Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

You can't even make these stories up.

The problem with endometriosis is it's so common and we don't have enough doctors diagnosing it.

And like I said, a lot of these women don't even have an access to an OBGYN.

And when they go there, 95% of the time, they're not even diagnosed.

And if they're diagnosed, they're not even treated correctly.

So what happens is...

These ectopic implants, right, that are in the pelvis.

It's very strange because, I mean, we don't know why some women have endometriosis and some don't.

It could be there's so many hypothesis, but the most common one is probably retrograde menstruation, which a lot of women get, which means when we're having our period, some of that blood goes through the tubes and out into the pelvis and implants there.

In a regular healthy immune system, we'll get rid of those implants.

But for whatever reason, in this subgroup of patients, their inflammatory, their immune system doesn't work well.

It actually helps start an inflammatory process around these implants that make it stick to the wall of the pelvis.

Yes, and by their immune system.

They come there, eat it up, right?

Macrophages eat it up.

Yes, but in these patients...

Not only they don't take them away, they stimulate them to stick to the walls of the pelvis.

That's number one.

Then these little implants need estrogen to grow, right?

Remember I told you the ovaries are secreting estrogen.