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Early Detection of Insulin Resistance Can Solve PCOS Puzzle! Do you wonder what is causing your PCOS? What could be the solutions to PCOS problem? If you could just identify what is causing it, possibly you could remove the cause and this disease would go away. Or at least be much easier to manage. – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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Title: Insulin resistance solution to pcos problem


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Insulin Resistance -Solution to PCOS Problem
  • Early Detection of Insulin Resistance Can Solve
    PCOS Puzzle!

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Do you wonder what is causing your PCOS? What
could be the solutions to PCOS problem?
  • If you could just identify what is causing it,
    possibly you could remove the cause and this
    disease would go away.  Or at least be much
    easier to manage.
  • For the majority of women with poly-cystic ovary
    syndrome, a primary cause of symptoms is the
    presence of a medical condition called insulin
    resistance.  Insulin resistance simply means
    your cells are resistant to or are
    under-responding to the hormone insulin.

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  • Therefore, insulin cannot efficiently tell the
    cells to store blood sugar or perform a multitude
    of other tasks.  The result is that the entire
    body is thrown into a state of imbalance and
    distress, leading to weight gain, belly fat,
    ovulation problems, mood disorders, and skin and
    hair issues.
  • But heres the tricky part.  Not everyone with
    PCOS also has insulin resistance or do they? 
    Its estimated that somewhere between 50-80 of
    women with poly-cystic ovarian syndrome have
    insulin resistance.  But why is there such a wide
    variation in these estimates?  And how do you
    know if you have it?
  • It may be that part of the problem is in how
    insulin resistance is defined and how it is
    measured and diagnosed.  We wont go into the
    weeds on this complex issue but lets cover a
    couple of high points.
  • Its important to know whether you have insulin
    resistance because if its left unidentified and
    untreated, the long-term consequences could be
    disastrous.  You could end up with diabetes,
    heart disease, cancer, Alzheimers or any other
    degenerative disease.

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As a first step -
  • A doctor can get a pretty good idea of insulin
    resistance by looking at you, your medical
    history and some simple blood test results.  For
    example, if you have a lot of abdominal fat,
    darkened skin patches, high blood fats and high
    blood sugar levels, and a family history of
    diabetes, one might presume you have insulin
    resistance.  But thats a presumption.  It would
    be nice if you could make health decisions based
    on more than just a presumption.

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Second step -
  • It might be to run some additional lab tests,
    such as an oral glucose tolerance test,
    hemoglobin A 1C or fasting glucose and fasting
    insulin.  Each of these tests provide useful data
    points but cannot give you the complete picture
    you need in order to know whether or not you are
    developing insulin resistance.
  • A few very enterprising health practitioners
    might order additional lab tests, such as a
    24-hour urine test for estrogens, progesterone,
    androgens (male hormones) and 5-alpha hormone
    enzyme activity.  If you have PCOS with suspected
    insulin resistance, this test may show a pattern
    of high estrogens and androgens, low
    progesterone and high 5-alpha reductase enzyme.
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