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Resa Nabor: Why It’s Important to Pay Attention to Your Symptoms

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Nov 9, 2026, 16:23

Resa Nabor: Why It’s Important to Pay Attention to Your Symptoms

Resa Nabor, Founder and Community Advocate of PCOS Millennials, shared on LinkedIn:

“PCOS can come with unexpected health challenges. Learn why it’s important to pay attention to your symptoms and never ignore changes in your body.

‘With PCOS, insulin resistance isn’t just causing weight gain—it’s secretly triggering severe gout.

Even if you completely avoid red meat and alcohol, you can still wake up with a red, swollen toe from uric acid buildup.

Normally, your body produces a standard waste product called uric acid. Your kidneys easily filter that waste out and flush it away in your urine.

But PCOS changes the math.

Because your body resists normal insulin signals, your pancreas pumps out massive amounts of extra insulin into your bloodstream.

When that excess insulin reaches your kidneys, it physically jams the filtration system. It actively blocks the kidneys from processing and excreting that waste.

Instead of being flushed out, the uric acid has nowhere to go. It backs up and accumulates to dangerous levels in your blood.

Eventually, that excess uric acid solidifies into sharp, microscopic crystals.

Those crystals travel to your joints and deposit there, causing the agonizing inflammation we call gout.

So that throbbing toe in the beginning?

It’s not a sign to cut more meat from your diet.

It’s a flashing warning sign to manage your insulin resistance.’