572: PCOS and Endometriosis – What Every Woman Needs to Know, and Most Doctors Miss | Thais Aliabadi, MD

The Genius Life

Max Lugavere

Health & Fitness

4.7 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Board-certified OB-GYN Dr. Thais Aliabadi joins Max to break down PCOS and endometriosis—why they’re so often missed, how they impact hormones, weight, and fertility, and what women can actually do to take back control of their health.

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0:00.0	What's going on, everybody? It's episode 572 of The Genius Life. Let's rock.
0:06.3	Genius.
0:06.9	What up, Mr. Max Lugabeer.
0:11.9	Max Lugavir. What is going to the genius life, my team?
0:17.4	The genius life.
0:22.3	What up, everybody? I'm your host to Max Lugavir, and welcome back to The Genius Life, a show where we cut through the noise to get to what actually matters for your health.
0:30.6	Today's episode is one that every woman and every man who cares about a woman in his life needs to hear.
0:36.1	My guest is Dr. Taiz Ali Abadi.
0:38.7	She is a board-certified OBGYN with decades of experience treating complex and often
0:43.6	overlooked conditions like PCOS and endometriosis, two of the leading causes of infertility
0:49.5	that shockingly can go undiagnosed for years, even decades.
0:53.5	In this conversation, we dig into why so
0:55.3	many women are dismissed when something is clearly wrong, how hormonal and metabolic dysfunction
0:59.9	can hijack everything from weight to mood to fertility, and why the system so often fails to connect
1:05.5	the dots. We also get into what's actually happening under the hood from insulin resistance
1:09.9	to inflammation, and how these conditions can quietly shape a woman's life in ways that are rarely talked about. But this isn't just about problems, it's about solutions. What can you actually do? What tests should you ask for? And how do you advocate for yourself in a system that often isn't built to listen? Listen all the way through the end, you're not going to want to miss a beat.
1:47.0	And as always, don't forget to share this episode with friends and loved ones that you think may benefit from it. And please, guys, consider leaving a rating and review if you haven't already. I love to hear from you. Now, with all that out of the way, here's episode 572. Let's Rock. Dr. A, welcome to the show. how you doing? I'm doing fantastic. It's so great to have you. Thank you for having me. Of course. I'm a fan of your podcast. You guys do, you put out excellent work. And I'm excited to get into the topic of your expertise, PCOS endometriosis, topics that I know nothing about. I love it. It's my favorite episodes to do, actually. Oh, really? I love talking about PCOS and endometriosis. As you know, both together are the leading cause of infertility and women, and majority of women go through life and they're not diagnosed. How about that? It's crazy. Before you came in, I learned that approximately 6 to 12% of women of reproductive age in the U.S.
2:19.4	have PCOS.
2:21.2	More than that.
2:21.9	More than that.
2:22.8	15%.
2:23.8	15%.
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