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Beyond the Buzz: Where GLP-1s Really Fit in PMOS Care

2026-09-1610:04

📱 Send Us a Text Message! We’d love to hear from you! Please include your name and email address so we can reply. Don’t worry — this won’t sign you up for our email list. We’ll only use your info to respond to your question. Dr. Komal Patil-Sisodia continues the PMOS Awareness Month series by walking through where GLP-1 medications, like semaglutide and tirzepatide, fit into PMOS treatment. She explains what GLP-1s actually do in the body, who is likely to benefit, who they are not built for...

Lean PMOS: Why the Diagnosis Gets Missed Without Weight Gain

2026-09-0910:32

📱 Send Us a Text Message! We’d love to hear from you! Please include your name and email address so we can reply. Don’t worry — this won’t sign you up for our email list. We’ll only use your info to respond to your question. Many people picture PMOS (polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, formerly known as PCOS) as a condition tied to weight gain. But the diagnostic criteria never mention body size at all, and a significant number of people with PMOS have a completely normal BMI. In part ...

PMOS After the Reproductive Years: Why It Doesn't Go Away

2026-09-0213:41

📱 Send Us a Text Message! We’d love to hear from you! Please include your name and email address so we can reply. Don’t worry — this won’t sign you up for our email list. We’ll only use your info to respond to your question. PMOS Awareness Month kicks off with a reframe: PMOS is not a condition that resolves once your cycles regulate or once you're done having kids. It is a lifelong cardiometabolic condition that happens to announce itself first through reproductive symptoms. Dr. Komal Patil...

Perimenopause or Something Else? Bringing Nuance Back to Midlife Symptoms

2026-08-1226:13

📱 Send Us a Text Message! We’d love to hear from you! Please include your name and email address so we can reply. Don’t worry — this won’t sign you up for our email list. We’ll only use your info to respond to your question. Perimenopause is having a cultural moment, and endocrinologist Dr. Komal Patil-Sisodia is glad it is, but in this launch episode of Clearly Hormonal, she pushes back on social media's habit of attributing nearly any midlife symptom to hormones. She defines perimenopause ...

Peptides: Evidence-Based Medicine vs. Social Media Hype

2026-08-0514:48

📱 Send Us a Text Message! We’d love to hear from you! Please include your name and email address so we can reply. Don’t worry — this won’t sign you up for our email list. We’ll only use your info to respond to your question. Endocrinologist Dr. Komal Patil-Sisodia defines peptides as short amino-acid chains (with examples like insulin) and notes that any package or claim stating “contains peptides” is meaningless without knowing which peptide, how it was tested, and what it's proven to do. S...

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