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The PCOS Journey: Conventional or Funtional Treatment, Which is Right for Me?
tests to determine food food sensitivity and poten- mones tend to be the first
sensitivities. Elimination tially food allergy. If the system to become dys-
diets done correctly are gut can be healed, inflam- regulated. The reason for
challenging, but it is our mation can be reduced, this is because we do not
mission with PCOS to foods causing problems need that system to sustain
figure out what the patient can be identified, then the our own life. If we are not
is reacting to. patient feels much bet- well, our body creates a
ter. and it helps both with protective mechanism by
Inflammation cause blood sugar dysregulation not allowing us to become
• Underlying infec- because you are breaking pregnant because we need
tions down and absorbing food. to work on other body
This also decreases sys- systems before we can
Most patients, in general, temic inflammation cause sustain another life.
have compromised gut the body problems.
integrity. This comes from Woman often come into
poor diet, stress, or over- Balance Hormones and the office desperate at this
use of antibiotics. When Decrease Androgen Pro- point. They feel beaten
we use antibiotics, they duction High Androgens: down because they are
decrease the health of • Unwanted hair having miscarriages or
our gut bacteria, which is growth (primarily face) inability to get pregnant.
critical for digestive health • Acne The have gotten advice
and gut permeability. It • Dysregulation of that they are “too old” or
is important to get the periods “fertility treatment is the
gut bacteria in balance so • Hair loss only treatment left to do.”
it can adequately break- • Deep voice The bottom line is the oth-
down and absorb the food er provider has come up
and nutrients being con- Another thing that sets short on answers. The last
sumed. If food is not able functional medicine apart thing we adjust or supple-
to be broken down, then from conventional PCOS ment in these cases are the
the pieces of food are too treatment - we run full hormones, because as the
large. This can contribute panel blood tests includ- other body systems come
to the food causing gut ing hormone tests (which back into balance the hor-
permeability if the pieces are rarely run). This gives mones can naturally reca-
are too large in the intes- us key insights to what is librate. In all PCOS cases,
tine and not readily ab- going on inside the body. it is important to decrease
sorbed. This also leads to The reproductive hor- the androgen production.
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