Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Breast Implant Illness: Detox & Recovery Explained

20 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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Robert Whitfield MD frames breast implant illness (BII) as a chronic inflammatory process in which a breast implant may play a variable role for each person. He emphasizes that in some cases overt infection makes the implant a major driver, while in others explantation is followed by a period of detoxification managed by a functional medicine team. Whitfield lists potential contributors to ongoing inflammation and toxin burden — mica, fungal toxins, environmental toxins such as glyphosate, phthalates, and microplastics — and warns that many skin-care products contain endocrine-disrupting toxins; he recommends limiting products and using resources like the Environmental Working Group to choose safer options.

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I mean, I'll put it this way. So I consider breast implant illness to be a chronic inflammatory process of which a breast implant is playing a role. And in each person it's going to vary how much role it's playing. So if there's an infection like I described, obviously that's a big role. If there's not and I explant them, you know, patients will continue to have to work with either my functional team or their functional team for detoxification, depending on what things affect them. So things like mica, toxins from fungi, things like environmental toxins like glyphosates, things like phthalates, microplastics. Skin care is a huge problem in general for women because it has a lot of toxins in it that disrupt your hormones. So you want to use or limit your skin care to things that you put through the environmental working group and have your best understanding of what you're putting on your skin because that absorbs orbs and affects you.