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Originally Posted by avacado  My mom family (Cherokee) suffer from diabetes, as far as I know I'm the only on that has PCOS. |
Avacado,
I believe I read about the tendency for American Indians to have IR/PCOS in the Insulin Resistance Diet book.
Type II diabetes and PCOS are so inter-related, that I'd say you inherited the PCOS from those genes. There may be other genes that blessed you with it too!
My Dad and his brother on the Cherokee-heritage side of the family have Type II. Their mother had PCOS (not diagnosed but we know from her symptoms - central obesity, facial hair, and her periods stopped at age 30) and later Type II. My Dad was insulin resistant a long time before he was diagnosed because from early adulthood on he's been super hairy all over.