PCOS Treatment Irony_ Birth Control Pills_ | PCOS

One of the common treatments for PCOS is birth control pills, which actually make some of the parts of PCOS worse. Part of the PCOS is excessive amounts of male hormones or androgens. And guess what, birth control pills actually suppress that. It can cause actually estrogen or androgen deficiency, which it's interesting, the external vaginal vault is estrogen dependent. Tissues is bad enough that you'll see vaginal issues, etc. Other treatment options which that are conventional, that actually we do use a lot in the functional medicine world are metformin. But again, what's Metformin doing? It's actually actually treating insulin resistance which we can do with diet and we'll talk about that in a second. The other thing that can be really super helpful with PCOS is actually using low dose naltrexone that helps with inflammation. It also helps regulate your immune system. And actually we use that with a lot of autoimmune issues of which again, PCOS is an autoimmune spectrum disorder.