Dr. Robert Whitfield explains why breast implant illness patients report brain inflammation and low energy, but standard tests like CRP and IL-6 come back normal. Doctors lack tools to diagnose what's actually happening in these cases.
You're finding that people with breast implant illness have just lower energy. Yeah, they have changes. And as you would imagine, as you've alluded to on your show many, many times, having toxic mold exposures, when you deal with the folks who have mold and breast implant illness— Poor people. They have a lot of neural inflammation. And when you look at their genetics or their food sensitivities or their hormones or the GI map or their, toxicity report, which we'll get to shortly, um, it paints a really good picture of why they have so much chronic inflammation and why the doctors who are trying to care for them have zero understanding of what is going on. One, because the, the actual tools— and you've mentioned on the show the CRP and sed rate, um, are the traditional tools used to look at inflammation. In my patients, because I've looked at Lp, IL-6, CRP, sed rates, they do not show that. We're going to pause for a second there.
He's looked all the inflammatory markers that you would expect and they didn't work. Sorry, keep going.
Exactly. So these are the traditional markers that have been mentioned, uh, both by Dave on his show, and we've looked at, and they do not track with this patient population.
