Hormone Happy Hour with Dr. Heather Rhodes
Jun 8, 2026 · 41 min · 11 segments
In this episode of the Hormone Happy Hour, we're talking about something I think more women need to understand: you may have signs of metabolic and hormone dysfunction without fitting the traditional…
If you are someone that has never thought you had PCOS and never been talked to about PCOS, PMOS, whatever it may be-This will still be helpful for you if you can relate to any of the symptoms and kind of underlying pieces that I chatted about at the beginning.
And you'll see why when I explain what happened with this name change, okay? So PCOS was traditionally called polycystic ovarian syndrome.
You would get a diagnosis for this if you had any of three main qualifying factors.
And what those three things were was elevated testosterone levels, irregular cycles, or an ultrasound that showed cysts on your ovaries.
Now, the whole reason there was, like, a diagnoses process was just so that when you went to the doctor because you were having symptoms of imbalance in your hormones, of your body not prioritizing your fertility hormones, they could know, "Okay, let's categorize this so that we can send a bill based off of what we think we'll have to do to treat this." There's so many things that are, like, weird and wacky about this situation when it comes to PCOS, one of them being that it's a spectrum.
You have someone who is not prone to disruption in those specific hormone imbalances.
On the other side, you have someone who is experiencing paused ovulation or, like, not dropping an egg every single month because their body doesn't have the resources it needs to grow that egg effectively.
So what recently happened last month is they changed the name from PCOS to PMOS, making it polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome.
So what they're saying is like, "Hey, there's multiple hormones and a root in the metabolism that is causing the body to struggle with keeping estrogen and testosterone in balance, and also causing the body to struggle with the full development and release of an egg every single month effectively and on time." So that's what happened with this, like, name change situation.
That's, that's-- There's never, like, a root cause focus [laughs] in the traditional health space.
The focus was probably, again, like, it's great because it does allow them to have a little bit more accuracy in the way that they are talking about this.
So things like low progesterone, low DHEA, low testosterone, any type of fertility issue.
If you are someone that has never thought you had PCOS and never been talked to about PCOS, PMOS, whatever it may be-This will still be helpful for you if you can relate to any of the symptoms and kind of underlying pieces that I chatted about at the beginning.
And you'll see why when I explain what happened with this name change, okay? So PCOS was traditionally called polycystic ovarian syndrome.
You would get a diagnosis for this if you had any of three main qualifying factors.
And what those three things were was elevated testosterone levels, irregular cycles, or an ultrasound that showed cysts on your ovaries.
Now, the whole reason there was, like, a diagnoses process was just so that when you went to the doctor because you were having symptoms of imbalance in your hormones, of your body not prioritizing your fertility hormones, they could know, "Okay, let's categorize this so that we can send a bill based off of what we think we'll have to do to treat this." There's so many things that are, like, weird and wacky about this situation when it comes to PCOS, one of them being that it's a spectrum.
You have someone who is not prone to disruption in those specific hormone imbalances.
On the other side, you have someone who is experiencing paused ovulation or, like, not dropping an egg every single month because their body doesn't have the resources it needs to grow that egg effectively.
So what recently happened last month is they changed the name from PCOS to PMOS, making it polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome.
So what they're saying is like, "Hey, there's multiple hormones and a root in the metabolism that is causing the body to struggle with keeping estrogen and testosterone in balance, and also causing the body to struggle with the full development and release of an egg every single month effectively and on time." So that's what happened with this, like, name change situation.
That's, that's-- There's never, like, a root cause focus [laughs] in the traditional health space.
The focus was probably, again, like, it's great because it does allow them to have a little bit more accuracy in the way that they are talking about this.
So things like low progesterone, low DHEA, low testosterone, any type of fertility issue.
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