Is this the future of medicine? Dr. Whitfield explains the SHARP Method.

On today's episode of the Drive, I want to discuss something I was asked by a very prominent wellness figure. The question to me was can my sharp method reduce or eliminate the need for an explant surgery? So let's unpack that. That's interesting question that I've given a lot of thought to in terms of what does our sharp method mean for those patients undergo, you know, whether they come and have an explant with us or once I have an explant somewhere else or maybe they're never going to have an excellent. I think that's probably the larger issue that is in the back of my mind all the time. There's a lot of concern and the surgery itself is very intimidating to consider depending on where that impetus in the in the first place started to get breast augmentation. And I've interviewed patients on my shows that are patients of mine that have explained to me in detail why they first started thinking about explant surgery. Whether it was an imaging image in a magazine, someone in a peer group, maybe they were bullied in school, they just felt less feminine, wanted a more full figure. It was accept, you know, just by, you know, the, their mom or moms that they were socialized with growing up. There's a whole host of reasons and obviously considering expat surgery raises up and stirs up a lot of emotion, old trauma, all those things. And so quite rightfully so, you know, once you become problem aware. So is breast implant illness a problem? Is my chronic inflammation I'm experiencing associated with breast implant illness? You know, what is breast implant illness? You know, I always define breast implant illness the same way as I think about it this way. It's a chronic inflammatory process of which a medical device is playing a component. Just yesterday I had a patient in the office, very high functioning patient, was experiencing tons of problems with root canals that they had had done. And myself, like many other providers know that any kind of problem in the mouth certainly can lead to health related issues. Dr. Kelly Blodgett was on my show. He explained in detail all the things he finds when he basically explants root canals because they' could be obviously dead bone, infected bone. He sends it off for examination and I encourage you, you know, he has a show called Toxic Tuesday where he goes over different cases and obviously he's been on my show. You can go back and reference that episode. So we know that chronic inflammatory processes and symptoms of chronic inflammation can exist without implants. And obviously they can exist with implants. So can we lower the inflammation now, starting now with the process, the sharp method. And how does that even work? So everybody has a series of genes. Everybody's heard of the MTHFR gene. It's got a very kind of foul, cliche name associated with it now. But just in general, in general, if you don't methylate well, which I don't methylate well, what does that actually mean? So I worked out on Sunday. Traditionally, if I worked out in my, you know, 20s and 30s, aggressively, I would have soreness that would linger for multiple days afterwards. For instance, I had done legwork, I had, you know, done squats or leg presses or leg extension chins or like curls or what have you. So why, if we can't methylate? Well, inflammation which is created by exercise lingers. It can't be cleared because the repair process is impaired. You don't have enough of what is needed or capability to overcome what you've produced through the actual process of the muscular work. And so I also similarly had difficulty with high intensity exercises, interval exercises, running long distance. It's all these things that are secondary to immunomethylation. So can you overcome this? Well, certainly from a genetic standpoint, once you know it, that's truly how you can take action. So in my inflammation support bundle, which is available to everybody, can be ordered online through Dr. Rob Solutions, the inflammation support bundle has a balanced methylated B complex liposomal mixture. And why, you know, obviously I just talked about methylated, but why liposomal? I have so many patients that have gut issues, gut trouble, digestive issues, constipation, diarrhea, all the things that liposomal form stimulations are more easily absorbed higher up in the GI tract. So that makes it so that they can actually absorb the nutrients that they need, get these B vitamins that are methylated. So that's one piece of this puzzle. And so how many patients can this affect if you're just having difficulty with methylation, whether it's mthfr, mtr, comt, all these genes associated with methylation? Well, in the United states alone, approximately 40% of the population has a problem with methylation. So if we could improve inflammation in 40% of those patients, you know, would that be valuable in this setting? So when I was asked the question, I know this is one of the questions that has, you know, been raised in my own thinking about this problem. You know, you have to understand the problem of chronic inflammation. And one of the chapters to write about it is what happens if we adjust methylation? Can we really turn down, put in the Background some of the symptoms of chronic inflammation. And my thought is yes, but I'll make a couple qualifying statements. I think that's possible if the actual person who's experiencing the symptoms of chronic inflammation has simply that methylation problem alone. So there are a lot of other different genetic issues, and we call them hits. And the hits can be in the form of single nucleotide polymorphisms. And that single nucleotide polymorphism is a change in the base pairing in your genetic code. So the more straightforward answer is how many hits does it take to get somebody who's really going to develop chronic inflammation? And then whether it's from a root canal, breast implant, the hip or knee implant, a surgical mesh implant, whatever, is that obviously more likely develop. And I think the short answer to that question