Dr. Robert Whitfield explains how he evaluates suspected breast implant illness by listening to each patient's exposures and genetic detoxification capacity rather than relying on diagnostic interviews. He prioritizes gut health, nutrition, and sleep, noting that without these basics, recovery stalls.
Yeah, I think it's really difficult for them, Monique, because they've literally went through doctor after doctor or program after program or protocol after protocol and not had or experienced only limited success. They may feel better for a little bit and then they kind of plateau and revert. And so that makes sense based on what we already discussed. So I don't listen to patients to make a diagnosis. I try to listen to patients to understand like their experiences exposures. And then I really want to understand as quickly as possible genetically how they detoxify, you know, combined with those exposure risks, travel history, what— or what state is their gut health in really. Because as we know, like, if you can't eat and drink and sleep normally, you have no shot at
