Episode 29: Treating infertility in women with the Ketogenic Diet

Female infertility is a heart breaking condition for many couples.  Long before a woman or a couple decide they need to see a reproductive endocrinologist they should look at the underlying cause, which for most women is insulin resistance. If you take care of that, something that the Ketogenic way of life is tremendously effective with, then you may not need further medical intervention. Join me in this discussion of PSCOS in Women and what to do about it, and its parallel condition in men.   Show links/Citations:Role of hyperinsulinemia in the pathogenesis of the polycystic ovary syndrome: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9165656  Myo-inositol effects in women with PCOS: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29042448  Review Metformin and troglitazone in the treatment of female infertility associated with polycystic ovarian syndrome:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21105563  High-Fat, High-Sugar Diet Disrupts the Preovulatory Hormone Surge and Induces Cystic Ovaries in Cycling Female Rats:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29308444 Review Myo-inositol supplementation reduces the amount of gonadotropins and length of ovarian stimulation in women undergoing IVF: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30078122  What may be the markers of the male equivalent of polycystic ovary syndrome?:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15209536Buy C8Keto MCT Oil on AmazonOur Facebook Group Keto NaturopathUntil next time, Dr. Karl