Short YouTube commentary by Dr. Shilpa Sayana discussing polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). It contrasts conventional treatment (birth control, spironolactone, metformin) with a functional medicine approach that looks for underlying causes such as elevated heavy metal exposure; the speaker claims reducing heavy metals can improve PCOS symptoms and blood markers.
Women can have acne, facial hair, hair loss, weight gain, irregular periods, or only one or two of those things, or really none of them. One condition we commonly see in our practice is polycystic ovarian syndrome. And this is very common in teenage girls or women. And we're seeing it at a younger and younger age, probably due to the environmental toxicities that all of us are living with. And polycystic ovarian syndrome. Generally, women can have acne, facial hair, hair loss, weight gain, irregular periods, or only one or two of those things, or really none of them, but just not feel them feel like themselves. A very common condition and the conventional medical approach is birth control, maybe a blood pressure medicine called spironolactone and a metformin to lower your insulin. A functional medicine approach is to look for why? Why do you have pcos? And a common correlation. We see high levels of heavy metals, like this article shows. If you have high levels of heavy metals, you can have more risk of polycystic ovarian syndrome. And if we can reduce those heavy metals, your polycystic ovarian symptoms can reduce and you can see improvements in your blood markers. So if you do have polycystic ovarian syndrome or know someone who has, encourage them to see a functional medicine MD to check them for toxic heavy metals and come up with a protocol to reduce this so that they can naturally without medications and not have any symptoms.
