My sister never used birth control and thought that she couldn't have children. Her and her husband had been together for almost 20 years. She has PCOS. She went in keto, lost 65 pounds and was shocked when she found out she was pregnant. Her daughter is now 2 years old and she is expecting her 2nd child in April! Keto works❤️
5 miscarriages, 4 failed drug rounds, 6 failed IVF trials, blocked tubes… after 1.5 years of dairy free carnivore, I conceived naturally and had a healthy pregnancy and baby.
I've known this for years but today is DAY ONE towards getting the healthiest in my life for myself, my husband and our future babies ❤ 2024 is the time to take back 8 years of my life!!!!!!
I got married at 23, was infertile my entire 20s, did IVF at 30 which failed. My doctor never mentioned PCOS, even though I had all the signs except I was not overweight because I was sporty; he said it was unexplained infertility. We prayed hard to God for wisdom and a baby. We got miraculously pregnant at 31 after losing 20lbs from training for a half marathon (I still had no idea about PCOS and weight loss) We really wanted a large family and thought it was never going to happen. God led me to Keto Three months later I was naturally pregnant, a wonderfully smooth and easy pregnancy and delivery. I stayed Keto for one year, gradually went Carnivore because veggies were not sitting right with me. Well guess what? I am 40 now and pregnant with #8!!! We have our dream large family. All glory to God!
I was on keto for 3 months and lost 70 pounds. Started feeling sick so I took a test and I was pregnant. It turned out to be an ectopic pregnancy and I lost a tube unfortunately. We were careful for a year and then got pregnant again! I thought I was never going to have kids. Now I have a 2 year old 🥰
I am sitting here in TEARS right now, feeling so hope-filled watching this video. I was diagnosed with PCOS 6 years ago. I have been on metformin, letrozole, ozempic, and many other meds. I have tried every single diet out there (WW, beachbody, cabbage soup, juice cleanse, etc, etc, you name it!) and was still struggling to lose weight. I have had all the tests, been given all the recommendations, lost weight (and gained it all back...and more), and STILL have been unsuccessful in pregnancy despite everything "looking" fine (in terms of my lady plumbing). I JUST started carnivore 5 days ago (after not having a period for 7 months and not being pregnant...my period started 2 days into carnivore...wild!) and have been learning SO much from Dr Berry (THANK YOU!!!), and decided to search to see if he had anything on PCOS reversal or fertility....and here I am now. I'll check back in a few months' time and give an update on how things are going. Thank you, Dr Berry and Dr Seeman for giving me the motivation to stick with this for the long haul, and for giving the first glimmer of hope in a VERY long time!!!
I went keto and within 2 months I was pregnant. I went 5 years not getting pregnant and had also been diagnosed with a uterine fibroid. Currently 8 months pregnant lol. ❤
@@MeatballpeepI am wondering the same as you...But maybe it's possible to do keto cause some women don't keep down food during pregnancy so it could work keeping down smaller amount of carbs or even the meal overall
@caramelbrownie9246 it's not so much the carbs as it is the meat and the natural animal fat which is in the keto which helps restore the hormones in turn helping your body with its natural body processes. Pregnancies and such. Look up the lady Kelly Hogan she fell pregnant, maintained and breastfed all of her children on carnivore but only after she started to consume natural animal fats. Also there was a female body building athlete who had no periods for 10 years, couldn't fall pregnant went on carnivore and started having periods again and became pregnant. Look up Dr Elizabeth Bright who talks about good fat, cholesterol, hormones their functions and the thyroid. Also look up Dr Anthony Chaffee & PCOS he talks about it too.
I was diagnosed with PCOS in 2015. Had to do fertility treatments to get pregnant with my daughter. My fertility Dr tracked my ovulation which showed I only ovulated 2 times in 12 months. My period had always been unpredictable & far & few in between. I went carnivore Jan 1, 2023. Since then I have had a period every 28-30 days along with clear signs of ovulation I never had before! Hallelujah! If only more Drs educated us patients on DIET instead of pushing meds.
My first 3 babies were fertility drug babies. Took us 5 years to get the first one. After 1yr on carnivore we got a HUGE surprise of a pregnancy! I was diagnosed with PCOS in college - my husband and I were together 13 years and never achieved a pregnancy naturally until carnivore. So amazing!!!
Fat is so important to the female reproductive system and the hormones that regulate it. You would think all Gyno would know this and advise Accordingly, but not the case. After my second child I was diagnosed with insulin resistance and told I was on the road to PCOS. I asked my doctor what to eat and she looked me dead in the face and told me it can't be fixed by diet, I needed to be on metformin I never went back Years later at the age of 40 with 5 kids total, I'm still a size 2 with no pcos and no metabolic issues. High fat and high protein for years for the win!
@@canecorsomom2023@camarble I'm not really a fan of meat, but maybe for health reasons I would be willing to try it I am most concerned about how to choose good meat, because even meat today is full of hormones. I understand that sugar and dairy products are bad (because they also have hormones), but so is meat. If I replace one bad thing with another, then I haven't achieved anything 🤷🏻♀️
I’m one of those PCOS ladies who was able to have a baby all on my own! My obgyn was shocked. She still believes that it was just a fluke and my lifestyle had nothing to do with it. I was diagnosed with pcos at 14. I was just told I would probably be infertile, and that I should eat less, exercise, and go on birth control. I refused the birth control. Something didn’t seem right to me. I used to average 1 menstrual cycle a year and my weight kept creeping up. 10 years later, I discovered fasting. My cycles regulated, I lost 100lbs, and my hair stopped falling out. During this time I got married and we got pregnant on the first try! Post baby, I am low carb and eat once a day, with regular cycles and reduced facial hair. Keep preaching the truth Dr. Berry!
I’m very relieved to hear your testimony and how confident you are within yourself. I was diagnosed at 30, but noticed symptoms in my mid 20’s. I’ve been doing some inner work & although I am not ready for children, I still want to look and feel my absolute best. Since I started my self healing journey, I’ve been introduced to a low carb diet, & eating once a day and fasting. Your comment served as confirmation I am on the right track. Thank you 🌹
I just found out yesterday that I have reversed my PCOS! and i did it by my diet too, no drugs, no pills, just clean eating and exercise and mindfulness/self care. Im so happy as I was told all along that the older im getting (late 30s) that i probably cant have kids esp with the PCOS. but now after the scan yesterday and bloods they told me ive reversed my pcos and have plenty of follicles, so pregnancy's is back on the cards. Im not trying, but im so happy to hear this after over 10 years of hearing the opposite. I did a diet similar to the pale diet, i also added maca powder to my diet, and spearmint tea. so it really can be done!
PCOS, 52 years old, truly thought that I had gone through menopause 4 years ago - after being on carnivore for 9 months, I'm now having normal periods. More normal than I did in my 20's. I've been surprised by the countless positive health changes I've experienced since carnivore, but the return of a "normal" period at 52 has shocked me the most!
I have pcos and didn’t have a period for 2 years, had acne, and extra body hair. I went keto, lost 61 lbs, and have now had 3 normal periods! I never thought I would be so happy to bleed lol. I’m still on my keto journey but this is a lifestyle now. I do high fat/low carb which is exactly what female hormones need
@@Lilybellarose505 ok that is good to know, thanks for getting back to me. Did you have any issues with hair thining before keto and if so did it too grow back?
@@nickijam9343 yes, I’ve had issues with hair loss off and on over the years because of my thyroid and hormones. Going low carb and taking in a lot of nutrient dense foods like liver and working on getting optimal with my thyroid med has helped it a lot!
Thank you for talking about how labels, such as being told you have PCOS, as you are talking about, or any other label, such as ADD, and how they can mark a person negatively. It changes how you see yourself and it changes how everyone else sees you and can really actually help to ruin someone's life. It's like you can never live it down once you have been labeled.
Diagnosed with pcos in my 20s. I'm 51 now and started ketovore at end of June 2022. Down 45 pounds. My cycle has become regular. My doctor sent me to a weight loss class 2 years ago wanting me to lose weight by drinking 3 protein shakes a day. For me that was not realistic. Not a way I want to live. Happened to see Dr Berry video in June last year. So grateful for all the information.
@@flugmodus9214 hope it works out for you. Pcos for me includes heavy periods 7 to 9 days out of month. One time 3 weeks of that bs. Hot flashes since my 20s, insulin resistance and harder to lose the weight. Doing this way of eating has helped tremendously. Lol honestly can't wait til menopause kicks in . Lol
This resonates with me so deeply, I have been dealing with problems since a teenager and still no one understands or believes me. Now in my thirties. It’s absolutely atrocious how women are treated in the majority of the health care “ industry” I am still fighting to be heard. I appreciate all you do. Speaking up for those who are trying to heal. Bless you both! Thank you for more and more education !
I am in my 40s and still trying to understand what is so very broken in my body. I believe I have PCOS - have EVERY symptom. But my doc won’t dx me because my thyroid and testosterone levels are “within normal limits” although I have been shaving my chin since I was 14. It’s infuriating. “Within normal limits” for who - MEN?? AARGH
This really pisses me off. I’m sitting here listening to this and realizing yet once again I suffered for years- almost 20 with all these symptoms except the alopecia and not one mention of PCOS by my doctor!!!!! Not one mention. Just put on birth control and told to lose weight!!! That’s it!!! Since I went to keto and more carnivore all of my symptoms have improved so much!!! Include the excessive facial hair, chest and belly hair.
Omg I'm so sorry, look around for a new doctor and don't stop until you find one you like! I like my Doctor as she did diagnose me, did an ultra sound and discovered I had a polyp, and needed it removed. Although, when she told me I had pcos she just mentioned the risk of diabetes and having a healthy lifestyle and diet. She didnt tell me exactly what to avoid and what to add to my diet. I thought I was doing mostly healthy things. I'm a little upset that it took me 6 months to figure out exactly how to lose weight and control insulin resistance and really even become aware that I am insulin resistant. Overall I do like my doctor but wish there was more education on it or encouragement to go home and research. Biggest take away is stay away from Milk, Almond milk is key, replace all white foods, breads, pasta, rice with wheat, white potatoes to sweet potatoes, salmon, tuna, chicken, eggs, protien protien protien
I was showing PCOS at 10 years old, when puberty hit. I was told I'd never have kids. At 25 I had a micropreemie, born at 1 pound 5 oz due to pre eclampsia. Now at 45 I'm just now seeing how to reverse PCOS after a life time of dealing with it. I'm glad to see this now, I wish this had been in my view years ago.
Yeah I was super hairy even as a kid and my period didn't become regular until probably a couple months to a year later but then once I started Depo shot that's when everything got significantly worse and thank God I stopped it. But I gained a lot of weight and in my mid-twenties I started getting irregular periods. I have now started the keto / carnivore diet and my periods are back but I still have facial hair that I should not be having and I'm still hairy more than most women but it's not as bad as it used to be. Is there anything else I could do that can help those symptoms? I have also lost 40 lb!
I was tested for PCOS in my early 20s. They said they didn’t “think” I had it. But were confused…. I had all of the symptoms except I was super skinny. I’m 45 now and finally trying Keto for all of the symptoms I continued to suffer from since. Acne, unwanted hair on my chin and depression, PMDD. I was lucky to have two pregnancies no issues.
This is me too! I’m 49 now and have felt horrible for YEARS! But had two easy pregnancies and births. Have ALL the other symptoms. Started easy on low carb and low to no sugar a few days ago. I’m feeling a glimmer of hope already! So excited to feel better soon. So thankful for this information!🙏
This is me too, tested for PCOS in my 20's told I probably had it 'mildly' whatever that means. I was a normal weight and had a child, but I had blood sugar issues, acne, excess hair, among many other symptoms. Was told to try not to gain any weight, but I'd probably get diabetes at some point. Clearly never took me seriously. Been on a low carb, keto and now carnivore journey and improved all symptoms, still struggle with acne sometimes though. Given up with doctors, I can only keep trying to learn what I can and help myself
@@jenniferibarra7737yes it has vastly improved! I don't really get cystic acne anymore, just a few small breakouts every now and then, but I actually have weeks of clear skin which never happened before. Definitely worth doing, the only thing that made any difference to me
Saw Dr. Seeman for a second opinion. So straight forward and helped me understand more about my complications. If you are in omaha switch to her for sure.
