PCOS Messages for April, 2001: Re: Environmental connection

Re: Environmental connection

From: Jen (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 4 Apr 2001 01:04:36 -0500 (CDT)

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At Tue, 3 Apr 2001, jodi wrote:

>however, if it were JUST the presence of junk food, then all women would
>have PCOS, and as you can see, they don't. so i think there must be, as
>paula pointed out, a genetic factor as well.
>

Yes, I agree with jodi on that. There are a lot of conditions that have both an environmental and a genetic component, such as asthma, Type II diabetes, migraines, and probably a lot we don't yet know about. I'd say, too, that like others have said, we didn't have a lot of awareness of PCOS until recently, and doctors didn't screen for it (still don't for the most part, until you go in for infertility tx).

This gets to one of my pet peeves: the medical profession takes the male body as the standard, and most doctors are only trained on men's bodies, so of course they're ignorant about how women's bodies work (or don't work). Our bodies are considered "flawed" and "complicated." Yet we're half the species! There has been a growing awareness of women's health in the past ten to twenty years, but it's really still just emerging. If I were rich like Bill Gates, I'd set up a research institute at a well-respected medical school devoted entirely to understanding the female body.

Now, I'll step back down of my soapbox, and say, I do believe that IR and PCOS are related, and the more they find out about PCOS, the more they will understand about IR, so even men will benefit from PCOS research!

-- jennyred

(note: to send me an email, take out the "nospam" I put in my email address. That's in there for the spam-bots.)

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