Polycystic Ovaries Syndrome

Treated with Diet and Exercise

This is about the Effect of a Hypocaloric Diet with and without Exercise training on Body Composition, Cardiometabolic Risk Profile, and Reproductive Function in Overweight and Obese Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

When people are overweight from Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), it is a standard feature to try to have the addition of exercise to diet be the most important function that can be done in these individuals. This study was out to prove how well such a thing would be successful on weight loss.

It appears that people who entered in this study did everything as they were exactly told in terms of diet, exercise and then had subsequent measurements of all the cardio vascular risk factors.

There was shown to be some improved body composition in that there was increased muscle mass, but there was no additional effect on improvements in cardiometabolic, hormonal, and reproductive outcomes relative to diet and this exercise.

Once again it shows that the power of a genetic or metabolic syndrome is genetically strongly related and is going to thwart all the standard treatments that experts have forced everybody to consider i.e. the presence of diet and exercise to get your weight down. It just doesn’t work very well.
“Dr. Joe”, J. Joseph Prendergast, MD

J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2008 Jun 26. [Epub ahead of print]