So good. I have a lot of these symptoms. I had trouble getting pregnant and had to lose about 10-15% of my body weight in order to ovulate and get pregnant with both of my kids.
Excellent! I was Dx with PCOD ( before it was PCOS) in 1985. Had already suffered with symptoms for 4 years. The dietary recommendations were low fat, low calorie with the examples of pasta and baked potatoes being given from a large medical university hospital. I did my own research over the years and helped my doc think about things differently. So happy to see this info available for fellow sufferers.
This! I was always told I couldn't get pregnant due to my having the RH-factor. (Turns out, that is an issue for STAYING pregnant, but not necessarily GETTING). I've had PCOS and turns out that's likely why I couldn't get pregnant. When I got together with my son's dad, I wanted to lose weight. He was healthy and ate low carb and showed me how. We ate that way, eating mostly our backyard chicken eggs, meats, cooked with real coconut oil, and some lower carb veggies. Drank water, coffee, and some low carb cocktails on weekends. Ended up surprise pregnant! Now I have my son. And my ob/gyn was perfectly fine with me eating the way I was while pregnant and nursing. My kiddo is fit, healthy and happy.
2 of our 3 kids are "keto babies". I have PCOS. Did multiple months/almost a year of Clomid and never ovulated. Got referred to a fertility clinic. Got an idiot RE who told me diet would do nothing when I asked if keto could help...she also told me I don't actually have PCOS despite me meeting ALL 3 rotterdam criteria. Did months of Femara and ultrasounds, lost our first pregnancy and then finally got pregnant with our now oldest child and had to demand progesterone for that pregnancy despite low levels. Fast forward to me wanting to lose the baby weight from our oldest....tried keto for 5 weeks, never even got a period, boom got pregnant with our son. Fast forward to me wanting to lose that weight thinking we were done at 2 kids.....more keto....and got pregnant with our littlest. I now use keto/ketovore as a way to try to balance my hormone levels.
I did not have PCOS but have been overweight for 40yrs, but never used birth control with my bf (6yrs) because I knew my hormones were out of balance. Unfortunately, only in the last 6yrs was I diagnosed with Type II and I had suspected I had metabolic disease since the early nineties! Smh! I had done enough research trying to help myself and had truly self-diagnosed years before a doctor ever did. And all to end up with Type II and bad neuropathy! But thank God for Dr Berry and others that have shown me a better path to wellness and reversing diabetes. LCHF works!!
I was formally diagnosed at age 30 although symptoms were noticeable as early as age 23 but went undiagnosed. At age 36 I went through 3 cycles of ovulation inducing meds plus Metformin and was not told to change my diet. I chose to stop the treatments and gave up. I thought, I might as well try a ketogenic diet and get the excess weight off and exactly 4 months later I got pregnant. Perfectly healthy pregnancy and delivered baby at 40 weeks. 😀🥰
What a wonderful podcast, I was my self insulin resistant & due to this I was hit by diabetes, I did ketogenic diet and got cured (reversed) after that I love to study about insulin resistance, PCO is a main problem for women worldwide and it can be cured just by diet. Love you Docs. Every women should watch this podcast.
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True, my cousin's sister in law is a doctor and she advised her parents to eat a low fat vegetarian diet! both of them have diabetes and the doctor's mother is morbidly obese.
Thanks 🙏 for these informations and for what you two do. I’m one of the lean sporty pcos women you have talked about. I’ve been diagnosed with pcos and I struggle with this condition for 10 years. It caused me dysmenorrhea with so painfully periods that forced me to take a lot of drugs each month, otherwise I’d be unable to do anything. I tried with birth control pill, cause my doctor told me that it was the only solution to this condition, but It caused me depression. So I decided by myself to start the keto diet 4 month ago and miraculously I start to feel extraordinary better. I’ve no need to takes drugs anymore and I can say that this diet literally changed my life. Now I can even train or work during my period days and I’ve got a lot of extra energy too. ❤
I’m 43, diagnosed pcos at 26/27. Infertility, excess hair, insulin resistant, weight issues now.( harder to lose) high testosterone, low progesterone. I do not ovulate or have a period . All of these symptoms I’ve had my whole life. Keto scares me but I’ve heard good things as well. I need encouragement to overcome fears of keto . I do have high cholesterol right now as well. I’ve had more anxiety since turning 40. Never been pregnant. Although that’s not my goal, that would be a huge plus for me even at 43. Any encouragement would be great!! It is very discouraging and you do tend to just give up when Drs are not educated on natural ways to become healthy or diet changes to help, all they push is medication and expensive fertility treatment. I work for a chiropractor and I am all about a healthy life changing approach and I am wanting to get out of this PCOS brain washed funk and get my life on a healthy track and feel better overall! I am still young ( in my mind) and I want to live my best life physically, mentally and emotionally in my 40’s. ❤
What should scare you more is eating crap your whole life. Eventually it will catch up to you. Eating the way humans ate for 10s of thousands of years in comparison to the way we eat now shouldnt scare anyone.
@jodyssbbwgirl9946 yeah well we dont fully know exactly if our ancestors lived into 100yrs let alone the women. Lol and if they did we dont really know if it was because they were carnivores. But yeah supposedly our bodies were made for mainly carnivorous diets and no carbs at all if possible. ...
@jodyssbbwgirl9946 i was also scared to do it guys but since November 2023 i did my best to eat more protein and fat...low carbs and more berries. Anddd by January i had my period thank god. And February i got it on the same day.. but i made a mistake and didnt realize i could be fertile. Because i didnt think itd work i was only trying. .and lo behold i got accidentally pregnant. ..sadly. i know theres more women ho want kids.but i didnt. I just assumed id be infertile regardless of having my period....cuz before i went keto id get my periods but i was not able to get pregnant...so this was unfortunate for me personally i was happy i could conceive...with the right person eventually hopefully..
I went to the emergency room when I was having a diverticulitis flare up and they did a CT scan. I had already wrote PCOS on my inpatient history doc. The Dr. Came in and said, “you only have 1 cyst on your ovary, I don’t think you have PCOS.” I told him, you don’t have to have a lot of cysts on your ovaries to have PCOS. He then said “poly means many” some people definitely need to further educate themselves.
I’m not sure you’re right about that. I’m 73 and have 1 cyst on my right ovary. That was found only a few years ago and almost certainly developed post-menopause, and no doctor has diagnosed me with PCOS. My husband and I were infertile together, because his sperm were mostly DOA or malformed, and in my late 30’s a urologist found that my body created antibodies against his sperm. A hysterosalpingogram showed my tubes were clear and there was no evidence of endometriosis. I always had regular periods, most very heavy, long and painful, but in those days that was not viewed as abnormal. Face &body hair just a billy goat hair or two, just like my grandmother, who bore one child. PCOS must have been discovered and named much later. I was born in 1950 and achieved menarche at age 12. I married at 24, but found out on our honeymoon that my husband did not really want children. It had never occurred to me to ask, because in any book I had ever read, men wanted children! Given his infertility, it might not have been possible, but whatever fertility we might have had declined during the many years in which we used protection. Too late now! There may even have been a metabolic component on my part, since in my 20’s I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia. No meds, no cure, not even dietary advice. It was “the opposite of diabetes”! I’m quite sure I would have been able to conceive with donor sperm, especially if the donor was my blood type (I’m A- and my husband O+). But I felt my husband would have felt cuckolded and would have been unable to give such a child the proper affection. We also had a bad experience with a woman fertility doctor who refused to talk to us unless we would agree to the use of a donor egg, and there I drew the line.I was also concerned about the physiological consequences of all the hormone shots. What I wanted was the drilled ovum (mine) put together with a good sperm cell (my husband’s-he did have a few), and I couldn’t get anyone to perform the procedure. I was still working then and had no time to travel around and get other opinions. Between fertility issues and my husband’s delaying tactics, any conception would have been a miracle! I refuse to view this as a tragedy, but it does mean that my husband and I are very motivated and disciplined to take very good care of ourselves, since we must rely on each other. Starting (modified) carnivore (raw dairy and small amounts of fruit), about 6 weeks ago, was probably one of the best decisions I ever made. In 6 weeks I only lost 4 lb, but my waist measurement went from 43” to 41-1/2”, so I’m pretty happy. I want to live to 100, decided that when I was 10. We both work out twice a week and he walks/runs, I take pilates classes. At 5’7”, he hovers around 160; at 5’2” and 173, I am still clinically obese, but I have confidence that the meat-based diet will reduce the fat, given time. I’m so glad there are knowledgeable people out there, coaching and encouraging everyone who needs it!
You’re wrong. You can have PCOS and I have only one cyst I am proof of that. All my lab work comes back with high testerone and high cortisol levels. Many drs are not educated on this. You can also be thin and not have acne like myself.
You actually do not techniqually need any cysts to have PCOS. Dr Maggie Yu a functional medical Dr & hormone specialist teaches this. She has hormone class & explains the hormonal pattern & symptoms it can eventually lead to cysts but not necessarily
Thank you for this video- I was diagnosed with PCOS 20 years ago and my doctor said don’t bother trying to lose weight because it won’t happen. 😢 tried weightloss programs, paleo and finally keto. Numbers improved, but no weightloss. I read “PCOS plan” and it said people with PCOS May have to go less than 20 grams. Right around time of reading this book- I found dr. Barry and he said the same thing. I am moving towards going full carnivore and am excited and am hopeful. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!!
I got diagnosed with pcos in October after I had the ultrasound done and I had the string of pearls with other symptoms. My periods were so bad it felt like a knife was stabbing me I'd be in tears and then I had my period everyday for over a month once too, and would also go without for months. Come to find out I had a polyp and needed it removed. My periods are so much better and less painful. Still go without it sometimes but recently learned a lot through you tube and started changing my diet. Eliminating dairy, milk, white breads, pastas, doing everything whole wheat, some gluten free options too, and increase fiber and finally starting to lose weight. Finally have hope for my health to get on track 🙏🏼
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS INFORMATION!! I’ve suffered from this for over 45yrs, and had NO IDEA that insulin resistance/hyperinsulinemia was the root cause!! Speaking of PCOS being misnamed and clueless OB/GYN’s… I was diagnosed with this in 1977 (age 16) when it was called Stein-Levinthal Syndrome! And the ONLY “treatment” at that time was to do an occasional 10-day progesterone withdrawal to induce a period. Later in college, I was put on OC’s to regulate my cycle and to reduce the symptom of heavy bleeding. After I was married, I was put on Clomiphene, got pregnant, and developed gestational diabetes in the last week of my pregnancy (wasn’t treated for it). That was 1993, and at that time, STILL, no one knew that this was in ANY way related to anything metabolic. (They HAD renamed it PCOS by that time. 😂) It wasn’t until the mid-90’s (I think?) that they must have realized that there was something metabolic going on, because they started prescribing metformin for it, but none of my Dr’s ever mentioned Metformin to me. I learned about it by reading a book on my own. I remember asking my OB/GYN about it, and he truly was CLUELESS about PCOS! He referred me to an endocrinologist, only to have the endocrinologist tell me that my OB/GYN should be managing it for me! I lost a lot of my faith in the allopathic system at that point. By that time, my husband had died (while I was expecting that first child), so I wasn’t planning on having any more children, and my symptoms weren’t bothering me much, so I just forgot about it for a couple of decades! NOW, I’m 61, post-menopausal, and have ALL of the symptoms of Metabolic Syndrome, including NAFLD! I was told that in 2011, when I was 5’4 and 200lbs! Once told, I immediately started exercising, and lost about 85lbs through pretty much exercise alone. The only change that I made to my diet was calorie reduction and eliminating junk/fast food and high calorie lattés. No Dr ever suggested anything related to my diet, merely that I was overweight and needed to lose some! They didn’t even say HOW MUCH I needed to lose! I was pretty much on my own! Thank goodness I did lose the weight through exercise, and I kept it off until about 2019, so I wasn’t worried about Metabolic Syndrome and never went back to the Dr! However, in 2019 “life circumstances” disrupted my exercise routine… basically I completely fell out of it, and now I’ve gained ALL THE WEIGHT BACK because I went back to eating the way I was before! So even though I haven’t seen a Dr since 2011, I know that I’m right back where I was BEFORE I lost the weight, if not worse. Back then, I was pre-diabetic, had NAFLD, and edema in my lower legs. I’m worried that I MAY have UNKNOWINGLY progressed to full-blown T2D by now. I know, I’m going to schedule an appointment to finally go see a doc and get my labs done. I’ve been researching ketogenic diets for about month now (very thankful for Dr Berry’s & Neisha’s channels!). I’ve already cut all sugar from my diet and drastically reduced my carb intake. I’m working my way towards keto, then ketovore, then carnivore. Once I get my initial labs done, I’m very interested in getting a CBGM to help me better manage my BG & insulin levels. I’m going to check out Dr Siemen’s BioCoach website. It sounds like a GOD-SEND… exactly what I need!! THANK YOU DR BERRY AND DR SIEMENS for providing the information that I needed to FINALLY get me started on the right path! I feel like you’ve lit a fire under me! Now that I know WHAT I need to do, I CAN’T WAIT TO GET STARTED TURNING THIS AROUND!! P.S. In case it wasn’t obvious, I don’t believe in treating “disease” with pharmaceuticals anymore, at least not for myself. (I was a pharmacist for 35 years. I know too much.). If it’s something chronic and it can’t be fixed through diet and exercise, then I won’t be “fixing” it. I know that allopathy has some value in treating acute & emergency situations. Outside of that, I will rely on diet/exercise.
