Unlocking Breast Implant Illness: The Genetic Connection

You know, that we talked a little bit about the urine marker and inflammation. So that was a big puzzle piece. But the biggest puzzle piece has been functional genomics from Dr. Mansour's group. And Kaushif has been great. I mean, so helpful to us. And I now have over 200 genetic reports on patients with breast implant illness. That makes me so happy. And I explained to everyone, you know, I can listen now. And I didn't have this training, obviously, in medical school, because we didn't have that information. But if you listen to and recognize the patterns of poor functioning genetic pathways coupled with environmental exposures, the story just writes it right in front of you. So the if you have in my mind, I think of the, you know, the four pathways described in their reports of immunity, the vitamin D pathway, the methylation pathway, glutathione, essentially, and the antioxidant pathway.