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Free Public Talk - Learning to Live Well with PCOS - March 31, 2021

FREE TALK: March 31, 2021 @ 5:00PM PST - Dr. Jerilynn Prior discusses learning to live well with PCOS. Hosted by the UBC Women's Health Initiative. To register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScoLZAs2p2Acv30U9wHiBJUJIKvRjYGaDoeG23uRr6rKAu3oQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

 

Learning Objectives:

  1. Background on the diagnosis, changes and prevalence of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
  2. The paradoxical origins and hormones of PCOS
  3. Why cyclic progesterone may revolutionize PCOS treatment

Short Summary:   Ten percent of all women in the population have Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) that is characterized by not ovulating normally and having too high men’s type hormones (anovulatory androgen excess).  PCOS causes far apart periods, pimples and facial hair plus risks for weight gain, diabetes, endometrial cancer and infertility as well as anxiety and depression https://www.cemcor.ca/resources/healing-menstrual-cycle-pcos.  Birth control pills are now the main treatment; The Pill  but benefits for acne and cycles don’t last when they are stopped; nor does it  improve weight or fertility. New evidence shows women’s other ovary hormone, progesterone, can not only give regular cycles but may lead to recovery of all PCOS problems  https://helloclue.com/articles/cycle-a-z/the-case-for-a-new-pcos-therapy.

Extra Resources

Estrogen’s Storm Season: Stories of Perimenopause

Estrogen's Storm Season

by Dr. Jerilynn C Prior

New second edition available

Estrogen’s Storm Season is now available in BOTH print and eBook (Mobi and ePUB) versions!

All royalties are recieved in our Endowment fund (overseen by UBC) and support CeMCOR's research and future.

It is full of lively, realistic stories with which women can relate and evidence-based, empowering perimenopause information. It was a finalist in 2006 for the Independent Publisher Book Award in Health.

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Paperback copies (with updated insert) still available here.

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