T-E-A-S. I'd never heard of it before.

I know.

And I wish that I could just somehow get a megaphone that every person in the world, every woman in the world who wants to have children, in fact, frankly, even if she doesn't, ovaries are important far beyond our child-making years.

So TEAS is an acronym for transcutaneous... acupoint stimulation.

And what that means is we use acupuncture points and we stimulate them on the surface of the skin without needles.

So therefore you can do this in the comfort of your own home.

And there are specific protocols that have been tested in research on about 3000 women.

I wonder if what you do not only does trying to conceive, you know, this fertility side, this infertility side, but what about like post-delivery and just this sort of postpartum side? Do people get teas for that?

So Dr. Susan, how does lifestyle like wake sleep patterns and getting the right exercise and circulation affect PCOS markers? What do you see with that?

For sure.

I mean, this comes down to cortisol, right? If we summed it up in one word, it's cortisol.

If we are waking and sleeping with waking to the sun and starting to wind down to the dark, then we are allowing our body to produce its own melatonin, our super antioxidant, and then we get to do the proper detoxification and remodeling of our tissues while we sleep.

So we really do want to have that eight-hour, ideally... sleep window.

And I know some people don't have their lifestyle.

If they've got a night shift kind of job, it's going to be a little bit more difficult.

Why should a person with PCOS care about her blood sugar and insulin levels? It's