#53 How Nutritional Therapy Can Help PCOS with Isabel Dawkes

<p>Diet and lifestyle are two key components to take into consideration when looking to treat PCOS.</p> <p>In episode 53, I speak with Isabel Dawkes, a Nutritionist (Reg Nutritional Therapist July 2020), qualified PT and trained chef, about how nutritional therapy can help PCOS. . Isabel delves into how to use diet and lifestyle to balance your hormones and naturally reverse your PCOS symptoms.</p> <p>Find out</p> <ul><li>Isabel's PCOS journey</li> <li>What nutritional therapy is</li> <li>Things that can impact our hormones</li> <li>Should you avoid Carbs for PCOS</li> <li>Importance of fats for hormones and PCOS</li> <li>What a PCOS friendly plate looks like</li> <li>Exercise for PCOS- finding the right exercise for you.</li> <li>Tips, Strategies and Lifestyle Factors to Balance Hormones</li> </ul> <p>.</p> <p>I really enjoyed chatting with Isabel, she busted plenty of PCOS myths and identified really simple and sustainable changes that can be implemented to help with hormonal balance and treating PCOS. But as Isabel stresses in this interview, we are all different, so you have to delve deeper, experiment, try new things, until you find an approach, a way of eating and exercise routine that works for you. </p> <p>.</p> <p>Podcast Sponsors</p> <p>Mira</p> <p>This episode is brought to you by Mira, a company that helps women track their actual hormone levels so they know exactly when their fertile and infertile days are.</p> <p>As a woman with PCOS who has previously suffered from irregular cycles, I know how difficult it can make tracking your cycles.</p> <p>Not only this, some PCOS women have constantly high luteinizing hormone (LH) levels that can be as much three times the normal range. This can in turn lead to false readings when using things like Ovulating Predictor Kits because they might not detect a surge in luteinizing hormone as levels are constantly high. But not with Mira. Mira is an Artificially Intelligent-driven fertility device that has been designed with irreg