mentioned at the beginning of this article.
The effect over the long term of this damage is not good. If you don't make an effort at controlling your insulin level, you may get diabetes and heart disease.
However, your blood insulin level can be lowered naturally through "healthy living". This means getting plenty of aerobic exercise that causes your heart rate to increase and strength exercises that build up muscle.
It also requires a healthy and natural diet consisting of eating fruits and vegetables, fish, poultry, and lean meats. Stay away from processed foods and simple carbohydrates such as refined rice and pasta, cookies, white bread, and cakes.
Avoid consuming too much food. Eating a salad before you start your meal will make you feel fuller and reduces food consumption.
Reduce the stress in your life. Too much stress, regardless of it's source, alters your hormone balance. This causes you to put on weight around the middle of your body.
What is most important is not to go it alone. An experienced health professional is necessary for getting the right diet and exercise routines. Joining a PCOS support group will make it easier to stick with your program.
Need to find ovarian cyst and PCOS information? Learn about recurring ovarian cysts and an alternative ovarian cyst cure.
If these are your symptoms, then you are suffering from a condition called polycystic ovary syndrome or PCOS. There is a connection between having polycystic ovary syndrome and insulin resistance. Insulin resistance will result when the body doesn't properly respond to insulin in the blood which causes insulin levels to build up.
The increased insulin builds up testosterone levels and makes you gain weight where men tend to gain it: around the midsection. It damages the liver, predisposes you to getting diabetes, decreases good cholesterol, and leads to blockage of the arteries. It is also responsible for the symptoms mentioned at the beginning of this article.
The effect over the long term of this damage is not good. If you don't make an effort at controlling your insulin level, you may get diabetes and heart disease.
However, your blood insulin level can be lowered naturally through "healthy living". This means getting plenty of aerobic exercise that causes your heart rate to increase and strength exercises that build up muscle.
It also requires a healthy and natural diet consisting of eating fruits and vegetables, fish, poultry, and lean meats. Stay away from processed foods and simple carbohydrates such as refined rice and pasta, cookies, white bread, and cakes.
Avoid consuming too much food. Eating a salad before you start your meal will make you feel fuller and reduces food consumption.
Reduce the stress in your life. Too much stress, regardless of it's source, alters your hormone balance. This causes you to put on weight around the middle of your body.
What is most important is not to go it alone. An experienced health professional is necessary for getting the right diet and exercise routines. Joining a PCOS support group will make it easier to stick with your program.
Need to find ovarian cyst and PCOS information? Learn about recurring ovarian cysts and an alternative ovarian cyst cure.
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