All You Need To Know About PCOS

Over the last few decades, our lifestyle, diet has become deleterious and unhealthy. Mental and physical health has been affected due to the modern technology (which has got it’s own pros too), everything is just a click away; making people laborious. There have been less physical activities and more mental, causing stress and dissonance. Non communicable disease like obesity, diabetes and the most trending amongst women is PCOS.

Are You Going Through These Symptoms?

• Irregular periods is often the first tell-tale sign that all is not well with your hormones, making this as one of the most important symptom of PCOS. Some women have delayed periods that are more than 35 days apart, while others have completely absent/missed/skipped periods. Quite a few PCOS patients have less than 10 periods a year. Some women also experience issues with ovulation. In some women, the ovaries fail to release an egg. While in others the ovaries release a mature egg only infrequently.
• Cyst formation -A woman suffering from PCOD has small cysts in the ovaries that appear like a pearl string. ovaries contain tiny, fluid-filled sacs known as ‘follicles,’ which hold the eggs. Every month, one mature egg is supposed to be released by the follicles and it makes its way into the uterus. If it meets a sperm there, it will undergo successful fertilization to form a baby. After the one mature egg is released from the ovary, the other follicles are meant to disintegrate naturally. When this does not happen, it can be a symptom of PCOS. Immature follicles bunch together to form cysts, which makes it difficult for one egg to mature correctly or release itself. This is one of the reasons why PCOS patients find it difficult to conceive.
• Hormonal changes- It triggers the unpredictable hormonal behavior, irregular menstrual cycle, trouble getting pregnant and skin problems like acne and oily skin condition. It increases the testosterone level in the body that leads to excess hair growth on face and body.

How Can You Cure It?

• Lifestyle changes: A doctor may recommend weight loss through a low-calorie diet combined with moderate exercise activities. Even a modest reduction in your weight — for example, losing 5 percent of your body weight — might improve your condition. Losing weight may also increase the effectiveness of medications your doctor recommends for PCOS, and can help with infertility.
• Limit carbohydrates: Low-fat, high-carbohydrate diets might increase insulin levels. A low-carbohydrate diet will help you if you have PCOS. Choose complex carbohydrates, which raise your blood sugar levels more slowly.
• Be active: Exercise helps lower blood sugar levels. If you have PCOS, increasing your daily activity and participating in a regular exercise program may treat or even prevent insulin resistance and help you keep your weight under control and avoid developing diabetes.

Say A ‘NO’ To:

1. Fatty foods
2. Soy and Soy byproducts
3. Dairy products
4. High Glycemic Index (GI) foods

Replace above mentioned foods with raw fruits, green leafy vegetables and foods with a low glycemic index, help to maintain the nutritional value and also helps weight loss. One of the best PCOS diet routines is to cut down on simple sugars and replace simple carbohydrates with complex ones.

Regular checkups are important for catching any PCOS complications, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, uterine cancer, heart disease, and diabetes.