Although it’s often referred to as vitamin B8, inositol is not a vitamin but rather a type of sugar with several important functions. It influences the action of insulin and may aid mental health and ...

Inositol may help reduce symptoms of PCOS, including infertility and irregular menstrual periods. Inositol supplements might improve symptoms of type 2 diabetes by lowering fasting blood sugar levels.

For a while I suspected that I had Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) – but it was only once I received this confirmation that I realised just how common it is. It is said that one in 10 women will ...

Let’s face it: It’s not often that women are handed solutions to their under-researched and overlooked health concerns. Most aspects of women’s health are plagued with misunderstanding and stigma, ...

This study included 59 persons with SSD (age range 19–62 years) and 69 age- and sex-matched community controls (age range 18–61 years). Not included in the sample were three participants (two SSD ...

Inositol, a simple six-carbon sugar, forms the basis of a number of important intracellular signaling molecules. Over the last 35 years, a series of biochemical and cell biological experiments have ...

A recent study in JAMA assessed the efficacy of myo-inositol supplementation during pregnancy in terms of lowering the risk of a composite outcome of preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, and preterm ...

Inositol, also called myo-inositol, D-chiro-inositol, or hexaphosphate (IP6), plays a critical role in the body’s cellular growth. Though it used to be referred to as Vitamin B8, inositol is not ...