#insulin resistance in women

[justposting1]

What Happens to Your Body When You Quit Sugar For 30 Days?

Sugar is a common part of many diets, but it’s also linked to a host of health issues when consumed in excess. For many, cutting out sugar can seem like a daunting task, but doing so can lead to remarkable changes in your body. Here’s what you can expect if you stop consuming sugar for 30 days. Week 1: Withdrawal Symptoms and Cravings The first week of quitting sugar can be challenging as your…

[vamptastic]

its like so fucked to me that PCOS is almost always diagnosed in middle aged women bc of fertility issues unless the person in question has a very obvious and severe case or lobbies their doctor at length about it. this would not be so upsetting to me if PCOS didn't massively increase your risk of developing type 2 diabetes in a way that is largely preventable! or if PCOS didn't make it damn near impossible to lose weight, meaning many people have their symptoms dismissed be it for other health problems or PCOS symptoms themselves over something they have next to no control over.

[mishkakagehishka]

I had gynecologist today and somehow the receptionist got me into the pregnancy scheduling rather than ya know routine check for my PCOS

Cue to the very awkward exchange between me and the doctor while still in the hallway, she asked my name and right after "Are you pregnant ?" While I just stared at her very confused wondering if that was a joke when I answered "No ????"

After that I kept trying to not laugh while still on public because the mere notion of ME out of all people getting pregnant despite celibacy sounds surreal

Responding to this while waiting at the gyno again. Two pregnant women before me. Etc etc

But you know what maybe gynos are just like that, it's my third time here, and last time i was here was, what, two weeks ago? And the receptionist again asked me if it's my first time here. Slay, i say💅

[womenshealthjourney]

PCOS Management with Metformin: Unlocking Benefits and Effective Strategies

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a hormone-related condition that affects numerous aspects of your health and can have implications for your menstrual cycle, fertility, and metabolism. It is often characterized by insulin resistance, where your body does not use insulin effectively, leading to elevated blood glucose levels. This insulin resistance is not only central to the onset and progression of PCOS but also poses long-term health risks. To combat these issues and manage the symptoms of PCOS, one of the most commonly prescribed medications is metformin. Visit: https://bellabeat.com/cycle-symptoms-and-diseases/managing-pcos-with-metformin/

[healineonline]

Can you be insulin resistant while not having diabetes?

[wellhealthhub]

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[mr-divabetic]

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[snarltoothed]

i want. a hormone panel. please

[jaatanilsolanki]

Hormone Balancing Strategies for Women: The Key to Permanent Weight Loss

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[roisinivy]

September is PCOS Awareness month, and I'd like to point out some of the many symptoms people with PCOS deal with everyday...

moon face

excessive body hair, arm, chests, back, face, legs and buttocks

irregular periods

painful periods

extremely heavy periods

constant bloating

mood swings

struggle to lose weight

struggle to gain weight

food cravings

high cholesterol

insulin resistance

oily skin

acne

insomnia

fatigue

sleep apnea

depression

anxiety

tubular breasts

dark and sensitive underarms

skin tags

belly fat

high testosterone

excessive hair loss

thinning hair

pelvic pain

infertility

ovarian cysts

And so much more, as well as having to struggle to even find a doctor who will take any of our symptoms and pain seriously. The medical industry needs to take better care of women, intersex and trans folks with PCOS and Endometriosis.

Our pains are real and we deserve better.

[nanavn]

For @shanastoryteller who asked for the gut bacteria expert's* recipe:

The professor's green energy smoothie

Ingredients

(two servings, according to the original)

half an avocado

half an apple

the juice from half a squeezed lemon

1 pinch fresh ginger

10 grapes or half a kiwi

5 dried walnuts

1 sheet nori (the kind used for sushi)

4 bunches of spinach

1 bunch parsley

a handful of broccoli

a handful of bean sprouts

half a glass of herbal tea

Preparation

Prepare the vegetables and fruits by removing the core from the apple, the peel from the kiwi, etc.

Put the vegetables in the blender with the herbal tea (cooled) and blend until it becomes a very fine-grained, green and fragrant smoothie.

Garnish with fresh herbs according to your taste preferences.

From https://livsstil.tv2.dk/mad/opskrift/professorens-groenne-energigroed (translation: https://livsstil-tv2-dk.translate.goog/mad/opskrift/professorens-groenne-energigroed?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=da)

My tips

The taste is pretty neutral (YMMV) but if you substitute ingredients, it may affect the taste - cabbages in particular

I usually double the recipe and have it over two days - I can't be bothered to keep half an apple lying around

I use a tall container with a volume of 1,6L/3.4 pint - that's on the small side for my version

I wouldn't make bigger portions than can be eaten over two days, and unless consumed straight away it must be kept in the fridge - you're risking a bacteria bomb instead of a nice smoothie...

