Transcript excerpt from a conversation (YouTube video) where a husband describes noticing chronic inflammation symptoms in his wife, supports her decision to remove/replace breast implants for health reasons, and discusses concerns about long-term inflammation and future maintenance. The speakers reflect on aesthetics versus health, and uncertainty about how often implants might need replacement over decades.
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I have had a suspicion that something was off for a while, and I had to be very delicate in the way I said it, because it's your wife and you don't ever want to call her, you know, image into question. But I've known her again for so long, and in the last six years, I said, okay, like, there's a little bit of inflammation going on that I haven't seen. Like, what is that? We're healthy, we work out, we eat right, we try to take care of ourselves. We have access to all these great people. Something's not adding up. And, you know, I was just kind of following her lead. Hey, I have a thyroid issue. Hey, hormones are off. Hey, you know. But when she started talking about this and started sharing with me the things she was seeing online and on people like your page, I was like, oh, that sounds like that's what you have. And so when she told me she was going to do this, my perspective was like, yeah, 100%, you should do it. Because, again, I get to educate myself with people like yourself on this show. And I'm aware of the effects of chronic inflammation. And I was like, okay, if you have that, extrapolate that 10, 20, 30 years down the road, this is not going to get better. It's going to get exponentially worse. Agree with that. So when she told me she was thinking about this, I said, okay, good idea. Because I want my wife to be obviously happy, healthy, and thriving from an aesthetic standpoint, for me personally, I mean, this is too much information. The audience. I was never. I'm, you know, not necessarily like the boob guy anyway. Like, I. The target for me is a little lower, to not be too vulgar. And so, like, it wasn't. It wasn't a big thing for me. That being said, I know a lot of guys put a big emphasis on the. On the chest. And I get that. But I don't know, like, it wasn't. It wasn't the biggest thing. I feel like, to me, like, you know, maybe guys, I do that have a little bit of a mommy issue.
I also think what's great about my husband is that he saw me. He saw me before. Like, he knows. He. It's like, here's those old C's again.
No, but. But all jokes aside, like, the. I want my wife's beautiful, but the draw was not her image. Like, it's always been her as a person. And so I don't want her to.
Oh, that's so cliche, though. Like, too much of the Notebook. Like, be real.
I also don't want to be in a situation where the person I'm co parenting with is sick and not feeling good. Right. Like that. Yeah.
You know, he know, he knew there was a problem with inflammation for a while and we were trying to figure it out. And once, once this all clicked, I think it was like for both of us, an aha moment.
I like them very, like black and white. I started thinking, okay, if you're going to have chronic inflammation because of something that's in your system that your body doesn't want, and you're going to keep 10, 20, 30 years down the line, that's not going to get better. And also, tell me this is wrong. I imagine if you're somebody that has these, you have to do maintenance on them every 15, 20, 30. I don't know how often you have to do it, but if you're a young woman, call it 25, you're probably going to have to get these redone, what, at least two to three times in your lifetime, or is that not accurate? Yeah, I would tell you I was trained in a manner that's very different.
