This! If you only listen to one episode over the next few weeks- THIS is the episode. I can’t wait for you to hear this interview with Dimity because her story because it is so real and relatable. Dimity is a super busy psychologist, flying all over Australia to work on some pretty harrowing jobs. Needless to say stress was HIGH. But even though she was preaching every day to others about what stress does to the body, she had no idea just how much it was affecting her PCOS symptoms- especially her acne, fatigue and fertility. This doesn’t mean that she had to quit her job. Instead, we just made a few critical tweaks to her diet and lifestyle and the symptoms she’d been told by her gynae were just ‘her normal’ started to resolve.
Highlights, takeaways and quick wins:
One of the most important things we did for Dimity was to identify that her insulin (the hormone that regulates our blood sugar) weren’t working properly and this was part of her PCOS ‘root cause’. The second part was recognising that it wasn’t just her diet that was contributing to her high insulin, it was also stress.
Up to 80% of women with PCOS have some insulin resistance which is contributing to their PCOS- so this is likely you too. But you might not know this because you haven’t had the correct tests for insulin taken. So I’ve created a download of the best tests for insulin to pick up early stage insulin resistance.
You can download those tests here: https://thepcosnutritionist.com/resources/episode-6/