Wednesday Live

Everybody hop on, we're going to start a live stream here in just a few minutes. Hi Yvonne, hi Sian, hi Catalina. Everybody hop on. Share with your friends. We'd like to get as many people on as possible. We're going to discuss the SHARP method for surgical recovery. Share with your friends, let everybody hop on. Let everybody know we're going to talk about the Sharp Method for Surgical Recovery. That's what we utilize and employ. And I believe there's a problem with the configuration on, uh, Well, had a problem on Rumble, so no Rumble today. All right, everybody hop on, we'll get started here in a moment. Should be live across Instagram, uh, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, and X, and LinkedIn. We are also in Dr. Rob's Circle and on Substack, so Okay. All right, everybody, I'm sure you're all getting geared up for the World Cup this evening. The US men play at 7 PM Central against Bosnia-Herzegovina. Make sure you catch it. Today we're going to talk about the SHARP method. So, um, for a long period of time, surgical recovery was, I would say, stagnant. There has been some improvements and things, um, like ERAS. There are, um, you know, maybe some snippets here and there, but no Fundamental changes in philosophy about preparation, uh, to enhance surgical recovery. So we changed that with our methodology, the Sharp Method, and we wrote a book about it and published that in 2024. And so it gives you a framework looking at your genetics, your toxicity burden, your gut health, your food sensitivities, hormonal balance. It rounds out a, I think, a pretty like plain simplified, uh, laboratory picture of I know that other blood labs are being done and things are being enhanced, but the, the surgical patient from an overall picture has not been looked at, uh, to this degree ever in history. So our methodology is rooted in evaluation of genetics. So looking at detoxification pathways, metabolism issues, diet issues, both from a genetic standpoint and then from a toxicity standpoint, looking at heavy metals, mycotoxins, environmental toxins, things like PFAS. Those are organophosphates typically that can't be broken down in our body. We also look at things like glyphosate levels, phthalate levels, um, BPA. If you looked across about 500 of my patients recently you would see that the number one problem they had on a toxicity burden test was BPA. Number two would be glyphosate, and number three would be, um, a mycotoxin, specifically aflatoxin. So why does any of this matter? Um, those can be reasons why people take longer to recover. They may have healing that is impaired, not just because of their exposures, because of other genetic elements in their DNA. And so that, coupled with the Tox Test, are two fundamental things that I like to look at always. And I just had a call with a patient who has a very interesting history where she was treated as a very, very young person for hypothyroidism, which is uncharacteristic, to be honest. I think it was more that she was exposed, exceeded her ability to detoxify, and that caused hypothyroidism, and then it was not recognized. So there was no quote-unquote resolution. So many symptoms of chronic inflammation have all these different, if you will, patterns. And, you know, they start with problems of genetics and detoxification. That affects, or starts with, depending on your, your frame of reference, problems with our gut and can lead to many of the hormonal imbalances we see. So we do look at all those sensitivities to foods. We look at and try to characterize gut health, which is always the hardest thing. And do look at hormonal levels to see what is actually happening. Many patients come to me never even having their hormones, uh, looked at. The, um, concerning thing is like, what do we do with all this information? So we have a very specific program we run. We have a group that takes care of my patients, uh, pre-op after we do their intake and get their testing done and get their, um, curated supplementation started. Because we, we want to know as much as we can to help them get into the best state of, you know, health and wellness. We want to lower inflammation whenever possible to help reduce the big cortisol surge that happens with surgery and then allow it to come back as quickly as possible. So these are all things we look at up front.. And we feel like this is going to be the, it should be the standard moving ahead. And I think if you start looking at surgical recovery, you start searching it on LLMs, you start searching it on Google or whatever search engine, we'll start popping up more and more and more for the Sharp Method. And then, you know, the standard bearers of surgical recovery, which are large institutions, which