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Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

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1868 total appearances

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

Stunts it.

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

So PCOS patients, their egg count is falsely high because of these tiny follicles that are frozen in the ovaries that never got to ovulate.

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

They do secrete AMH.

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

So these patients, that's why in 2023, they changed that second criteria, the PCOS ovaries, to elevated or elevated AMH.

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

So I would say up to six is normal.

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

It drops precipitously.

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

Oh, yes.

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

After probably late 20s, it starts declining.

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

That's why I always tell patients, especially PCOS patients, to freeze by 28 to 30, even though they have tons of eggs.

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

Listen, I get patients.

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

They come to my office.

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

They're like, doctor, new patient.

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

I went to my fertility doctor.

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

He doesn't know what he's doing.

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

Why?

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

40, 41-year-old.

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

I put out 30 eggs, and he couldn't make a single embryo.

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

Through IVF.

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

Through IVF.

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

You shouldn't put out 30 eggs at age 40.