A short interview/transcript excerpt (YouTube video) featuring Robert Whitfield MD discussing breast implant removal (explant), functional-medicine–led detox plans, and fat transfer (autologous fat grafting) as an alternative to implants. Whitfield describes a clinic workflow: pre-surgical genetic-informed supplementation, in-house testing, year-long detox plans, and timing/options for simultaneous or delayed fat transfer because toxins can reside in fat. The piece frames fat transfer as a lower-risk option relative to retaining or replacing implants for patients concerned about breast implant illness.
Is there circumstances where sometimes you remove the implants and the symptoms still don't go away? Or for the most part, are people seeing their health just completely transform?
We started doing and developing our own systems and processes around functional medicine. And we have a whole team of functional practitioners in my clinic. And we do all of our tests and keep it in house now, and we do our detox plans and those run for a year. So when someone comes to us and is going to engage with me for surgery, they start our supplementation and pause theirs as because of how we mentioned it. I want to know they're getting the supplements that are needed based on genetics that we understand. And then they do that series of tests basically to craft the picture of how we're going to help them from a detox standpoint. I get a lot of people coming to me wanted a fat transfer simultaneously. So they want to explant their old implants and they went volume back with their own fat. You know, a lot of toxins hang out in fat. So we're always trying to help people detoxify so they get in better balance. And if I can help them get into a good situation prior to, you know, what is going to be their explant journey and they can do a fat transfer, we want to just make that as smooth and easy for them as possible. And if we can't, they can do one later. Um, it's everybody's prerogative to do what they want at that time.
So if you are wanting a bigger cup size, but you do not want to get breast implants, you can just transfer fat from another area of your body and there's way less risk as far as breast implant illness, or maybe none.
Yeah, it's not going to be a breast implant illness situation. So it would be one, you know, do you have enough fat.
