PCOS and perimenopause: why your symptoms get worse in your 40s. Dr Sital Khistriya explains PMOS, insulin resistance, weight gain, fertility, mood changes, and why menopause does not switch PCOS off.

In this episode of The Forties Formula, Jasmin Dhillon and Amanda Lim are joined by women's health physician Dr Sital Khistriya to unpack one of the biggest changes in women's health in decades, the proposed renaming of PCOS to PMOS.

Experts now believe we have been treating PCOS as an ovarian condition when it is actually a lifelong metabolic disorder driven mainly by insulin resistance. This shift has huge implications for diagnosis, fertility, pregnancy, perimenopause, menopause, cardiovascular health, and how millions of women are treated around the world.

Chapters

00:00 Have We Been Misunderstanding PCOS All Along?