Short YouTube clip in which an interviewer describes feeling sick (headache, nausea) after sauna sessions and links it to a viral clip; Robert Whitfield MD explains that heating implants can cause 'leaching'—materials (shell components, heavy metals) can leach into surrounding tissues—analogous to phthalates leaching from heated plastic—and advises avoiding the sauna if you feel worse afterward.
I'll say. The first video, how I found you was when you did the Skinny Confidential podcast, and there was a clip of you that was going pretty viral. When you were talking about girls who go into the or into the sauna and they're melting their implants. And I was a sauna girly. I am talking. I would go two or three times a week, and every time I would do the sauna, I would feel so sick, I would have a headache for the rest of the night. I would feel nauseous. And I'm like, well, clearly I'm detoxing. And when I saw that video of you, I was like, it just all clicked. I'm like, no, I'm not detoxing. I'm actually putting more toxins into my body.
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. So what she was doing was getting overheated the shell components, the heavy metals in the shell were leaching out of the shell into her tissues. And she would feel terrible, just like you're talking about afterwards. If you feel bad after you get out of the sauna, then don't go back into the sauna.
