#58 Is There A Best Diet For PCOS? with Melissa Groves Azzaro

<p>In episode 58 of the podcast, I had the honour of speaking with Melissa Groves Azzaro. Melissa always posts such great and real content about PCOS and diet on her Instagram, so I was so excited to have her on the podcast to talk about diet for PCOS because it is a very popular topic in the PCOS community. So in this episode, Melissa will be busting plenty of PCOS diet myths, providing us with some real research and ultimately answering the frequently asked question, 'is there a best diet for PCOS?'</p> <p>Find out</p> <ul><li>Melissa's story and approach to treating PCOS [00:06:20]</li> <li>Do you need to avoid gluten and dairy for PCOS? [00:13:50]</li> <li>Should you avoid refined/simple carbs like white rice for PCOS? [00:22:28]</li> <li>Should you follow intermittent fasting for PCOS? [0026:33]</li> <li>How many grams of protein should you be eating [00:31:28]</li> <li>Diet and nutrition tips to take care of the thyroid and the gut [00:37:27]</li> <li>PCOS Power Foods [00:43:22]</li> <li>Should you do seed-cycling? [00:46:26]</li> <li>You don't have to strive for the perfect PCOS Diet [00:48:49]</li> <li>Melissa's final piece of advice [00:51:40]</li> </ul> <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 irregular cycles and PCOS women in mind, so it is able t