PCOS: Success Stories with WFPB

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PCOS: Success Stories with WFPB

23 Jul 2021

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Can adoption of Whole Food Plant-Based guidelines help with PCOS? Yes. See PCOS & WFPB.

Has anybody reversed PCOS with WFPB? Yes. See success stories below.

Dr Fuhrman Success Stories

Success Story: Alison Tierney

Alison Tierney successfully tackled PCOS with Whole Food Plant-Based guidelines. She is a board certified nutritionist specializing in oncology nutrition (diet for cancer patients). Her website: Wholesome LLC. Check out her personal story here. Below are a series of videos in which she shares her personal story and PCOS.

(2 mins, 2020) Conquering PCOS with a Plant-Based Diet | Alison's Story

(19 mins, 2020)

This video features Alison Tierney, a WFPB nutritionist specializing in oncology (cancer). When she was in school, her mom had breast cancer and her grandpa had liver cancer. And while she was pursuing business as her undergrad major, her real interest lay in nutrition. After graduating, she switched to nutrition, specializing in oncology.

During her early days of practice, she wasn't WFPB. But she started reading up on literature by herself and gradually came in touch with writings of Dr Fuhrman, Dr Campbell, Dr Greger, … and she started tweaking her own food habits.

Later, when she ran into acne and PCOS and infertility, she decided to become strict with zero meat, zero dairy. And she experienced positive results. Today, she is 100% WFPBand advocates that lifestyle.

Alison Tierney's website: Wholesome LLC

(31 mins, 2020) How Diet Affects PCOS

Dr Barnard discusses PCOS from offset 3:45 to offset 11:05. The rest of the video is an interview with Alison Tierney who successfully tackled PCOS with WFPB.

(2 mins, 2019) Plant-Based Dietitian, Specializing in Cancer & PCOS | Wholesome LLC

A short video in which Alison explains her approach to PCOS and cancer nutrition at Wholesome LLC.

Success Story: Rohini Bajekal

Rohini Bajekal is a WFPB nutritionist in UK. In Sep 2021, she shared her personal struggles with PCOS in Instagram messages: My PCOS Story — From Self-Loathing to Self-Acceptance. She wrote:

September is PCOS Awareness Month. Despite PCOS being the most common endocrine condition to affect women and anyone assigned female at birth, most have never heard of it.

I recently talked about my PCOS journey on an IG Live with my mother @drnitubajekal. It has taken me a long time to share my personal story of living with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and has taken years of processing things myself to be able to do so.

At the age of 20, while studying for finals at university, I developed painful cystic acne, scalp hair loss and mood changes. My mother, a gynaecologist, suggested I may have PCOS but I wasn't ready to hear it and put it down to the stress of exams. Over the next few years, my skin flared up whenever my stressful lifestyle caught up with me. I was on the Pill for heavy periods and each time I tried to come off it, the worsening acne and excess hair growth proved too much to cope with. I constantly sacrificed sleep due to fear of missing out. As a way of coping with anxiety and fatigue, I leant heavily on caffeine, alcohol and sugar often experienced self-loathing, cancelling social engagements when it all got too much. This cycle continued for years.

A turning point in my life came when I moved to Mumbai, India in 2014 for a couple of years. I slept properly, ate nutritious plant-based food, moved my body regularly and found healthier coping mechanisms. I also fell in love and found myself gradually opening up about my anxieties to my partner. For the first time in years, I felt truly energised.

Since getting an official diagnosis (confirmed by scan + blood tests) I have managed my PCOS by focusing on all aspects of my health. A fibre-rich plant-based diet has been the cornerstone but sleep, daily movement, stress management, avoiding alcohol and spending time with people I love has enabled me to thrive. My blood tests are now in the normal range and my periods are regular. Without PCOS, I know I would not be living the life I am today.

I can't wait to share more with you in our book "Living PCOS Free" which is available for pre-order now (link in my bio).

Satvic Movement: Success Stories

Satvic Movement was started by Subah Jain (Subah Saraf). Her own personal story is recounted here: (2018) Living Light Graduate Shining Her Light - Subah Jain. She explains:

What drew you to plant-based/raw food cuisine?

I was drawn to plant-based cuisine because I cured my health problems with it. I grew up on the standard Indian diet, consisting of milk, ghee, wheat, sugar, and very few fruits and greens. I didn’t realize the damage I was doing to my body until I fell sick. By the time I was 17 years old, I was already suﬀering from PCOS, hypothyroidism, excessive hair loss, and weighed about 15 pounds more than I should have. I was taking 6 diﬀerent tablets a day. The fact that I had all these diseases at such a young age was extremely scary. I tried everything under the sun, but nothing worked because I was still eating exactly the same food that was feeding my disease.

My life took a turn when I met a Guru in India, who taught me how to reverse these diseases without medicines, by drastically changing my diet & lifestyle. He recommended that I eliminate all dairy, oils, sugars and processed foods from my diet and eat food straight from Nature, the way it is found naturally, which is mainly raw, alkaline, vegan, water-rich food.

