Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

Andrew, I've always said this, and I really mean it.

If every 20-year-old...

this country would go through my office once at age 20 I would shut down these fertility clinics because where do these patients end up in fertility clinics that's why these doctors are so busy and that's why these patients go bankrupt selling their homes selling everything they have to pay for an IVF cycle

that could have been completely blocked had they been diagnosed correctly and treated at a very young age.

And I'm talking sometimes I treat 13-year-olds with endometriosis.

I have right now in my practice a girl at 14 with endometriosis whose egg count is the egg count of a 40-year-old.

That's why I can't sit here and generalize that if you're in your 20s, you're going to be fine.

It's not true.

You need to know at a very young age, every girl on this planet needs to be screened.

for endometriosis, for PCOS, and they need to know their egg count.

Egg count, AMH, anti-malarian hormone, is a simple blood test.

It's covered by most insurances.

It needs to be offered.

If you don't want to offer it to your young patients because, you know, teenagers are tricky because they have so many eggs.

But if they're complaining of severe pain, if they're missing school, if you're, as a parent, you have to go pick them up from school, the nurse is calling you.

They don't want to take their test because they're rolled up in bed from pain.

That patient, even at 14, deserves an egg count check because for these patients, sometimes by age 16, I freeze their eggs.

Correct.

And that's why I have a patient who came to me, she was 24, severe pain.

She said, I listened to your podcast.