Prevalence and Features of the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome This article suggests a prevalence as high as 8% of PCOS which puts it as the most common endocrine abnormality of reproductive aged women in the US. PCOS has been linked very strongly to insulin resistance. This link seems to come from elevated insulin affecting 15,20 lyase, […]
Increasing Insulin Resistance is associated with a decrease in Leydig Cell Testosterone Secretion in Men For those of you new to the Updates, consider this a warning that I’m about to go on a verbal rampage. Insulin resistance continues to be associated with almost every ill of industrialized nations–even to the point where the next […]
The understanding is that mainstream medical research takes about 20 years to make it into clinical practice, specialists included (unless it’s blockbuster drug research, in which case it seems to make it to doctors’ offices overnight…). That means that current research I comment on won’t be used appropriately for at least another 2 decades. While […]
