Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Autoimmune & Implants: Risks You MUST Know!

18 May 2025 · 1 min

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Robert Whitfield MD warns that implants can trigger immune reactions, especially risky for people with existing autoimmune conditions or gut problems. Autoimmune disorders have existed since the late 1800s, and implants started in 1962. Placing implants in someone already dealing with autoimmune disease can lead to poor outcomes.

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Since the late 1800s.

1962 in Houston by Conan and Droux.

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All of these different drugs are just to modulate what it's what your body's doing in response to having something foreign. It's reacting. So if someone came to me already with gut trouble. Sjogren's syndrome, lupus, history of autoimmune disorders. Because autoimmune disorders predated implants. I mean, autoimmune disorder has been around since the late 1800s. First implant was placed in 1962 at Houston by Conan and Droux. So that these things are not new, right? But setting up somebody for absolute abject failure is not great. So I would not do that.