is yes. And the way I think about that specific issue is, okay, you have this person who has this set of genes now, depending on where they live, the food they eat, the fluids they drink, the air they breathe that increases their burden. Think of it like that. So we just had, unfortunately, and still ongoing all of these fires in California, so, so devastating, upsetting to see for those, those people. It's just awful situation, and their air quality and their water supply and their food, you know, it's. Things are going to get affected and you don't know to what degree. So one of the things we always look at is, you know, someone's genetics, because that's how their ability to detox is really, you know, possible. Now, the other aspect of that is, and how I think about it is all these different exposures, say for instance, car exhaust, for example, creates carbon monoxide. And so fires are going to create all of these different byproducts from the combustion of the homes and the things within the homes. And so those are going to create a bunch of different, you know, concerning chemicals and byproducts from that. I was talking to my friend in Scotland and they were showing images in Scotland of a playground burning. Now, the playgrounds when I grew up were made out of metal and the ground was concrete. But over time, as we all know, these playgrounds have morphed. And now there's a bunch of different types of plastics. Now, for instance, something that makes plastics extremely hard is a phthalates. Phthalates are extremely disruptive, excuse me, to the endocrine system. Now, I don't know what combustion of that plastic does, but it puts that in other chemical products into the air. And now with the wind, that air is moving those toxins around. So I, you know, I think you've all probably seen they're not allowing people to go back to their. Their homes. It's not safe. But it's not safe probably in every situation because there's a ongoing fire concern. It's just the actual air quality, and that's probably such a concern now. And the winds have picked up again there in California. So really, our lots are with those. Those people who live in that area and around that area. So a combination of genetics, toxicity, bird, those are two main factors. Examination of those, taking histories that take that into consideration when I talk to patients as driving the force and how I think about the problem. So the long story short is if we do establish you have inflammation, we have an inflammation test. It's a simple one. It's a urine test. It helps if you understand from that test that you have increased amounts of inflammation, then, you know, what action can you take? You can certainly get genetic testing that we offer. We use Envision Labs. They're so far a really good vendor and comprehensive in terms of looking at these detoxification pathways. And then the way to start lowering inflammation now is to use supplementation that's geared to lower inflammation. And the reason, like I said before, we start with the methylated B complex. It's a simple one to understand from a methylation standpoint. The others have to do with specific pathways of detoxification, and they are also liposomal. To further, you know, clarify the situation, obviously you can do more testing. We recommend a urine test, and it looks at even more toxins. So there's your detox capability, your exposures, and then, like, in your environment. Where are all these things coming from? Obviously, we brought up, you know, smoke is one depending on, you know, your home, where you lived, where you grew up. If you listen to someone like Dave Asprey, he grew up in a home that had. Or one of the areas you grew up was in a home in the basement. The basement had mold. So mold is a huge problem. Black mold. Aspergillus is a basement black mold. And there are things like ochratoxin from that. So that's a very powerful toxin and can affect those of us who have difficulty with a specific pathway. So if you have a real sensitivity to odors, strong chemical smells, perfumes, that's. That's another thing to clue in that you're gonna have trouble with detoxification and especially with something like mold. So these are yet, you know, more. More things to consider. And mold is a really underappreciated, you know, problem in the flood and disaster relief that's done just around the world. An expert became CEO of company Michael Feedstein. The CEO Jasper created his air filter company based on his experience with coping with the aftermath of fire and flood disasters. And so just like they're dealing with in California currently, he experienced that all over North America, East Canadian. So that wildfires are a large problem where it's from in Canada and then obviously in the United States we have them as well. So air quality, trying to use air filtration to improve the air quality to get those toxins out of the air before they get into our system is a big strategy that works well. So those are two things. So those strong smells, you can have limitations in your detox pathways, staying sore after or workouts. Probably one consideration is a methylation issue. So those are two things that you need to consider that are potentially contributing to chronic inflammation and can be from a evaluation standpoint. We have tools to help with that. And those are just a couple of examples of real times they'll think of like are you sensitive to chemical odors, any kind of strong smell, are you, you know, someone who stays sore or another option to think about it is if you got a cold, one, if you get sick frequently, you have a lower immune system or immune response. But two, if you get sick and then recover, keep a cough for a long period of time. That's another hint that you don't mouthfully well. So once again, you know, you can hit our inflammation test online to see if you've got inflammation that's ongoing. You can start the inflammation support bundle but really hit the inflammation test. Set up a call with my team to see if we can, you know, get you started and get some help for you.