Some Ayurvedic swaps to help you manage PCOS better

Tea or coffee with herbal tea: Coffee and tea contain caffeine that increases inflammation and worsens PCOS. Instead, drink herbal tea as it helps maintain hormonal balance and reduces inflammation.

Cold water with warm water: Warm water helps your body detox along with improving metabolism while cold water dampens metabolism and leads to various gut issues.

 

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Fruit juices with fruits: Eating fruits helps in the slow release of insulin and maintains normal blood sugar while drinking juice can increase insulin resistance, especially when the juice contains sugar.

Carbonated drinks with buttermilk: Buttermilk improves metabolism. Also, it is gut friendly and supports hormonal balance as compared to carbonated drinks which cause hormonal imbalance and weight gain.

Refined flour and processed foods with millets: Millets like jowar, ragi, amaranth, buckwheat, etc are easy to digest but maida (refined flour) is difficult to digest, low in nutrition, and causes more inflammation.

Swap junk foods with millets. (Photo: Freepik)

White sugar with jaggery: White sugar is just calories without nutrition. Also, it delays the healing process. Switching to jaggery or honey provides nutrition; and honey also helps with weight loss.

Sedentary lifestyle with exercise: A sedentary lifestyle is one of the major causes of weight gain leading to PCOS. Any kind of movement/exercise helps you lose weight and stay active besides balancing hormones.

Staying up late at night with waking up early: Sleeping late at night can disrupt hormones and increase vayu, which can make you feel grumpy and anxious. On the other hand, waking up early makes you feel positive, and energetic and also motivates you to do exercise. Also, it sets circadian rhythm which definitely plays a huge role in healing PCOS.

Adding, Dr Yogini Patil, BAMS and nutritionist, LivLong said that in order to manage PCOS, one needs to be mindful of making lifestyle changes to balance out the doshas. “The Ayurvedic approach to treating PCOS includes dietary changes like consuming a balanced and nourishing diet, increasing the intake of bitter and astringent vegetables, reducing carbohydrates, eating light meals in the evenings, and avoiding foods that aggravate pitta, like fried, spicy, and sour foods. Furthermore, Ayurvedic treatment for PCOS typically emphasises lifestyle and dietary transitions as well as therapies like yoga, breathing exercises, and meditation. By addressing the underlying causes of PCOS, like stress and hormonal imbalance, these changes hope to re-establish equilibrium in the body,” she said.

Medha Singh, Ayurveda Expert and CEO, Juvena Herbals, shared some Ayurvedic tips to keep in mind:

*Light exercise.
*Active lifestyle.
*Sleeping and waking up in a disciplined manner.
*Adopting appropriate eating habits.
*Reduce stress.

Consume herbs such as Shatavri, Ashwagandha, Vidarikand, and ghee to regulate PCOS, she suggested.

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