Learn about PCOS

Plain-language guides to eating with PCOS, with the source on every claim. From the team behind the PCOS Pal app.

• PCOS diet: what to eat, and why it works
  What the evidence says about eating with PCOS: insulin, the pattern that helps, the foods worth limiting, and why no rigid plan is required.
• Anti-inflammatory eating for PCOS: what is real
  Where "anti-inflammatory" and PCOS actually meet, which foods the evidence supports, which only marketing does, and how it overlaps with insulin advice.
• Foods to limit with PCOS, and why banning them backfires
  The foods worth eating less often with PCOS, the evidence for each, and why "limit" beats "never" for a diet you can keep.
• Insulin resistance and PCOS, explained
  What insulin resistance is, why it is so common in PCOS, how it is actually tested, and what food, movement, sleep and medication each do about it.
• Low-GI foods for PCOS: a practical list
  What the glycaemic index does and does not tell you, which carbohydrates rank low, how protein and fat change the picture, and where GI stops helping.
• PCOS breakfast ideas that hold you until lunch
  Why breakfast is where PCOS eating plans break, the protein-fibre-fat template that fixes it, ten breakfasts that use it, and what to do about coffee.
• A 7-day PCOS meal plan you can actually keep
  Seven days of ordinary meals built on the pattern the evidence supports, with a shopping list and swaps, and no food group cut out.