A short conversational transcript (YouTube #shorts) where Robert Whitfield MD and an interviewer discuss breast implant illness. Whitfield states autoimmune diseases tend to appear after implants (he does see some with prior autoimmune disorders) and affirms that implants can affect the ability to lose weight.
Are most people with breast implant illness? Are they diagnosed with an autoimmune disease before and then chose to get breast implants anyway, or are the autoimmune diseases popping up after the breast implants?
Yeah, it's the latter. They're. They're told they're developing some kind of autoimmune disease.
Okay.
I do see some people that did get implants who had an autoimmune disorder like Sjogren's or something, which I think just sets them up for more problems.
Can breast implants affect your ability to lose weight at all?
Oh, yeah, sure.
Explain that.
If someone has chronic inflammation, we'll just say they're in a cycle where they're going to retain fluid. And whether that's from, you know, more cortisol production or just having a chronic inflammatory process ongoing in the body and getting signaling, like we said before, from the interaction between the implant and your tissues. There's a new paper out that describes something called Oxylipin 10 Home, where there's this interaction between your body and the biofilm, and it creates more fatigue.
