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inCYSTer Michal Hogan recently did a presentation about PCOS at Ohio State University. Michal is a wonderful resource to women in Columbus…if you missed her presentation I strongly encourage you to seek her out for individual counseling. In addition to being PCOS-trained, she is an incredible detective when it comes to working with food sensitivities and allergies. Sometimes those can interfere with your success.

Michal has a lot of success with migraines and fibromyalgia as well, which are common issues occurring with PCOS.

If you'd like to contact Michal, you can call her at 866.396.4438. Or, get to know her at her website, http://www.nutritionresults.com/.

We had a really interesting inquiry from a lactation consultant, who had been trying to find information to give her new mothers of multiple births, regarding how much they need to eat to maintain their own nutrition AND produce enough milk for multiple babies.

We have a great resource for that, inCYSTer Chris Wittmer, in Dayton, Ohio. Chris works for a medical practice that manages high-risk pregnancies. Chris' great answer is posted below. I wanted to share it with our readers, so that others looking for this information don't have to work so hard to find it. Enough of you are undergoing procedures that increase the chances of multiple birth, I wanted to be sure that from beginning to end, mother and babies are well fed!

I linked to the book in case anyone wanted to find it without an inordinate amount of hunting.

Thanks so much, Chris, and I hope this helps!

There are very few"official" recommendations for nutrition for mom while breastfeeding multiples, but Barbara Luke, who is the"guru" of nutrition for pregnancy with multiples has extrapolated some numbers/recommendations for a singleton mom to multiples. They are included in her book:"When You are Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads", 2nd edition, chapter 10.

The overall caloric recommendations are
--1000-1200 calories additional for twins (500-600 calories per baby),
--1500-1800 additional calories for triplets and
--2000 to 2400 additional calories for quads.

For twins her recommendation is 3200 calories/day and 160 g protein/day, keeping the distribution of calories approximately 40% carbohydrate, 20% protein, and 40% fat. Elizabeth Noble recommends about 3000 calories/day for twins (400 extra per baby The calcium needs are the greatest-increasing by 50%, so that would be in the range of 3000 mg/day.

Other important nutrients include Omega 3 fatty acids, Zinc, and Iodine. It is extremely important for mom to eat adequately or her milk supply will be diminished. Eat nutrient dense foods frequently to help get in the needed calories and nutrients and continue to drink adequate fluids-preferably milk, juice or water. I don't know if any of this will be helpful, but as has been said before, it is a subject that has not been addressed adequately in the literature. There is a need since the incidence of multiples is rising.

So many of you women with PCOS also have problems with your thyroids…I decided it was time for all of us to learn more about the issue. I asked Dr. John O'Dea to participate in our professional training, and he is going to talk about the topic.

John O'Dea, MD, was born in the south of Ireland. He was raised and educated in Dublin, where he received his undergraduate and medical education at the National University of Ireland. Upon graduation from medical school, he moved to the US. He served his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at St. Luke's Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. He then went on to receive full training in Endocrinology and Metabolism through a NIH fellowship at Case Western Reserve University. Following the completion of this two-year endocrine fellowship, which involved both clinical and research experience, he moved to the Los Angeles area, where he is in private practice.

I met Dr. O'Dea through a client, who shared that after visiting many, many physicians, he was the one who finally helped her get back into balance. After meeting with him personally, I was excited to know someone was out there who could help the women of inCYST.

The webinar will be broadcast live on Friday, May 19, 2010, at 6 pm Eastern Daylight Time. If you cannot attend, we will be recording the presentation and that recording will be available for sale as well.

You may participate in this activity only, or if you register for the complete inCYST Professional PCOS Training, this lecture is included in the package. Early registration discounts are available for both options.

Click here to register for either option.

This just in from Bolivia…scientists analyzing the breast milk of native women in the Tsimane tribe have found that compared to US women, it is higher in omega-3 fatty acid content. Not just a little bit higher…these native women had 400% more DHA in their breast milk than women living in Cincinnati, Ohio! And, trans-fat levels were 206% lower.

(The Tsimane are known for their high fertility rate.)

Their diet consists of locally grown crops, wild game, and freshwater fish. Meaning the ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 is about twenty-fold lower than that of American women.

