The PCOS Lab: Fertility & Biological Safety
Jun 3, 2026 · 37 min · 13 segments
Is your PCOS a life sentence or a metabolic pattern? In this episode, Dr. Angela Potter is joined by Dr. Susan Fox to audit the Cellular Static of PCOS through the lens of Chinese Medicine. We break…
Susan FoxGuest
Angela PotterHost
So let's switch gears a little bit and talk about this transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation.

I love this conversation and I wish I could scream it from the mountaintops or sing it from the mountaintops because it is the game changer for so many people.

It is taking a TENS machine, a transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation machine, and using those pads on acupuncture points at specific times in your cycle, not during any menstrual bleed.

But you do this in the comfort of your own home three times a week because you're alternating protocols and you're alternating days to give your body a chance to not overly adapt, shall we say.

But the outcomes of this is where I get so happy is that the test of over 2,000 women were tested for their success using the frozen embryo transfer model because they needed to have a standard cohort.

I mean, we know women over 35, they're already told, expect diminished ovarian reserve.

If they're undergoing a frozen embryo transfer, we already know that they've been struggling with their fertility.

And to have a live birth rate, not just a positive pregnancy test of increased by 42%, everyone should know about this.

So let's talk a little bit about the logistics of it, because perhaps the person listening doesn't quite understand what this really means.

Like a TENS unit, what does it hurt? What does it look like? Do you buy the thing or do you get it from your provider?

So let's switch gears a little bit and talk about this transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation.

I love this conversation and I wish I could scream it from the mountaintops or sing it from the mountaintops because it is the game changer for so many people.

It is taking a TENS machine, a transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation machine, and using those pads on acupuncture points at specific times in your cycle, not during any menstrual bleed.

But you do this in the comfort of your own home three times a week because you're alternating protocols and you're alternating days to give your body a chance to not overly adapt, shall we say.

But the outcomes of this is where I get so happy is that the test of over 2,000 women were tested for their success using the frozen embryo transfer model because they needed to have a standard cohort.

I mean, we know women over 35, they're already told, expect diminished ovarian reserve.

If they're undergoing a frozen embryo transfer, we already know that they've been struggling with their fertility.

And to have a live birth rate, not just a positive pregnancy test of increased by 42%, everyone should know about this.

So let's talk a little bit about the logistics of it, because perhaps the person listening doesn't quite understand what this really means.

Like a TENS unit, what does it hurt? What does it look like? Do you buy the thing or do you get it from your provider?
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