A recorded conversation (YouTube video) led by Robert Whitfield MD about hidden triggers of inflammation. Early content surveys possible drivers — food sensitivities, toxic exposures (mold, heavy metals), and common chemical agents (phthalates, glyphosates, parabens) — and frames a clinical approach of testing and individualized assessment.
So in the beginning, what I try to get accomplished, and what we've become very strict about, is what things drive inflammation for you. Do you have food sensitivities? There's tests for that. Do you have a toxic burden already? So have you been exposed to mold? Have you been exposed to heavy metals? Do you have environmental toxins like phthalates, glyphosates? Glyphosates are in the herbicides and pesticides are sprayed on foods. Do you use products that have parabens in them? So these are all things that if we don't know about them, and I just do an explant, they're not going to get better, necessarily quickly, based on their genetics.
But because I was high in heavy metals, we thought, and correct me if I'm wrong, that the reason I was high is because I was heating myself up in the sauna, and it was coming out through my implants.
