PCOS | Natural Remedies That Work!

Moving your body also helps a ton. It helps so much with insulin resistance. So if you literally just go for a 20 minute walk after dinner or after lunch, that improves your cell's response to insulin and it helps keep your blood sugar balanced. So as I would strongly encourage you, if you have pcos, you should go for walks after every meal. Without a doubt, it doesn't have to be power walking. It's literally just going outside and walking for 20 or 30 minutes. The other piece of it that I see often with PCOS is your circadian rhythms shift. Workers are more prone to having pcos. Shift working contributes and worsens it. So if your circadian rhythms are off, meaning you're not waking up with the sun and going to sleep with the sunset, your circadian rhythms are going to be off. That is going to drive that insulin resistance. So it's really important to get on the regular, healthy sleep cycle of, you know, humans as much as possible. So what you can do is first thing, when you wake up, you get that sun to hit your retina. That triggers a cortisol awakening response. That triggers the normal clocks in your body to pulsatile their hormone production out of your hypothalamus. Like I was talking about your gonadotropin releasing hormone. All these hormones, they get produced in a pulsatile fashion from the clocks in your body. And so you need to reset your clocks. So get that sunlight hitting your retina. Stay outside for 10 or 15 minutes. In the morning, try to look at red light. In the evenings, go out and look at the sunset. That's why the sunset is actually red and pink and orange, because that is what drives your clocks to produce melatonin and your sleep hormones. So you need to really embrace your circadian rhythms and help prioritize good sleep habits. So stay away from blue light. In the evening, get rid of the phones and the tablets. You know, at least an hour or two before bed, that can really help.