A short YouTube conversation where Dr. Robert Whitfield outlines common drivers of chronic inflammation and the importance of testing. He lists potential contributors—food sensitivities, toxic burden from mold, heavy metals, and environmental chemicals such as phthalates, glyphosates, and parabens—and emphasizes that without testing these may be missed. A speaker relates an anecdote about heavy metals being mobilized (reported) during sauna use.
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In the beginning, what I try to get accomplished and what we've become very strict about is what things drive inflammation for you. Do you have food sensitivities? There's tests for that. Do you have a toxic burden already? So have you been exposed to mold? Have you been exposed to heavy metals? Do you have environmental toxins like phthalates, glyphosates? Glyphosates are the herbicides and pesticides are sprayed on foods I'm sure you guys have talked about on the show before. Do you have parabens? Do you use products that have parabens in them? So these are all things that if we don't know about them, and I just do an explant, they're not going to get better necessarily quickly, based on their genetics.
But because I was high in heavy metals, we thought, and correct me if I'm wrong, that the reason I was high is because I was heating myself up in the sauna and it was coming out through my.
Implant, right? But if you go to 99% of the people in the world who do this, they didn't check that test. So you would never know.
That test, Right? So we met like, you know, six months, five months before the surgery. I would have continued to sauna, making it worse and worse and worse.
