Short conversational clip (YouTube #shorts) featuring Robert Whitfield MD and an unidentified speaker discussing potential triggers for autoimmune disease. The speakers mention adverse childhood experiences (ACE score ≥1) and infections (including long Covid) as associated triggers and raise breast implant illness/silicone as a possible trigger in susceptible individuals.
And then there's a trigger. And the trigger is where things get interesting. Because for some people, that could be trauma, it could be adverse childhood experiences. Having a score of 1 or higher on the adverse childhood experiences test is associated with a greater risk of autoimmune disease. Or it could be an infection, you know, similar to there's classical autoimmune disease and then there's non classical things like long Covid.
Right.
I think a lot of folks maybe not you would put breast implant illness into a non classical category. We can debate that. So I think there's. These triggers are where things get interesting. Is silicone a trigger? Are implants a trigger? I think for a susceptible individual?
Oh, yeah.
Yes, yeah.
Yeah, of course. Yeah. I have people who basically, you know, they're not like a nut allergy, anaphylactic allergic, but you can tell. Yeah, not for them. And then every single, the, you know, for everybody listening. So every time I take out a device, I did the same thing I would do for the many years I did cancer reconstruction. I always take all the scar tissue out and we'd always culture it, send it pathology.
