Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Implants & Toxins: Sauna Dangers & Explant Success!

7 May 2025 · 1 min

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YouTube conversation (Robert Whitfield MD and a second speaker) about risks from breast implants and toxin exposure. Dr. Whitfield warns that using a sauna with breast implants can accelerate degradation of the implant shell and cause leaching of heavy metals (he cites tin and cadmium). He describes a case (patient named Lauren Bostick) who reportedly showed elevated toxins while using a sauna, underwent explant surgery, spent a summer in Italy and later showed reduced toxin levels on retesting. Whitfield emphasizes using toxin testing as an individualized benchmark and notes that ruptured implants or loss of shell integrity permit leaking of implant contents into the body.

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Some people will explant and not really feel that much better. Despite my patients, again on Instagram and are super happy, like Lauren Bostick, you know, basically from the recovery room, she was creating a leaching situation by going into her sauna. Everybody gets mad at me when I say this, but the. The degradation of the shell, which has all the heavy metals in it, was going into her system and we tested it. And then after her explant, she spent the summer in Italy, basically, and then came back and we retested and result out of her system. So I would say the short answer is I always want everybody to use that tox test as a benchmark themselves, because everybody's going to have a different one. And we do see people who have elevated levels of tin and cadmium and things depending on their level of detox and. And you would be surprised, like, ruptures and things like that, because that's loss of integrity of the shell of the implant. So, no, nobody can refute what's going on there. Like, I get people all the time mad at me for saying things, but when you have a rupture and things are leaking, that's not a. That's not. That device has lost its integrity. So those things will get into your system.
Well, yeah. Two takeaways is don't use the sauna if you have implants and take them out and go to Italy.