Robert Whitfield MD discusses priorities for breast health and managing Breast Implant Illness symptoms. Sleep quality comes first, followed by controlling exposure through air, fluid, and food to reduce inflammation. He uses genetic results to personalize treatment and notes explant surgery is optional.
What's the best thing we can do for breast health and BII moving forward? Right, right. So the things that. I'll highlight them again and I'll list them in order. Priority number one is quality and quantity of sleep. Women have estrogen and cortisol that usually are higher amounts than men. We already talked about a depressed testosterone level, which for us, increased testosterone buffers out those two other hormones. So we don't have as much stress, we don't experience as much. Then it's all about your air, fluid and food. So everything you put in your mouth, everything you breathe, everything you drink is important. So if you start addressing those things, you will start lowering inflammation. If you look at our inflammation support bundle, it's all geared on genetic results. So although everybody can tell you they have the answers and you take this and you take that, I think without looking at genetic reports and seeing the proof, it's very hard for me to go outside of what we know works, because I can put people on the program and drop their inflammation. So those are things that you can start doing to lower your inflammatory symptoms. But if that doesn't completely resolve it, then you have to look hard about what we've been discussing. And nobody wants to have explant surgery. And when you come to me, I'm not gonna tell you you need an explant. That's something you have to decide before you ever show up to see me.
