Dr. Tabatha Barber outlines a five-step approach to breast implant illness: food sensitivity testing and dietary changes, microbial and hormone panels, toxicity screening for mold and heavy metals, stool analysis for gut dysbiosis, and genetic testing for immune pathways. She reports these markers are often abnormal in affected patients.
We have this really five prong approach that helps with our testing, which we do an Alcat 250, normally a food sensitivity test, and then just adjust their diets based on that. Remove moderate and severe stimulators of inflammation out of their diet. I do a complete bug panel, and most of it's to look for hormones. We do the total toxicity test because I see so many folks with mold, but I also see a lot of people with environmental toxicity from bpa. I've had a lot of people with gadolinium from mri. Arsenic's found in groundwater a lot. We know that groundwater is bad. Then we do a stool test, because if someone's really having absorptive issues, if I'm super suspicious that they're not able to have what we would consider normal daily bowel movements, then they have to get it looked at and get their dysbiosis evaluated. And I'll put people on more fermented foods or. Or dense starches or whatever's needed. And then finally, the genetic testing, it's really kind of rounds everything out that actually highlights what we can do. In your immune pathways, it looks at your antioxidant pathways, your methylation, glutathione metabolism, and vitamin D metabolism. Those are the four main pathways we look at for immune system function. And then that's what I see most frequently are deranged in people having problems with breast implant illness.