So excited to listen to this conversation! I found your other videos about how carnivore helps it. So that’s what I’m doin to help resolve my PCOS. A plus, is to lose my excess weight along the way too!!:) love the videos!!
That what I use to be a Lean Type 2 Diabetic. However, ketogenic Diet less than 20 carbs helped me. Thanks for the education on this. Women of color really need the education and help with insulin resistance. Thank you for all you do,
Thank you! I had 3 reoccurring miscarriages and learned I had PCOS. I eventually had a baby naturally but I wish I had this information then because it was an emotionally turbulent time for me. When I eat carnivore I feel better physically and emotionally.
I have classic PCOS. Hubby and I did keto and took FertilAid supplements for 3 months and got pregnant. Sadly it was an ectopic, but the fact that we even got pregnant surprised my doctor. Keto is hard at first, but it works. I'm currently struggling to get back on it, but I know once I'm fully in the diet I'll feel great again.
It's certainly not hard for me. I can now eat all the foods I was told my entire life would make me fat like steak, bacon, eggs, cheeses, lentils, olive oil and butter, cheesy broccoli, huge delicious salads with all the cheese and meat and egg and nuts you want on them with olive oil and vinegar dressing, peanut butter, ground beef patties with lemon pepper seasoning with asparagus...the options of delicious food are endless. It's amazing. All I had to do was give up potatoes and rice and bread to eat like THIS?! I ate rice and fruit and smoothies for nearly a year doing crazy starvation level caloric restrictions (I got down to 500 calories a day for months!) and couldn't lose a pound and it's because I was eating straight up sugar after I'd become insulin resistant and it was now storing that sugar as fat. When I'm biting into a quite good-sized piece of tender sirloin with a chunk of broccoli with cheddar cheese on top, there is no part of my brain that wishes it was white rice and a potato. Lol 😂
Another nugget on insulin resistance that I learned from Dr Elliot Overton....is that taking fairly high doses of B1 up to 1200-1500 mg a day can help lower insuline levels. I take both water soluable B1 called thiamine mononitrate and fat soluable B1 called benfotamine. This has lowered my fasting insuline by about 70%. High Insuline dysregulates many of the other hormones, so lowering fasting insuline by large enough doses of B1 is A BIG BENEFIT.
I take lipothiamine from Cardiovascular Research off Amazon. Its methylated and eliminated my neuropathy in my legs 7yrs ago. I rarely take it now but haven't had neuropathy for 7 yrs.
Take it shortly before ingesting the macronutrients, that's how you get the best response. BFT and TTFD will saturate your cells even without food. But they will make you hungry.
On Keto, I could not sleep hardly at all, 2 B1added to my bedtime sleep supplements/ D3, Mag, Pot., Melatonin, solved this problem, am able to go to sleep easily most nights.
@darlin1951 I take my B1 in the morning and I sleep better. B1 can sometimes cause some people to have more energy and to be alert. Also, it should be taken before food.
This is been the most eye-opening argument I've seen yet for going low carb. I have toyed with it but have always been scared of doing it because I've also heard the vegan side of things and so I go back and forth. However, I have never been diagnosed with PCOS. And I'm kind of upset with the multiple doctors I've seen who have not even considered any of these things that Dr Seeman was talking about. I have not had a period since 2013 which would have made me 38 years old. At that time my doctor didn't seem to concerned about it and brushed it off. Through my own research over time and I'm about to talk to a couple other doctors who again thought maybe I was going through premenopause or perimenopause whatever it is. I felt like it had to do with weight gain cuz I am 425 lb I was around 250 when I started having issues with my period. I now wonder is it a possibility that I have PCOS and not one doctor has ever thought that was a possibility or mention that. Now I don't have anything going on with alopecia or excessive hair or thyroid issues. But I definitely have metabolic syndrome, and lack of menstrual cycle and I think even something that the doctor stated with acne or oily skin. This is an eye opener however I honestly don't know how to get a doctor to test for this my current Dr barely listens to me as it is and I'm in the process of trying to find another one
I would encourage you to find a doc who understands low carb.etc knowing it can be hard to find. Don't be discouraged; this channel and a couple others like it are great resources and if you follow your own intuition, you will know what can work for you. Im one year keto and 5 months carivore and have never felt better!!!
Why are doctors CONSTANTLY brushing women off. One time I told a male doctor, who I was trying to get a diagnosis from for PCOS because I just knew in my body thats what it was, he fought me to the bitter end, and refused. Anyway I told him besides all of the general symptoms of pcos I had (gaining 50 pounds in one year for no reason, losing my hair, growing hair on my chin, etc) that I hadn't gone to the bathroom in an entire month and he told me "some people just go more than others. That's totally normal." I was the only person I know that goes once a month normal or not. He sent me to a women's health center with a female doctor that said your bowels are entirely full and told me I needed meds for that, and that it is a round about symptom of the PCOS. The male doctor did the ultrasound and told me he had "good news!" he didn't see the classic "string of pearls cysts" so "you dont have PCOS" he only saw one dermoid cyst thought it was the size of a baseball (it was actually 2.5cm in diameter)and sent me in an ambulance to have my ovary removed. Then I met the female doctor at the Women's Center and she said she DID see the "ring of pearls cysts" on the ultrasound, yes she was DXing me with PCOS, and said going to the bathroom once a month is only normal if you're a hospice patient. God what a horrible first doctor that was. He was so nice too, but so dumb!
There is so much knowledge dropped here! I'm almost 60 been pcos for most of my adult life with obesity & infertility. At 40, I got control of my life and began low carb (as was preached on a pcos website) lifestyle and started jogging ( just waddling down the street til I could jog 😆), I was also fasting because I became obsessed with getting the weight off. Long story short, I lost 73 lbs in 8 months and my periods became regular, rather I started having periods again without meds. I'm a believer of keto for infertility! I never achieved a pregnancy as my marriage was over but I sure was happy about my new self!
@gwendolynbrown1355 I was fasting before I k ew that's what it was, sometimes eating a spoon of peanut butter for a breakfast with my black coffee. If I knew I was going out to dinner, I would fast all day to save calories for dinner which was usually a fancy salad. I learned to be ok with being hungry. I was obsessed with losing weight. I wished I could get just a little obsessed now 😓
@@maximac222Very happy for you and for your new life! I'm down 75lbs so far but have more to go. It would be spectacular if the chin hair goes away when I get down to my ideal weight🤞🙏
I was diagnosed with Pcos 7 years ago and was overweight and was placed with metformin and birth control. I had terrible side affects and was always using the bathroom with Diarrhea from the metformin. Then I moved to England and was eating a lot healthier and smaller portions and walking a lot because is common there to walk everywhere and after 4 months of living in England I lost 30 pounds. I went from 170lbs to 140lbs. A healthier lifestyle is definitely key to losing weight. I found it so much easier to lose weight in Europe then in the US just because the size of foods here is ridiculous and how heavily processed the food is. Anyways I’m back in the US and I have gained weight again and now I’m trying to lose weight naturally. By the way love your videos! So informative!
I have this terrible disease, this was good information for me, I also have Hirsutism (excess hair growth in women, I also deal with acne, i was told PCOS and this disease can be a pair, but not every woman gets the hair growth part (lucky them). I took Metformin the doc said it would help me, it did nothing. I've had Fibroid tumors in which I ended up having a Hysterectomy back in 2005, because some of the Fibroids were huge, and I had tons of these things different sizes but they took over. I was in my early 30's and never had kids. PCOS can mess you up Mentally, Emotionally and Physically. I'm going to look into the Keto diet.
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I have hardcore Hirsutism- stomache and chin. I got laser hair removal a year ago and it completely removed the hair for good! So look into it! You mentioned Metformin- Berberine & Inositol are natural and way more effective w/ little to no side effects.
I wish you had been my doctor back when I first looked at fertility treatment. I spent so much money and time on fertility treatment. Fertility treatment never was successful but my own efforts in my diet, weight and understanding my bodies signs of ovulating helped me obtain several pregnancies. Going through fertility treatment was my first experience with doctors who seemed more interested in money versus the health of their patient.
Freaking amazing 👏🏾 😍 🙌 👌🏾 video, I recently started my journey on figuring out what is going on with my oven. I have been diagnosed with PCOS and a ridiculous high level of prolactin. However, my insulin levels are lower than pre diabetes range which relieves me. I am scheduled for a pituitary MRI. I am definitely going to take into consideration the KETO diet. I appreciate you guys so, so much 🤞🏾
Dr Rob Cywes the CarbAddiction doc who is a bariatric surgeon has stated in a video that he advises his female patients about contraception because they often get pregnant either during the diet they do prior to surgery or after the surgery.
I lost 30 lbs and got pregnant after 22 years married age 41..everybody was shocked we were even in the local newspaper..I have a son that I never thought I would ever have..🙏..don’t give up trying to have a baby..loose weight first…♥️
Thank you. I’m a little overwhelmed by just how much amazing information is here. I’m almost positive I’ve had PCOS for years undiagnosed. I love being able to help my body heal with diet!
My daughter is 17 and diagnosed Pcos last year. She is a soccer player in high school and will play in college . She is in great shape, small and petite. I really want to do a low carb way of eating for her and myself. She craves and loves sugar and carbs. I get on her all the time to try and eat more real food. We need coaching. We live in Austin Tx. Just saw her gyno. She’s outing her on the patch since my daughter isn’t always consistent with taking the daily BP.
Lots of good nuggets here. I will add my experience and other nuggets that I learned online from specilized doctors. I am a man on many hormones, but I studied both men and women in terms of both hormones and vitamines and minerals. While women get most of their progesterone from their ovaries, I do believe the adrenals have to make a certain amount which is far less than the ovaries. However, some women dont even make enough baseline progesterone to be healthy or even lower cortisol driven glucogenesis as well as not adequately produce or regulate the cortico hormones which are midway between the progesterone-cortisol-aldosterone ezymatic pathways. I know that is a mouthful. Bottom line; you need as a man or a woman a certain baseline progesterone level to head off other hormonal dysregulation. Personally I take 60 mg of progesterone cream a day to help regulate other hormones
Went keto lost 35lbs, my cycles became regular and got pregnant after 3 months of trying. Vs my first pregnancy it took over a year of trying and had very irregular periods at 26 years old.
