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Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi
False.
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Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi
There's so many myths.
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Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi
That's why it's important to understand the four phenotypes and how they differ.
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Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi
Understand that 70% to 80% of these patients don't ovulate.
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Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi
Understand that the 20%, 30% who ovulate, ovulate sometimes, not all the time.
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Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi
And that's why they're not getting pregnant.
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Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi
And understand that inflammation, insulin resistance, and this brain-ovary axis are the main drivers.
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Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi
And then you add genetics and epigenetics, it starts...
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Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi
a big chaos in the body.
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Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi
And that's why as a clinician, that's why it takes so much time, right?
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Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi
In this healthcare system, when you get 10 minutes with your doctor, do you think your doctor... Everything we talked about, I teach all of this to my new patients with PCOS.
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Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi
How can you do that in 10 minutes?
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Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi
And on top of that, do their pap smear, check their hormones, talk about STD, talk about birth control, rule out endometriosis.
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Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi
How are you going to do that?
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Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi
A, patients don't have access to doctors.
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Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi
B, when they have access, either the doctors are not well-trained or they don't have time to spend time with these patients.
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Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi
And even when they get diagnosed, they get prescribed a birth control pill and off you go.
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Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi
It is amazing and not because I don't even have time, but I really created it for women who are at home who don't know if they have a PCOS and they don't know what to do.
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Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi
This is the least you can do.
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Female Hormone Health, PCOS, Endometriosis, Fertility & Breast Cancer | Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi
Eat healthy, exercise, sleep well, lower your stress, take the OV supplement.