Robert Whitfield MD explains why people remove breast implants, including cancer patients whose implants extrude after chemotherapy and radiation. He describes genetic detoxification pathways like MTHFR and glutathione that may affect implant-related symptoms, and notes many people who got implants young seek removal years later.
It won't reject it in the truest sense, like in the cosmetic patient, because the tissues are intact around it. But in a cancer patient who's had chemotherapy and radiation therapy, you will have examples of extrusion where the device is literally coming out of them.
So what seems to be happening is that people who got implants at 21 years old or 18 years old, like I did, 10 years, 15 years, 18 years, whatever, down the line, they're ex planning because it's seems like it's exponentially getting worse.
Right?
Is that correct?
Right. So everybody has a certain pair of genes. Y' all have two little ones. You gave your genes to them. They're a blend of you. So everybody has these genetic pathways that help us detox. Everybody's heard the term detox. So our vitamin D pathway and something that helps our B vitamins, which is a methylation pathway. And many people have heard of the MTHFR gene, as well as a pathway that manages our glutathione in our livers, and then an antioxidant pathway. And everybody's heard of vitamin C. Vitamin C is an antioxidant. Those four pathways helps our. They're what help us detoxify.
