PCOS: A man-made situation

Most mainstream doctors believe that polycystic ovary syndrome, PCOS, is a disease. PCOS is, after all, associated with markedly increased risk for type 2 diabetes, hypertension, endometrial cancer, and heart disease, in addition to outward signs that include excessive facial and body hair, tendency to being overweight or obese, irregular menstrual cycles, infertility. A crisis of self esteem commonly and understandably results. Mainstream doctors tell you to not worry because they have plenty of prescription drugs to “treat” it, not to mention various hormones, fertility procedures, and gastric bypass. PCOS is a situation faced by as many as one in five females, suggesting that, like blue eyes or being left-handed, it is really just a variation of normal, a genetic variation unmasked by diet—–PCOS is a man-made health condition. The diet advocated by “official” sources of dietary advice is a virtual blueprint to create PCOS in the genetically prone female. Indeed, this formerly rare syndrome is now common. Once again, conventional dietary advice to “cut fat and eat more healthy whole grains” coupled with overexposure to processed foods such as soft drinks led females prone to this condition down this path, doctors ready and willing to prescribe diabetes drugs and insulin, blood pressure drugs, steroids, oral contraceptives, and advise in vitro fertilization costing many thousands of dollars to deal with a condition that got its start with flawed d...
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