I rarely use lemon, but use a few good slices of ginger (peel the whole chunk, slice and freeze for less fuss)

If you live near an Asian market, they probably have bigger packs of nori. I buy one with 50 sheets - it's *much* cheaper per sheet than the supermarket's price

I skip the parsley (can't be bothered) and buy chopped (see next bullet point) frozen spinach and add to taste

Instead of broccoli (expensive; doesn't last long in the fridge) I buy whatever cabbage is cheapest and use a large handful of it chopped up some (the fibres in cabbage and whole spinach leaves does not play well with my blender - YMMV)

I use a large mug of herbal tea and add psyllium husk for more fibre

In general I substitute/add veggies/fruits if I have something going a bit overripe (buying a load of bananas cheap and freezing them if they go brown before eating: also great for this); if I'm out of grapes, I add raisins ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

IIRC he's a proponent of using organic prooduce. As you can tell from my notes I'm cheap and/or poor cost conscious, so I buy the cheapest. It's up to you :)

I eat this in addition to whatever fruits&vegs I usually have - it's an easy way to up my intake and get some things I don't eat a lot of (e.g. cabbage, spinach)

I make my own beansprouts - but this is already too long, so it's in the next post

*Oluf Borbye Pedersen - from the link:

Intestinal Microbiome Research OP is a leading partner in the EU-Metahit initiative (www.metahit.eu) which delivered the first and second gut microbial gene catalogue of 3.3 and 9.9 mio microbial genes, respectively, from the human intestinal tract.  With quantitative metagenomics he and his team demonstrated in a population sample that about a fourth of adults is markedly deficient in gut microbiota diversity. The same individuals were featured by insulin resistance, overweight, dyslipidaemia and proinflammation. OP et al. reported the first quantitative metagenomics study of gut microbiota in type 2 diabetes, prediabetics and women with gestational diabetes and they discovered a new biological fingerprint, gut enterotypes of the human host. In addition, in recent studies of the human gut microbiome, Pedersen and colleagues have teased out drug effects versus disease effects on gut bacteria composition and function. Recently, they reported the first example of gut microbes linked to human insulin resistance. Mechanistically the investigators extended and validated their findings in in rodents. The Pedersen team has done several interventions targeting the human gut microbiome and blood metabolome including the impact of broad-spectrum antibiotics and of dietary gluten content, respectively. Studies that influence dietary and medical practice.

[dolleminas]

Something that absolutely makes me want to tear people to shreds with my teeth is thinking about how women's health is just not a priority in medicine.

1 in 10 women of childbearing age have PCOS.

Yet it's not considered important at all. It's hardly researched. Many women who suffer from this go undiagnosed for years. They are brushed off, ignored, not heard, or just put on birth control as if that's a cure-all. Even if someone with PCOS does get diagnosed the doctors don't even know everything there is to know about it.

Did you know that more than half of women with PCOS develop Type 2 Diabetes by the age of 40? Women with PCOS are often insulin resistant. Furthermore, many women with PCOS also have trouble with vitamin deficiencies, like vitamin D. And did you know that many women with PCOS also suffer from crippling fatigue?

Heart disease?

High blood pressure?

Again, one in ten women.

Can you imagine if one in ten men had PCOS? It would be the most well-researched condition on earth. Going to the doctor would mean that testing for PCOS is one of the first things they do. There would be awareness for PCOS. Treatments would be readily available and covered by health insurance. And so on.

But women are left to suffer because, why? The female body is just not considered important in medicine, yet it's the one people want to control the most. Almost half of the earth's population is female, yet our health is not a priority. If that doesn't make anyone want to go crazy, then I don't know what will.

[lesorus]

having PCOS is some special kind of hell only a biological woman will ever have to deal with. you'll basically be told that you're at risk for cancer, diabetes, you're infertile, you'll get hirsutism, your hair is thin, your periods painful and irregular, you're constantly tired, constantly hungry, you're always in some kind of pain or discomfort, you might eat less than you need and still gain weight.

you'll be told the only thing you can do about it is diet and exercise, which is fair, it works, but you literally are at risk for high insulin resistance and fatigue as symptoms. you can only swim against the current. now, you can also take birth control pills but they don't solve any of your real problems, they just hide them and if anything the second you stop taking them your health will get worse.

And did I talk about mental health? well, you're at high risk for depression, anxiety, insomnia, and eating disorders. fun right? and it's not some obscure disorder, 10% of women have PCOS. It's a common ailment, you'd think it's well-researched, that OB-GYNS are experienced in treating it, or at least empathetic. Right?

