Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

So their cells don't respond well.

I know, it's like, let me get there.

Not to women.

So when their cells can't uptake this glucose, glucose bounces in the blood.

Well, you can't have glucose stay in your blood.

You have to clear it.

So as glucose goes up, it pushes our insulin to go up.

What does insulin do to PCOS patients?

Number one, when insulin goes up, insulin stimulates our ovaries to push more androgens out.

How about that?

And it blocks the ovulation.

It freezes that follicle, right?

And it causes acne, hair loss, facial hair, body hair, irregular periods, all of that.

The other thing insulin does, it blocks the liver from secreting sex hormone binding globulin.

If you do a blood test on a PCOS patient, a lot of them, the sex hormone binding globulin is low.

Sex hormone binding globulin is a protein in the blood that grabs free testosterone from our blood, right?

When the levels go down because of high insulin, our free androgens and testosterone go up.

So more acne, hair loss, facial hair, body hair, all those symptoms.

I see.

High insulin does one more thing.