This YouTube interview (Nov 4, 2024) features Robert Whitfield MD describing the SHARP methodology for assessing and treating suspected breast implant illness. In this excerpt he explains using broad testing plus a detoxification program (potentially pre-surgery) and situates implant illness as one of multiple possible toxin- or stress-related contributors to symptoms ("when the bucket's full, the bucket runs over").
How do you determine that breast implant illness is what a woman has?
We created a methodology called Sharp, and it's really just to look at all that testing plus create a detoxification program for them. And it can be used for any type of surgery because, you know, anybody is exposed to multiple things daily, monthly, throughout their life, they're going to build up a certain amount of toxicity. Your body's gonna be able to handle a certain amount of it. But, you know, the joke is, like, when the bucket's full, the bucket runs over. And that's how my patients are now. And it could be anything. They could get exposed to mold. They could have a traumatic event in the family. Somebody passes away.
You have a list that you run through before the surgery to, like, basically eliminate any possibility that it's not breast implant illness. Like, you're checking for mold? You're checking. Is that what you're saying? This detoxification happens before the surgery?
Surgery, yeah. The tox test is actually. It looks at mold toxins.
