Updates
on the myo - inositol plus D - chiro - inositol combined therapy in polycystic ovary syndrome.
Unfer V1, Porcaro G. Updates
on the myo - inositol plus D - chiro - inositol combined therapy in polycystic ovary syndrome.
The take home from this is that if you're being prescribed recombinant follicle stimulating hormone (r - FSH) as part of an ovulation induction cycle (either with IVF or IUI), then make sure you're fertility doctor also puts
you on myo - inositol.
If this contradicts what you may have read elsewhere then this is because when I looked at all the studies
on myo - inositol for PCOS, and the combination inositol supplements that contain both myo - inositol and D - chiro - inositol, I considered not just whether these products lead to weight loss or not, but also how much women lose depending on their diagnosis.
Not exact matches
Effects of
myo - inositol versus fluoxetine and imipramine pretreatments
on serotonin 5HT2A and muscarinic acetylcholine receptors in human neuroblastoma cells.
Another study (Artini, DiBerardino, Papini, Genazzani, Simi, Ruggiero, & Cela, 2013) offered similar positive results
on ovarian function, as well as improvement of insulin sensitivity in women with PCOS who were taking
myo - inositol (in this study, the dosage was only 2g per day).
Randomized, double blind placebo - controlled trial: Effects of
myo - inositol
on ovarian function and metabolic factors in women with PCOS.
If you are planning
on trying Pregnitude, you may want to start out with one packet per day (2 g
MYO) for a week to see how you respond.
These researchers also point out that based
on the results of lab studies looking at how
myo - inositol and D - chiro inositol ratios are balanced in the ovary tissue of women with PCOS (Heimark et al. 201410), it's possible that using an overwhelming amount of
myo - inositol over D - chiro - inositol in a 40:1 ratio could «exert paradoxical effects».
Randomized, double blind placebo - controlled trial: effects of
myo - inositol
on ovarian function and metabolic factors in women with PCOS.Europ rev med pharm sci.
The first thing worth keeping in mind is that if you're only (or mostly) interested in taking inositol supplements to help with fertility, you may be just as well off taking a straight
myo - inositol supplement
on its own, rather than buying the more expensive 40:1 combination products.
Randomized, double blind placebo - controlled trial: effects of
myo - inositol
on ovarian function and metabolic factors in women with PCOS.
Comparison between effects of
myo - inositol and D - chiro - inositol
on ovarian function and metabolic factors in women with PCOS.
After reviewing the latest scientific literature at length, it seems fairly certain that both
myo - inositol and D - chiro - inositol supplements can have a positive effect
on our cardiovascular and metabolic health to some extent or other.
As I've already explained above, the latest thinking
on inositol supplements for PCOS is that taking a combined supplement that includes both
myo - inositol and D - chiro - inositol is the best for metabolic health and works just as well as
myo - inositol for improving fertility (Unfer et al. 201641).
For example, during a 3 month trial of
myo - inositol, women who were moderately overweight lost approximately two pounds
on average, while women that were severely obese didn't lose any weight at all (Gerli et al. 20072).
Hi, I am 47 I was diagnosed with PCOS via ultrasound at 27 years old I had the typical strand of pearls (pcos) ovaries and I was not having cycles at all, But I started having regular cycles
on my own at 38 and now at 47 I am having perfect 28 day cycles like clockwork, I am trying to conceive and I read about
MYO increasing egg quality so I started taking it but I am worried that the
MYO inositol might lower my DHEA which is working for me at this age so I started low dose DHEA just 25 mg this cycle and I am not sure if I even ovulated because I am not having the typical progesterone symptoms (sore BBs etc.) that I normally get in the 2ww.
Should I stop the DHEA and
MYO since I was ovulating fine
on my own anyway?..
It contains
myo - inositol... I'm
on metformin for several years now and when I started to get this product changes my menstrual cycle completely!
amitamin ® Ovarifert is a non-drug alternative treatment, based
on ingredients like
myo - Inositol, d - chiro - Inositol and alpha - lipoic acid.
PMID: 19053869 [PubMed — indexed for MEDLINE] and also http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22614760 Protective effect of
myo - inositol hexaphosphate (phytate)
on bone mass loss in postmenopausal women.
explains Stephen Lake, co-founder and CEO of Thalmic Labs
on the motivation behind
MYO.