An honest interview with Bodology®'s founder Jasmin on PMOS (formerly PCOS), dismissive doctors, and the metabolic link to women's hormonal health that medicine has finally caught up to.
In May 2026, after more than a decade of global consensus work, PCOS was officially renamed PMOS (Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome), and medicine has finally put metabolism at the centre of a condition that has been failing women like me for decades.
10 years without a regular period - and what that actually looks like
Periods that came every 80, 100, sometimes 120 days, when they came at all, alongside weight changes I couldn't explain even when nothing about my life had changed, and a mood I stopped trusting around the age of 18 and didn't fully trust again until I was 30.
Every time I asked someone with a medical degree what was happening, the answer was some version of the same sentence: "your bloods look fine."
That's the thing no one really tells you about being dismissed in a medical setting, it doesn't feel like dismissal. It feels like being told the problem is you, your stress, your weight, your imagination, and after long enough you start to believe them, and then you stop asking. (That last bit is the worst of it.)
Why I eventually stopped pushing for answers
By the time I was running my own marketing agency at 25, my hormones had quietly slipped to the bottom of a very long to-do list. Not because they weren't a problem, but because I'd come to the conclusion that the system didn't have an answer for me, and that I was just going to have to learn to live with it.
The greatest hits of 11 years of dismissive appointments
Pick a line - most women reading this will recognize at least one of them:
Your bloods are normal.
It's probably just stress.
That's unrelated.
Just take the pill.
Have you considered antidepressants?
What do you want me to do about it? (My personal favorite.)
I tried the pill, which made my mood worse so I came off it; I tried antidepressants for my undiagnosed PMDD; I changed my diet a dozen different ways - cutting gluten, dairy, meat, and none of it ever touched the actual problem.
Nobody ever said the word insulin, and nobody ever said the word metabolism. And those, as we now know, were the two words that mattered most.
The 20-minute consultation that changed everything
Turning 30 was the turning point. I decided to invest properly, booked a private hormone specialist, paid out of pocket, and walked in with a folder of every symptom I'd tracked over the years, ready to finally be taken seriously.
The consultation lasted twenty minutes, he didn't ask where I was in my cycle, didn't ask about my mood, didn't mention insulin once; he glanced at my bloods, told me they looked fine, and said that unless I was trying to get pregnant, I should just go back on the pill.
After that consultation I realized I wasn't sad anymore. I was determined. I'd spent over a decade being passive about this, and I'd just paid real money to hear the same sentence I'd been hearing since I was 14. Something in me genuinely shifted. I started researching.
PCOS is now PMOS, and that change means everything
The single thing that, in hindsight, all of this was really about. PCOS - now officially PMOS - isn't really a hormone problem at all; it's a metabolic one. With around 80% of women who have it also being insulin resistant, which means the hormones, the cycles, the weight, the mood and the cravings are all downstream of a metabolic picture nobody had ever actually looked at in any of my appointments.
I cannot fully describe what this rename means to me.
It means future women will not have to spend 11 years being told they're fine in order to be diagnosed properly.
It means the "M" the medical community has now put at the centre of the name is the same "M" Bodology has been built around from day one.
And it means the change happened partly because patients, not just doctors, pushed for it, which is the kind of shift that doesn't happen often, and one I am genuinely grateful for.
I want to say this carefully, because I'm not anti-doctor - most of them are doing their best inside a system that wasn't built around female biology, one that didn't even fully include women in clinical research until the late 1990s, and the science is still catching up. (This isn't a conspiracy, it's a structural problem with very real downstream costs, and we're the ones absorbing them.)
But the practical version is this: if your symptoms involve your cycle, your weight, your cravings, or your mood, and your doctor isn't looking at your metabolism, they're treating half the picture.
What happened when I tried inositol
I came across it deep in the research. A compound with over 100 clinical studies behind it for cycle regulation, hormonal balance, and metabolic health. It was hard to source, especially in the right ration, 40:1 Myo to D-Chiro Inositol, which mirrors the proportion the body naturally uses.
I tried it.
Within two weeks, I had my first regular cycle in 10 years.
That was my experience. I'm not telling you it'll do for you what it did for me.
What I am telling you is that the research is real, the mechanism is real, and the fact that no doctor in 11 years had ever mentioned it to me is the entire reason this brand exists.
And it wasn't just the cycle. My cravings settled. My mood steadied. I felt like a version of myself I'd actually missed.
What would you say to the woman reading this who's been told her bloods are fine?
You're not crazy. You're not lazy. You're not too sensitive. You're not making it up.
The system that told you nothing was wrong wasn't built with your body in mind. If you've been dismissed, you've been dismissed because the people dismissing you don't have the full picture. Not because the picture isn't there.
Here's what I'd actually do if I were sitting where you are now:
- I'd ask for a metabolic panel not just a hormone one - specifically fasting insulin, HbA1c and fasting glucose - because if you have PMOS (or suspect you do), those three numbers matter as much as your hormone levels, and they're rarely run by default.
- I'd look for a practitioner who is genuinely fluent in the metabolic side of hormonal health, whether that's an endocrinologist, a functional medicine doctor, or a naturopath with metabolic training (not all of them, but the right ones exist, and they're worth the search).
- I'd stop treating my symptoms in isolation, because cycle issues, mood issues, weight changes and cravings are usually the same story told four different ways, and you need someone who can read them together rather than one at a time. And I'd refuse to accept "we don't know" as the end of a sentence, because it isn't an ending, it's a starting point.
- Don't accept "we don't know" as the end of a sentence.
If inositol turns out to be part of your answer the way it was part of mine, I'm glad we made it easier for you to find than it was for me.
Jasmin
Bodology® Founder
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