Ehh. Not to sound pretentious or anything, but it’s really not wild at all. Quite normal. I think whatever societal…idk…whatever the fuck stigmas have evolved over the centuries make it seem wild. But it’s really not.
And I’m probably gonna sound like an even more ahole, but essentially, it’s really no different than when something starts screwing up with men. I’m just using as much rational deduction as I can here, but we know PCOS usually is jumpstarted with insulin being all out of whack. Usually it’s with overweight women.
BUT… it’s also prevalent with women who are in the “normal” weight range. Now maybe I just haven’t done enough research, and I like to think I have, but I have yet to really come across reports of women in any type of strength sport, or just…who do regular resistance training and other cardiovascular activities REGULARLY, who have or are exhibiting PCOS or it’s symptoms. I’m leaving out the use of steroids and what not because that’s it’s own…thing.
My theory? The farther away a woman gets from having decent amounts of healthy body fat AND crucial muscular mass, the more bullshit she has to deal with concerning her hormones. And that’s not just for the ladies, all the guys can fall in line as well. Same issues can be occurring, but due to biological differences different amount of hormones will be affected.
I like to use this analogy of trains. You’ve got one powered by coal (males), and one powered by steam/water (females), both are trains (humans), and their inner workings follow the same mechanics (biological functions), steam train has a few different compartments (female reproductive system), and the coal train seems to also have these said differing compartments as well (male reproductive system). Both are made of metallic elements (bones, muscle, LBM, etc.). Both need an energy source (food), and both use heat to turn that energy into different energy.
See where I’m going with this? Us males and females are both trains. Structurally similar. Our systems run very similar as well. It’s just those specific compartments we need a better understanding of. They’re not difficult to figure out by any means. When they break down, they typically break down in similar ways, but say…one train is leaking hot water, the other oil. From a broken pipe let’s say (we can like this to being generally out of shape, chronically overweight, poor diet, etc.) A lot of people might think “oh, I’m seeing water spilling out it’s got to be because of xyz!” Or “Oh! I see oil leaking! It’s because of this, this, and that!” Mmm no. It’s because of a broken pipe (you can really get into this analogy and be like “Trains typically experience broken pipes from excessive amount of pressure, etc.” Liken it to that bit I was talking about from being overweight. You know, things humans are typically inclined to become.) Whatever is leaking out doesn’t matter per say. It’s gonna leak regardless, what matters is that we fix the broken pipe.
Does that make sense?
