Ep #22 | Understanding PCOS With Dr. Felice Gersh
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Felice Gersh, M.D. is an award-winning female physician specializing in all aspects of women’s health, and founder/director of the Integrative Medical Group of Irvine, located in Irvine, California. Her practice provides comprehensive healthcare for women, combining the best evidence-based therapies from conventional, naturopathic, and holistic medicine.
Dr. Gersh is the author of PCOS SOS: A Gynecologist’s Lifeline To Naturally Restore Your Rhythms, Hormones and Happiness (February 2019) which introduces a breakthrough approach that addresses the underlying causes of PCOS to help women heal from within, naturally and permanently.
Dr. Gersh taught obstetrics and gynecology at Keck USC School of Medicine for many years as an Assistant Clinical Professor and received the Outstanding Volunteer Clinical Faculty Award. Dr. Gersh is also a prolific writer, a world-renowned lecturer, and has been featured in several films and documentary series, including The Real Skinny on Fat with Montel Williams, and Fasting. She is the mother of four children and lives with her husband, Bob, in Orange County, California
Dr. Gersh was lead to PCOS as her area of expertise, as a result of her own experience with symptoms and possible treatments to PCOS. Later on her career she realized the big lie behind medications, and how pharmaceutical companies were selling drugs with huge side effects and little therapeutic results.
During this episode, Dr. Gersh unfolds golden information about PCOS. Here are some of the matters you will be enlightened about:
- What is PCOS?
- Different manifestations of PCOS.
- Effect of endocrine disruptors on women’s health.
- Estradiol deficiency and its crucial importance for women health.
- Reproductive and metabolic functions are one.
- Women with PCOS have altered gut microbiomes.
- How to reach a proper diagnosis.
- Androgen excess is not the same as PCOS.
- Demystifying estrogen dominance.
- Why you should say “no” to birth-control pills.
- When and How you should eat if you have PCOS.
- Food has all the magical components.
Dr. Gersh provides real information to take down the myths around PCOS, and help women with PCOS to find different ways to achieve balance and recover their healths as a whole.
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Quotes:
“PCOS is the most common endocrine disorder in women.”
“PCOS means that a majority of women with this syndrome show a change in the structure of the ovaries which cause that the right eggs are not chosen.”
“Our medical system is not designed to see a person holistically.”
“80% of women with PCOS have obesity and weight loss resistance.”
“A woman with PCOS is living her life in estradiol deficiency.”
“Reproduction is the prime directive of life”
“If reproduction is out of whack, metabolic health is out of whack.”
“Estrogen is key for maintaining the circadian rhythm.”
“It is not true that women with PCOS have too much estrogen.”
“If you have high levels of insulin you simply can’t lose weight.”
“The last thing a woman with PCOS has to do is to skip breakfast.”
“Birth control pills are toxic to women.”
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Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature’s Emporium and Juice Plus.
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