Robert Whitfield MD argues that chronic inflammation, not discrete diseases, explains breast implant illness and its varied symptoms. Genetic predisposition to inflammation determines who gets sick and why symptoms don't fit standard diagnoses.
I believe chronic inflammation is basically the root, if you will, of breast implant illness. And that's why it's confusing really to providers when a patient shows up and they're, they have all these different symptoms and the provider is kind of taken back because it doesn't fit a recognition pattern for them. But if you just understand from a genetic standpoint why people develop more problems with chronic inflammation, then it makes more sense when you hear their symptoms. And so it's not so much that this is a figure out all these different things, categorize it as a specific, you know, disease entity, and then treat it.
