What are the Causes of PCOS?
There is disagreement and uncertainty as to what causes polycystic ovarian disease. Polycystic ovaries and polycystic ovary syndrome have been associated with one or more of these factors:
- Genetic predisposition.
- Insulin resistance or hyperinsulinism (high blood levels of insulin).
- Obesity.
- Hyperandrogenism (excessive production of male hormones).
- Abnormality of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis (organ/hormonal disorder).
- Environmental chemical pollution (hormonal disruptors)
- Food adulterantion (excitatory amino acids, for example)
- Chronic inflammation.
Some of these causal factors may also be consequences of polycystic ovary disease. In other words, we have an amazingly complex network of interacting variables, each of which influences the other. Polycystic ovarian syndrome is not a simple disease with a single cause.
PCOS SYMPTOMS:Polycystic ovarian syndrome presents a complex and baffling array of symptoms, consisting of some combination of the following symptoms that vary with each individual:
- Multiple ovarian cysts
- Irregular or absent menses
- Infertility
- Acne
- Obesity or inability to lose weight
- Excessive body or facial hair (hirsutism)
- Insulin resistance and possibly diabetes
- Thinning of scalp hair
- Velvety, hyperpigmented skin folds (acanthosis nigricans)
- High blood pressure
- Polycystic ovaries that are 2-5 times larger than healthy ovaries.
- Multiple hormone imbalances, commonly including:
- Androgens (testosterone)
- Cortisol
- Estrogens
- FSH (follicle stimulating hormone)
- Insulin.
- LH (luteinizing hormone)
- progesterone
- Prolactin.
- Thyroid hormones.
- Impaired lung function.
- Sleep apnea.
- Fatty liver degeneration (NAFLD).
- Depression
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