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if you're sick and tired of the symptoms

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of pcos

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and also the lack of answers about the

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root cause of pcos

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that you may have been getting from your

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health care provider then this is the

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video you've

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probably been looking for i'm going to

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go into detail

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about the root cause of pcos not just

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what causes the symptoms

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and what you can do to start reversing

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that root cause

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today i'm dr ken berry a family

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physician with 20 years

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of clinical experience let's talk about

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the ugly truth

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of pcos women really get a

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crappy deal when it comes to the

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diagnosis and treatment of pcos

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first of all it takes the average woman

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7 to 11 years

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before she even receives a proper

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diagnosis of pcos

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and then doctors who very often have

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gross misconceptions about what pcos is

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wind up treating a lot of the symptoms

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with different medications

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but they very frequently completely

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neglect to talk about the root cause and

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what you can do to reverse that

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pcos like many medical conditions is

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completely misnamed it was named back

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when all we didn't know hardly anything

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about

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endocrinology or hormones and how they

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modulate all the physiological behaviors

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of your body

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the cysts are actually not cysts

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they're follicles and the cysts on your

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ovaries actually have

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nothing to do with the diagnosis of pcos

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this is a leftover back when we just

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didn't know better it's still called

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pcos but the cysts

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are not cis and they are not the cause

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of your pcos they're actually caused by

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the root cause that i'm going to explain

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to you in a minute

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probably one to five percent

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of the cause of pcos is genetic

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you inherited the predisposition for

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that

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probably one to five percent of the

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cause of pcos is your actual your mom's

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metabolic health and her diet while you

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were cooking

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in her uterus before you were even born

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so that leaves us

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with 90 or 95 percent of the root cause

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that doctors don't seem to have a clue

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about when you go see your health care

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provider about pcos all they want to

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talk about is drugs drugs and more drugs

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you might wind up getting glucophage you

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might wind up getting

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spironolactone you might wind up getting

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finasteride

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you might wind up getting clomiphene

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all and you're probably going to wind up

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getting an oral contraceptive

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or a combined contraceptive therapy

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none of these things treat the actual

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root cause

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of your pcos you deserve answers

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and you deserve a solution to your pcos

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you've suffered long enough

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so let's get into this when your doctor

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checks

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lab work like your dhea level your total

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testosterone level

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your lh your fsh your cortisol level

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your prolactin level

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they're actually checking the distal or

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distant leaves on the tree

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if we think about your pcos diagnosis

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and cause as a tree

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the trunk of the tree would actually be

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the root cause the smaller branches and

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leaves are the

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causes of different symptoms right so

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all of the testing they're doing and all

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of the drugs they're giving you

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are treating the little twigs and leaves

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the symptoms

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not the root cause they completely

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ignore the trunk

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so what is the trunk the trunk

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or the root cause of your pcos

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is hyperinsulinemia you have chronically

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elevated levels of

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insulin in your blood when when your

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insulin is chronically elevated it

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causes all of your other hormones

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including dhea

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total testosterone your estrogen your

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cortisol it causes them to go in the

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wrong direction and that's what leads to

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the symptoms of your pcos these symptoms

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can

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include irregular or absent periods acne

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hair where you don't want it or hair

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leaving where you do want it

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skin discoloration stress depression and

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more

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the reason that your doctor's not even

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aware of your hyperinsulinemia

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is that they don't even know to check

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the appropriate lab work

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that would diagnose it the two most

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common labs that can be used for this

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are a

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c peptide and a fasting insulin and i

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bet if you'll pull up

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all of your old lab work on your app or

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from that folder

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where you keep all your labs you'll

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notice that these tests have never been

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checked on you

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thus that's why your doctor doesn't know

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that you're hyperinsulinemic

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is because he or she hasn't checked for

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hyperinsulinemia

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when your insulin levels are chronically

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high most of the tissues like your

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muscle and your fat cells

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they become what's called insulin

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resistant

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but there are two tissues at least that

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remain

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insulin sensitive and that's your

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ovaries and your adrenal glands and

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that's where the hormones like dhea

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cortisol

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estrogen testosterone progesterone

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that's where they're all modulated

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so you've got chronically high levels of

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insulin in your blood

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and and i'm going to tell you what

