Dr. Robert Whitfield explains why fat transfer patients need toxin screening before surgery. High levels of mycotoxins or heavy metals mean you should detox and retest first, though some patients choose to proceed anyway.
Well, I guess there was. There was some concern because I polled my Instagram, my incredible Instagram audience, and there was some concern, you know, because we hear sometimes that toxins are stored in fat. Yes. So if you're removing fat from one part of the body and you're putting it in another, is there the possibility, you know, that you're liberating certain stored toxins? I mean, so.
That'S a valid point, and that's why we run the program pre op and detox folks. If someone has an extremely poor toxicity test, meaning they have a ton of mycotoxins like aflatoxin or fumescens or something like that, plus maybe heavy metals or isobutyric acid or all these different chemical exposures, I just tell them, we're not going to do your fat transfer. You're going to have to go through our detox program and then repeat that test to make sure that you're in the best possible, you know, position. Now, if someone comes to me and says, hey, Dr. Whitfield, I know I don't have a great tox test, I understand that, I accept that, but I still want to do a fat transfer, well, that's somebody then making an informed decision. So, yes, you can say those folks would put themselves at a different risk, stratification. But that's having understood all the information.
At that point, definitely want to get into ways of supporting the body's detox pathways.