Unfortunately, I never even heard of PCOS until I was in my early 60s....and didn't hear of the Keto Diet till about 10 years ago (and Carnivore just in the last two years). How differently my life would have gone if SOMEONE would have told me I had PCOS! My husband divorced me after I got a hysterectomy (without his consent). I got it because I had a cyst the size of a baseball, and I was told if medications given didn't work, I should get the surgery because there was a chance I would get Cancer. I saved my life, but lost my husband. Didn't find out till much later that though he had children from previous marriages, he wanted more (mostly to just prove his 'virility' because he was older), but when I got the hysterectomy, he essentially lost interest in me, and we got divorced just a year later. Looking back, I think I had a lot of clues that I had PCOS. I've be overweight most of my life (still am); my mother could not get pregnant for a long time, and it wasn't till she was in her early 40s that she went to the doctor who prescribed some drug that did allow her to become pregnant with me (she had several miscarriages before). I think I may have inherited some gene, from her, toward Androgenism because she had always had facial hair which she plucked constantly, and one of her brothers was so Hirsute that my nickname for his was 'Magilla Gorilla.' I wonder that even though I'm in my 70s now, do I still need to be concerned about my belated PCOS diagnosis? Does other, non-menopausal symptoms persist years after, like problems with Adrenals, Thyroid (no diagnosis yet, but suspect I do have the beginnings of Hypothyroid), Liver (a 'ton' of problems - Hep C (no longer have it); Gallbladder removal; Fatty Liver, etc. Thank you for this presentation Dr. Berry and Dr. Seeman!
I’m 53 and since I backtracked and started eating a lot of junk again, I started getting what I assume is PCOS again. For me that includes 5-week long heavy periods. I’m seriously hypovolemic and hoping that my body can build up its blood supply again. Until then I’ve been lying in bed like a slug. It’s so hard to stay away from the crap. Started IF and that’s stopped the bleeding and eating lots of red meat and eggs. Definitely on the upswing. All my life I thought I was depressed but here it was just severe anemia. 🤦♀️
I hope that you can bring Dr. Seeman or another Ob/Gyn back to discuss endometriosis and its possible metabolic causes/relief, please. OR I'd be ecstatic if you, Dr. Berry (and Neisha), would do a video on it IF there are studies/evidence/proof on the connection of diet or other lifestyle factors and endometriosis... for my 22 yo daughter who already had to have one ovary removed due to that condition and is on birth control to "save" her remaining ovary. Did I do this to my poor daughter?
This is amazing thank you i finally got some answers i been in so much pain no relief this gives me hope knowing there are things i can do appreciate what u guys do this touches me in a way because for years i got told its not curable ill have it forever and take birth control
Wow...i really started taking my prediabeties seriously after neuropothy kicked in and my walk felt off. Crazy how many aspects of health it impacts. Why a fasting insulin test is not on a common lab panel is beyond me. At some point, you have to believe that they know it will kill their profit margins.
Dude they def know. Those doctors let me suffer for 20 years. Not one single doctor has ever taken any interest in helping me or ever showed me compassion. It’s been extremely traumatic
Diet is important in the process as it will reduce inflammation, insuline resistance. But note that there is also a big link with stress to that needs to be reduced. And if you have a trauma specially childhood trauma it needs to be deal with to calm down the nervous system. High stress increases the cortisol level in the body that in turn push the body to make glucose available in the blood because their is an imminente feeling of danger that needs to be dealt. So fuel to escape (glucose) will be made available by the body by any means ( even by using protein and turning it into glucose ) . What will trigger insuline resistance. That a all process that can cause PCOS: Stress related PCOS. Having each night a restful sleep of 8h and managing stress, dealing with trauma and good diet are essentials. Plus exercises of course. That is multiplidiscinary work that is worthy. It totally empower you to take your body back. Good luck everyone ❤
☝️☝️☝️ Truly, natural remedies do work. If they didn't, we wouldn't have used them for thousands of years. And, pharmaceutical companies wouldn't be studying plants, taking extracts of them, and patenting them as drugs. This is not a claim or lies I was cured of PCOS, and my friend was also cured of Chronic UTI by Dr. Egobe herbal medicine in case you are having any health challenges you can contact him and also get a cure too, through him you can get pregnant and have your baby. His WhatsApp number on ☝️☝️
This was an excellent video, thank you. I’m currently getting over a ruptured cyst. It has been so incredibly painful. I’m looking for ways to never go through this again.
My daughter has been diagnosed with PCOS and a prolactinoma. She has a hard time putting weight on. She is 5’4” and 106 lbs. in good shape physical shape but doesn’t want to lose weight. She definitely will lose weight on the keto diet.
Dr. Berry, I appreciate your videos SO much. I would love to see a doctor with this type of outlook. Is there anyone you would recommend around the Athens, GA area? I’ve went to around 5 different docs being brushed off as “just another lady with PCOS”. 9 years of trying to conceive. On week two of carnivore. Obviously I’d love to conceive, but would love to be healthy first. This is why I would really like to see a doctor who will listen and take my experience seriously without medication.
I'm a man and I'm paying attention because my wife was very obese and rarely ever had a period and she went on keto and lost alot of weight got her period normal again and is still trying to tell me that we don't need to worry about pregnancy. LOL I just told her she better watch this video and pay attention.
☝️☝️☝️ Truly, natural remedies do work. If they didn't, we wouldn't have used them for thousands of years. And, pharmaceutical companies wouldn't be studying plants, taking extracts of them, and patenting them as drugs. This is not a claim or lies I was cured of PCOS, and my friend was also cured of Chronic UTI by Dr. Egobe herbal medicine in case you are having any health challenges you can contact him and also get a cure too, through him you can get pregnant and have your baby. His WhatsApp number on ☝️☝️
I used to eat strict keto when I got together with my husband I started eating more carbs because my thought was I don’t eat carbs but now I struggle getting back to strict and I feel that is one of my biggest issues. I felt and looked my best during the time of being extremely strict. I am now almost to the end of my first pregnancy and it’s been hard because I just started back on keto strictly before and having all these cravings. Thankfully most my cravings are salad. But not at a healthy weight right now.
Does our body NEED carbs? I habe always been scared to try keto or carnivore diet because I was under the assumption our body had to have some carbs kinda like a diabetic needing a little to raise blood sugar.
While I don’t know if I have PCOS, prior to starting carnivore, my periods were long and VERY heavy. 1 month in and my next cycle was only 5 days compared to my normal 7-8 days and I only had 2 heavy days as opposed to 4. So I’d call that a win. My A1C at my last blood check was 5.9, and fasting glucose 125. I’m super hopeful that once I hit the 3 month mark on carnivore that my A1C and glucose will definitely be lower.
☝️☝️☝️ Truly, natural remedies do work. If they didn't, we wouldn't have used them for thousands of years. And, pharmaceutical companies wouldn't be studying plants, taking extracts of them, and patenting them as drugs. This is not a claim or lies I was cured of PCOS, and my friend was also cured of Chronic UTI by Dr. Egobe herbal medicine in case you are having any health challenges you can contact him and also get a cure too, through him you can get pregnant and have your baby. His WhatsApp number on ☝️☝️
I have( had) pcos and had difficulty getting pregnant now 6 kids later n twins due to losing weight n changing my eating habits, I eventually tied my tubes because I couldn't stop getting pregnant. 🙃
I went started menopause in my early 50's, I am now 63.5 years old. Is it too late for me to start HRT and have it help me? Thank you so much for this interview!
I had heavy periods and many other symptoms of pcos. Asked my Dr about the heavy periods. He told me it was because l was overweight. He had it backwards! I was fat because of the pcos! Oddly, l had no trouble getting pregnant and carrying to full term twice.
I have PCOS and have for many years I have gestational diabetes as well as endometriosis diagnosed during early pregnancy confirmed but prior to pregnancy I was diagnosed with a fatty liver haven’t been able to lose weight as a result. Baby is very healthy but I don’t feel I am regardless of how well I am eating. I am taking met Forman .
Other than being obese, I had years struggling with all the obvious signs and even developed auto immune disregulation. I would go years without a cycle. I was finally diagnosed with pcos at 33. The only recommendation was birth control to regulate my period but nothing for all the other major health issues. Trying to eat healthier and natural supplements like inositol, vitex, and few other ones have done more than any medication I was ever given.
My sister never used birth control and thought that she couldn't have children. Her and her husband had been together for almost 20 years. She has PCOS. She went in keto, lost 65 pounds and was shocked when she found out she was pregnant. Her daughter is now 2 years old and she is expecting her 2nd child in April! Keto works❤️
Wonderful to hear.
Same here
Wow! That's amazing 🙂
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@@fubarlife7776 What is the matter with you?
5 miscarriages, 4 failed drug rounds, 6 failed IVF trials, blocked tubes… after 1.5 years of dairy free carnivore, I conceived naturally and had a healthy pregnancy and baby.
Are u blood type O? Just curious.
That's wonderful
Blocked tube? How did you unblocked your tubes??
@@happybaak They were blocked by inflammation--which the docs didn't know until after they cleared.
Congratulations!!!
I've known this for years but today is DAY ONE towards getting the healthiest in my life for myself, my husband and our future babies ❤ 2024 is the time to take back 8 years of my life!!!!!!
How is it going for you?
@@Game.Play.Replay beautiful faith 👍
I got married at 23, was infertile my entire 20s, did IVF at 30 which failed.
My doctor never mentioned PCOS, even though I had all the signs except I was not overweight because I was sporty; he said it was unexplained infertility.
We prayed hard to God for wisdom and a baby.
We got miraculously pregnant at 31 after losing 20lbs from training for a half marathon (I still had no idea about PCOS and weight loss)
We really wanted a large family and thought it was never going to happen.
God led me to Keto
Three months later I was naturally pregnant, a wonderfully smooth and easy pregnancy and delivery.
I stayed Keto for one year, gradually went Carnivore because veggies were not sitting right with me.
Well guess what? I am 40 now and pregnant with #8!!!
We have our dream large family.
All glory to God!
God bless you!
Masya Allah ❤️❤️
Great testimony and congradulations
Such a great testimony, thanks for sharing. Praise God! 🥰
What do you normally eat for breakfast lunch and dinner?
I was on keto for 3 months and lost 70 pounds. Started feeling sick so I took a test and I was pregnant. It turned out to be an ectopic pregnancy and I lost a tube unfortunately. We were careful for a year and then got pregnant again! I thought I was never going to have kids. Now I have a 2 year old 🥰
I’m a dietitian in Australia and educate on very low carb for PCOS patients. We do exist ❤
You're not in Adelaide by any chance? Looking for a dietician who can workout a low carb meal plan.
@@itsyoupeyton i certainly am.
@@itsyoupeyton you can message me if you as i’m in Adelaide
@@sandrapalazzo321 that would be great. I'd love to make an appointment with you. What suberb do you work from?
@@sandrapalazzo321 I googled you and think I've found your contact number 🤞 I'll get in touch tomorrow to make an appointment. ☺️
I am sitting here in TEARS right now, feeling so hope-filled watching this video. I was diagnosed with PCOS 6 years ago. I have been on metformin, letrozole, ozempic, and many other meds. I have tried every single diet out there (WW, beachbody, cabbage soup, juice cleanse, etc, etc, you name it!) and was still struggling to lose weight. I have had all the tests, been given all the recommendations, lost weight (and gained it all back...and more), and STILL have been unsuccessful in pregnancy despite everything "looking" fine (in terms of my lady plumbing). I JUST started carnivore 5 days ago (after not having a period for 7 months and not being pregnant...my period started 2 days into carnivore...wild!) and have been learning SO much from Dr Berry (THANK YOU!!!), and decided to search to see if he had anything on PCOS reversal or fertility....and here I am now. I'll check back in a few months' time and give an update on how things are going. Thank you, Dr Berry and Dr Seeman for giving me the motivation to stick with this for the long haul, and for giving the first glimmer of hope in a VERY long time!!!
