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