Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

But at its core, PCOS has insulin resistance.

And I'm sure you know all about insulin resistance, but I want to explain it to your audience.

As a gynecologist, I'll explain insulin resistance.

I'm sure you've had

you know, physicians who will probably explain it better, but I'm going to simplify it because it's one of the biggest drivers of PCOS symptom.

And it's extremely common.

Even lean PCOS patients can have insulin resistance.

So

What is insulin resistance?

The simple way of explaining it is when we eat carbohydrates and our body breaks it down into glucose, glucose stimulates our pancreas to release a hormone called insulin.

The job of insulin is it goes to the cells in our muscle, in our liver, and it opens up the channels on these cells and pushes sugar into the cell where it can turn into energy.

So basically, insulin takes the sugar from the blood, pushes into the cell, and turns it into energy.

PCOS patients, 80% of them have insulin resistance.

It's not their fault.

They're born that way.

What does insulin resistant do?

When they eat carbohydrate and their body breaks it down into glucose, glucose stimulates their pancreas to release insulin, but their cells are resistant.

And I'll tell you why.

Remember that androgen that I was talking to you about that gets secreted from their ovaries because of the first pillar?

makes women more insulin resistant.