Any updates? I’m TTC for almost 6-year now too
How is it going?
I went keto and within 2 months I was pregnant. I went 5 years not getting pregnant and had also been diagnosed with a uterine fibroid. Currently 8 months pregnant lol. ❤
Congrats! Im single and not near getting pregnant but im trying to be keto to make sure im healthy this gives me so much hope ❤ god bless
Have you stayed on keto throughout your pregnancy?
@@MeatballpeepI am wondering the same as you...But maybe it's possible to do keto cause some women don't keep down food during pregnancy so it could work keeping down smaller amount of carbs or even the meal overall
There is a natural cure for pcos, and I got cured by using dr imennatural medicine no side effects, I meet him on TH-cam
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@caramelbrownie9246 it's not so much the carbs as it is the meat and the natural animal fat which is in the keto which helps restore the hormones in turn helping your body with its natural body processes. Pregnancies and such. Look up the lady Kelly Hogan she fell pregnant, maintained and breastfed all of her children on carnivore but only after she started to consume natural animal fats. Also there was a female body building athlete who had no periods for 10 years, couldn't fall pregnant went on carnivore and started having periods again and became pregnant. Look up Dr Elizabeth Bright who talks about good fat, cholesterol, hormones their functions and the thyroid. Also look up Dr Anthony Chaffee & PCOS he talks about it too.
i'm a registered dietitian and i just want to THANK YOU for your support as doctors!
I was diagnosed with PCOS in 2015. Had to do fertility treatments to get pregnant with my daughter. My fertility Dr tracked my ovulation which showed I only ovulated 2 times in 12 months. My period had always been unpredictable & far & few in between. I went carnivore Jan 1, 2023. Since then I have had a period every 28-30 days along with clear signs of ovulation I never had before! Hallelujah! If only more Drs educated us patients on DIET instead of pushing meds.
My first 3 babies were fertility drug babies. Took us 5 years to get the first one. After 1yr on carnivore we got a HUGE surprise of a pregnancy! I was diagnosed with PCOS in college - my husband and I were together 13 years and never achieved a pregnancy naturally until carnivore. So amazing!!!
Are you able to eat normal again now?
Fat is so important to the female reproductive system and the hormones that regulate it. You would think all Gyno would know this and advise Accordingly, but not the case.
After my second child I was diagnosed with insulin resistance and told I was on the road to PCOS. I asked my doctor what to eat and she looked me dead in the face and told me it can't be fixed by diet, I needed to be on metformin
I never went back
Years later at the age of 40 with 5 kids total, I'm still a size 2 with no pcos and no metabolic issues. High fat and high protein for years for the win!
@@canecorsomom2023@camarble
I'm not really a fan of meat, but maybe for health reasons I would be willing to try it
I am most concerned about how to choose good meat, because even meat today is full of hormones.
I understand that sugar and dairy products are bad (because they also have hormones), but so is meat.
If I replace one bad thing with another, then I haven't achieved anything 🤷🏻♀️
Carnivore is a natural weight of eating 🙏🥩💙
@@Bea-xc7wy have you actually tried it? Or is this just your theory?
I’m one of those PCOS ladies who was able to have a baby all on my own! My obgyn was shocked. She still believes that it was just a fluke and my lifestyle had nothing to do with it.
I was diagnosed with pcos at 14. I was just told I would probably be infertile, and that I should eat less, exercise, and go on birth control. I refused the birth control. Something didn’t seem right to me. I used to average 1 menstrual cycle a year and my weight kept creeping up.
10 years later, I discovered fasting. My cycles regulated, I lost 100lbs, and my hair stopped falling out. During this time I got married and we got pregnant on the first try! Post baby, I am low carb and eat once a day, with regular cycles and reduced facial hair.
Keep preaching the truth Dr. Berry!
What do you eat for your meal when u eat once a day? And how long do you eat once a day?
In need of advice I have Pcos
I’m very relieved to hear your testimony and how confident you are within yourself. I was diagnosed at 30, but noticed symptoms in my mid 20’s.
I’ve been doing some inner work & although I am not ready for children, I still want to look and feel my absolute best. Since I started my self healing journey, I’ve been introduced to a low carb diet, & eating once a day and fasting. Your comment served as confirmation I am on the right track. Thank you 🌹
Wow that’s crazy they just wrote you off like that, dummies! Iodine and chromium can erase this
Put me in your prayers dear friends. I really want to be pregnant 🤰.
I just found out yesterday that I have reversed my PCOS! and i did it by my diet too, no drugs, no pills, just clean eating and exercise and mindfulness/self care. Im so happy as I was told all along that the older im getting (late 30s) that i probably cant have kids esp with the PCOS. but now after the scan yesterday and bloods they told me ive reversed my pcos and have plenty of follicles, so pregnancy's is back on the cards. Im not trying, but im so happy to hear this after over 10 years of hearing the opposite. I did a diet similar to the pale diet, i also added maca powder to my diet, and spearmint tea. so it really can be done!
Congrats! Hoping to be in your shoes soon.
PCOS, 52 years old, truly thought that I had gone through menopause 4 years ago - after being on carnivore for 9 months, I'm now having normal periods. More normal than I did in my 20's. I've been surprised by the countless positive health changes I've experienced since carnivore, but the return of a "normal" period at 52 has shocked me the most!
I have pcos and didn’t have a period for 2 years, had acne, and extra body hair. I went keto, lost 61 lbs, and have now had 3 normal periods! I never thought I would be so happy to bleed lol. I’m still on my keto journey but this is a lifestyle now. I do high fat/low carb which is exactly what female hormones need
Did the extra body hair go away ??
@@nickijam9343 yes! Well, the extra hair I had on my upper back did. I still have a few minor chin hairs but it’s very mild now.
@@Lilybellarose505 ok that is good to know, thanks for getting back to me. Did you have any issues with hair thining before keto and if so did it too grow back?
@@nickijam9343 yes, I’ve had issues with hair loss off and on over the years because of my thyroid and hormones. Going low carb and taking in a lot of nutrient dense foods like liver and working on getting optimal with my thyroid med has helped it a lot!
Hi 👋 do u still eat dairy?
Thank you for talking about how labels, such as being told you have PCOS, as you are talking about, or any other label, such as ADD, and how they can mark a person negatively. It changes how you see yourself and it changes how everyone else sees you and can really actually help to ruin someone's life. It's like you can never live it down once you have been labeled.
Diagnosed with pcos in my 20s. I'm 51 now and started ketovore at end of June 2022. Down 45 pounds. My cycle has become regular. My doctor sent me to a weight loss class 2 years ago wanting me to lose weight by drinking 3 protein shakes a day. For me that was not realistic. Not a way I want to live. Happened to see Dr Berry video in June last year. So grateful for all the information.
Hi there😊 You have a cycle at 51? What was it like before? I am trying to regulate my cycle as well at 43….maybe there is hope yet🙏🏼
@@flugmodus9214 hope it works out for you. Pcos for me includes heavy periods 7 to 9 days out of month. One time 3 weeks of that bs. Hot flashes since my 20s, insulin resistance and harder to lose the weight. Doing this way of eating has helped tremendously. Lol honestly can't wait til menopause kicks in . Lol
My nephew and his wife had been trying for a baby for many years. They both went Keto and a year later, had the baby they so wanted.
This resonates with me so deeply, I have been dealing with problems since a teenager and still no one understands or believes me. Now in my thirties. It’s absolutely atrocious how women are treated in the majority of the health care “ industry” I am still fighting to be heard. I appreciate all you do. Speaking up for those who are trying to heal. Bless you both! Thank you for more and more education !
I am in my 40s and still trying to understand what is so very broken in my body. I believe I have PCOS - have EVERY symptom. But my doc won’t dx me because my thyroid and testosterone levels are “within normal limits” although I have been shaving my chin since I was 14. It’s infuriating. “Within normal limits” for who - MEN?? AARGH
Wow great info. I have pcos I am now 48 but at the time I went on a low carb diet and got pregnant with two months .
This really pisses me off. I’m sitting here listening to this and realizing yet once again I suffered for years- almost 20 with all these symptoms except the alopecia and not one mention of PCOS by my doctor!!!!! Not one mention. Just put on birth control and told to lose weight!!! That’s it!!! Since I went to keto and more carnivore all of my symptoms have improved so much!!! Include the excessive facial hair, chest and belly hair.
Omg I'm so sorry, look around for a new doctor and don't stop until you find one you like! I like my Doctor as she did diagnose me, did an ultra sound and discovered I had a polyp, and needed it removed. Although, when she told me I had pcos she just mentioned the risk of diabetes and having a healthy lifestyle and diet. She didnt tell me exactly what to avoid and what to add to my diet. I thought I was doing mostly healthy things. I'm a little upset that it took me 6 months to figure out exactly how to lose weight and control insulin resistance and really even become aware that I am insulin resistant. Overall I do like my doctor but wish there was more education on it or encouragement to go home and research. Biggest take away is stay away from Milk, Almond milk is key, replace all white foods, breads, pasta, rice with wheat, white potatoes to sweet potatoes, salmon, tuna, chicken, eggs, protien protien protien
I was showing PCOS at 10 years old, when puberty hit. I was told I'd never have kids. At 25 I had a micropreemie, born at 1 pound 5 oz due to pre eclampsia. Now at 45 I'm just now seeing how to reverse PCOS after a life time of dealing with it. I'm glad to see this now, I wish this had been in my view years ago.
I hope your baby survived? 😢
@@abigailloar956 yes. He's 21 now.
Yeah I was super hairy even as a kid and my period didn't become regular until probably a couple months to a year later but then once I started Depo shot that's when everything got significantly worse and thank God I stopped it. But I gained a lot of weight and in my mid-twenties I started getting irregular periods. I have now started the keto / carnivore diet and my periods are back but I still have facial hair that I should not be having and I'm still hairy more than most women but it's not as bad as it used to be. Is there anything else I could do that can help those symptoms? I have also lost 40 lb!
I was tested for PCOS in my early 20s. They said they didn’t “think” I had it. But were confused…. I had all of the symptoms except I was super skinny. I’m 45 now and finally trying Keto for all of the symptoms I continued to suffer from since. Acne, unwanted hair on my chin and depression, PMDD. I was lucky to have two pregnancies no issues.
This is me too! I’m 49 now and have felt horrible for YEARS! But had two easy pregnancies and births. Have ALL the other symptoms. Started easy on low carb and low to no sugar a few days ago. I’m feeling a glimmer of hope already! So excited to feel better soon. So thankful for this information!🙏
This is me too, tested for PCOS in my 20's told I probably had it 'mildly' whatever that means. I was a normal weight and had a child, but I had blood sugar issues, acne, excess hair, among many other symptoms. Was told to try not to gain any weight, but I'd probably get diabetes at some point. Clearly never took me seriously. Been on a low carb, keto and now carnivore journey and improved all symptoms, still struggle with acne sometimes though. Given up with doctors, I can only keep trying to learn what I can and help myself
@@sugarspike1638did your acne Atleast improve a little or the facial hair ? I mainly want to do this diet for acne issues due to hormonal issues .
@@jenniferibarra7737yes it has vastly improved! I don't really get cystic acne anymore, just a few small breakouts every now and then, but I actually have weeks of clear skin which never happened before. Definitely worth doing, the only thing that made any difference to me
Saw Dr. Seeman for a second opinion. So straight forward and helped me understand more about my complications. If you are in omaha switch to her for sure.
She's one very intelligent doctor --
So good. I have a lot of these symptoms. I had trouble getting pregnant and had to lose about 10-15% of my body weight in order to ovulate and get pregnant with both of my kids.
