As common as a disease like PCOS is, its causes still aren't fully understood, and it’s likely that a combination of genetic and environmental factors interplay. In this episode of Crushing PCOS, Dr. Minni Malhotra expands on last week’s topic, which dealt with the genetic or endogenous causes of PCOS. Today, she covers the different environmental and exogenous factors that could be promoting PCOS, such as chemical, lifestyle, dietary, and occupational. Tune in to learn more about the roles that insulin resistance, oxidative stress, and hormone imbalances might be playing in causing PCOS and how Dr. Malhotra’s unique COPE methodology can help! 

Key Points From This Episode:

• How prenatal exposure to excessive androgens might cause androgenization of the fetus.
• The important issue of PCOS diagnosis in the community.
• The relationship between PCOS and higher rates of depression and anxiety.
• Find out why insulin resistance or hyperinsulinism are key factors of PCOS.
• Learn about the effects of enzymatic default, variation in the gonadotrophin-releasing hormone, and correction in insulin action.
• The various chemical, physical, dietary, lifestyle, occupational, and environmental factors that could be promoting or causing PCOS.
• Why further research on the environmental causation of PCOS is necessary.
• How oxidative stress and free radicals may be a contributing factor.
• Dr. Malhotra speaks to the impact of dietary factors, hormone imbalances, and AMH levels.
• Hear why Dr. Malhotra believes that functional medicine is helpful in treating PCOS.
• How her unique COPE methodology can help with the environmental factors of PCOS.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Anchor Wellness Center