Dr. Robert Whitfield warns that fat loss can release toxins stored in body fat, including heavy metals, organophosphates, phthalates, and glyphosate. Pre-operative urine tests often reveal this toxic burden, making it crucial to address before any fat-loss procedure.
It's not just for, for patients, you know, you, you want to always have the most information to be informed whether or not you're having that procedure or considering having that procedure. You know, after our series, I hope that everybody is more informed and both at the patient and practitioner level and they, they go through a consultative process and they feel like they understand it. And they feel comfortable with what's being explained from their level or the provider level. So let's go back to how we began, like what's inside the fat. So, you know, we know that if we look at preoperative testing, patients can be dealing with a lot of toxicity burden. We do this through a urine tox test. And we find heavy metals, um, we find organophosphates, we find, uh, phthalates, we find glyphosate, uh, which is an organophosphate. We find all sorts of other things that can be stored in the fat.
