Dr. Robert Whitfield explains that about half of people carry the MTHFR gene, which can impair the body's ability to clear toxins and antioxidants. Patients with both this genetic limitation and estrogen metabolism problems face the highest risk for breast implant illness.
And if you have the MTHFR gene, are you more susceptible to breast implant illness?
Half of us will have that gene. So if we have limitations genetically in antioxidant pathways in our cells, we'll have a buildup of products that makes us more and more fatigued. In general, many of my patients have trouble with estrogen toxicity or just difficulty with estrogen metabolism. The person that I see you as the most trouble would be the person who has estrogen toxicity and has all those limitations genetically.
