Hey there,
today I'm going to go over the three PCOS supplements you should start out with.
Have you noticed that there's just a ton of information out there about PCOS
supplements. And the truth is a lot of them are pretty good for PCOS.
Some of them have more evidence and medical research behind them than others,
but there are three that you can start out with,
which to me are like no brainers they're the PCOS beginner supplements.
And I've chosen these three because they address a lot of symptoms.
They have a lot of bang for their buck and they also have medical research to
back them up.
So I'm not pulling this out of the sky or one small medical study.
So these are the ones that you're going to probably see the most win for your
money. Okay.
So number one is inositol particularly a blend of two types of inositol,
200 milligrams of myo-inositol and 50 milligrams of D-chiro inositol.
There's, it's a couple different places that you can get these blends from,
but I use Theralogix Ovasitol.
It is been the game changing supplement for me as far as sugar cravings go.
So I really,
really struggle with sugar cravings and that kinda had a white knuckle my way
through them. And when I started taking inositol,
even my husband noticed that I was much more like chilled out around desserts.
In fact in my client and she started taking it,
said I can finally walk into a bakery and feel like a normal person instead of
like totally obsessed with sugar and sweets and treats.
Okay. So what does an inositol do? It's a pseudo vitamin,
so it means it's not kind of like a regular vitamin,
but it's a cousin of a vitamin,
vitamin B and it addresses insulin resistance.
It lowers testosterone,
improves egg quality and infertility and it's also being used now to treat some
anxiety and depression.
So those are all kind of really great benefits for women with PCOS because we
happened to be at risk for all of those things. Right now, last time I checked,
there are 14 medical studies done that all have consistent results that inositol
is a go to supplement for PCOS.
In fact a lot of physicians that you know,
endocronologists now are recommending inositol before they even prescribed that
format and other common kind of PCOS drugs.
Okay. Moving on to your second no brainer supplement,
it's fish oil in particular.
I'd like to see my clients get one to two grams of EPA,
DHA fish oil from a high quality source.
So brands I recommend Theralogix,
the people who make Ovasitol they also have a good fish oil.
Right now I have Carlson's fish oil too that my husband's taking.
And then I have these Theralogix,
multivitamin pack for moms who are breastfeeding.
Cause I'm just now kind of, I'm finishing up with breastfeeding.
So this is nice. We've had like the breastfeeding vitamin,
the officialL and vitamin D, which we'll get to in a sec.
So why is fish oil, go for women with PCOS? Well,
it's generally a well regarded supplement for most people.
Uit's particularly good for one with PCOS because it's been shown to lower
testosterone.
It's also used to help improve brain health and mood again.
So if you're suffering from anxiety, depression, or moodiness,
this could help and it also protects your heart.
So if you already have high cholesterol increasing your good cholesterol through
taking a fish oil supplement could be really beneficial.
And then the other thing is if you're planning on having a baby fish oil or
algae oil is important because EPA and DHA are really important for developing a
healthy baby, especially in the first trimester.
So if you're anywhere on your wanting to conceive journey,
it's a good idea to just start taking the fish oil so that you have that
nutrient on reserve. In fact,
when you're done just gestating and you give birth,
you have really low,
most of them will have a really low DHA and EPA and good cholesterol in general.
And that will kind of affect your brain health because a lot of that fat goes to
your brain. So it's good to set that.
And the final supplement like I mentioned before is vitamin D.
Okay.
So I've looked and I've looked and there's no like set recommendation on a dose
for women with PCOS yet.
I think a good place to start out about t,
a thousand you can go as high as 5,000, if you, excuse me,
5,000 I U which is the unit of measurement they use with vitamins.
If you test low on a blood test at your doctor's office for vitamin D,
if you're already deficient, they might recommend up to 5,000 IU.
But I think like 1000 is a good place to start.
It lower. So vitamin D is good because again, it Lowe's is tossed around.
It is good for improving your mood.
It is also important for awarding off auto immune disease,
which seems to be something that kind of is connected to PCOS in one way or
another. A lot of them with PCOS tend to have autoimmune issues as well.
So really the thing with vitamin D is that like a lot of these other issues tend
to go along with PCOS are also correlated with having low vitamin D.
So this is just kind of a real simple no brainer supplement,
real basic and nothing too fancy here that you can take.
So again, we have an inositol blend with 200 milligrams,
myo-inositol 50 milligrams d-chiro inositol one
to two grams DHA EPA fish oil or algae oil.
That would be the vegan alternative.
And about a thousand IU's of vitamin D every day isn't an excellent place to
start. I wouldn't add anything else unless you're under you know,
the direction of a physician or a naturopath I would probably use those three
supplements for at least 90 days and see where my,
where my sentence go. Ooh.
And speaking of symptoms there seems to be some benefit for hirsutism and
vitamin D. So if you start with hirsutism raising your levels of vitamin D,
so that's hair on your face that could help that huge amount of evidence on
that. But there's not a lot out there for fighting.
Keeps us related to her Susan yet, so why not go for it. Okay.
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you can go visit my interview with Angela Gassi who is a nutritionist and
probably the expert when it comes to evidence based supplements for PCOS.
I think we have a 30 minute talk right here on like YouTube channel,
all about what supplements are best for PCOS right now that are based in real
science, not marketing. So that's critical. All right,
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