Living PCOS Free: How to Regain Your Hormonal Health with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome

When faced with her own premature menopause, Dr. Nitu Bajekal, the “plant-based gynae,” learned that the Western medicine in which she had trained and practiced had too long ignored the real impact of nutrition and lifestyle on both health and disease. To allow women to achieve their full health potential, lifestyle medicine and conventional medicine can complement each other, offering an appropriate blend of solutions for the individual patient. Based on her research, 35 years’ clinical practice, and her personal experience of a plant-based diet―with input from her daughter, nutritionist and former PCOS sufferer Rohini Bajekal―she offers this practical lifestyle guide to recovery from polycystic ovarian syndrome. Dr. Bajekal shows how this endocrine condition can be managed via the six pillars of lifestyle medicine, with interventions of Western medicine available as adjuncts as needed. The book features a 21-day lifestyle plan for hormonal health together with tried-and-tested plant-based recipes by the authors and illuminating case histories.

Dr Nitu Bajekal MD, is a Senior NHS Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist and Women’s Health expert based in London, with over 35 years’ clinical experience. She is also one of the first board-certified Lifestyle Medicine Physicians in the UK. Dr Bajekal is also a former Training Programme Director for Obstetrics and Gynaecology and the recipient of the President of India Gold Medal for her achievements. Dr Bajekal is passionate about educating women, providing reliable medical and lifestyle information for the general public, doctors, workplaces and schools.

Rohini Bajekal MA Oxon, MSc, Dip IBLM, is a Nutritionist and Board-Certified Lifestyle Medicine Professional, now working with clients in London after spending time in the food industry in Mumbai and Singapore. She has personal experience of overcoming PCOS.