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Polycystic Ovary
Syndrome (PCOS)
Taking It On the
Ovaries (TOCS)
Majid Ali,
M.D.
In this article, I introduce a term that you are
likely to think absurd. Below I present four case
histories, three of teenagers and the fourth of a
young woman. After you read them, please consider
telling me if you still consider the term absurd
(my e-mail is aliacademy7@gmail.com). The term is
“Taking It On the Ovaries” (TOCS). My purpose in
inventing this diagnostic name is to jolt the
readers—women who have taken it on their ovaries
from their doctors and the doctors who gave it to
them without consiedring the consequences of their
drug treatments. Strong words? Yes. This is a
serious subject and words can have shock value.
Case One
The mother of a 15-year-old girl consulted me for
her daughter. Following are the main clinical
features of this case: the patient developed ear
infections as a toddler and was administered
multiple courses of antibiotics. The pediatrician
did not think it was necessary to order allergy
testing even though the mother suspected their
presence. A surgeon removed her adenoids (protective
lymph tissue in the back of the throat), also
without considering allergy testing. More
antibiotics. She became tired. At age ten she began
menstruating and developed severe PMS symptoms. She
was given potent synthetic hormones to control PMS.
Within months, she became irregularin menstruation
and missed her periods for up to three months at a
time. She suffered abdominal bloating and cramps.
Next she developed chest pain. A pediatric
cardiologist could not find anything wrong and
prescribed medication which the mother refused. Next
disturbing symptom was dizziness, for which her
mother consulted a pediatric neurologist at a New
York University hospital, who diagnosed dysautonomia
(a derangement of the autonomic nervous system which
controls heart rhythm, blood pressure, and
temperature). More prescriptions folloed. She
developed facial acne and facial hair. Within some
months, she grew hair on her chest, abdomen, thighs,
and legs. That led to severe mood shifts for which
she was referred to a psychotherapist. The “talk
therapy” proved to be a cruel joke.
For continuing menstrual and pelvic pain, a
gynecologist ordered a pelvic ultrasound and
rewarded her with the diagnosis of Polycystic Ovary
Syndrome (PCOS). Blood testosterone and insulin
levels were not done (the two tests that would have
revealed the heavy metabolic price she had paid as
she continued to “take it on her ovaries” from a
marching army of doctors. Why did the doctors not
see what is so self-evident?
Case Two
A 16-year-old accompanied her mother arrived to our
Institute with a diagnosis Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
(PCOS). The mother recalled that her pediatrician
had prescribed steroids for persistent cough (nearly
always a clear clue to mold allergy). She was
chronically constipated and listless. Food and mold
allergy test were not performed. Her mother also
recalled that she received six to eight courses of
antibiotics “for years.” Allegra and mucinex for
allergic symptoms were freely used. She suffered
disabling menstrual cramps at menarche and within
months developed menstrual irregularity, missing
periods for up to three months at a time. Some
months later, she developed numbness in her fingers
and toes (usually signs of insulin toxicity in such
clinical setting) and irritability. When she
developed facial and bodily hair, the diagnosis of
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome was made with a pelvic
ultrasound. Her blood testosterone level was high at
57.8 ng/dL. I learned that her mother was also
diagnosed with PCOS, and was one of her older
sisters.
Not surprisingly, she and her family did not know
how she “took it on her ovaries” from her doctors.
Why did the doctors not see what is so self-evident?
Because they believe there is no science behind
integrative therapies for reversing PCOS? Why is
that so? Because the editors of their journals on
the payroll of men of money in medicine told them
that is so? What is the real science behind such
therapies? In 1998, I as the editor of The Journal
of Integrative Medicine devoted the entire hormone
issue to this problem.
Case Three
The third case is of a 21-year-old student who
consulted me with the diagnosis of Polycystic Ovary
Syndrome.dhood, she suffered frequent ear infections
and received multiple courses of antibiotics. Later
she developed most of the clinical features of the
illness of the two teenagers described above. Like
the doctors of the other two, her doctors had not
bothered to diagnose and treat mold, food, and
pollen allergies. The test performed at our
Institute revealed high levels of allergy.
Is PCOS and loss of menstruation in young women
reversible? In most cases, absolutely yes. In 1998,
my colleagues and I published conclusive evidence
for this in The Journal of Integrative Medicine.
Case Four
The day I saw the 15-year-old girl with PCOS (Case
1) I wanted to coin a provocative diagnostic label
for PCOS to warn the unsuspecting parents of
teenagers and young women who are mindlessly drugged
for PCOS by their clueless doctors. Real causes of
PCOS remain undetected and untreated. Their mold and
food allergies, yeast overgrowth, addressed: gut
fermentation, mold toxins that poison mitochondrial
ATP energy-producing enzymes, the development of
leaky gut state, and impaired liver detox remain
unsuspected and un-addressed. The words “taking it
on the ovaries” sprang up. I asked a man what
“taking it on the chin” means. “Taking the punches
and staying up,” he explained. I knew “taking it on
the ovaries” was the right label for PCOS.
Later I told a woman about my intention of writing
an article entitled “Taking It On the Ovaries” and
explained why the words seemed appropriate to me.
She listened, chuckled, then turned somber and said,
“My God, my sister went exactly through the problems
you described and was later diagnosed with
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.”
PCOS
Course Readings
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PCOS Course
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Polycystic Ovarian
Syndrome (PCOS)
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Women's Testosterone Toxicity Syndrome
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The Age of
Gender Devolution—Boylike Girls. Girl-like Boys,
Men-like Women, and Women-like Men.
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PCOS -
Taking It On the Ovaries (TOCS)
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Truth
About the Epidemic of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
(PCOS)
—Taking It On the Ovaries (TOCS)
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Sex Hormones
and Health -
Five-Dimensional Hormone-Thinking
k The Ovaries
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SEX
HORMONE HEALTH - Five-Dimensional Hormone-Thinking
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http://wiki-medical.org/hormones_dysox.htm
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http://wiki-medical.org/oxygen_liver.htm
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