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Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

👤 Speaker
1868 total appearances

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Huberman Lab
Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

But for me, it really didn't matter.

Huberman Lab
Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

You know what she told me?

Huberman Lab
Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

We have really good chemo for breast cancer.

Huberman Lab
Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

I'm a women's health advocate.

Huberman Lab
Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

Do you understand?

Huberman Lab
Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

This is how I'm being treated in the healthcare system, right?

Huberman Lab
Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

So she did it.

Huberman Lab
Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

They gained her advice.

Huberman Lab
Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

And a week later, I get a call that they found breast cancer in my tissue.

Huberman Lab
Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

That's how I diagnosed my breast cancer.

Huberman Lab
Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

So all this time they were digging in the left, my breast cancer was sitting on my right breast at six o'clock.

Huberman Lab
Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

Why am I saying this?

Huberman Lab
Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

I'm not saying this to scare people, but I'm saying this that as a woman's health advocate, as a gynecologist, as someone who's, I feel like I'm extremely competent in my field.

Huberman Lab
Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

If I had to fight so hard for someone to take me seriously,

Huberman Lab
Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

Do you think other women have a chance?

Huberman Lab
Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

That's why they show up so late.

Huberman Lab
Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

That's why their genetic test is not done.

Huberman Lab
Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

That's why if you don't know your lifetime risk of... If I didn't know my lifetime risk of breast cancer, I would have never known to ask for these options.

Huberman Lab
Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

That's why you have to empower women to be their own health advocate.

Huberman Lab
Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

Go calculate your lifetime risk of breast cancer.