Dr. Tim O’Dowd - ‘PCOS and Insulin Resistance: A lifetime of opportunities'
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- Опубликовано: 25 янв 2019
- Born and educated in Ireland, Dr. Tim O’Dowd arrived in Australia as a newly qualified doctor in 1975. He initially trained in obstetric and gynaecology at the Mater Hospital in Brisbane and gained specialist qualifications in England (FRCOG) and Australia (FRANZCOG).
Tim began seeing patients at his private Obstetrics and Gynaecology practice on the Gold Coast in 1987. In 2000 he founded Fertility Gold Coast with his colleagues, and in 2011 joined the Queensland Fertility Group to form the Group's Gold Coast clinic. In August 2016 he co-founded The Fertility Clinic, a lower cost option belonging to QFG.
Tim has a deep interest in the importance of nutrition for fertility and pregnancy. Many of the chronic illnesses of today are due to our bodies response to poor nutrition. The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease suggest that a baby’s 9 months in the uterus are probably the most influential and consequential of their whole life. 
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Thank you very much for sharing this information. 2 Years after starting Keto, all my cyst and menstrual problems have disappeared.
↖️ Ani Keto - This is amazing! Thank you for sharing that 💕💕
Do you do dairy free with Keto?
Are your periods now regular? Unfortunately, cutting carbs and fasting had messed up my periods :(
watching this and started bawling. this has been my life. Why has no Dr. told me this? for YEARS???
Sorry to hear this😢 glad you found the video though. Healthy nutritious foods & water, less sugar bombs like beverages/ultra processed foods. But you also have to strength train too, to have good insulin sensitivity and glucose disposal! Muscles are your largest endocrine organ... Get them healthy!
I was told by 3 different doctors when I was young that I would never have children. That was many decades ago. No explanation at the time. When I was getting ready for my wedding, like all women, I wanted to look good. So much that I went on the evil Atkins diet. About a year after marriage I had a baby girl.
Of course I went back to a healthy diet. However many years latter I fell back on the evil Atkins diet. I am sure I could have got down to my right weight, but I got pregnant again.
Thanks for your excellent talk. I will be sharing this with my Family Practice colleagues who do OB.
Doctors and GPs should be urged to take an interest in this subject so they can make up their own minds. Most doctors, st least here in the UK, are completely unaware of this. In fact a kidney specialist told my mother a couple of weeks ago that diabetes is not reversible.
As long as selling insulin and drugs like metformin remain wildly profitable, most GPs and specialists will be taught and continue to believe that T2D is irreversible.
In the USA, physicians are restricted to 'standard of care'. Few go outside the standard in diagnosis or treatment, and many of those have had their careers or lives ruined. So much for the 'land of the free'...
The ignorance among the medical profession is downright criminal. People are suffering
That is pitifully hilarious, isn't it. WHOLE FOODS & EXERCISE. Water water water, no sugar bombs. Good sleep low stress
So glad I ran across this! Thank you so much for this and thank you for the charts and break down. You are so spot on. I am 34 and your layout has been my life..now I'm pre diabetic with no kids, miscarriage, and trying to get a handle on this.
Hope you've been able to eat healthier & substituted beverages for water 😀 I'd highly highly recommend building muscles via strength training for improved insulin sensitivity & glucose disposal! Myokines produced by exercising muscles are anti-inflammatory, and can add up to 5 EXTRA years of quality life as well!
Great job. If i had my own daughters and their children i'd be praising you even more! At 73 i can reflect on just how as a female person, a former midwife and then a psyche RN, i am aghast at just how unaware i really was with regard to food and my body - apart from not eating ibms and getting good exercise, sun and fresh air. All praise to you Tim for being part of this Low Carb Reformation.
Great talk!! Why haven't mainstream doctors figured this out yet. They treat PCOS with metformin , why haven't they taken the next step. Great talk Dr. O'Dowd!!
Metformin and insulin sales, and other drugs, are much more profitable than telling people to eat real, whole foods. Processed, high carbohydrate foods are more profitable to manufacture than simply raising and selling real, whole foods. Grains and seeds, like soy and beans, are more profitable to raise and sell than vegetables, meats, real milk and milk products from cows on pasture (not the heavily processed stuff sold in plastic in the supermarket).
Mainstream medicine is heavily influenced by the large corporations that make drugs, insulin, and also the processed food corporations.
Use medical professionals as consultants, but we have to take charge of our own health and the health of our families.
Yeah. I've been in treatment with 5 different gynecologists for 12 years and all of them give me the exact same unnecessary and useless treatment:
Take birth control pills. Go home PCOS is incurable and is in your genes, bye 🙋🏻
The Mexican doctors, I really hate them, it seem like there's no single one with ethics.
