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PCOS Is My Power: Understanding PCOS, Fixing Your Hormones, and Resetting Your Health
The first complete guide to thriving with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), offering a science-backed, holistic path to managing symptoms, plus 68 recipes and 6 meal plans
Rapid weight gain at puberty, a dodgy period that you’d almost rather not show up, or cystic acne that you were told was just your hormones. Maybe you went on the Pill to “fix” your hormones, only to discover years later that there was more to the acne and irregular periods than you realized.
Sound familiar? You may be among the one in ten women who experience Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, an endocrine disorder that’s a leading cause of infertility, weight gain, and irregular periods. As a registered dietitian who also has PCOS, Cory Ruth is here to tell you that PCOS is a condition that you can thrive with.
Cory has helped thousands of women with PCOS regulate their periods, lose weight, have healthy babies, and heal their hormones. The medical community typically prescribes the birth control pill to reduce unwanted symptoms, but in order to see lasting changes you’ll need to get to the root of the condition. The path to true healing lies with making shifts in nutrition, stress management, and exercise. In PCOS Is My Power, Cory walks you through the science and stories before offering a treatment protocol that includes lifestyle and supplement recommendations, meal plans, and recipes like Carrot Cake Breakfast Cookies, Sriracha Cauliflower Chickpea Sheet Bake, and Peanut Tofu Bowl.
It’s time for you to balance your hormones, feel more in control, and live your healthiest and happiest life.
Rapid weight gain at puberty, a dodgy period that you’d almost rather not show up, or cystic acne that you were told was just your hormones. Maybe you went on the Pill to “fix” your hormones, only to discover years later that there was more to the acne and irregular periods than you realized.
Sound familiar? You may be among the one in ten women who experience Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, an endocrine disorder that’s a leading cause of infertility, weight gain, and irregular periods. As a registered dietitian who also has PCOS, Cory Ruth is here to tell you that PCOS is a condition that you can thrive with.
Cory has helped thousands of women with PCOS regulate their periods, lose weight, have healthy babies, and heal their hormones. The medical community typically prescribes the birth control pill to reduce unwanted symptoms, but in order to see lasting changes you’ll need to get to the root of the condition. The path to true healing lies with making shifts in nutrition, stress management, and exercise. In PCOS Is My Power, Cory walks you through the science and stories before offering a treatment protocol that includes lifestyle and supplement recommendations, meal plans, and recipes like Carrot Cake Breakfast Cookies, Sriracha Cauliflower Chickpea Sheet Bake, and Peanut Tofu Bowl.
It’s time for you to balance your hormones, feel more in control, and live your healthiest and happiest life.
232 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 6, 2026
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About the author
Cory Ruth
1 book3 followersCory Ruth, RDN is a registered dietitian nutritionist and women’s health expert who specializes in PCOS and nutrition therapy for infertility and assisted reproductive technology. She is the founder and principal of The Women’s Dietitian.
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January 21, 2026
Definitely the sort of book I wished I had when I first started my PCOS journey. I've had symptoms of PCOS since I was a teenager and never received a diagnosis until I was in my mid-20s. I get really frustrated and sad when I think about all the lost time.
What I liked:
Even though I've read a lot of info about PCOS over the years, it's really nice to have a registered dietitian cut through all the contradictory information available online. I learned new things about interpreting bloodwork, discovering deficiencies, and tips on how to advocate for myself with healthcare professionals when discussing PCOS.
I really liked the mantra Dr. Cory Ruth wrote on page 111. She stressed the importance of looking yourself in the mirror and "I love you. I deserve to be healthy. I am worthy of a long, lovely life. I love my body enough to learn about food. I love you enough to make life-style changes. I will love this body to help you avoid chronic illness. And I love you enough to have that spicy margarita every once in a while."
I appreciate Ruth briefly going over the history of medical misogyny and how it effects medicine and research to this very day! It was really eye-opening. I truly believe that if PCOS affected men, it would be so much more well-researched! Doctors wouldn't dole out birth control as the only treatment for PCOS.
What I didn't like so much:
As someone who's working with a dietitian to manage disordered eating, Ruth's heavy focus on weight loss left me feeling disheartened. Ruth touches on how bad diet culture is, but I felt like this book has a diet culture slant to it. The focus on weight loss was intense. Every single case study that opens a chapter focuses on weight.
I understand PCOS and weight are linked, but I also understand myself and the way I've put myself in the hospital focusing solely on weight loss instead of trying to be holistically well.
None of the recipes included have pictures! I don't think I've ever seen that before!
Final Thoughts:
Not exactly what I hoped for, but I still learned something and found it a valuable book to keep around.
What I liked:
Even though I've read a lot of info about PCOS over the years, it's really nice to have a registered dietitian cut through all the contradictory information available online. I learned new things about interpreting bloodwork, discovering deficiencies, and tips on how to advocate for myself with healthcare professionals when discussing PCOS.
I really liked the mantra Dr. Cory Ruth wrote on page 111. She stressed the importance of looking yourself in the mirror and "I love you. I deserve to be healthy. I am worthy of a long, lovely life. I love my body enough to learn about food. I love you enough to make life-style changes. I will love this body to help you avoid chronic illness. And I love you enough to have that spicy margarita every once in a while."
I appreciate Ruth briefly going over the history of medical misogyny and how it effects medicine and research to this very day! It was really eye-opening. I truly believe that if PCOS affected men, it would be so much more well-researched! Doctors wouldn't dole out birth control as the only treatment for PCOS.
What I didn't like so much:
As someone who's working with a dietitian to manage disordered eating, Ruth's heavy focus on weight loss left me feeling disheartened. Ruth touches on how bad diet culture is, but I felt like this book has a diet culture slant to it. The focus on weight loss was intense. Every single case study that opens a chapter focuses on weight.
I understand PCOS and weight are linked, but I also understand myself and the way I've put myself in the hospital focusing solely on weight loss instead of trying to be holistically well.
None of the recipes included have pictures! I don't think I've ever seen that before!
Final Thoughts:
Not exactly what I hoped for, but I still learned something and found it a valuable book to keep around.
January 13, 2026
I wish I’d had this book in my early twenties. It’s so important to understand how nutrition/lifestyle/supplements affect this syndrome. The tone is very “hey girl hey!” And I’m sure that works for some people, but it was a bit much for me. I do appreciate the way a lot of complicated data is presented in an absorbable way. Blood sugar blood sugar blood sugar! It was a good reminder to refocus on blood sugar balance.
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