Dr. Vonda Wright

This happens almost every day when I'm talking to people.

We're having coffee for breakfast.

We don't eat till midday when we do eat.

So the gut reaction, because of the way many women are raised, is that we're going to starve ourselves, which is the opposite of good when it comes to physiologic wholeness.

And then you don't have the energy to do the kind of exercise you need.

Or on the other side, the response is, I am going to work so hard every single day that you actually increase your stress.

There is overload.

overtraining.

So you're just getting behind the eight ball with starving yourself and overtraining, none of which are going to solve either the core problem due to PCOS or the core problem in any stage of a woman's life, right?

Well, and this goes back, this whole thing you just said goes back to very early in this conversation where I was talking about sometimes we like to focus on the bright, shiny gadgets when we haven't taken our health from fine to optimize.

Because everything you just talked about is...

It isn't a gadget.

It's basic lifestyle.

I mean, do you want that?

Actually knowing now what I know now, and for my own young daughters, I'm like, we have got to make sure you have a period.

But when I was young, I was a dancer and an athlete.

I had very low body fat, and I wouldn't have periods for six to nine months.

And I'm like, yes.

Well, mental health is working.

Things are great.