@@Jefferdaughterabsolutely right. But also, make sure to encourage people to strength train gradually as well. Food (AND *beverage* ) changes are only 1/2 the equation. You cannot be metabolically healthy without strong healthy muscles. 😊
Very interesting, thank you.
The biggest problem with most carbohydrates is that they are addictive, eating them creates the desire to eat more. You may as well give α-amylase and α-Glucosidase inhibitors whilst trying to get them cut down on carbs. Or White oyster mushrooms and
Maitake mushrooms with each meal which does the same thing.
I like the addictive idea . Have you followed Dr Cywes?
I thought that there are no problems with PCOS treatment in Europe (I’m from Russia), so I surprised reading comments below. What’s a shame :( I suffered from ins resistance almost since my birth and doctor said I have PCOS when I was 14. Fortunately, now I’m struggling in order to cope with this, I’m trying low-carbohydrate diet and pills to decrease ins resistance and it helps.
Is it possible to see the prior videos that are no longer on YT?
Dr. Tim O'Down, thank you so much for your video. I always enjoy learning about this stuff. I loved the information about the historical timeline related to diabetes and the food pyramid. But Keto and very low carb diets for PCOS is not suggested from everything I have read from specialist (natural) of PCOS. Some say that it is OK for very short term for insulin resistance PCOS, but then not so much for long term. It can cause women to lose their periods. As I am just an obsessive researcher about this stuff... I think it is interesting that you say otherwise. KETO really makes me feel like I am going crazy. I definitely feel a huge shift in my hormonal health in not a good way. I am pretty positive I am insulin resistance PCOS myself (not obese), and I strive for 25g (or less) of natural sugar a day, and absolutely no added sugar. I eat potatoes or rice (a small amount) in the evening. I aim for a lower carb breakfast, and a moderate carb lunch. I love fats and I do believe that they are good for you. There is also post pill, and inflammation PCOS and possibly other causes of PCOS. But, MOST are insulin resistance pcos. Making sure that you are not deficient in vitamin d, magnesium, iodine, and zinc are also important. Due to the decrease of iodine in our foods (I believe after the great depression) we begun to have a lot of issues. Our soils are unfortunately depleted (in America) of magnesium and other minerals. I hope people become more aware of the value of nutrition. Thank you for the information.
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My periods are messed up since intermittent fasting, so I also believe that it's not good for women long term at all. I trust dr Jason fung, but he seems to think men and women are physiologically equal, but we are not. The fact is, women need carbs, more of them than men. And women don't only lose their periods when low carb, they become susceptible to hypothyroidism too because, low carb disrupts thyroid hormone production... :( I'm honestly worried at this point and overwhelmed with which direction to go for a healthier body! :( my cycles were regular before fasting, and have since gotten lighter and earlier, they are getting so close together that I fear I'll stop ovulating altogether! :( I don't recommend keto and fasting to women long term at all unless they are pre/post menopausal.
I've been fighting with IR and PCOS for twenty years and no doctors helped me.
They didn't even know what I was talking about, when (in 2013) I told them that I think I have IR.
Sad.
Humanity went to the moon, but no one knew enough from the human body to help.
Dr Gerald Reaven's work was in the 80's. From great work by Ivor Cumming, lowcarbdownunder and so many more, mainstream will eventually become aware I hope!
Same here, diagnosed with pcos at 15...but just started to research some symptoms appearing in my 30's and realized I have IR. I believe pcos is a result of the IR as I have 4 children and no irregular menstruals. I am now working on managing the IR which will in turn treat treat the pcos
@@darcy3335great job trying to study yourself! Nutritious food & water are paramount, but I hope you know how important proper strength training is. Without it your muscles could remain metabolically unfit and respond poorly to insulin/ glucose use.
Happy strengthening! (Gradually over the years, of course)
I have been following a ketogenic diet for the past year. I started because I was obese and pre-diabetic. I have also been taking meds for high cholesterol for the past 20 years.
Within a short time I had lost 25lbs and felt much better. Weight loss stalled but I continued to lose belly fat and to feel healthier. I am now on the last hole on a belt that was once too small for me and I feel much better. About 3 months ago I stopped the cholesterol meds as an experiment. My diet consists of green leafy vegetables, onions, avocados, nuts &nut butter, beef and & from grass-fed cows, organic free-range chickens & eggs, and unmedicated pork & lamb. Occasionally I will add cauliflower or celeriac. I try to eat only organic and to completely avoid any GMO crops including cotton.
