Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

The Overlooked Health Crisis for Young Women

20 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD presents a short podcast-style YouTube video ("The Overlooked Health Crisis for Young Women") highlighting polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) as an often-overlooked hormonal/metabolic issue in young women. He frames PCOS as part of metabolic syndrome with features including insulin resistance, gut microbiome disturbances, and hormone (and hormone-receptor) resistance leading to elevated testosterone; he notes that the common treatment in the U.S. is combined birth control pills, intended to suppress ovulatory cycling and thus prevent follicle development and cyst formation. The clip is soliciting audience questions from social media and newsletters for future short episodes.

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What is the elephant in the room for most young ladies? Health for the hormones that's being overlooked and can be addressed. I'm talking about pcos, also known as polycystic ovarian syndrome. This is one of the topics we're going to talk about during one of our kind of short podcasts. These are questions people have asked us through social media, our newsletter. So if this is helpful please like subscribe, follow us, put your questions out there so we can put into the mix and get to it on these short little end of the week podcasts. So PCs PCs is a part of metabolic syndrome. It has several characteristics to insulin resistance, gut microbiome issues, hormone irregularities, but specifically resistance hormone resistance syndromes which one of the things that results in is elevated testosterone and insulin resistance. So the standard treatment for this for PCOS for most young ladies in our country are birth control pills. The concept with birth control pistol is if you can block see cycling you'll block follicle formation development so you'll block the formation of the cysts.