Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

He's like, listen, Thais.

There is this medication called Trulicity.

Do not stop sending your patients to me.

Treat them with this medication.

They will lose weight and their cholesterol, everything will get better.

So in 2014, I started putting these patients on Trulicity.

And one thing I realized is their periods were starting to get regular.

Their symptoms of PCOS would get better.

And the first thing they would come and tell me is, doctor, I feel less inflamed.

Why do you think?

Because you put them on these medications.

First of all, PCOS patients chronically, they have this insulin firing, right?

And that's why this cascade starts.

What GLP-1s do, people think it's an appetite suppressant and that's how it works, but that's a side effect of it.

But what it does, it actually regulates that insulin.

So when you eat, it spikes your insulin up and clears that sugar out of your blood, right?

Right.

And it also makes you insulin sensitive.

So again, clearing it, which is oxygen really for these PCOS patients.

That's why I get so upset when patients comment about these GLP-1s because in this subgroup of patients with insulin resistance who are overweight, who are not ovulating, and who have all these symptoms,