Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

If you have breast implants, this habit might be making you feel worse. #shorts

30 Dec 2025 · 0 min

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A short YouTube video ("If you have breast implants, this habit might be making you feel worse. #shorts") featuring Lauryn Bosstick, Robert Whitfield MD, and Michael Bosstick discussing possible harms of frequent sauna use for people with breast implants. Lauryn reports heavy sauna use and believes it caused inflammation or ‘detox’ of the implant into her system; Dr. Whitfield counters that heating a prosthetic is unlikely to cause leaching for implants with non-metal shells, but reports a patient who felt markedly better after implant removal and suggests infrared/sauna heating may worsen symptoms in some cases. Michael notes increasing popularity of home saunas.

I'm going to say what you are not saying because maybe it can't be said. What I think is that I was saunaing so much with my implants that it started to seep out.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
And make me so inflamed and basically detox the implant into my system. We're going to talk about the sauna. That's on my list.
This gal came in. Everybody's trying to just take care of themselves. So they know infrared sauna will help them in the detox process. And sweating will help you and all this. But heating yourself up is not going to help you with a prosthetic device. And the device that we're discussing doesn't have a shell that's titanium. Right. You can heat up somebody with a knee implant, they're not going to leach it. Heavy metals are obviously a problem, and we can get to your story later with heavy metals. But this girl, as soon as I took her implants out, she felt magically better. And she wasn't, you know, so much infected as she was basically melting herself in the sauna especially.
I mean, the sauna's been around forever, but the conversation around people using saunas or putting saunas in their home or going to places on is getting bigger and bigger and bigger. So more and more people are doing it. And yeah, I mean, we crank that thing up.