obviously don't, you know, bear witness to this because they're not doing this on a day-to-day basis, it will start to hopefully cause a shift, and then patients will own and be more accountable and more aware of how to get themselves in a better position to recover faster. Now, I'm talking about all the front-end work you do before you ever have surgery. And then when you're preparing to have surgery, say the night before, there can be specific things you do to help lower inflammation, to help reduce nerve pain, nausea. And then the day of, we really, really focus on a lot of local regional nerve blocks, either via ultrasound by anesthesia or locally by us in the operating room. That makes it easier for our patients to mobilize very quickly after surgery and, um, then come to the office the following day where I have a human regenerator from Germany, lymphatic devices from New Zealand called Flupresso that we combine with nanoV therapy as well as a hyperbaric oxygen chamber. We use a vertical one because I don't want my patients to, um, lie down and press with their arms. I just want them to sit comfortably. And then we have a 6-foot-tall juve red light. Red light's lovely in terms of lowering inflammation, really good for recovery. So, although that's a quick overview of what we do, we can do this for the following types of patients, patients undergoing cosmetic surgery. So, that is a whole host of varieties of cases in cosmetic surgery. So, you could have your facelift patient. Now, we're gonna see a big bump in face lifting because of Ozempic face. We've done livestreams about it, Articles have been written about it. I have a big section on my website about it. Uh, we have the no-cut facelift as our, uh, early intervention for ozempic face that doesn't require, uh, visible incisions around the ear or anything like that. We have all of the, you know, cosmetic surgery being done for head and neck. So you have facelifts, like I said, you have rhinoplasties, neck lifts. Um, you can have, uh, reduction of fullness in the face by different ways. We typically use a non-invasive way. And then all the, you know, quote unquote body contouring can be done for your arms. So we have Smart Arms. We combine the radiofrequency and liposculpture and microneedling or microcoring for that. Same can be done for the abdomens, thighs, buttocks. And then All the breast procedures can be, you know, augmentation naturally with your own fat, explants with augmentation with fat. We can do explants with lifts. We can do separate reductions. We can do separate breast lifts and fat transfers for people who are post, um, uh, having their, their children. They want to have more of a holistic mommy makeover. So there are wide varieties of these things that can be done under Really, I would say the best setting to get the fastest recovery, the most efficient recovery with really, really, I hope, the best outcomes for everybody. And that's why we created the Sharp Method. That's why we wrote the book. That's our philosophy. Our mission and vision is to help really set and be the standard bearer for surgical recovery. So when you Google surgical recovery— sorry, when you Google surgical recovery or when you type it into Instagram or Facebook or TikTok or whatever, We wanna come up to help serve and highlight, like, what's possible. I don't think we're even remotely providing enough service for all the patients. So our program is dedicated to this. We're in Austin, Texas. If you come to have surgery with us, if you're able to do that, we're super fortunate to have you. We have our own brand new 9,500-square-foot facility called the Sharp Surgery Center devoted to the care of patients just like we described here in Austin, Texas. So if you can't, you can still run our program remote and have your surgery locally. So you can run the Sharp Method programming in your own area at your own pace with my team. You can reach out to my team. You go to DrRobertWhitfieldMD.com and sign up. I'm doing a live tomorrow with Kashif Khan at, uh, 7 PM Eastern, 6 PM Central on, uh, Thursday. The second, we're going to discuss all of this as well. But anybody can work with us, especially in the continental United States. We do things based on our ability to provide the best possible service. So with that, I will take a few questions here on Instagram and TikTok and hop into my circle. And then I got to get back to work because I got a full day in the office here. Okay, do I have a question? Yeah, please share this live. Okay, Tammy Wood. No questions. All right, you guys are all well-versed. You've heard me talk before. You follow me all the time, right? You can go and follow me on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn. Uh, you can