Robert Whitfield MD addresses claims that breast implants melt or leach heavy metals. Patient Lauren Bostick had detectable heavy metals and felt worse after sauna use. Whitfield says patients who feel unwell after saunas should stop, but notes uncertainty about how often this happens.
People got all pissed off at me because my patient Lauren, she always joked with me that she's like, I'm melting my implants. And so on her show, we said that. And then, oh, my God, you know, everybody got pissed. And it's still like, the thing that they like to poke at me about, which is fine. You know, the correct terminology is it's leaching out of the shell. So the heavy metals or chemicals or whatever the heavy. The shell components are, and there's a bunch of them. You guys can go online and look them all up. But that's where Lauren Bostick, my patient, had just a whole sheet, a whole page of heavy metals coming out of her system. And she would go into the sauna and feel really, really bad afterwards. And I don't, you know, have a handful, a hundred, or any kind of number to tell you, like, how frequently that will happen. I always say, like, if you go in your sauna and you don't feel well after you get out of the sauna, I wouldn't keep going in the sauna with your implants because I don't know how to. How to guide you. That's a fair statement.
