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I want to ask about P.COS. I had so many questions. How much does PCOS affect fertility?

So I was very fortunate. The chairman of obstetrics and gynecology when I was a fellow at the

Cedars-Sinai medical program was Dr Ricardo Aziz. He is one of like the

grandfathers of polysistic ovary syndrome who dedicated his life to research and doing lots of areas of research.

So during my three years of fellowship, I learned a lot.

I did my own thesis in the area of Polysistic ovary syndrome, and I've had hundreds, if not maybe thousands of patients

that have consulted with me about it.

It's a stubborn, stubborn disorder.

The way I like to describe it, that it's a really a spectrum. It is there's this extreme

of PCOS and this extreme. For people that don't really know what PCOS is

it's Polysistic Ovary Syndrome. One of the characteristics of it is that your ovary when you do an

ultrasound it has little bubbles all over. Those are called follicles. In the

polycystic ovary patient, we just look at them as lots of poly, you know, ovarian cysts.

Generally, they are at the periphery of the ovary.

They sometimes have been called a string of pearls.

A healthy young woman with lots of follicles all over the ovary

is a little different than that polycystic patient

that has a lot of ovary in the center and a lot of cysts all around the edge of the ovary.

So that's one characteristic.

Other characteristics are if your blood work shows that you have elevated male hormones like testosterone, like

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