Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Breast Implants, Explant Surgery: Robert Whitfield is live!

3 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a live YouTube discussion (Robert Whitfield MD) about post-operative care for breast implant/explant patients who travel to Austin to stay with the surgeon. Key practical recommendations: have patients get sunlight every morning to reset circadian rhythm (produce morning cortisol peak) and encourage daytime activity (walks); explicitly advise patients not to take afternoon naps and ask caregivers to help keep them awake so nighttime sleep is restored.

Questions this video answers

Get up every morning and get some sunlight to help reset the circadian rhythm and produce a morning cortisol bump.

Don't take naps in the afternoon; caregivers should help keep patients awake and encourage walks to restore proper nighttime sleep.

Before and after surgery, because many patients.
Who travel to.
Us, obviously.
It'S disruptive.
That they come to Austin and stay with us. So one of the more important things I have them do is get up every morning, get some sunlight, help reset the circadian rhythm. Sun's rising in Austin right now, so we want that bump in the morning of cortisol, and then we want to get it going down the rest of the day so that in the evening.
I could get back on track and go to sleep properly.
So for patients post op, I tell them, don't take naps in the afternoon.
I tell their caregivers.
Really just keep them up. You can go for walks. It's really nice time in Austin right now. So that's the advice for today.
Everybody. Have a great day.