29/03/2025
MY EXPERINECES WITH LOW CARB DIET / PALEO DIET IN WOMEN TO TREAT INFERTILTY .
Dr.Sumathi Raja MD ,DGO , MRM (UK ), DRM ( Germany )
No of years using it a tool to treat infertilty and other issues in women - 10 years or more .
Place where patients are treated - Mrs hospital & fertillity centre , Vallar street , venkatesa colony , Pollachi . 642001
Coimbatore district .
Phone 94866 04455 ,
9843903000
Pioneers who taught me this diet -
Mr. Neander Selvan
Mr. Sivaram jagdesan
Dr. Raja Ekamabram .
How many got benefited by this diet ?
Many people . Say many thousands to lakhs are benfited . I will share the statistics later .
Phone - 94866 04455 ,
Phone - 9843903000 .
First let me tell you causes of infertilty .
Causes for infertility -
Male - semen parameters
Female - uterine pathology like uterine fibroid , adenomysosis or thin endometrium
Ovarian pathology . In the o***y it is mainly ovarian harmones and the related pathology - PCOD and endometriosis.
Tubes - blockage by tuberculosis , infection or endometriosis .
Male - semen analysis .
Once semen analysis is normal . Minimum 15 million count and normal motility , if that is normal then we need not worry about male .
MY BATTLE WITH FEMALE HARMONES OF MY PATIENTS-
Now harmones which are tested for infertility ?
Harmones which are affected in infertility for females which are tested are
1 . FSH - secreted by brain which controls the estrogen levels directly and indirectly .
2. LH - secreted by brain , controls and corrects the progesterone levels on the o***y . LH is the mother of progesterone levels .
3. Estrogen - secreted by o***y
4. . Estrogen can also be secreted by fat cells also . That is why fat men gets gynocomatsia because they have excess estrogen .
4. Progesterone - secreted by o***y
5. Prolactin - secreted by brain .
6. Testosterone - secreted by o***y . Normally o***y produces very less testosterone , o***y is dominated by estrogen for the first 14 days of menstrual cycle and then ovulation and then next 14 days progesterone .The most troubled harmone or insulted harmone is progesterone in PCOD or in many infertility cases .
7. thyroid harmones secreted by thyroid gland . Please take your thyroid tables correctly and check them every 3 months . Over doing it and under doing it is also a problem.
8. AMH secreted by o***y .I always use this harmone to identify the cause of infertility . PCOD is identified with this single test . Sometimes USG alone won’t do justice to identifying the PCOD and ovarian pathology .
This AMH also says if the o***y is ageing and should you quicken in treatment for infertilty .
Also AMH is used to identify the success in IVF treatment
Also AMH also used to check if a women really needs IVF .
Also AMH also says if the ladies egg won’t work and if she needs another ladies egg ( donor egg ) to treat her infertility. .
Now coming to the main issue or cause of infertility in Tamilnadu is PCOS every second girl or lady has PCOS . If there are two ladies in your house then one among them will have PCOD .
I can put it other way , all women in the reproductive age is invariably affected by PCOD .
I think the people in the group are already aware of features of PCOD -
1.Obese
2. Irregular periods
3. less duration of bleeding .
4. no periods for 2 to 3 months and once bleeding occurs , it never stops .
5. some people don’t get their periods without tablets .
6. some ladies who are thin also have PCOD - Thin PCOS
7. Hirsuitism is another issue in PCOD women - male distribution of hair .
8. pimples which never goes away also indicates PCOD .
9. what ever low calories food you eat also , you won’t reduce weight . Because your problem is different . Treat the cause .
Most of the above said you must be knowing already .
What is happening in your body when you have PCOD ??
What we don’t realise is that the girl once she suffers PCOD , she is becoming slowly a male type in looks , voice , harmones , ferility also gets affected . Female harmones dominated or replaced by the male harmone testosterone .
So estrogen and progesterone which is secreted by ovaries are dominated or replaced by testosterone the dominating male harmone .
This excess testosterone secretion is by the insulin resistance. That is insulin, once upon a time which is a good harmone , has become a villain in your own body , by your over eating or wrong food habits or lack of excercise or excess carbohydrates .
So how to get rid of PCOD ?
Only answer is take low carb diet .
Same low carb diet helps with minimal modifications and vitamins .
How long to take the diet to correct PCOD with or without infertilty ?
Answer is minimum 3 to 6 months . Max is 1 year.
Can I get rid of PCOD totally ??
Answer is a big no - You can control it . Gets corrected partially or fully depends on your level harmone levels , weight , age and how sincere you are with your diet .
Again you will become the same PCOD once you don’t maintain the diet .
HARMONES -CORRECTED BY LOW CARB DIET -
Now let me tell you what all harmones can be corrected by low carb diet -
AMH harmone - which is very high is PCOD gets corrects by the diet . It is better to keep your AMH bet 2 to 4 ngm . In PCOD it is more than 3.5 some times more than 9 .
Testosterone levels . The main culprit is testosterone level . It is high in PCOD .
The testosterone level gets corrected by the diet say between 3 to 6 months of this diet.
It is better to keep your testosterone level less than 35 ngm .
Next progesterone .Progesterone levels are low in PCOD gets corrects. This is why though some people become pregnant , implantation of the embryo does not happen . This level is low and that is why girls or women don’t get their periods regularly . Once this harmone gets corrected , periods of women is regular .
Now question will be will this harmone improve in the low carb diet - Answer is a big yes .
Insulin resistance is reversible , similarly once you don’t eat carbs or less carbs , insulin resistance reverses , testosterone level decreases , progesterone levels improves .
I’m not writing any single word from the books , I’m writing everything from my own experiences with this diet and infertility .
Also I don’t think so many things are available on the Internet about harmone , low carb diet and infertility .
So the same is with the estrogen harmone also .
Both estrogen and progestone levels improves .
Next question will be -
How do I know my harmones are improving ??
Periods which are 3 months once , the interval becomes shorted slowly and in a longer time , say 6 months to 1 year , depends on the individual here periods slowly gets corrected .
Now
How many months should one follow the diet ?
It depends on your harmone levels . Some gets corrected by 6 months . Some takes one year or even longer .
Can thin woman also have PCOD ?
Yes , but they have the same harmone problems as obese PCOS .
They also will be benefited with this diet .
FIBROIDS-My experiences with fibroid
Can fibroids be corrected by this diet ?
Generally fibroids which protrude into the uterine cavity only causes infertility, that is intramural type . Rest of the type of fibroids do not cause infertility.
But even a small fibroid in the endometrium can cause infertility .
The cause of fibroids are excess abnormal estrogen , the diet can reduce the abnormal estrogen and make the fibroids shrink .Again it might take few months to reduce . Follow up the size of fibroids by scan and look for the improvement .
Huge fibroids have to be removed by surgery .
Subserous fibroids don’t need surgery and don’t need diet also because they don’t inferfere with infertilty .
Intramural types if they don’t cause excess bleeding they don’t need removal . Surgery not nescesary .
Next very soon .
