You’ve got too much hair on your back, chest, and face. You may be experiencing hair loss and have a receding hairline that’s getting worse with time. You haven’t been able to get pregnant and have gray/brown skin patches on your elbows, armpits, knees, and neck. Your armpits and/or neck have mushroom like over growths of skin called skin tags.
If you are suffering from these symptoms, you have PCOS or polycystic ovary syndrome. There’s a well known connection between having polycystic ovary syndrome and insulin resistance. Insulin resistance results when your body responds improperly to insulin in your blood, causing insulin levels to increase.
This insulin buildup increases your testosterone levels and makes you gain weight where men tend to gain it: around the midsection. It damages the liver, predisposes you to getting diabetes, decreases your good cholesterol, and causes your blood vessels to clog. It also causes or indirectly causes the symptoms mentioned at the beginning of this article.
The long term effect of this damage is not good. If you don’t make an effort at controlling your insulin level, diabetes and cardiovascular disease can result.
However, your blood insulin level can be lowered naturally by living a healthy lifestyle. This entails a regimen of aerobic exercise that elevates the heart rate as well as exercises that build up muscle mass.
It also requires a healthy and natural diet consisting of eating vegetables, fruit, poultry, fish, and lean meat. Avoid all processed food and simple carbohydrates such as cakes, cookies, white bread, refined pasta and rice.
Also be careful of eating too much food. Eating a salad before you start your meal will make you feel fuller which results in less food consumed during the meal.
Try to reduce the level of stress in your life. Too much stress, regardless of it’s source, upsets your hormone balance. This can lead to weight gain around the middle of your body.
What is really critical is to never attempt this by yourself. A health professional with experience is necessary for getting the right diet and exercise routines. You will need emotional support from a PCOS support group which will help you stay with the program.
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