A lymph therapist and Dr. Robert Whitfield discuss whether breast implants require removal. They explain that explant isn't always necessary, citing reconstruction after cancer and psychological benefits, while noting that genetic factors like MTHFR polymorphism affect how bodies handle implants differently.
You have to get your breast implants out. I'm not a big believer that you have to every time. And for me as a lymph therapist, as a lymph queen in the fascia and lymph world, I know there's reasons for women to get breast implants that are beyond just beauty, right? Like they have to do it because I've had cancer and there's a lot of self esteem issues with it. And so it's not a black or white issue for me. Nothing in life is. And I would love your take because I think for so much of my audience they tend to think I feel very black and white about things. You have to get your breast implants out. I'm not a big believer that you have to every time.
And as it relates to, does someone need to have an explant in every situation? And the short answer is, the way I look at it from a genetic standpoint, you're going to have people who detox really well and those people probably will never get to my doorstep or not get to a inflammation standpoint where they need that help. But as you know as well as I do, many people don't detox well. And so if we just look at a common gene polymorphism, mthfr, a lot of people have heard of that. And if you use like the. That's one hit, it probably doesn't take many more of those hits. Whether it's genetic or an environmental exposure, a problem with our diets or our sleep patterns or, or something that will make it so that it's very difficult for us then to detoxify and feel, well, you know, each and every, it's like a rinse and repeat every day.
