Dr. Robert Whitfield explains that breast implants inevitably fail over time, whether for reconstruction or cosmetic reasons. He declined implants for his own wife, citing aesthetic preference and the principle that foreign bodies disrupt the body's biome. He recommends focusing on natural health strategies like diet and sleep instead.
I would take care of breast implant problems, meaning that if you had a capsular contracture, if you had a poorly positioned breast reconstruction or a cosmetic one that had been revised multiple times because of all my experience using techniques for cancer patients, I would correct those. But, uh, just so that everybody listening understands, those all will ultimately fail. Wow. It doesn't really matter how good I am. I— you can spend all day patting yourself on the back because eventually that device will over its lifetime, there will be a problem with it. My wife came and asked me for breast implants and I was like, "No." First of all, it's not my aesthetic. I don't think big boobs are the thing. But second of all, if you can avoid foreign bodies of any nature, then I don't feel like that's a bad thing for your biome. I think, you know, as much as we can take care of ourselves through improvements in whether it's our diet, supplements, sleep, many of the things you ascribed to— implants don't really fall into those as, as categories.