Excellent! I was Dx with PCOD ( before it was PCOS) in 1985. Had already suffered with symptoms for 4 years. The dietary recommendations were low fat, low calorie with the examples of pasta and baked potatoes being given from a large medical university hospital. I did my own research over the years and helped my doc think about things differently. So happy to see this info available for fellow sufferers.
This! I was always told I couldn't get pregnant due to my having the RH-factor. (Turns out, that is an issue for STAYING pregnant, but not necessarily GETTING). I've had PCOS and turns out that's likely why I couldn't get pregnant. When I got together with my son's dad, I wanted to lose weight. He was healthy and ate low carb and showed me how. We ate that way, eating mostly our backyard chicken eggs, meats, cooked with real coconut oil, and some lower carb veggies. Drank water, coffee, and some low carb cocktails on weekends. Ended up surprise pregnant! Now I have my son. And my ob/gyn was perfectly fine with me eating the way I was while pregnant and nursing. My kiddo is fit, healthy and happy.
@@chrisinreallife2022 so happy for you! 😊
2 of our 3 kids are "keto babies". I have PCOS. Did multiple months/almost a year of Clomid and never ovulated. Got referred to a fertility clinic. Got an idiot RE who told me diet would do nothing when I asked if keto could help...she also told me I don't actually have PCOS despite me meeting ALL 3 rotterdam criteria. Did months of Femara and ultrasounds, lost our first pregnancy and then finally got pregnant with our now oldest child and had to demand progesterone for that pregnancy despite low levels. Fast forward to me wanting to lose the baby weight from our oldest....tried keto for 5 weeks, never even got a period, boom got pregnant with our son. Fast forward to me wanting to lose that weight thinking we were done at 2 kids.....more keto....and got pregnant with our littlest. I now use keto/ketovore as a way to try to balance my hormone levels.
wow! congrats! how old are u ?
I did not have PCOS but have been overweight for 40yrs, but never used birth control with my bf (6yrs) because I knew my hormones were out of balance. Unfortunately, only in the last 6yrs was I diagnosed with Type II and I had suspected I had metabolic disease since the early nineties! Smh! I had done enough research trying to help myself and had truly self-diagnosed years before a doctor ever did. And all to end up with Type II and bad neuropathy! But thank God for Dr Berry and others that have shown me a better path to wellness and reversing diabetes. LCHF works!!
Yes! LCHF works! I'm living proof.
Hi, what did you do to manage your pcos
I was formally diagnosed at age 30 although symptoms were noticeable as early as age 23 but went undiagnosed. At age 36 I went through 3 cycles of ovulation inducing meds plus Metformin and was not told to change my diet. I chose to stop the treatments and gave up. I thought, I might as well try a ketogenic diet and get the excess weight off and exactly 4 months later I got pregnant. Perfectly healthy pregnancy and delivered baby at 40 weeks. 😀🥰
What a wonderful podcast, I was my self insulin resistant & due to this I was hit by diabetes, I did ketogenic diet and got cured (reversed) after that I love to study about insulin resistance, PCO is a main problem for women worldwide and it can be cured just by diet.
Love you Docs.
Every women should watch this podcast.
What an intelligent and well-spoken woman!
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Zero doctors have informed me as much as this video. And I was married to one for 20 years. 😏 TY!!
True, my cousin's sister in law is a doctor and she advised her parents to eat a low fat vegetarian diet! both of them have diabetes and the doctor's mother is morbidly obese.
Fantastic conversation! Thank you
I love listening to Doctors talk. I’m grateful these people dedicate so many years of their lives to help others. Way to Go Doctors!!
Thanks 🙏 for these informations and for what you two do. I’m one of the lean sporty pcos women you have talked about. I’ve been diagnosed with pcos and I struggle with this condition for 10 years. It caused me dysmenorrhea with so painfully periods that forced me to take a lot of drugs each month, otherwise I’d be unable to do anything. I tried with birth control pill, cause my doctor told me that it was the only solution to this condition, but It caused me depression. So I decided by myself to start the keto diet 4 month ago and miraculously I start to feel extraordinary better. I’ve no need to takes drugs anymore and I can say that this diet literally changed my life. Now I can even train or work during my period days and I’ve got a lot of extra energy too. ❤
I’m 43, diagnosed pcos at 26/27. Infertility, excess hair, insulin resistant, weight issues now.( harder to lose) high testosterone, low progesterone. I do not ovulate or have a period . All of these symptoms I’ve had my whole life. Keto scares me but I’ve heard good things as well. I need encouragement to overcome fears of keto . I do have high cholesterol right now as well. I’ve had more anxiety since turning 40. Never been pregnant. Although that’s not my goal, that would be a huge plus for me even at 43. Any encouragement would be great!! It is very discouraging and you do tend to just give up when Drs are not educated on natural ways to become healthy or diet changes to help, all they push is medication and expensive fertility treatment.
I work for a chiropractor and I am all about a healthy life changing approach and I am wanting to get out of this PCOS brain washed funk and get my life on a healthy track and feel better overall! I am still young ( in my mind) and I want to live my best life physically, mentally and emotionally in my 40’s. ❤
What should scare you more is eating crap your whole life. Eventually it will catch up to you. Eating the way humans ate for 10s of thousands of years in comparison to the way we eat now shouldnt scare anyone.
@jodyssbbwgirl9946 yeah well we dont fully know exactly if our ancestors lived into 100yrs let alone the women. Lol and if they did we dont really know if it was because they were carnivores. But yeah supposedly our bodies were made for mainly carnivorous diets and no carbs at all if possible. ...
@jodyssbbwgirl9946 i was also scared to do it guys but since November 2023 i did my best to eat more protein and fat...low carbs and more berries. Anddd by January i had my period thank god. And February i got it on the same day.. but i made a mistake and didnt realize i could be fertile. Because i didnt think itd work i was only trying. .and lo behold i got accidentally pregnant. ..sadly. i know theres more women ho want kids.but i didnt. I just assumed id be infertile regardless of having my period....cuz before i went keto id get my periods but i was not able to get pregnant...so this was unfortunate for me personally i was happy i could conceive...with the right person eventually hopefully..
I went to the emergency room when I was having a diverticulitis flare up and they did a CT scan. I had already wrote PCOS on my inpatient history doc. The Dr. Came in and said, “you only have 1 cyst on your ovary, I don’t think you have PCOS.” I told him, you don’t have to have a lot of cysts on your ovaries to have PCOS. He then said “poly means many” some people definitely need to further educate themselves.
I’m not sure you’re right about that. I’m 73 and have 1 cyst on my right ovary. That was found only a few years ago and almost certainly developed post-menopause, and no doctor has diagnosed me with PCOS. My husband and I were infertile together, because his sperm were mostly DOA or malformed, and in my late 30’s a urologist found that my body created antibodies against his sperm. A hysterosalpingogram showed my tubes were clear and there was no evidence of endometriosis. I always had regular periods, most very heavy, long and painful, but in those days that was not viewed as abnormal. Face &body hair just a billy goat hair or two, just like my grandmother, who bore one child. PCOS must have been discovered and named much later. I was born in 1950 and achieved menarche at age 12. I married at 24, but found out on our honeymoon that my husband did not really want children. It had never occurred to me to ask, because in any book I had ever read, men wanted children! Given his infertility, it might not have been possible, but whatever fertility we might have had declined during the many years in which we used protection. Too late now! There may even have been a metabolic component on my part, since in my 20’s I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia. No meds, no cure, not even dietary advice. It was “the opposite of diabetes”!
I’m quite sure I would have been able to conceive with donor sperm, especially if the donor was my blood type (I’m A- and my husband O+). But I felt my husband would have felt cuckolded and would have been unable to give such a child the proper affection. We also had a bad experience with a woman fertility doctor who refused to talk to us unless we would agree to the use of a donor egg, and there I drew the line.I was also concerned about the physiological consequences of all the hormone shots. What I wanted was the drilled ovum (mine) put together with a good sperm cell (my husband’s-he did have a few), and I couldn’t get anyone to perform the procedure. I was still working then and had no time to travel around and get other opinions. Between fertility issues and my husband’s delaying tactics, any conception would have been a miracle! I refuse to view this as a tragedy, but it does mean that my husband and I are very motivated and disciplined to take very good care of ourselves, since we must rely on each other. Starting (modified) carnivore (raw dairy and small amounts of fruit), about 6 weeks ago, was probably one of the best decisions I ever made. In 6 weeks I only lost 4 lb, but my waist measurement went from 43” to 41-1/2”, so I’m pretty happy. I want to live to 100, decided that when I was 10. We both work out twice a week and he walks/runs, I take pilates classes. At 5’7”, he hovers around 160; at 5’2” and 173, I am still clinically obese, but I have confidence that the meat-based diet will reduce the fat, given time.
I’m so glad there are knowledgeable people out there, coaching and encouraging everyone who needs it!
You’re wrong. You can have PCOS and I have only one cyst I am proof of that. All my lab work comes back with high testerone and high cortisol levels. Many drs are not educated on this. You can also be thin and not have acne like myself.
You actually do not techniqually need any cysts to have PCOS. Dr Maggie Yu a functional medical Dr & hormone specialist teaches this. She has hormone class & explains the hormonal pattern & symptoms it can eventually lead to cysts but not necessarily
Thank you for this video- I was diagnosed with PCOS 20 years ago and my doctor said don’t bother trying to lose weight because it won’t happen. 😢 tried weightloss programs, paleo and finally keto. Numbers improved, but no weightloss. I read “PCOS plan” and it said people with PCOS May have to go less than 20 grams. Right around time of reading this book- I found dr. Barry and he said the same thing. I am moving towards going full carnivore and am excited and am hopeful. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!!
Less than 20 grams of carbs *
I got diagnosed with pcos in October after I had the ultrasound done and I had the string of pearls with other symptoms. My periods were so bad it felt like a knife was stabbing me I'd be in tears and then I had my period everyday for over a month once too, and would also go without for months. Come to find out I had a polyp and needed it removed. My periods are so much better and less painful. Still go without it sometimes but recently learned a lot through you tube and started changing my diet. Eliminating dairy, milk, white breads, pastas, doing everything whole wheat, some gluten free options too, and increase fiber and finally starting to lose weight. Finally have hope for my health to get on track 🙏🏼
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS INFORMATION!! I’ve suffered from this for over 45yrs, and had NO IDEA that insulin resistance/hyperinsulinemia was the root cause!!
Speaking of PCOS being misnamed and clueless OB/GYN’s…
I was diagnosed with this in 1977 (age 16) when it was called Stein-Levinthal Syndrome!
And the ONLY “treatment” at that time was to do an occasional 10-day progesterone withdrawal to induce a period. Later in college, I was put on OC’s to regulate my cycle and to reduce the symptom of heavy bleeding.
After I was married, I was put on Clomiphene, got pregnant, and developed gestational diabetes in the last week of my pregnancy (wasn’t treated for it).
That was 1993, and at that time, STILL, no one knew that this was in ANY way related to anything metabolic. (They HAD renamed it PCOS by that time. 😂)
It wasn’t until the mid-90’s (I think?) that they must have realized that there was something metabolic going on, because they started prescribing metformin for it, but none of my Dr’s ever mentioned Metformin to me. I learned about it by reading a book on my own.
I remember asking my OB/GYN about it, and he truly was CLUELESS about PCOS! He referred me to an endocrinologist, only to have the endocrinologist tell me that my OB/GYN should be managing it for me! I lost a lot of my faith in the allopathic system at that point.
By that time, my husband had died (while I was expecting that first child), so I wasn’t planning on having any more children, and my symptoms weren’t bothering me much, so I just forgot about it for a couple of decades!
NOW, I’m 61, post-menopausal, and have ALL of the symptoms of Metabolic Syndrome, including NAFLD!
I was told that in 2011, when I was 5’4 and 200lbs! Once told, I immediately started exercising, and lost about 85lbs through pretty much exercise alone. The only change that I made to my diet was calorie reduction and eliminating junk/fast food and high calorie lattés.
