Episode 40: The one about PCOS ft. Julie Duffy Dillon

“If you live with PCOS, you too can reject diet culture, you can recover from an eating disorder, you can make peace with food.”- Julie Duffy Dillon, RD

In this week’s episode Hannah and Ali talk all things PCOS. These are four little letters that carry A LOT of weight stigma and misinformation. This is a topic so important that Hannah and Ali had to bring in the ultimate expert, Julie Duffy Dillon to tackle these questions. Julie’s work as a Registered Dietitian and PCOS clinician has helped hundreds of clients find freedom from diet rules while helping them find peace from the painful symptoms of PCOS. To start off Julie breaks down what the heck Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) even is. 

• Is it possible to intuitively eat and manage your PCOS at the same time?

• How do you eat to reduce inflammation?

• Is cutting out gluten, dairy and processed foods a good place to start for PCOS and inflammation management?

• Do I need to lose weight to increase my fertility with PCOS?

• Are there ways to manage PCOS and increase my chances at fertility if weight loss is impossible?

It should come as no surprise that diet culture has wrapped its hands around PCOS and is leading people to believe their bodies and their choices are to blame. This week’s episode cuts through these lies, will be worth a second and a third listen… but here’s the bottom line: Your body is not the problem, diet culture is.