Transcript excerpt of a conversation (video) with Robert Whitfield MD discussing how implants trigger scar formation (capsule) and contribute to chronic inflammation, especially in patients with pre-existing autoimmune conditions or increased environmental toxic burden (mold, water, air, skin products). The speaker notes implants are walled off by the body rather than 'rejected' in cosmetic patients, though extrusion can occur in patients weakened by chemotherapy/radiation. There is a suggestion of progressive worsening of symptoms years after implantation.
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I think what I see now in cosmetic patients is many instances where they have pre existing autoimmune disorders. Or alternatively, like you asked me, why do I have so much inflammation? Inflammation from our bodies reacts in a way that if you put a device in someone, their body immediately forms scar tissue around it. And that's the capsule, the scar capsule everybody talks about. Your body's always going to try to get that out of your system. And then if you have other things from your environment, you know, the water we drink, the air we breathe, the food we eat, the products we come in contact with in our skin on daily basis in Austin, there's tons of mold. These things all add to the basically your toxic burden, and that's what gives you the inflammation.
So what you're saying essentially is when you put an implant in, if you're already having like inflammation problems to begin with, or you already have underlying autoimmune and then you put the implant in, your body is pushing it out like a split splinter, or is it trying.
To wall it off from the rest of your body? Yeah, it walls it off. It won't reject it in the, 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 seems like it's exponentially getting worse.
