Robert Whitfield MD explains how he prepares women with breast implant illness for surgery by testing for toxins and inflammation, then lowering inflammatory load through diet, hydration, air quality, and gut health. He uses urine toxicity tests and a glutathione challenge to measure the body's detox capacity, which he describes as genetically limited like an overflowing bucket.
People are routinely like, okay, why do you know all this? Is, you know, a plastic surgeon. So we understand the genetics of women with breast implant illness extremely well, but we also understand their toxic burdens very well. We get urine toxicity tests, and we typically would use a glutathione challenge from my inflammation support bundle. And what we try to do is get all this expressed in the urine so that we can learn how to what is your burden? You know, what are your genetics? What things from your, your diet or fluid intake are affecting you? What about your air quality? Look at your gut microbiome, look at your food sensitivities, and really try to lower your inflammation. We know that doing this even preoperatively, just using our inflammation inflammation support bundle will lower your chronic inflammatory score when checked through specific urine markers. So we feel strongly that controlling as much the quality of the fluid, food and air intake into your body will position you better to lower your inflammation. And most of what that looks like is understanding you have only so much ability to detox. That's genetic. And then the more you get faced with it, that system becomes overloaded. Many times it's referred to as a bucket that's overflowing. And then you become more and more symptomatic. As a patient with breast implants.
