Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Breast Implant Illness: Hidden Risks & Solutions Revealed

12 Jun 2025 · 0 min

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YouTube interview (June 12, 2025) with Robert Whitfield MD discussing breast implant illness (BII): prevalence of implants placed globally, variability in symptom onset, and the clinic’s multimodal approach emphasizing assessment of toxicity burden, genetics, gut health, food sensitivities, and hormone balance to achieve symptom resolution after explant surgery.

Questions this video answers

2.2 million implants placed worldwide annually.

"Over 10 years, 30%" (as stated in the interview).

How many women do you think are walking around with breast implant illness that have no idea?
Annually, there's 2.2 million implants placed worldwide. I can't give you the exact time it takes to develop BII because as we talked, it's different. But you just do that over 10 years, 30%. You're looking at 6 billion people.
What happens when somebody takes their implants out with the explant surgery and their symptoms are still there? What are you finding is going on typically in those situations?
So. So that's why we developed our program. I think if you don't know their toxicity burden or their genetics and how they detoxify and their gut health, food sensitivities and hormone balance, I don't think you have a shot in the hell of actually taking care of them. You're. You're just doing a surgery to do a surgery, and you're not really completing the loop.
So it's rare that that would happen because you're doing all of this stuff on the front end to see what's going on with them. Okay. But.