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Chapter 2 – All About PCOS & Ovarian Cysts
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Chapter 2 – All About PCOS & Ovarian
Cysts
Section One – The Truth About PCOS & Ovarian Cysts
What Is PCOS?
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) is a metabolic, hormonal, ovulation and
insulin disorder related condition that affects one in 10 women. In a normal
menstrual cycle, follicles grow on the ovaries and eggs develop within those
follicles. After a certain period of time, only one of those eggs reaches
maturity sooner than the other eggs. When this egg reaches maturity it is
released into the fallopian tubes. The other follicles that have not matured
then dissolve back into the ovary.
However, under certain conditions (genetic, hormonal imbalance and insulin
resistance being some, but not all, of these conditions), the ovaries are larger
than normal, and there are several follicles that do not reach maturity but
appear in clumps. These are polycystic ovaries. Women who have PCOS also
experience, in addition to the formation of polycystic ovaries, an array of
symptoms, also referred to as a syndrome.
While a woman can have polycystic ovaries without suffering from PCOS, all
women with PCOS will have polycystic ovaries.
PCOS is a complex condition in which numerous underlying factors in basic
body processes have been disrupted. Since the human body is a unified
whole, a disorder in one area will ultimately lead to problems in other areas.
This is why it is important to treat PCOS and ovarian cysts as a systemic
disorder (in other words treat the disorder holistically) rather than treat it as a
problem concerned solely with your ovaries.
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