Inflammation a Cause for PCOS?

shellybelly · 08-10-2005, 10:10 PM

http://www.pcoscoach.com/inflammation.html

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Many women with polycystic ovarian syndrome have increased their fertility by losing weight, following a low-glycemic diet, or through medication or herbs. These treatments are helpful, but they do not make the PCOS go away. No one understood why PCOS affects each woman so differently. Promising new studies may explain the cause of PCOS – and how to cure it.
Women with PCOS are prone to inflammation. They also develop heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma, thyroid disorders and other diseases caused by chronic inflammation at an alarming rate. Women with PCOS have high numbers of “markers” (C-reactive proteins) in their blood that indicate inflammation. These C-reactive proteins or CRPs are a more reliable indicator of heart disease than high cholesterol levels alone.

Inflammation is the body’s immune response to irritation or infection. When your skin is red or itchy, you can see the inflammation. However, chronic internal inflammation is a silent killer. In an attempt to fight the inflammation, your immune system may attack your thyroid or other organs. It may stop using insulin properly. Or it may try to repair the inflammation such as when your arteries are inflamed and the body tries to patch the problem with arterial plaque, causing the arteries to harden and leading to heart disease.

Finally, researchers have linked this chronic inflammation with the genes that seem to cause PCOS in Mexican-Americans (Mexican-Americans, Southeast Asians, and Native Americans all get PCOS at a higher rate than non-Hispanic Caucasian women). Other studies have shown that chronic inflammation is behind obesity, heart disease and diabetes. Taken with the other studies, I see this as a very, very hopeful sign that the cause of PCOS can finally be treated. Obviously, these genes are not going away, but research seems to show that if you treat the inflammation then you can prevent insulin resistance, diabetes and heart disease.

...from PCOS Coach

Interesting!

I read this on cysterchicks.

shellybelly · 08-10-2005, 10:11 PM

i learned this in my archaeology class last semester. the way you can tell if you have any indian or northasian in your family history is by the back of your teeth. feel them with your tongue are they sort of like a shovel kinda scooped out if they are you come from that that line of ansestery. It is called Sinodont.( Sinodont hallmarks include incisor shoveling( the scooped-out shape ont he intide of the tooth), double-shoveling (scooping out on both sides), single-rooted upperfirts premolars, and three- rooted lower first molars. Sinodonty is characteristic of all native americans. They share this feature with northern asians, including northern chinese.) This information is from my notes that i took in my archaeology class. oh also other people who don't have indian in the background have flat teeth.

cec414 · 08-10-2005, 11:56 PM

The women with PCOS who have insulin problems are the ones with high c-reactive protein. I had mine tested one time, and it was high, and my lipids were also high. It all has to do with the Metabolic Syndrome, or Syndrome X, but not all women with PCOS have this type of PCOS but many do. Inflammation also leads to cancer and premature aging since it affects your DNA. Since starting Metformin, losing weight by following an insulin lowering diet, exercising, and taking certain vitamins, but lipids have become almost normal, so women who have Syndrome X and PCOS can avoid inflammation by being very careful.

shellybelly · 08-11-2005, 12:09 AM

thanks for the extra information.