Since healthy breast milk is a reflection of healthy hormones, the take away seems to be here:

-Whole Foods is nice but not necessary.
-You don't need supplement.
-You don't need fancy diets.
-You don't need to be vegetarian.
-If you can't afford salmon but you're fishing for bass…it's ok to eat.

You just need to be sensible. I think you all knew this already. These scientists just made it more undeniable.

Which made me smile when I read this study. If I could just get all of you to believe and act on this…you just might put me out of business. And I could retire in Costa Rica.

Martin MA, Lassek WD, Gaulin SJ, Evans RW, Woo JG, Geraghty SR, Davidson BS, Morrow AL, Kaplan HS, Gurven MD. Fatty acid composition in the mature milk of Bolivian forager-horticulturalists: controlled comparisons with a US sample. Matern Child Nutr. 2012 Jul;8(3):404-418. doi: 10.1111/j.1740-8709.2012.00412.x. Epub 2012 May 24.

I'm so excited--tomorrow inCYST launches its webinar training program. This new series will enable trainings to occur online so that professionals interested in learning how inCYST works for PCOS can participate, no matter where they live.

You'll be hearing and seeing these names more often in the future, and I wanted to give a heads up to those of you who might benefit from having these inspiring people in your backyards:

Ilona Fordham, RD, Ursula Ridens, RD, Denise Sautter, RD — dietitians, San Francisco area

Shirley Shelley, Linda Caley — dietitians, Connecticut

Susan Van Dyke, MD (Board-certified dermatologist, Paradise Valley, Arizona)

Ann Marie Arabian, PhD — Psychologist, Beverly Hills, California

Beth Zipper, RD — Delray Beach, Florida (specializes in adolescents)

Rachel Brandeis, RD — dietitian, Atlanta, Georgia

Renata Mangrum, MPH, RD — dietitian, Cleveland Ohio (special interest in lactation and perinatal nutrition)

Every single one of these individuals has great passion for what they do. They inspire me to work hard, hard, hard to make inCYST the go-to place for PCOS information! I look forward to what they will bring to inCYST…and to all of you!

Hello everyone,

I just returned from Columbus, Ohio, where I trained 10 new colleagues from that part of the country to work with women with PCOS. I am simultaneously exhausted (from the 3 hour time difference), excited (to see who's coming in to the network), and very humbled (by the strength of the women I spent time with and who have so much to offer all of you looking for help and support).

Yesterday 3 women in the group, all registered dietitians, volunteered to share their personal experiences with PCOS, weight, and infertility. I know it took a lot for them to share such personal information with their peers, especially since dietitians are supposed to"have it all together" when it comes to weight, nutrition, and health…and I am very grateful for them to have the courage and the willingness to let us in to their lives for the purpose of learning and being better at what we do.

I want anyone reading this blog to know, this network is not just dietitians with degrees in nutrition. We are women, we've had our experiences, good and bad, with doctors, fertility, body image, depression, you name it. We come to you because we want to support you. Not just from what we learned in school to pass a test, but in the wisdom that comes through life's challenges. As we grow, the depth of experience we have in a variety of situations also grows. I am starting to feel that we're reaching a point where there is"someone for everyone" in our group. You are not alone in how you feel, what you've experienced, what you hope for, who you aspire to be.

I actually feel like a bit of an outsider here, as I am single, have no kids, and have never been through an infertility treatment. PCOS simply happened to follow me wherever I was, and when I decided to look a little closer, I realized there were an awful lot of women out there who needed help who were not getting it. Or who had asked for help, spent a lot of money, and been disappointed and left feeling worse than before they tried to do something to better their situation. Because I didn't feel like I had the experience or that I was given the life situation that allowed me to say"I understand, I've been there," I aspired to create a network made of up of women who COULD be that kind of support. My place would be to provide the science and the business structure and the encouragement.

We're there. I am hoping that I will gradually be able to take a step back on this blog and let those who can do this better than me, do what they are so very good at doing. I'll still be here, but I am very excited to be surrounded with colleagues who have me feeling like I belong to the most awesome team in the world. Not like I'm alone, climbing Mt. Everest, on my stomach, pulling myself along with just one of my arms. It used to feel that way, for a very long time. And I'm so excited that this concept has gone from being so lonely to being so full of support.