Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Banishing Chemicals for Better Health | The Real Root of PCOS

20 Jun 2025 · 0 min

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A short YouTube talk by Aaron Hartman, MD arguing that removing synthetic chemicals (food dyes, sugars, environmental toxins) and addressing bowel health can help treat PCOS without relying solely on birth control pills. The speaker emphasizes lifestyle and environmental remediation to address root causes and notes fertility concerns associated with PCOS.

You got to remove all these chemicals in our food system. Not just Red Dye 3, which recently was banned, but all the other synthetic petroleum based dyes that are inflammatory. Removing sugar is huge. Making sure your bowel movements are pretty normal and looking at your environment, there's a lot of environmental chemicals and toxins that actually can be related to pcos as well. But the point is that pcos, there's a lot of things you can do besides birth control pills to treat pcos and get to the root cause of what's going on. One of the biggest concerns is future fertility, because PCOS can have some fertility issues.