Excerpt from a YouTube interview with Robert Whitfield MD and a patient discussing breast implant removal (explant) and lift. The patient reports elevated heavy metals, was advised to stop sauna use before surgery, and underwent testing to compare pre- and post-explant results. Surgical details include removal of implants and a 'lollipop' mastopexy (lift) to elevate nipples and reduce nipple size; the patient reports minimal scarring and improved, youthful breast position after removing heavy, large implants that caused sagging.
Questions this video answers
Sauna use.
Lollipop (vertical) mastopexy.
Chapters
Because I was high in heavy metals. We thought, and correct me if I'm wrong, that the reason I was high is because I was heating myself up in the sauna and it was coming out through my implant.
Right. But if you go to 99% of the people in the world who do this, they didn't check that test. So you would never know that test.
Right. So we met, like, you know, six months, five months before the surgery. I would have continued to sauna, making it worse and worse and worse. But you guys told me, stop with the sauna. So I stopped.
And you still had high heavy metals.
I still had high heavy metals. So basically, you give us a bunch of different tests so you could really get the lay of the land. And also, you're able to compare it to when you get the explant out, which I think is like, knowledge is power.
Right. And you want to supplement those, too. As time goes by, are there things you'll see when someone comes to you in their test where you're like, I can't operate on you until you do these certain things or just certain things they may have that prohibits them from having an explant? So from an explant alone perspective, typically not. But if someone's got a very, very poor tox profile with mold and heavy metals, lots of environmental exposures, and we do an associated urine test for just inflammation, if that's all really super high, then we try to be careful with how much surgery we were doing. So we will limit things like fat transfers because we don't want to reduce the healing ability of that fat transfer.
And you did not want to do. Just so I can tell everyone what I did, I got them out the M block. Right. And I wanted to do a lift. The best lift that you could possibly do. I wanted the highest nipples. I wanted my nipples pointing to the stars. And I did the. Is it the lollipop?
Yep.
So it's like. And you know what? The scar isn't that bad at all. It's kind of cool. Michael, I told you even before you.
Did it that I thought it would.
Be kind of cool. Yeah. The scar is not bad. Like, if people are worried about the scar, I'm not worried about the scar at all. My boobs are so lifted, and they look so young and youthful now. Because here's the thing, too, that people don't realize when you get these huge implants that are weighing on your natural boobs, it's making them go down. And so what starts to happen is your boobs start to sag and sag and sag. And the nipple starts to sag because you're carrying all this weight. So what we did is we removed my implants. You lifted them up to the stars, and then we made my nipples a little bit smaller.
