Lara Briden - The Period Revolutionary
Leading the change to better periods and hormones
How the microbiome and gut health affects period problems including PCOS, endometriosis, PMDD, estrogen excess, and perimenopause. Treatments discussed including the use of probiotics to treat period and hormone problems.
I invite you to think differently about polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and the types of PCOS.
PCOS is not one thing. It is not one disease. Instead, PCOS is a set of symptoms, with the key symptom being impaired ovulation which leads to androgen excess or a high level of male hormones. Androgen excess then causes the common PCOS symptoms of hair loss, hirsutism, and acne.
To treat PCOS you must first ask: “Why, in your particular case, do you not ovulate?”
Those of us who treat young women know that some women need to eat carbs or what I call gentle carbs.
A keto diet is great in theory and great for many people. But it does not work for everyone.