How PCOS affects weight loss?

PCOS – Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, the name of the disorder itself sounds so dreadful. The symptoms seen with the disorder are even more frightful and enough to put one into depression. Along with irregularities and unusual changes in the menstrual cycle, women are also affected by unusual hair growth and the tendency to gain weight and to obesity. The conditions of many women further deteriorate to having diabetes and hypertension. 

However, the homeopathic medicines for PCOS provide some relief to the affected.

Though the other symptoms are beyond the controls of the affected woman, the doctors and practitioners emphasize on losing weights to curb the symptoms of PCOS. 

Controlling the weight gain becomes a near impossible thing in such cases. PCOS affects the cells and hormones responsible for weight control and weight loss. Let’s see how it affects weight loss:

1.       Role of Insulin and insulin resistance: Researches have shown that the cells secreting insulin in the PCOS affected women become dysfunctional. The cells secret more insulin than the body needs. Thus the additional glucose is stored as fat. Also resistance to insulin is also seen in many women. These women would need more insulin than produced to break down the sugar. In this case the sugar is stored as fat in the body.

2.      Slow Metabolism: Women with PCOS have a slower metabolism i.e. they would not require as much calories per day as the average women would.

3.      Loss on appetite control: Women with PCOS also experience malfunctioning of the hormones like Ghrelin, Cholecystokinin and Leptin that control the hunger and appetite in the body. This can be better understood as that the woman does not feel full and satiated even after taking the full course meal. She still feels hungry, eating more than required. 

The situation becomes a pull and push game between the efforts of the affected woman to reduce her weight and her body with the tendency to gain weight. All thanks to PCOS.

Though there is no such treatment to completely eradicate the disorder, but the treatments can reduce or eliminate the symptoms of PCOS making you feel better.

PCOS treatment in Homeopathy

Homeopathy provides the treatment for PCOS. The PCOS treatment in Homeopathy is a safe and no side –effects treatment. Homeopathic medicines for PCOS extract the disease from the root cause. Hence the medicines need to be administered carefully after thorough investigation of the physical and mental spheres of the patient and careful observations of the changes in the symptoms after the follow up and the medicines. 

Homeopathic medicines for PCOS:

1.       Sepia: Regarded the best medicine for PCOS. Administered for late and scanty menses.

2.      Pulsatilla: For suppressed menses over long duration.

3.      Calcarea Carb: For prolonged and profuse periods.

4.      Thuja Occidentals: For retarded menstrual flow.

5.      Pulsatilla, Kali Carb and Senecio: For suppressed or absent menses

6.      Sepia, Oleum Jecoris Aselli  and Thuja: For excessive hair growth due to PCOS

7.      Sulphur and Silicea: For acne and pimples due to PCOS.

8.      Calcarea Carb, Graphites and Ammonium Carb: For obesity due to PCOS.