PCOS has officially been renamed PMOS. A reflection on what the new name reveals about women's health, why it matters beyond medicine, and how it touches the way we practice yoga.
I spent forty-something years in this body before I properly met it. A difficult doctor's appointment sent me searching, and what I found changed everything I thought I knew about being a woman in a female body.
You have probably seen the phrase. Nervous system regulation. Regulate your nervous system. Get regulated. It appears on wellness accounts, in podcast titles, and beneath photos of women doing breathwork on yoga mats. And yet, for something mentioned so often, it is surprisingly rarely explained in a way that actually feels meaningful.
So let’s start there.
