Dr. Betty Murray explains that PCOS is not just an ovarian problem causing infertility in young women. It's a neuroendocrine and insulin-driven disorder that drives metabolic and cardiovascular risks throughout life, including insulin resistance, diabetes, heart disease, and chronic inflammation that persists into menopause.
So PCOS was considered a localized fertility ovarian disease affecting just young women, right? So if you've never heard of that before, it was the presence of cysts and, and in many cases would result in fertility issues in women because they were not ovulating regularly. And that was sort of the mindset of PCOS. And so if those two things were not present, you were automatically just declined. That can't be true. Now, the, the underlying problem is a profound neuroendocrine and insulin-driven deficit that continues to silently accelerate risks of things like insulin resistance, prediabetes and diabetes, cardiovascular disease, chronic inflammation, and metabolic dysfunction that often leads to abnormal weight gain, weight loss resistance, and a host of other problems. And this continues across your entire lifespan, long into menopause.
