095: When You Have PCOS and Want To Balance Your Hormones Without Dieting - Sam Abbott
PCOS affects 10-15% of people born with a uterus—in fact, it probably affects more because 50% of people with PCOS are undiagnosed. PCOS is a condition with symptoms that range from uncomfortable to debilitating, and is a leading cause of ovulatory infertility. And yet, those with PCOS often don’t get the help they need or are simply told to diet and lose weight, while their other symptoms go ignored.
Sam Abbott (@pcos.nutritionist), joins us in this episode to talk about how to approach PCOS holistically and without weight stigma. There is a way to tackle symptoms and also eat intuitively while managing PCOS, and Sam takes us through how to do that. Learn lifestyle strategies to approach PCOS, why dieting is not the answer, and how to live your most peaceful life with this or other hormonal conditions.
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In this episode, Sam and I discuss:
How Sam got interested in working with PCOS patients in the first place
What PCOS is and what some symptoms are
How to take a non-diet approach to PCOS and incorporate intuitive eating
Why traditional approaches to PCOS, such as dieting or losing weight, are not the answer
Tips to manage insulin with a non-diet approach
Weight bias and stigma that runs rampant in the medical system when it comes to people with PCOS
Health promoting behaviours and lifestyle strategies that may help manage PCOS
Questions to ask yourself if you feel like you want to lose weight
How to live a peaceful life with PCOS
The role of breathwork in healing disordered eating & eating disorders
The connection between the birth control pill and PCOS
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