Recent bloodwork shows my cholesterol is again too high but more surprising is my fasting glucose is also too high. I am surprised because I cut out all added sugar as well as anything that turns into sugar when ingested (chewed with saliva). This news has set me back. I cannot understand how the blood sugar can be too high unless I am making sugar in my body.
Lawrence
don't rely on fasting glucose, it can be an elevated for any number of reasons. Do an HbA1c the average of your three month blood glucose.
Cut out the nuts. Have you done any fasting? How many meals a day are you having?
HbA1c is a better measurement that fasting glucose. Gast glucose may be elevated in response to "dawn effect". The lower your triglycerides and the higher your HDL the better. Total cholesterol has very little importance on its own. LDL - the only imortant one is small density LDL (sdLDL). Check Associate professor Ken Sikaris "cholesterol - when to worry" lowcarbdownunder nov 13 2015.
Lawrence, have you heard of Dr. Jason Fung on you tube? He's a kidney specialist who specializes in diabetes, but huge advocate on keto and IF. I know I have heard him mention the high blood sugars continuing even with keto diet for a period of time due to fatty liver and your liver is healing itself, but for a time period, the blood sugars are not revealing this as your liver is trying to heal. Check him out. Best of health to you!
Fiber, lots of protein, fill with good fats. Don't eat often or you'll stay insulin resistant (research article grazing vs 2 meals found frequent eating tied to insulin resistance). *AND YOU GOTTA STRENGTH TRAIN SEVERAL TIMES A WEEK!* Gradually increase, should make you feel better over time without overdoing it
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Im 45. Insulin resistand, pcos, heart disease. I have two young daughters
What about pill induced PCOS. Why does this happens. Because of estrogen?
check out Lara Bridens book The Period Repair Manual.. she talks about pill induced PCOS.
I don't know about this, because the pill is supposed to increase estrogen production leading to regular menses and fertility. But the pill, just like many other medications raises insulin, hence why being on the pill causes weight gain for many women, that explains pill induced pcos. If the pill truly boosts estrogen production, then it shouldn't cause pcos, so maybe we've been lied to about what the pill is really doing. Again though, raised insulin explains it if pill induced pcos actually happens.
@JAY LOVE KOOKIE do you try metformin?
That's all well and good but no one is talking about teens with PCOS.
Jenn West oh yeah. i’m no longer a teen but i was diagnosed at 20 (still young enough i guess) and well, like sucks a lot.
just the fact that my doctor when he diagnosed me told me I could have cancer or die in a couple of years.
it’s not easy also with food: i can’t go out with friends because they eat all carbs and hate proteins or are vegans and don’t want me to eat meat.
this sucks so freaking much.
Can definitely relate to this. I was just diagnosed with PCOS at age 30, and I have been suffering from almost all symptoms (rapid weight gain, acne, excessive facial hair, irregular periods) since my late teens and early twenties, and no one had put it all together. Most had been written off or attributed to something else. So frustrating, but I am glad to finally have some answers. I was less than 110 pounds at age 18, and by the next year, I had gained 50-60 pounds and have only gained more and more since. My hair stylist even commented on my excessive facial hair, but kept saying it would probably get better with age (it didn't). Sorry for the long post, but I definitely agree with you that this should be screened for earlier, especially since after 10+ years of damage has been done, it will be even harder for me to reverse it.
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Jenn, most PCOS & FMS, dementia, strokes, blindness etc are all from insulin resistance. Don't suffer any longer; undo the Hyperinsulinemia damage:
1) mostly unrefined whole foods & water. More Fiber, Protein, fill with Fats. Cut the sugar & man-made foods/beverages. 2) Strength training + cardio most days, less sitting more exercise GRADUALLY. 3) get quality sleep, and don't stress so much!
@@saradallapalma1997cook your own generally healthy foods most meals. Then cook for each other more often with potlucks when you gather together in homes.
Just as important as cutting the beverages and processed foods though, is strength training consistently. Without it you'll remain metabolically unfit, like 88% the rest of America according to UNF study, which is a nightmare.
Charlie Chaplin, a real artist, also died in 1977.
Thank you PMO. I will keep that in mind for next talk.
75% of people with PCOS that aren't obese or overweight are insulin resistent. What about the 25% that aren't insulin resistant? Why NOBODY talks about that? What do you do then?
Stay a narcissist I suppose. ..?
You're right, so many "normal BMI" people are metabolically sick. Most have very little muscle too, even though they're not fat. Insulin resistance is the biggest killer!
1) mostly unrefined whole foods & water. More Fiber, Protein, fill with Fats. Cut the sugar & man-made foods/beverages. 2) Strength training + cardio most days, less sitting more exercise GRADUALLY. 3) get quality sleep, and don't stress so much!