Why PCOS Was Just Renamed (And What It Means for Women’s Health Globally)
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Forward slash doctor Mindy. That's hayhouse.com forward slash doctor Mindy. I can't wait to see you. Hey, Dr. Mindy here, and welcome to the Live Like a Girl podcast, where I bring you icons, disruptors, educators, scientists, and doctors that show you what can be possible when you love and celebrate the female body you are blessed to live in. Let's dive in. When I launched fast like a girl into the world, I braced myself for a lot of things. What I did not brace myself for was my inbox filling up with hundreds of thousands of messages from women in their twenties and thirties all asking me some version of the same terrifying question. I don't have a period. What do I do? I remember sitting with that genuinely shocked.
Not because periods stopping is rare, because it had become so normal that these women didn't even know it was a red flag. They thought it was just what their body did now. Here's what most of them didn't know. 15% of women in America live with a condition that hijacks their cycle, their skin, their hair, their mood, and their metabolism all at once. And in some Middle Eastern countries, that number climbs closer to 20%. And of all the women who have it, somewhere between 70 to 80 percent are never diagnosed at all. They spend years being told their labs are fine, their ultrasound looks normal, they just need to eat less and move more. Sound familiar? Meanwhile, some of them end up in eating disorder clinics instead of an endocrinologist's office because nobody connected the dots.
You know this condition by an old name, PCOS, polycystic ovary syndrome, a name that sent women running to Google, finding no cysts on their ovaries and walking away convinced they'd been misdiagnosed. This year that name changed. It is now referred to as PMOS, polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome. Finally, acknowledging that there is a metabolic piece to this hormonal condition. And I think it might be one of the most important shifts in women's health this year. Because a name isn't just a label. It's whether a woman gets taken seriously in an exam room. This is why I have brought you Dr. Thais Aliabadi and Mary Alice Haney, founders of the podcast SheMD. Doctor Tai S Aliabadi, known to her patients and millions online as Doctor A, is a Los Angeles OBGYN with thirty years in women's health and one of the loudest voices behind the name change.
Mary Alice Haney is an entrepreneur who spent years building brands rooted in femininity before turning her focus to women's health. Together they built Ovi, a platform giving women a free way to check their own risk, and they co-host the SheMD podcast, built entirely around the idea that women deserve real answers about their bodies, not dismissal. In this conversation, we go deep into what's really happening at the cellular level when a woman can't lose weight, no matter what she does. We talk about why insulin resistance can hide inside a thin body just as easily as a heavier one. And we dive deep into how something as ordinary as the plastic your water sits in might be quietly disrupting your hormones.
We also get into something bigger than any diagnosis. Both of these women told me without hesitation that if women ran this world it would look completely different. Safer, kinder, healthier. And I happen to agree a hundred percent with them.
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