Robert Whitfield MD explains how breast implants may trigger weight gain through chronic inflammation affecting the gut and lymphatic system, causing fluid retention and malabsorption rather than fat gain. He recommends identifying and removing inflammatory drivers, starting with the implants themselves.
Does breast implant illness lead to weight gain? So the implant is one component of this but it's chronic inflammation. So now instead of having acute swelling because these signals are never turned off, we get chronic swelling and a lot of times I see it in the gut. But let's just say if we feel like the chronic inflammatory process is responsible for a lot of this weight gain which is really fluid. So think about the gut. We have leaky gut malabsorption, constipation, inability to eliminate our toxins and we swell more and more and more. There's a large amount of lymphatic tissue associated around the gut and so you get more and more swelling, you retain more and more fluid, you put on more and more weight as, as you decrease the drivers of inflammation. Identify the biggest ones including implants and remove them from the system. So yes, breast implant illness can be responsible for weight gain if you follow that way of thinking about it.
