Bacteria from routine infections can stick to medical implants like breast implants or joint replacements, forming biofilms that trigger low-grade inflammation. Symptoms include brain fog, fatigue, and anxiety. The speakers ask whether all implants eventually cause problems.
What happens is you get a cut, you get a cold, you get a GI infection, you get a uti. Bacteria gets in your bloodstream and then that sticks to a device because the device is not yours.
You know, just like any implant, they're finding this out with knee hips, right? They form biofilms and pathogens make their way there to hide from the immune system because it's a safe haven. They're trying to survive, hide from immunity, and they're going, oh, wow, we didn't realize that. Hernia meshes will form biofilms and all of a sudden pathogens are there, building up over years, driving low grade systemic inflammation, causing brain fog, anxiety, you know, fatigue, et cetera, et cetera. No different with breasts. Your immune system knows that they're there. Bacteria find their way there, low grade, and if they look at them, they're fine. But are they?
So is it safe to say every implant is eventually going to be a problem?
Well, they all form. Your body makes a capsule around. It doesn't matter if it's a knee, a hip, a breast, a dental, cardiac, neurologic, whatever, it doesn't really matter what it is.
