Breast Implant Illness: Signs, Symptoms & When to Consider Explant Surgery

How many women in the United States have breast implants? Any idea?

Oh, they do about 300,000 a year, and there's 330 million people.

So it sounds like there are certain patterns that women should be on the lookout for. So if they have chronic fatigue and they have breast implants and they've done all the standard workup with functional medicine, or if they haven't, you know, seeking.

Out a functional medicine provider, depending on their knowledge of it, it should improve your access to testing, dietary, you know, nutritional counseling, supplement options, et cetera. I am just now starting to get people sent to me that their allopathic provider or their functional medicine provider are recognizing this as a entity, breast implant illness, and looking, saying, hey, you should probably go see somebody about getting an explant.