Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Understanding Breast Implant Illness: Hormonal Impact Explored

3 Nov 2024 · 0 min

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A short interview between Robert Whitfield MD and Amy about breast implant illness (BII), emphasizing that many explant patients experience hormonal disturbances. Whitfield frames hypothyroidism, testosterone suppression, and estrogen toxicity as the three common, often co-occurring hormone problems he sees in his practice, particularly in women over 40. The clip is introductory, establishing the clinical pattern the discussion will explore.

So I thought nobody better to bring on the show to discuss what I see all the time in my breast implant illness and explant cases are fluctuations in hormones, problems with hypo and hyperthyroidism at times, problems with testosterone suppression, estrogen toxicity, all the bad things. So welcome to the show, Amy. And you're going to sort all this out so I don't have to.
Oh, yeah, no, I got your back on this. No worries.
So I always tell everybody, like, you know, if I did not have a patient who had anything but hypothyroidism and testosterone suppression and estrogen toxicity, I wouldn't know what to do with myself because almost everybody I encounter in my practice has either one or all three of those things at the same time.
Oh, yeah. It's even an issue outside of breast implants, breast implant illness. I mean, we see it in the majority of women. If you're over the age of 40. There's a term I use called thyropause.