No, literally no. Nobody cares, you have to be your own doctor, go to Reddit for information, and look up research papers. You trust tiktokers more than your medical providers because the best they're gonna do is tell you to take a pill that won't be that effective, diet, and come back when you're pregnant. Oh, your pain is unbearable? Just take some paracetamol. You can't seem to lose weight? Get a grip, you just need to eat 0 carbs and exercise every day, and lift weights. Get some laser treatment for your facial hair while you're at it. You're tired all the time? Doesn't seem that serious, everybody is.

Or worse. Oh, your labs come out fine, you're fine. You have a healthy BMI, what are you worried about? You get a period every 40-ish days so it's not that bad. Not that you're barely eating, exhausted all the time, in severe physical pain, and emotionally distressed. You'll be able to have kids! Cheer up!

And all this? Because the medical industry doesn't care about women.

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

speaking of Pearl Davis--and speaking as someone who finds the current "fat positivity" movement morally repugnant--one thing that really irks me about the redpill space's view of women is this idea that whatever a man can achieve through exercise, a woman can also achieve the exact same way in the same time frame.

a healthy exercise regimen for a woman looks like daily walks and strength training 2-3x per week. she should not be doing HIIT often, and especially not on her period, but she probably won't be getting a period at all if she trains the same way a gym bro does.

a healthy and sustainable rate of weight loss for a woman looks like 2 lbs per week. when I hear a woman say she dropped 20 lbs in a month, I know she's either going to gain it all back or encounter chronic health issues (like my very own gallstone, which women develop at a rate nearly 3 times higher than men).

Women metabolize more lipids, and correspondingly less carbohydrates and proteins, than equally trained and nourished men. Females tend to have a greater proportion of body fat than men, which is stored in the gluteal-femoral region in women compared with the visceral area in men. Total cross-sectional muscle area is 60%–85% lower in women than in men, and greater muscle mass activation requires increased need to replenish stores and increased glycogen breakdown turnover. Males have greater skeletal muscle mass, and women have more body fat. There is also an overall increased left ventricular end-diastolic volume in males compared with that found in females.

also noted in the study is the decreased insulin sensitivity some people experience after a HIIT workout, and I would argue insulin resistance is women's greatest hurdle when it comes to losing weight

we were designed to store fat to sustain ovulation and pregnancy. it is not only easier for us to gain it and harder for us to shed it than it is for a man, the very strategies that work for a man may work against a woman.

[narrator-navigator-storyteller]

Y'know, this might be me talking out of my ass, it's like midnight, but I keep seeing this whole thing where radfems are so afraid to acknowledge that intersex people can be women. Like, even outside of their transphobia, especially their transmisogyny, they just have this idea that intersex = not woman. And I think I've figured out what brand of intersexism this is.

The parts of conservative society radfems love, specifically the bioessentialism, are the same parts that hate the idea of intersex people not only existing, but being mixed in with 'normal' people. With women, or those perceived as women, that pretty much means that we are entirely boiled down to the fact that we have a uterus. Hell, radfems even love using the term 'wombyn', and uterus imagery has become synonymous with feminism.

As such, these people, when they hear 'intersex', do not think of them as being capable of having a uterus. If you have a uterus, or have ever had a uterus, you are a woman. And so when conditions like NCAH, PCOS, and other non-obvious-at-birth conditions are referred to as intersex, this scares them, because people with these conditions can, in some cases, still have children. These disorders being intersex would mean that they cannot filter intersex women out into another sector of society by possession of a uterus, or ability to have children.

This hits people from two sides. On one side, you have the obvious, more widely acknowledged (within queer and specifically trans spaces) issue, which is that not everyone with a uterus is a woman, and not every woman has a uterus. This is, and still remains, an incredibly important point to combat transmisogyny; we cannot let feminism boil down to bioessentialism.

But on the other hand, these radfems are also being absolute idiots, even by their own standards, because they're alienating so-called 'true women'. Using myself as an example, I was born with perfectly normal AFAB anatomy. However, excessively high cortisol levels paired with insulin-resistance related hyperandrogenism made me develop a mixed puberty, and multiple doctors have agreed that my chance of having a normally-functioning uterus is shot. And let me tell you, there is fucking grief when you want to fight for women's rights, and do still consider yourself to partially be a woman, and the imagery around you is all surrounding something you can not have.

These people are scared because with non-obvious-at-birth intersex conditions, they cannot immediately recognize us and make us conform. By the time we're aware of our condition, we will have opinions on how to treat it. And so they try to take away what little community we have by saying we're not really intersex, and that these are normal conditions (especially those sentiments are targeted at female-related conditions like NCAH and PCOS), while simultaneously making their spaces incompatible with us.

I don't know, I got a bit ranty, but I'm getting really sick of being told that I'm "just like every woman" when I have not been allowed to be a woman since I was in 5th grade.