Women's Health

The internet loves to make women with PCOS afraid of coffee. Usually the argument goes something like this:coffee increases cortisol, cortisol worsens PCOS, therefore coffee must be bad for PCOS. In reality…I think this conversation has lost a lot of nuance. When we actually zoom out and look at the research on coffee overall, the picture becomes much more complicated than “coffee spikes cortisol therefore never drink it again.” In fact, some of the strongest evidence we have

One of the hardest parts about perimenopause is that you often do not recognize yourself anymore. You feel more anxious, more reactive, more exhausted, less resilient, and often like something has shifted in your body or brain seemingly overnight. The biggest thing I hear in my office is:“I just don’t feel like myself anymore”, and that can be a really frustrating place to live in. At the same time, you’re trying to navigate an overwhelming amount of information online. On on

If you have PCOS, there’s a good chance you waited months, sometimes years, to finally get answers. When you finally get to that appointment you've waited forever for, you’re told… you can take the pill, and “You just need to lose weight.” When you ask how to do that the recommendation is generally “just eat less, and move more”. “Cool thanks…”, not very helpful advice. When you’re stuck in the PCOS cycle, you are usually already exhausted. Your energy is low, your cravings