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causes that and what you can do to start

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to reverse it in just a minute

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but your muscles and your your fat cells

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become insulin resistant

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so they they're trying to cope with this

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hyperinsulinemia

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your ovaries and your your adrenal

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glands are unable to become

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insulin resistant so they remain insulin

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sensitive even in the face

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of this chronic hyperinsulinemia so

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now the question is what's causing you

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to have chronically elevated levels of

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insulin in your blood it's your

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diet there are certain foods when you

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eat them they spike your insulin

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very highly there are other foods when

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you eat them they elevate your insulin a

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little bit maybe

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many would say an appropriate amount but

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then it doesn't go as high

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there are other foods that barely

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elevate your insulin level at all i've

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got this graphic up on the screen so you

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can see this

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the thing that elevates your insulin

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level the most

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is carbohydrates and the worst of all

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highly refined

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uh junk foods made of sugar and grains

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those are what cause your insulin level

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to be chronically spiked very high and

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to stay high through the day

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so now you know the root cause of your

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pcos

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hyperinsulinemia and now you also know

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what causes your insulin level to be

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chronically

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high and to be very very high it is

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a carbohydrate overdose syndrome that's

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coming from the foods

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that you're currently eating and these

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could even be foods that you've been

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specifically told

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by your doctor to eat like whole grain

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breads

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lots of fruit and fruit smoothies a

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plant-based diet

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all of these things can spike your

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insulin and keep it elevated

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all day long so now let's talk about

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what you're going to do

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to reverse your hyperinsulinemia

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and therefore start to immediately

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reverse your symptoms of pcos

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the first step to reversing your pcos

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via

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reversing your hyperinsulinemia is to

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drastically reduce

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the amount of carbohydrates you're

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eating in your diet on a daily basis now

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the first carbohydrates that you

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definitely need to get rid of are the

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highly processed

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carbohydrates filled with sugar and

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ground up grains okay

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so all the junk food that is directly

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leading

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to elevated insulin which is then

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messing with your other hormones

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which is then causing all of your pcos

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symptoms

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so when you reduce and get rid of the

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junk food

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that's going to immediately start to

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help and by junk food i mean things that

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are full of sugar

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and ground up grains okay now

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for some people reducing their total

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carbohydrate intake to

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less than 100 total grams a day

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over the next few months their pcos

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symptoms will go

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completely away other people have to

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reduce their total carbohydrate intake

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daily to under

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50 grams and then a third category

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people have to reduce them

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even further down to under 20 grams of

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carbohydrate a day

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now i took years for you to develop

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the symptoms of your pcos

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so don't expect your pcos symptoms to go

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away

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in a day or two your hyperinsulinemia

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will start to get better immediately the

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same

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day you adopt a low carbohydrate diet

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but it'll take weeks for your other

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hormones to get

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back in their proper ranges and then

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it'll take

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weeks or months for the symptoms caused

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by those

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inappropriate elevation of of those

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hormones

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to start to reverse and go back to

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normal

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i call this therapeutic carbohydrate

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reduction and that's what you should

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think of this of as a therapeutic

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intervention

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many people call this type of diet a

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low-carb diet

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a ketogenic diet a ketovor diet or a

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carnivore diet

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i've got lots of videos on this channel

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about just that type of diet

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and as i said earlier this diet diet

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type of diet is going to start to

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reverse your chronically elevated

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insulin level

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immediately within hours your insulin

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level will start to return to normal

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your body is not broken and you are not

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stuck

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with pcos for the rest of your life you

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can take charge of this today

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and start to improve and even reverse

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your pcos symptoms

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as soon as you're finished with this

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video talk with your doctor before you

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decide to stop any of the current pcos

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medications that you're taking

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but what you're going to notice as weeks

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go by after you've adopted a therapeutic

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carbohydrate reduction regimen

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in your diet and in your life is you're

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not going to need those medications

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after some point in this therapy and

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when that time comes you and your doctor

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can decide together

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to stop your medications if you have a

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friend suffering from pcos

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it might help you and her to actually do

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this

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therapeutic carbohydrate reduction

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together and also

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it'll help me to reach more people and

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help her if you share this video with

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her

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this is dr barry i'll see you next time