At ﬁrst, I couldn’t believe that changing my food could cure me. Nonetheless, I decided to give it a try, since nothing else was really working anyways. I trashed every single pill I was taking and started following his diet. When I got my blood checked after exactly 3 months, I was no longer suﬀering from the diseases that I had been taking pills for. I lost about 18 pounds, my skin became clear for the ﬁrst time in many years, and my menstrual cycles regulated.

It was clear to me that Mother Nature is not just a powerful healer, but actually the only healer. I wanted to tell everybody that they too can cure their health problems by switching to raw, plant-based, alkaline food. I wanted to scream it out to the world, so I decided to make it my life.

(12 mins, 2021) How I Lost 20 kgs and Reversed 6 Diseases in 4 Months! — Divyata Shah

Video summary: "Watch the healing story of Divyata who was suffering from 6 diseases - PCOD, High BP, Pre-Diabetes, Urticaria, Psoriasis and Migraine. Learn how she lost 20 kgs and reversed her diseases by following a Satvic lifestyle."

Happy Herbovire: Success Stories

Success Stories at Corinne Nijjer Podcast

(2019) Emilly Sonsie — Disordered Eating, IBS, Polycystic Ovaries & A Plant-Based Diet | Corinne Nijjer Podcast #83.
(2019) Geena-Rose Burton — Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Almost Destroyed Geena's Self Confidence, Until She Found A Plant-Based Diet | Corinna Nijjer Podcast #80.
(2019) Oncologist Dietician Alison Tierney Talks Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, Infertility & More | Corinna Nijjer Podcast #86.

(49 mins, 2018) Hermione Reeves — Healing Asthma & PCOS With A Plant Based Diet | Corinne Nijjer Podcast #11

Associated blog article: here.

Video description: "Episode 11 brings yet another truly incredible recovery story, after spending the majority of her life suffering and in chronic pain, Hermione Reeves speaks with us about how a whole food, plant based diet helped her to overcome:"

Constipation
Fibromyalgia
Asthma
Addicted to Pain Killers
Regular Unexplainable Dislocations
Obesity & Difficulty Losing Weight
Rheumatoid Arthritis
(Finally diagnosed with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome)
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
Hormonal Acne
Hay Fever

"Hermione's story is truly heart breaking to listen to which makes her recovery through a low fat, whole food, plant based diet (LFWFPB) even more inspirational."

"Hermione speaks so honestly about her initial resistance to transitioning to a LFWFPB diet, along with her challenges, fears, misguided beliefs, challenges, etc.. prior to making the change and the many, many benefits she experienced as a incredible 'side effect' of consuming a plant based diet."

"Hermione went from requiring up to 6 hospitalisations per year due to ruptured ovarian cysts due to PCOS, and since adopting a LFWFRB diet has finally regulated her menstrual cycle, is no longer in pain and has had no further hospitalisations for ruptured cysts in 12 months!"

"After spending a lifetime requiring medication to manage her asthma, she no longer takes any asthma medication, she no longer experiences hormonal acne, she no longer experiences chronic constipation, no longer taking daily antihistamines to manage chronic hay fever, she's no longer taking pain medication for Fibromyalgia and she's lost 20 kilograms!!!"

"What an AMAZING story!!"

(28 mins, 2018) Naimh Warren — Vegetarian Vs Vegan For Healing PCOS & Food Addiction | Corinne Nijjer Podcast #21

Associated blog article: here.

Video description:

"This week I had the pleasure of interviewing 19 year old Naimh (pronounced 'Neve') Warren who went vegetarian at the age of 14, and was diagnosed with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome at age 16."

"Naimh advised that during her adolescence she experienced irregular periods, difficulty losing weight and had a terrible relationship with food."

"Naimh's PCOS resulted in surgery to remove a large cyst on one of her ovaries and another 25 cysts were present. At 18 years of age, Naimh went vegan and noticed the effects of this lifestyle change within the first week. Naimh claims her skin cleared up almost immediately, she lost 12 kg, found she slept better and 2 years on from going vegan, she had an ultrasound to check on her PCOS and found she had ZERO cysts on her ovaries!!"

(54 mins, 2018) Christine — From Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome & Infertility To Miracle Triplets | Corinne Nijjer Podcast #19

Associated blog article: here.

Video description:

"Christine shares her story of living with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) and infertility and leading to the birth of her miracle triplets!"

"After 8 long years of trying for a baby, Christine stumbled across a vegan Instagrammer who was also struggling with infertility due to PCOS and adopted a plant based diet which helped her to improve her PCOS naturally."

"Christine then went on her own plant based journey alongside conventional IVF treatment to become pregnant with Triplets!"

"Prior to adopting a plant based diet, Christine's periods were so irregular, she was unable to undertake IVF and she attributes the return of her cycle with the adoption of a mostly low fat, whole food, plant based diet."