Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

And behind these dismissals are millions and millions of women suffering undiagnosed PCOS, endometriosis, chronic pelvic pain, infertility, which we're going to cover right now, and so many other issues because no one takes the time to listen to them.

And the reason I'm so excited to be on this podcast is I want to shed light on these topics, especially endometriosis and PCOS, because they're the top leading causes of infertility on this planet.

majority of these patients are never diagnosed, majority.

And that's why I'm so excited to be here.

And I love talking about fertility because the reason these women end up in a fertility clinic in the first place, majority of them have undiagnosed PCOS and endometriosis.

So we are born with certain number of eggs, millions of them.

And we don't make more eggs after we're born.

And as we go through life, we start losing these eggs until at about menopause, we have about a thousand of them left.

So as we get older, the number goes down, but the quality also declines.

The issue is PCOS and endometriosis decrease.

affect your egg count and your egg quality.

So because 90% of these patients are never diagnosed, what happens is they start losing their eggs.

Let's say, take an endometriosis patients, which we're going to get into it.

But they start losing these eggs.

The quality starts shooting down.

Some of them by age 30, they have zero eggs left.

And these are patients who bounce from doctor to doctor and their symptoms are dismissed.

They're

being told that their painful period is normal, that their painful sex is in their head, that they're exaggerating their pain.

And meanwhile, their ovarian reserve is completely depleting, and no one is addressing that.