No Dr ever suggested anything related to my diet, merely that I was overweight and needed to lose some! They didn’t even say HOW MUCH I needed to lose! I was pretty much on my own!
Thank goodness I did lose the weight through exercise, and I kept it off until about 2019, so I wasn’t worried about Metabolic Syndrome and never went back to the Dr!
However, in 2019 “life circumstances” disrupted my exercise routine… basically I completely fell out of it, and now I’ve gained ALL THE WEIGHT BACK because I went back to eating the way I was before!
So even though I haven’t seen a Dr since 2011, I know that I’m right back where I was BEFORE I lost the weight, if not worse.
Back then, I was pre-diabetic, had NAFLD, and edema in my lower legs. I’m worried that I MAY have UNKNOWINGLY progressed to full-blown T2D by now.
I know, I’m going to schedule an appointment to finally go see a doc and get my labs done.
I’ve been researching ketogenic diets for about month now (very thankful for Dr Berry’s & Neisha’s channels!).
I’ve already cut all sugar from my diet and drastically reduced my carb intake. I’m working my way towards keto, then ketovore, then carnivore.
Once I get my initial labs done, I’m very interested in getting a CBGM to help me better manage my BG & insulin levels.
I’m going to check out Dr Siemen’s BioCoach website. It sounds like a GOD-SEND… exactly what I need!!
THANK YOU DR BERRY AND DR SIEMENS for providing the information that I needed to FINALLY get me started on the right path!
I feel like you’ve lit a fire under me! Now that I know WHAT I need to do, I CAN’T WAIT TO GET STARTED TURNING THIS AROUND!!
P.S. In case it wasn’t obvious, I don’t believe in treating “disease” with pharmaceuticals anymore, at least not for myself. (I was a pharmacist for 35 years. I know too much.).
If it’s something chronic and it can’t be fixed through diet and exercise, then I won’t be “fixing” it.
I know that allopathy has some value in treating acute & emergency situations. Outside of that, I will rely on diet/exercise.
What benefits did u see form keto
Love this. I wish I’d known this in my 20’s. They just lose 10 percent of your weight. They never told you how!
Same when you get the diagnosis of fatty liver. No solution given.
BTW my fatty liver is now mild after doing low carb for 14 months.
This is so inspiring bc I’ve had so much hair growth and was never given a solution. Can’t wait to start this journey. I’m feeling hopeful🥹
So excited to listen to this conversation! I found your other videos about how carnivore helps it. So that’s what I’m doin to help resolve my PCOS. A plus, is to lose my excess weight along the way too!!:) love the videos!!
Thank you for talking about lean pcos! That's me!
That what I use to be a Lean Type 2 Diabetic. However, ketogenic Diet less than 20 carbs helped me. Thanks for the education on this. Women of color really need the education and help with insulin resistance. Thank you for all you do,
Thank you! I had 3 reoccurring miscarriages and learned I had PCOS. I eventually had a baby naturally but I wish I had this information then because it was an emotionally turbulent time for me. When I eat carnivore I feel better physically and emotionally.
I have classic PCOS. Hubby and I did keto and took FertilAid supplements for 3 months and got pregnant. Sadly it was an ectopic, but the fact that we even got pregnant surprised my doctor. Keto is hard at first, but it works. I'm currently struggling to get back on it, but I know once I'm fully in the diet I'll feel great again.
What do the hard part about it I though it’s easy cause the meals are delicous
It's certainly not hard for me. I can now eat all the foods I was told my entire life would make me fat like steak, bacon, eggs, cheeses, lentils, olive oil and butter, cheesy broccoli, huge delicious salads with all the cheese and meat and egg and nuts you want on them with olive oil and vinegar dressing, peanut butter, ground beef patties with lemon pepper seasoning with asparagus...the options of delicious food are endless. It's amazing. All I had to do was give up potatoes and rice and bread to eat like THIS?! I ate rice and fruit and smoothies for nearly a year doing crazy starvation level caloric restrictions (I got down to 500 calories a day for months!) and couldn't lose a pound and it's because I was eating straight up sugar after I'd become insulin resistant and it was now storing that sugar as fat. When I'm biting into a quite good-sized piece of tender sirloin with a chunk of broccoli with cheddar cheese on top, there is no part of my brain that wishes it was white rice and a potato. Lol 😂
Another nugget on insulin resistance that I learned from Dr Elliot Overton....is that taking fairly high doses of B1 up to 1200-1500 mg a day can help lower insuline levels. I take both water soluable B1 called thiamine mononitrate and fat soluable B1 called benfotamine. This has lowered my fasting insuline by about 70%. High Insuline dysregulates many of the other hormones, so lowering fasting insuline by large enough doses of B1 is A BIG BENEFIT.
I take lipothiamine from Cardiovascular Research off Amazon. Its methylated and eliminated my neuropathy in my legs 7yrs ago. I rarely take it now but haven't had neuropathy for 7 yrs.
Take it shortly before ingesting the macronutrients, that's how you get the best response. BFT and TTFD will saturate your cells even without food. But they will make you hungry.
I take B1 for my gut issues. It has been a game changer.
On Keto, I could not sleep hardly at all, 2 B1added to my bedtime sleep supplements/ D3, Mag, Pot., Melatonin, solved this problem, am able to go to sleep easily most nights.
@darlin1951 I take my B1 in the morning and I sleep better. B1 can sometimes cause some people to have more energy and to be alert. Also, it should be taken before food.
This is been the most eye-opening argument I've seen yet for going low carb. I have toyed with it but have always been scared of doing it because I've also heard the vegan side of things and so I go back and forth. However, I have never been diagnosed with PCOS. And I'm kind of upset with the multiple doctors I've seen who have not even considered any of these things that Dr Seeman was talking about. I have not had a period since 2013 which would have made me 38 years old. At that time my doctor didn't seem to concerned about it and brushed it off. Through my own research over time and I'm about to talk to a couple other doctors who again thought maybe I was going through premenopause or perimenopause whatever it is. I felt like it had to do with weight gain cuz I am 425 lb I was around 250 when I started having issues with my period. I now wonder is it a possibility that I have PCOS and not one doctor has ever thought that was a possibility or mention that. Now I don't have anything going on with alopecia or excessive hair or thyroid issues. But I definitely have metabolic syndrome, and lack of menstrual cycle and I think even something that the doctor stated with acne or oily skin. This is an eye opener however I honestly don't know how to get a doctor to test for this my current Dr barely listens to me as it is and I'm in the process of trying to find another one
I would encourage you to find a doc who understands low carb.etc knowing it can be hard to find. Don't be discouraged; this channel and a couple others like it are great resources and if you follow your own intuition, you will know what can work for you. Im one year keto and 5 months carivore and have never felt better!!!
Why are doctors CONSTANTLY brushing women off. One time I told a male doctor, who I was trying to get a diagnosis from for PCOS because I just knew in my body thats what it was, he fought me to the bitter end, and refused. Anyway I told him besides all of the general symptoms of pcos I had (gaining 50 pounds in one year for no reason, losing my hair, growing hair on my chin, etc) that I hadn't gone to the bathroom in an entire month and he told me "some people just go more than others. That's totally normal." I was the only person I know that goes once a month normal or not. He sent me to a women's health center with a female doctor that said your bowels are entirely full and told me I needed meds for that, and that it is a round about symptom of the PCOS. The male doctor did the ultrasound and told me he had "good news!" he didn't see the classic "string of pearls cysts" so "you dont have PCOS" he only saw one dermoid cyst thought it was the size of a baseball (it was actually 2.5cm in diameter)and sent me in an ambulance to have my ovary removed. Then I met the female doctor at the Women's Center and she said she DID see the "ring of pearls cysts" on the ultrasound, yes she was DXing me with PCOS, and said going to the bathroom once a month is only normal if you're a hospice patient. God what a horrible first doctor that was. He was so nice too, but so dumb!
There is so much knowledge dropped here! I'm almost 60 been pcos for most of my adult life with obesity & infertility. At 40, I got control of my life and began low carb (as was preached on a pcos website) lifestyle and started jogging ( just waddling down the street til I could jog 😆), I was also fasting because I became obsessed with getting the weight off. Long story short, I lost 73 lbs in 8 months and my periods became regular, rather I started having periods again without meds. I'm a believer of keto for infertility! I never achieved a pregnancy as my marriage was over but I sure was happy about my new self!
That's great! What was your fasting schedule? Thanks.
@gwendolynbrown1355
I was fasting before I k ew that's what it was, sometimes eating a spoon of peanut butter for a breakfast with my black coffee. If I knew I was going out to dinner, I would fast all day to save calories for dinner which was usually a fancy salad. I learned to be ok with being hungry. I was obsessed with losing weight.
I wished I could get just a little obsessed now 😓
May I ask what age you were when you conceived?
@@maximac222Very happy for you and for your new life! I'm down 75lbs so far but have more to go. It would be spectacular if the chin hair goes away when I get down to my ideal weight🤞🙏
@@jeniferjohnson374 I never got pregnant.
I was diagnosed with Pcos 7 years ago and was overweight and was placed with metformin and birth control. I had terrible side affects and was always using the bathroom with Diarrhea from the metformin. Then I moved to England and was eating a lot healthier and smaller portions and walking a lot because is common there to walk everywhere and after 4 months of living in England I lost 30 pounds. I went from 170lbs to 140lbs. A healthier lifestyle is definitely key to losing weight. I found it so much easier to lose weight in Europe then in the US just because the size of foods here is ridiculous and how heavily processed the food is. Anyways I’m back in the US and I have gained weight again and now I’m trying to lose weight naturally. By the way love your videos! So informative!
I have this terrible disease, this was good information for me, I also have Hirsutism (excess hair growth in women, I also deal with acne, i was told PCOS and this disease can be a pair, but not every woman gets the hair growth part (lucky them). I took Metformin the doc said it would help me, it did nothing. I've had Fibroid tumors in which I ended up having a Hysterectomy back in 2005, because some of the Fibroids were huge, and I had tons of these things different sizes but they took over. I was in my early 30's and never had kids. PCOS can mess you up Mentally, Emotionally and Physically. I'm going to look into the Keto diet.
Dissolve it All by Mitolife are systemic enzymes. I was able to heal my malignant hormonal acne by taking it for about a full year and my acne hasn’t come back (it’s been 3 years)
I have hardcore Hirsutism- stomache and chin. I got laser hair removal a year ago and it completely removed the hair for good! So look into it!
You mentioned Metformin- Berberine & Inositol are natural and way more effective w/ little to no side effects.
I wish you had been my doctor back when I first looked at fertility treatment. I spent so much money and time on fertility treatment. Fertility treatment never was successful but my own efforts in my diet, weight and understanding my bodies signs of ovulating helped me obtain several pregnancies. Going through fertility treatment was my first experience with doctors who seemed more interested in money versus the health of their patient.
Best PCOS video I have seen. Thank you 🫶
This was such a great interview! Thank you Drs. Berry and Seeman!!! 😃
Freaking amazing 👏🏾 😍 🙌 👌🏾 video, I recently started my journey on figuring out what is going on with my oven. I have been diagnosed with PCOS and a ridiculous high level of prolactin. However, my insulin levels are lower than pre diabetes range which relieves me. I am scheduled for a pituitary MRI. I am definitely going to take into consideration the KETO diet. I appreciate you guys so, so much 🤞🏾
What was the results of your pituitary MRI? How is your Keto journey going?
Absolutely amazing information thank you Dr. Berry for bringing Dr. Seeman on to my radar!!!!
Dr Rob Cywes the CarbAddiction doc who is a bariatric surgeon has stated in a video that he advises his female patients about contraception because they often get pregnant either during the diet they do prior to surgery or after the surgery.
God bless this Doctors. 🙏
Hi,
Thanks for focus on multiple awareness & best approaches by enhance the medical factors I am so glad to listen and so thanks for your struggle .
I agree you get that diagnosis and you become that diagnosis. I know I did that for a time.
