Dr Natalie Crawford
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And so especially for PCOS, I was taught to give a patient birth control pills or Clomid when she's ready to get pregnant.
And so nothing, nothing around nutrition, exercise, lowering inflammation.
And I was a program director until 2018.
And there was nothing in the curriculum around this, which affects at least 10% of women, probably more, this condition that...
how important lifestyle is.
You know, she went on for 10 minutes about all the lifestyle changes, which is amazing.
Which is amazing.
But patients aren't told that.
But I'm sitting there thinking birth control pills, birth control pills.
I mean, that was a knee-jerk reaction.
I mean, I was treated for my own polycystic ovarian syndrome for 20 years with oral contraceptive agents.
And I learned online through chat rooms about the nutrition end of it.
Low estrogen.
Do you want to bleed?
It depends.
Mineraja.
So we have definitions and there are, you know, we don't walk around with measuring cups generally between our legs to measure how much blood's coming out each month.
But women know.
But women know.
Your period should not cause you with modern, you know,