A short conversational YouTube video in which Robert Whitfield MD outlines common hidden drivers of inflammation—food sensitivities, toxic burden (mold, heavy metals), and environmental/product toxins (phthalates, glyphosates, parabens)—and discusses testing and practical implications; a patient/speaker raises a question about heavy metals being mobilized through sauna use and dental implants.
So in the beginning, what I try to get accomplished and what we've, you know, 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.
