Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

Not to dismiss their symptoms, but you can at least start with the more natural ways and then prescribe them antidepressants or anti-anxiety medications.

In the first place.

Bravo.

You're the best.

devastating, devastating condition that affects, you know, they say 10%.

I think it's north of 20% because they're not diagnosed.

It's a condition where tissue similar to the lining of the uterus

is outside of the uterus, around the tubes and ovaries, on the bladder, on the bowel, or inside the ovary, right?

What happens is, in simple terms, when every month our ovaries are trying to get us pregnant, they secrete estrogen, and estrogen stimulates the lining of the uterus.

When we don't get pregnant, this lining breaks down and comes out as a form of period.

10 to, I think, 20% of women have these cells similar to the lining of the uterus outside of the uterus.

So once a month when the follicle is secreting estrogen, these cells on the outside get stimulated.

And when we don't get pregnant and the lining breaks down, these guys break down and bleed, but they're bleeding outside of the uterus.

We don't know why people have it, but it's extremely common.

And as I was telling you, I think 50%, more than 50% of my PCOS patients also have endometriosis.

The problem with endometriosis is in this country,

It takes doctors 9 to 11 years to diagnose endometriosis.

On average, patients see 5 to 10 doctors, and that's not an exaggeration.

I've had patients who've seen 50 doctors in this country to get the diagnosis.

Majority of them go undiagnosed.