Fat tissue is involved in altering some sex steroids to androgens. If you are overweight, this will tend to increase body hair production. Going on a diet and increasing your exercise should help you lose some of the unwanted hair and also help your general health.
Insulin resistance is common in polycystic ovary syndrome and this may be associated with weight gain, which in turn increases hirsutism. A diet designed to reduce weight may reverse this trend.
Related Medical Abstracts - Click on the paper title:-
- Clinical, hormonal and biochemical changes after treatment with metformin and weight reduction in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (2006-01)
- Clinical and hormonal
characteristics of obese amenorrheic hyperandrogenic women before and
after weight loss. (1989-01)
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