Short spoken segment by Robert Whitfield MD clarifying a misconception that breast implants 'melt' in heat. He explains the correct concept is 'leaching' — heating plastic (like water bottles or implant materials) can cause plasticizers (phthalates) to leach out and enter the body, raising phthalate levels. He references a prior interview (Lauren Bostick/The Skinny Confidential) where the phrase 'melting implants' was used colloquially.
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No, I'm not detoxing. I'm actually putting more toxins into my body. This is insane. All right, so Madison has opened basically, Pandora's box, and which is why everybody who is a plastic surgeon who does implants and when I say what I said on that show. So Lauren Bostick show. You can go to the Skinny Confidential episode. Just type into YouTube Dr. Whitfield at Lauren Bostick. And it's going to come up and it's going to say. What Lauren would say to me is, in the office is like, Dr. Whitfield, I think I was melting my implants. And we would joke about it. She's a very good interviewer. Her. Her and her husband are very good. She said, are you going to say or do you want me to say it? And I was like, what? And then she led me to say. And I did say melting your implant, but it's not the correct term. So let's just clear the air. The correct term for what she was doing was called leaching. So if you heat up something, think of like a plastic water bottle. If you heat that up, the plasticizers, the things that make the plastic hard, are phthalates. Those phthalates will leach out of the plastic water bottle into the water. Then you'll drink the water and you'll increase your phthalate level.
