if you're sick and tired of the symptoms
of pcos
and also the lack of answers about the
root cause of pcos
that you may have been getting from your
health care provider then this is the
video you've
probably been looking for i'm going to
go into detail
about the root cause of pcos not just
what causes the symptoms
and what you can do to start reversing
that root cause
today i'm dr ken berry a family
physician with 20 years
of clinical experience let's talk about
the ugly truth
of pcos women really get a
crappy deal when it comes to the
diagnosis and treatment of pcos
first of all it takes the average woman
7 to 11 years
before she even receives a proper
diagnosis of pcos
and then doctors who very often have
gross misconceptions about what pcos is
wind up treating a lot of the symptoms
with different medications
but they very frequently completely
neglect to talk about the root cause and
what you can do to reverse that
pcos like many medical conditions is
completely misnamed it was named back
when all we didn't know hardly anything
about
endocrinology or hormones and how they
modulate all the physiological behaviors
of your body
the cysts are actually not cysts
they're follicles and the cysts on your
ovaries actually have
nothing to do with the diagnosis of pcos
this is a leftover back when we just
didn't know better it's still called
pcos but the cysts
are not cis and they are not the cause
of your pcos they're actually caused by
the root cause that i'm going to explain
to you in a minute
probably one to five percent
of the cause of pcos is genetic
you inherited the predisposition for
that
probably one to five percent of the
cause of pcos is your actual your mom's
metabolic health and her diet while you
were cooking
in her uterus before you were even born
so that leaves us
with 90 or 95 percent of the root cause
that doctors don't seem to have a clue
about when you go see your health care
provider about pcos all they want to
talk about is drugs drugs and more drugs
you might wind up getting glucophage you
might wind up getting
spironolactone you might wind up getting
finasteride
you might wind up getting clomiphene
all and you're probably going to wind up
getting an oral contraceptive
or a combined contraceptive therapy
none of these things treat the actual
root cause
of your pcos you deserve answers
and you deserve a solution to your pcos
you've suffered long enough
so let's get into this when your doctor
checks
lab work like your dhea level your total
testosterone level
your lh your fsh your cortisol level
your prolactin level
they're actually checking the distal or
distant leaves on the tree
if we think about your pcos diagnosis
and cause as a tree
the trunk of the tree would actually be
the root cause the smaller branches and
leaves are the
causes of different symptoms right so
all of the testing they're doing and all
of the drugs they're giving you
are treating the little twigs and leaves
the symptoms
not the root cause they completely
ignore the trunk
so what is the trunk the trunk
or the root cause of your pcos
is hyperinsulinemia you have chronically
elevated levels of
insulin in your blood when when your
insulin is chronically elevated it
causes all of your other hormones
including dhea
total testosterone your estrogen your
cortisol it causes them to go in the
wrong direction and that's what leads to
the symptoms of your pcos these symptoms
can
include irregular or absent periods acne
hair where you don't want it or hair
leaving where you do want it
skin discoloration stress depression and
more
the reason that your doctor's not even
aware of your hyperinsulinemia
is that they don't even know to check
the appropriate lab work
that would diagnose it the two most
common labs that can be used for this
are a
c peptide and a fasting insulin and i
bet if you'll pull up
all of your old lab work on your app or
from that folder
where you keep all your labs you'll
notice that these tests have never been
checked on you
thus that's why your doctor doesn't know
that you're hyperinsulinemic
is because he or she hasn't checked for
hyperinsulinemia
when your insulin levels are chronically
high most of the tissues like your
muscle and your fat cells
they become what's called insulin
resistant
but there are two tissues at least that
remain
insulin sensitive and that's your
ovaries and your adrenal glands and
that's where the hormones like dhea
cortisol
estrogen testosterone progesterone
that's where they're all modulated
so you've got chronically high levels of
insulin in your blood
and and i'm going to tell you what
causes that and what you can do to start
to reverse it in just a minute
but your muscles and your your fat cells
become insulin resistant
so they they're trying to cope with this
hyperinsulinemia
your ovaries and your your adrenal
glands are unable to become
insulin resistant so they remain insulin
sensitive even in the face
of this chronic hyperinsulinemia so
now the question is what's causing you
to have chronically elevated levels of
insulin in your blood it's your
diet there are certain foods when you
eat them they spike your insulin
very highly there are other foods when
you eat them they elevate your insulin a
little bit maybe
many would say an appropriate amount but
then it doesn't go as high
there are other foods that barely
elevate your insulin level at all i've
got this graphic up on the screen so you
can see this
the thing that elevates your insulin
level the most
is carbohydrates and the worst of all
highly refined
uh junk foods made of sugar and grains
those are what cause your insulin level
to be chronically spiked very high and
to stay high through the day
so now you know the root cause of your
pcos
hyperinsulinemia and now you also know
what causes your insulin level to be
chronically
high and to be very very high it is
a carbohydrate overdose syndrome that's
coming from the foods
that you're currently eating and these
could even be foods that you've been
specifically told
by your doctor to eat like whole grain
breads
lots of fruit and fruit smoothies a
plant-based diet
all of these things can spike your
insulin and keep it elevated
all day long so now let's talk about
what you're going to do
to reverse your hyperinsulinemia
and therefore start to immediately
reverse your symptoms of pcos
the first step to reversing your pcos
via
reversing your hyperinsulinemia is to
drastically reduce
the amount of carbohydrates you're
eating in your diet on a daily basis now
the first carbohydrates that you
definitely need to get rid of are the
highly processed
carbohydrates filled with sugar and
ground up grains okay
so all the junk food that is directly
leading
to elevated insulin which is then
messing with your other hormones
which is then causing all of your pcos
symptoms
so when you reduce and get rid of the
junk food
that's going to immediately start to
help and by junk food i mean things that
are full of sugar
and ground up grains okay now
for some people reducing their total
carbohydrate intake to
less than 100 total grams a day
over the next few months their pcos
symptoms will go
completely away other people have to
reduce their total carbohydrate intake
daily to under
50 grams and then a third category
people have to reduce them
even further down to under 20 grams of
carbohydrate a day
now i took years for you to develop
the symptoms of your pcos
so don't expect your pcos symptoms to go
away
in a day or two your hyperinsulinemia
will start to get better immediately the
same
day you adopt a low carbohydrate diet
but it'll take weeks for your other
hormones to get
back in their proper ranges and then
it'll take
weeks or months for the symptoms caused
by those
inappropriate elevation of of those
hormones
to start to reverse and go back to
normal
i call this therapeutic carbohydrate
reduction and that's what you should
think of this of as a therapeutic
intervention
many people call this type of diet a
low-carb diet
a ketogenic diet a ketovor diet or a
carnivore diet
i've got lots of videos on this channel
about just that type of diet
and as i said earlier this diet diet
type of diet is going to start to
reverse your chronically elevated
insulin level
immediately within hours your insulin
level will start to return to normal
your body is not broken and you are not
stuck
with pcos for the rest of your life you
can take charge of this today
and start to improve and even reverse
your pcos symptoms
as soon as you're finished with this
video talk with your doctor before you
decide to stop any of the current pcos
medications that you're taking
but what you're going to notice as weeks
go by after you've adopted a therapeutic
carbohydrate reduction regimen
in your diet and in your life is you're
not going to need those medications
after some point in this therapy and
when that time comes you and your doctor
can decide together
to stop your medications if you have a
friend suffering from pcos
it might help you and her to actually do
this
therapeutic carbohydrate reduction
together and also
it'll help me to reach more people and
help her if you share this video with
her
this is dr barry i'll see you next time