Antenatal screening is indispensable, but the health system should also research and support the maternal nutritional and metabolic capacity needed through pregnancy, labour and recovery; we do not yet know which additional tests or interventions improve those outcomes.

PMOS protocols target insulin resistance by default. If your androgens are adrenal rather than ovarian, that protocol isn't just unhelpful, it can be working against you.

Cycles change before they stop, shorter, then longer, then absent. Here's the underfueling signal most women, and their doctors, were never taught to read.

PCOS was renamed PMOS in May 2026. The diagnostic criteria haven't moved since 2003, and most hormone panels are still built to miss dysfunction, not catch it.

In 2015, ACOG told doctors to treat the menstrual cycle as a fifth vital sign. Here's what that actually means, the biology connecting your cycle to your energy availability, and the five patterns most women were never taught to read in their own bodies.

Low progesterone doesn't just affect your cycle. It affects your nervous system too. Here's the mechanism linking progesterone, anxiety, and the vagus nerve.

PCOS, endometriosis, and adenomyosis all run in families — but heritability isn't destiny. What the genetics actually show, and why the investigation isn't over.

PCOS has officially been renamed PMOS — polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome. Here's what the name change actually means, why it matters, and how it should change the way the condition is treated.