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Anne Hussain

Anne Hussain

Naturopathic doctor (Ontario) specializing in PCOS, periods, and hormone health; author of The Period Literacy Handbook and host of Phase to Phase: The Hormone Health Show.

Sep 8, 2026

6:03
Can we unpack the PCOS and the name change to PMOS and why that occurred? So let's just, I'll let you kind of undo it
6:13
all.
6:14
Okay.
6:15
So PCOS stands for polycystic ovary syndrome, and the name was changed recently.
6:22
So in May of 2026, so super recently, to PMOS standing for polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome.
6:32
Say that 10 times.
6:34
Right.

9 MINS LATER

15:04
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3:01
I would love if you could walk us through that founder story and how it relates to the work that you do now and the things that you're so passionate about now.
3:10
Yeah, so my origin story begins in Pakistan.
3:14
So I call myself a one and a half generation immigrant or 1.75 generation immigrant because I was technically born in Canada.
3:23
But then I did my elementary school in Karachi, like all of it.
3:26
So from ages five to 13 and then moved back to Canada to start high school.
3:31
And menstrual and reproductive health education is not part of the curriculum there.
3:35
So I never learned anything my first period.

14 MINS LATER

17:46
What's your experience been with that when trying to help clinicians understand the nuance?

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