Dr. Stacy Sims

They were 15 and then they went up to 40.

So now they're saying 20 and above is normal.

And when I look at a lot of women who are sitting 20 to 30, they can't get help.

They cannot get help.

And it's like, whoa, it was maybe four or five years ago.

If you were below 50, then we would look to get help.

But now with the norms that have shifted with the sicker population...

We can't get women help unless they are below 20.

It is.

We have some pilot data looking at taking some of the nuances of recovery and looking at how to dampen inflammation.

So we have some pilot data that's showing when women do cold exposure, that it dampens inflammation and improves their symptomology.

So I'm always thinking on the outside, like what other things can we do to dampen inflammation in a positive way to improve symptomology?

So if we're thinking about the responses to cold exposure, I'm not talking about ice, we're talking about cold water exposure, it creates a cascade of immune responses that kind of protects the body.

So we're reducing inflammation, we're improving parasympathetic, which reduces stress.

So if we're timing it and they know when their period is and they can go, okay, well, for the next or the 10 to 14 days before my period starts, I'm going to have 10 minutes of cold water exposure.

And over the course of three to four months, that immune response becomes learned automatically.

So it reduces symptomology.

So it becomes one of the treatment options that we have for some of our athletes that have endo and interferes with their training.

So, I mean, the cold water exposure is available there.

So that's how we started the pilot study.