I lost 30 lbs and got pregnant after 22 years married age 41..everybody was shocked we were even in the local newspaper..I have a son that I never thought I would ever have..🙏..don’t give up trying to have a baby..loose weight first…♥️
Thank you. I’m a little overwhelmed by just how much amazing information is here. I’m almost positive I’ve had PCOS for years undiagnosed. I love being able to help my body heal with diet!
I would love some research on uterine fibroids. ❤ that affects around 70% of women and barely any education around it.
My daughter is 17 and diagnosed Pcos last year. She is a soccer player in high school and will play in college . She is in great shape, small and petite. I really want to do a low carb way of eating for her and myself. She craves and loves sugar and carbs. I get on her all the time to try and eat more real food. We need coaching. We live in Austin Tx. Just saw her gyno. She’s outing her on the patch since my daughter isn’t always consistent with taking the daily BP.
Lots of good nuggets here. I will add my experience and other nuggets that I learned online from specilized doctors. I am a man on many hormones, but I studied both men and women in terms of both hormones and vitamines and minerals.
While women get most of their progesterone from their ovaries, I do believe the adrenals have to make a certain amount which is far less than the ovaries. However, some women dont even make enough baseline progesterone to be healthy or even lower cortisol driven glucogenesis as well as not adequately produce or regulate the cortico hormones which are midway between the progesterone-cortisol-aldosterone ezymatic pathways. I know that is a mouthful. Bottom line; you need as a man or a woman a certain baseline progesterone level to head off other hormonal dysregulation. Personally I take 60 mg of progesterone cream a day to help regulate other hormones
why are you on so many hormones lol
Thanks, Dr Berry and Dr Seeman 🙂
Went keto lost 35lbs, my cycles became regular and got pregnant after 3 months of trying. Vs my first pregnancy it took over a year of trying and had very irregular periods at 26 years old.
Love your concept! Thank you for spreading the word.
Unfortunately, I never even heard of PCOS until I was in my early 60s....and didn't hear of the Keto Diet till about 10 years ago (and Carnivore just in the last two years). How differently my life would have gone if SOMEONE would have told me I had PCOS! My husband divorced me after I got a hysterectomy (without his consent). I got it because I had a cyst the size of a baseball, and I was told if medications given didn't work, I should get the surgery because there was a chance I would get Cancer. I saved my life, but lost my husband. Didn't find out till much later that though he had children from previous marriages, he wanted more (mostly to just prove his 'virility' because he was older), but when I got the hysterectomy, he essentially lost interest in me, and we got divorced just a year later. Looking back, I think I had a lot of clues that I had PCOS. I've be overweight most of my life (still am); my mother could not get pregnant for a long time, and it wasn't till she was in her early 40s that she went to the doctor who prescribed some drug that did allow her to become pregnant with me (she had several miscarriages before). I think I may have inherited some gene, from her, toward Androgenism because she had always had facial hair which she plucked constantly, and one of her brothers was so Hirsute that my nickname for his was 'Magilla Gorilla.' I wonder that even though I'm in my 70s now, do I still need to be concerned about my belated PCOS diagnosis? Does other, non-menopausal symptoms persist years after, like problems with Adrenals, Thyroid (no diagnosis yet, but suspect I do have the beginnings of Hypothyroid), Liver (a 'ton' of problems - Hep C (no longer have it); Gallbladder removal; Fatty Liver, etc. Thank you for this presentation Dr. Berry and Dr. Seeman!
I’m sorry you went through that. I hope god blesses you and you get better ❤️🩹
I’m 53 and since I backtracked and started eating a lot of junk again, I started getting what I assume is PCOS again. For me that includes 5-week long heavy periods. I’m seriously hypovolemic and hoping that my body can build up its blood supply again. Until then I’ve been lying in bed like a slug. It’s so hard to stay away from the crap. Started IF and that’s stopped the bleeding and eating lots of red meat and eggs. Definitely on the upswing. All my life I thought I was depressed but here it was just severe anemia. 🤦♀️
I hope that you can bring Dr. Seeman or another Ob/Gyn back to discuss endometriosis and its possible metabolic causes/relief, please. OR I'd be ecstatic if you, Dr. Berry (and Neisha), would do a video on it IF there are studies/evidence/proof on the connection of diet or other lifestyle factors and endometriosis... for my 22 yo daughter who already had to have one ovary removed due to that condition and is on birth control to "save" her remaining ovary. Did I do this to my poor daughter?
This is amazing thank you i finally got some answers i been in so much pain no relief this gives me hope knowing there are things i can do appreciate what u guys do this touches me in a way because for years i got told its not curable ill have it forever and take birth control
Wow...i really started taking my prediabeties seriously after neuropothy kicked in and my walk felt off. Crazy how many aspects of health it impacts. Why a fasting insulin test is not on a common lab panel is beyond me.
At some point, you have to believe that they know it will kill their profit margins.
Dude they def know. Those doctors let me suffer for 20 years. Not one single doctor has ever taken any interest in helping me or ever showed me compassion. It’s been extremely traumatic
Such an adorable baby ❤ thank you for sharing your knowledge
Very good information, very well exposed by both; thank you
Diet is important in the process as it will reduce inflammation, insuline resistance. But note that there is also a big link with stress to that needs to be reduced. And if you have a trauma specially childhood trauma it needs to be deal with to calm down the nervous system. High stress increases the cortisol level in the body that in turn push the body to make glucose available in the blood because their is an imminente feeling of danger that needs to be dealt. So fuel to escape (glucose) will be made available by the body by any means ( even by using protein and turning it into glucose ) . What will trigger insuline resistance. That a all process that can cause PCOS: Stress related PCOS. Having each night a restful sleep of 8h and managing stress, dealing with trauma and good diet are essentials. Plus exercises of course. That is multiplidiscinary work that is worthy. It totally empower you to take your body back. Good luck everyone ❤
Great conversation! Thank you both.
☝️☝️☝️ Truly, natural remedies do work. If they didn't, we wouldn't have used them for thousands of years. And, pharmaceutical companies wouldn't be studying plants, taking extracts of them, and patenting them as drugs. This is not a claim or lies I was cured of PCOS, and my friend was also cured of Chronic UTI by Dr. Egobe herbal medicine in case you are having any health challenges you can contact him and also get a cure too, through him you can get pregnant and have your baby.
His WhatsApp number on ☝️☝️
Amazing, I'm a 42 year old male and on keto 5 years, somehow got pregnant with my first child.. glory be to God this keto works!!!
Men can’t get pregnant
You mean you're a woman?
Men can’t get pregnant… tired of this bs
Male !!
This was an excellent video, thank you. I’m currently getting over a ruptured cyst. It has been so incredibly painful. I’m looking for ways to never go through this again.
I highly agree and wish that one day we could have not only a continuous glucose monitor but also a continuous insulin, ketone, cortisol monitor.
My daughter has been diagnosed with PCOS and a prolactinoma. She has a hard time putting weight on. She is 5’4” and 106 lbs. in good shape physical shape but doesn’t want to lose weight. She definitely will lose weight on the keto diet.
This was really good, I learnt a lot.
Oh my gosh! What chance could be that I would find this OBGYN, in my city of Omaha, here on TH-cam?! On my way
This was amazing… but I was wondering if there is any more info like this for menopause? Just to deal with PCOS. Thank u
Dr. Berry, I appreciate your videos SO much. I would love to see a doctor with this type of outlook. Is there anyone you would recommend around the Athens, GA area? I’ve went to around 5 different docs being brushed off as “just another lady with PCOS”. 9 years of trying to conceive. On week two of carnivore. Obviously I’d love to conceive, but would love to be healthy first. This is why I would really like to see a doctor who will listen and take my experience seriously without medication.
I'm a man and I'm paying attention because my wife was very obese and rarely ever had a period and she went on keto and lost alot of weight got her period normal again and is still trying to tell me that we don't need to worry about pregnancy. LOL I just told her she better watch this video and pay attention.
Welp back for a 4 week update, too late yep at 42 I thought I was done having kids but life and keto said no you're not.
Omg are you serious ❤ congratulations 🎉this tells me that this is the optimal human diet
@@RedneckHillbilly-ho9md this is so sweet 😄💗 congratulations to you and yours!!!
Wow this doctor is the Chuck Norris of OB
I really appreciate her explanations
WOW I need to see that small study!
Thank you SO much for this interview; so much good info!!
☝️☝️☝️ Truly, natural remedies do work. If they didn't, we wouldn't have used them for thousands of years. And, pharmaceutical companies wouldn't be studying plants, taking extracts of them, and patenting them as drugs. This is not a claim or lies I was cured of PCOS, and my friend was also cured of Chronic UTI by Dr. Egobe herbal medicine in case you are having any health challenges you can contact him and also get a cure too, through him you can get pregnant and have your baby.
His WhatsApp number on ☝️☝️
I used to eat strict keto when I got together with my husband I started eating more carbs because my thought was I don’t eat carbs but now I struggle getting back to strict and I feel that is one of my biggest issues. I felt and looked my best during the time of being extremely strict. I am now almost to the end of my first pregnancy and it’s been hard because I just started back on keto strictly before and having all these cravings. Thankfully most my cravings are salad. But not at a healthy weight right now.
Does our body NEED carbs? I habe always been scared to try keto or carnivore diet because I was under the assumption our body had to have some carbs kinda like a diabetic needing a little to raise blood sugar.
While I don’t know if I have PCOS, prior to starting carnivore, my periods were long and VERY heavy. 1 month in and my next cycle was only 5 days compared to my normal 7-8 days and I only had 2 heavy days as opposed to 4. So I’d call that a win. My A1C at my last blood check was 5.9, and fasting glucose 125. I’m super hopeful that once I hit the 3 month mark on carnivore that my A1C and glucose will definitely be lower.
I am also having long and heavy periods, if carnivore helped you, I will try it
@@BeryVery-o7q it’s worth a try! Give it a couple of months to really see a difference.
Thanks. Very good presentation
☝️☝️☝️ Truly, natural remedies do work. If they didn't, we wouldn't have used them for thousands of years. And, pharmaceutical companies wouldn't be studying plants, taking extracts of them, and patenting them as drugs. This is not a claim or lies I was cured of PCOS, and my friend was also cured of Chronic UTI by Dr. Egobe herbal medicine in case you are having any health challenges you can contact him and also get a cure too, through him you can get pregnant and have your baby.
His WhatsApp number on ☝️☝️
I have( had) pcos and had difficulty getting pregnant now 6 kids later n twins due to losing weight n changing my eating habits, I eventually tied my tubes because I couldn't stop getting pregnant. 🙃
What did u change diet wise?
@@CG-mj8tk, no sugar, grains bread, basically the keto diet
@@chick-fil-agal2264 wow awesome! Did u eat very high fat? Or just cut out carbs for the most part? Ty 🌺
@@CG-mj8tk high fat, low carbs
Did you eat potatoes, rice or fruits ? And did you eat organic
I went started menopause in my early 50's, I am now 63.5 years old. Is it too late for me to start HRT and have it help me? Thank you so much for this interview!
I had heavy periods and many other symptoms of pcos. Asked my Dr about the heavy periods. He told me it was because l was overweight. He had it backwards! I was fat because of the pcos! Oddly, l had no trouble getting pregnant and carrying to full term twice.
I have PCOS and have for many years I have gestational diabetes as well as endometriosis diagnosed during early pregnancy confirmed but prior to pregnancy I was diagnosed with a fatty liver haven’t been able to lose weight as a result. Baby is very healthy but I don’t feel I am regardless of how well I am eating. I am taking met Forman .
Other than being obese, I had years struggling with all the obvious signs and even developed auto immune disregulation. I would go years without a cycle. I was finally diagnosed with pcos at 33. The only recommendation was birth control to regulate my period but nothing for all the other major health issues. Trying to eat healthier and natural supplements like inositol, vitex, and few other ones have done more than any medication I was ever given.
hi, how are u managing it now