The Hidden Hormone Trigger Behind Your Migraines

[upbeat music] How are you? Well, how are you feeling? Are you well? Are you well? Cath, I've been really blown away by this growing trend-

Mm-hmm

... of getting women to ask their doctors about having their tubes removed, not tied, but removed, for the sole purpose of preventing ovarian cancer, which is one of those cancers that just perennially scares the-

Mm-hmm

... you know what out of women.

They're absolutely terrified of it because it's caught late, there's no symptoms.

It's really got a bad prognosis.

And studies have found that often they seem to start in the tubes and spread up to the ovaries.

Oh, and when I say tubes, I mean fallopian tubes, the ones that carry the egg from the ovary down into the uterus.

Got it.

And if we remove your tubes, just as a preventive thing-

Mm-hmm

... we just take them out.

Let's say we're going in there to do an endometriosis cleanup, or we're going to take your appendix out.

If we remove your tubes at the same time, studies show we can prevent up to 80% of ovarian cancer.

So if you're-

80?

Yeah, so if you're vulnerable, this is worth chatting about with your GP if you've never talked about it before.

It's a whole new thing that I've been really fascinated by.

And you're really, we're talking about post-children?

Well, you're not gonna be able to conceive a baby naturally if you don't have tubes.

Mm-hmm.

Those tubes are essential for conception.

But if you've done with that-

Mm-hmm

[upbeat music] How are you? Well, how are you feeling? Are you well? Are you well? Cath, I've been really blown away by this growing trend-

Mm-hmm

... of getting women to ask their doctors about having their tubes removed, not tied, but removed, for the sole purpose of preventing ovarian cancer, which is one of those cancers that just perennially scares the-

Mm-hmm

... you know what out of women.

They're absolutely terrified of it because it's caught late, there's no symptoms.

It's really got a bad prognosis.

And studies have found that often they seem to start in the tubes and spread up to the ovaries.

Oh, and when I say tubes, I mean fallopian tubes, the ones that carry the egg from the ovary down into the uterus.

Got it.

And if we remove your tubes, just as a preventive thing-

Mm-hmm

... we just take them out.

Let's say we're going in there to do an endometriosis cleanup, or we're going to take your appendix out.

If we remove your tubes at the same time, studies show we can prevent up to 80% of ovarian cancer.

So if you're-

80?

Yeah, so if you're vulnerable, this is worth chatting about with your GP if you've never talked about it before.

It's a whole new thing that I've been really fascinated by.

And you're really, we're talking about post-children?

Well, you're not gonna be able to conceive a baby naturally if you don't have tubes.

Mm-hmm.

Those tubes are essential for conception.

But if you've done with that-

Mm-hmm