Acne Pcos connection?

Acne Pcos: is there a connection?

Polycystic ovary syndrome is a hormonal imbalanced characterized by irregular menstruation, obesity, infertility, acne and hair growth on the face, chest, and back (hirsutism).

If you have polycystic ovarian syndrome(PCOS),your production of dihydrotestosterone, a metobalite of testosterone, rises. Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) promotes oil production. The oil mixes with skin cells and bacteria, causing inflammation in the skin that can result in pimples.Often acne also on the neck, chest and back.

The most common ways to treate acne in women with PCOS is through the use of spironolactone and birth control pills. Both types of medications require a prescription.

Spironolactone is a diuretic, which gets rid of excess salt and water in the body. It also reduces androgen levels in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).

Birth control pills can control menstrual cycles, reduce male hormone levels, and help to clear acne.

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It is also common for women with polycystic ovary syndrome to be insulin resistant.

Insulin resistance prevents you from ovulating, but also increases your androgen levels, inducing acne.

The researchers, led by Crystal Douglas from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, hypothesized that a low-carbohydrate diet could increase insulin sensitivity, and decrease circulating insulin levels, which in turn decreases levels of insulin-stimulated androgen synthesis.

If you have PCOS i recommend you a low carb diet.

By controlling the amount of carbohydrates that you consume each day, not only you can lose weight, but you can also improve other symptoms, anovulation, hirisutism, and acne.

Controlling carbohydrates to be enormously beneficial to the improvement of my own symptoms.

The low-carb diet "significantly affected concentrations of fasting insulin, cholesterol, free fatty acids, and acute insulin response to glucose, but circulating concentrations of the reproductive hormones were not significantly affected by the intervention," wrote the authors in the journal Fertility and Sterility (Vol. 85, pp. 679-688).

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