London Personal Trainer PCOS And Weight Loss Part 1

You may have PCOS! Below is a very brief over view of training and supplementation you could use to control it. This is not the gospel to PCOS please do as much research as possible.

If you haven’t been diagnosed with it and your curious about other symptoms . These are some symptoms of PCOS (polycistic ovarian syndrome).

• Irregular or no periods
• problems getting pregnant (because of irregular ovulation or failure to ovulate)
• excessive hair growth
• weight gain
• thinning hair and hair loss
• oily skin or acne

Now, there are many other symptoms and factors involved with PCOS which reach far beyond my field of training. So I wanted to speak about PCOS from a diet and fitness training point of view.

If your personal trainer has been struggling to get you results it may be that your PCOS is the difference between success and failure. Over the last 6 months I’ve spent extensive time into researching how this may effect my results with female clients. Every now and then there is a client that just doesn’t get the result that i am expecting. Constantly wanting to improve my results with clients and knowledge for myself – I realised that PCOS might be restricting the result you can achieve with a female client.

What I can say for sure is the supplement range you may need to control it, is quite varied. I would recommend mixing up and alternating your supplements for best results alongside your training program’s.

As my partner has PCOS a lot of the supplementation protocols have been trial and error on my and hers.  First thing I would recommend is starting from scratch with the absorption of your supplements.

3 detoxes to consider which aid in absorption of your supplements;

There are several ways of attacking these, taking  supplements and food based.

Some great foods for the liver are grapefruits, walnuts, avocados and garlic….. There’s a few more but these are the core group.

There’s also a Charles Poliquin liver detox which takes a few months to complete but I can also highly recommend.

Interms of gut health you should be looking at a daily probiotic with at least 50 million bacteria in it. Also a good 20-30 grams of fibre a day (at night). Also to improve the health of the gut lining try a good daily dose of L-Glutamine which is an amino acid that makes up the lining of the gut – a healthy gut makes for proper supplement absorption.

Heavy metal detoxing – this can be as simple as removing jewellery which slowly over time seeps its metals into your body. The body which doesn’t recognise the metal compounds wraps it up in adipose tissue (fat cells) and stores it away. This kind of fat storage is notorious as tough to lose and hard to stimulate for energy use.

A good way of metal detoxing and getting rid of it is a spirulina – mixing it with cherry or pineapple juice. The spiurlina binds to the metals and drags them out through the body’s normal discharging ways.

Once you have reset your body so to speak in terms of detoxes you can then a look at these supplements to start.

A good quality multi vitamin to bind and carry out toxins from the body.

Antioxidants – a great powerful anti-oxidant and every day spice is turmeric / curcumin. Curcumin is actually what gives turmeric it’s bright colour. It is however a powerful anti-oxidant and is great for flushing out toxins which aids in fat loss.

Sufficient intake of zinc and magnesium.

Zinc is great for repair, brain function and close to a 100 hormone functions. If you have a magnesium deficiency the list is endless, bone disorders, diabetes, chronic inflammation and high body fat just to name a few.

I would also recommend a product that is what id call “complete” i.e it comes with several supplements blended to produce the best result. These supplements are available from myself as are all the supplements mentioned here. But the one stop blends are made by Charles Poliquin and include:

Estro Shield PX (for estrogen detoxification).

Insulinomics (for insulin sensitivity in the body).

Fenuplex (for insulin sensitivity in the body.

Another great anti-estrogen that is readily available is Broccoli or its broken down make up “DIM” (which is a available as a supplement)  this is the best natural anti-estrogen around and every trainer in the know who regularly trains women should know this! (Many don’t! choose your trainer wisely).

So for information on supplements and detoxifying the body or for training please contact me directly via the contact form. All supplements mentioned in this piece are available from my website.

Look out for part 2 and part 3 of this blog coming soon and for all my other blogs.