Short transcript excerpt of a conversation (Alex and Robert Whitfield MD) arguing that hormone testing and toxin screening (mold, heavy metals, environmental toxins), stool testing for gut health/food sensitivities, and emerging metabolomics should be done as prerequisites before breast implant surgery because standard blood tests often appear normal despite underlying issues.
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. So I know you all know this, but I'm reiterate that because you get too many chemicals through products for women that cause and wreak havoc on your. Your, your hormones, basically. So that combined with. We look at stool testing because a lot of gut health issues are intimately associated with this food sensitivities. I look at all those tests, plus we have some new things coming that look at metabolomics. Metabolomics is probably the thing that will help us get beyond the testing that so many people come to me and say, oh, Dr. Whitfield, all my blood work's normal. Right? I've heard, I hear this all the time. And they just come with reams of paper or blood work. Those tests, Alex, haven't changed since I've been alive. And I'll be 55 next week.
