Robert Whitfield MD discusses chronic symptoms reported by patients with breast implants, including brain fog, headaches, and chest pain. 2.2 million implants are placed annually worldwide. He recommends testing for hormone imbalances and environmental toxins like mold and heavy metals.
How many women do you think are walking around with breast implant illness that have no idea?
Annually, there's 2.2 million implants placed worldwide. Most of my patients show up with a laundry list of chronic inflammatory symptoms from head to toe. So neurologically, they can have brain fog, they can have headache, they can have light sensitivity, sound sensitivity in the whole ear, nose, and throat system, dry eyes, cough, sinusitis. Chronic stuff that has no answers. Heart palpitations, chest pain, shortness of breath, nerve pain in their extremities, tremors. And then the gut is just wildly abnormal.
Like everything that's interesting that you say the gut. I. I don't think I would have ever thought that gut problems could be caused by breast implants. If somebody were to get breast implants, it should be a prerequisite. Like, they should all get their hormones tested before going through with this. Because then you would see, like, hey, I have, like, crazy whacked out estrogen and things which is likely to lead to problems.
Oh, it gets more complicated. So everybody who has that detoxification ability now has to look at their exposures. So we used to go to the doctor and get, like, a blood count and see if we're anemic. And now I'm the plastic surgeon who checks your toxin levels for mold toxins or heavy metals or environmental toxins. And then when we repeated her heavy metal toxicity test, she had all of those gone.
Should people with breast implants be avoiding saunas?
Yes. You're not crazy at all.
