Health FAQs With Dr. Gates- Polycystic ovarian syndrome And Depression

"...on polycystic ovarian syndrome PCOS and depression today much to my surprise doctor uh Justin for me we've never done one which is because we've done a lot of talk on PCOS and we see it a lot pretty common clinical picture that comes in here we see a lot of thyroid to correlate coordinate with a lot of Hashimoto's types problems so I'm not exactly sure where dr. Gates is going with this because we just talked about it but this is a subject that I happen to know that we're extremely conversant with and so I'll be anxious to hear if he comes up with anything new today it's good I'm not aware of and if not I may or may not chime in what's that so PCOS and depression well what's menopause but that's what people come in...of times guys am I going into menopause yeah yeah and actually some of the lead Endocrinology researchers will say that most women and menopause are actually kind of in a state of PCOS because at that point chemically yeah chemically so for those of you have PCOS you know how what a burden this condition really can be especially emotionally and not only affects you know your menstrual cycles and whether they're happening every month or every six months but also hair growth can be a big big factor for PCOS patients unwanted hair growth as well as those cysts on your ovaries for all intensive purposes explode at times and that can be exquisitely painful as well but PCOS is incredibly common it's one out of five females and Essence when diagnosed via the Rotterdam criteria the Rotterdam criteria was established to say that if you have two out of the three that I just mentioned if you have..."
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