join our private community. It's free to join right now. Um, uh, Red Wine: Have I ever heard of lichenoid dermatitis possible breast implant illness symptom? Um, I mean, that's a very specific dermatologic diagnosis. I'd have to see the pathology and understand your case, but You know, I've seen a lot of dermatologic conditions. Uh, Irmkhan, I think I just did explain everything. Red Wine, you can bring your case into my circle too if you want to join there. We'll talk about that. I have no problem with that. Uh, pancreas can be very susceptible to inflammation, although we don't see a lot of problems with pancreatitis. You know, it's a sensitive organ, it's an endocrine organ, and it's obviously susceptible to autoimmune conditions because that's what type 1 diabetes mellitus is. It's an autoimmune So yeah, can happen. Hi, Miss Sarah. Hi, Dorothy. That's a really good question, Red Wine. I'm glad you, uh, asked that. Thank you. All right, anything else? This is our quick hitter on Wednesday. It's always tough. I really appreciate y'all hop on. Make sure you share, um, so that more people know about us live streaming. We typically live stream at 7 PM Central in Dr. Rob's Circle on Tuesday nights. And then we, uh, livestream on Wednesdays. It really depends on Wednesdays what I can do based on my clinic. And then on Thursday night, I try to do, uh, 7 PM Central, but we're gonna have a special one on 6 PM, uh, Central with Kashif Khan tomorrow night. GMC1111, why don't you connect with Kaylee, my coordinator, and then she can help, you know, sort that out for you. You can get on a call with her, GMC111. So just go to drrobertwhitfieldmd.com. Hey, you guys should be hitting up my website. I have the most comprehensive website about surgical recovery, Um, we have written— if you're interested in explant, we have about 500 pages of just material about explant, including, uh, 170 videos that we've published. We have the most comprehensive capsulectomy guide. We have the most comprehensive symptom guide, diagnosis guide, breast implant illness, you know, guide in general. So anything you want to get regarding that, we've published it. I've written a book about it. I have a book out called Breast Implants Explained: Surgery and Breast Implant Illness. If you haven't had it, you want to know more about it, it's, it's a quick read. So that's an option as well. But if you want any more information, definitely go to my website. I don't know why I don't bring it up more. I spent all this time crafting this brand new website and it is— yeah, y'all let me know. Tell me what you think about it because I think it's the best we've ever had. But you have to let me know if you think it's good, bad, or indifferent. So I want everybody go to DrRobertWhitfieldMD.com. Let me know what you think. We always want to make it better for the experience of the users. So if you got something to add, I'll take any suggestion. I want everybody to be able to cruise over there, get all the information they want, and, uh, enjoy it. We, we optimized it for mobile, so it should load fast. You should be able to watch video. Um, my podcast links directly to there. My YouTube channel is linked on there with embedded videos as well. And then, like I said, we have— all my blogs are on there too. So I think there's 160 blog posts. My FDA testimony is on there as well. My Google Scholar, my NCBI, all my publications are on there. All the surgical history— I'm sorry, not surgical history— all the research that we've done. Embrat325, yeah, we've done live streams about transferring, uh, fat to the breast for augmentation. Has to be in the right place at the right time in the right space. Of course, 100%, that's what I would like to do more of. I think it's really underappreciated how good a result you can get with a fat transfer and breast lift for somebody who's done having children, who breastfed. So I don't think it's offered enough. And, uh, it should be. So as much as I don't want to write another book— I've written a book about the Sharp Method, I've written a book about explant surgery and breast implant illness— so I guess if I had to write another book, I would write it about fat transfers. Any other questions? This is really good for midday. Y'all are doing an awesome job. All right, what else do I have? Uh, all right. Do I have anybody in the circle? No. Okay. Is that it? Is everybody— oh, I have a new message on TikTok. Hold on. So yeah, Imprat325, the recovery on a fat transfer. So normally I have patients in town about a week for an explant and a fat transfer. For just a fat transfer, you can come in and out of town quicker. The recovery will depend on how many areas we take fat from. And then really, to me, the recovery depends explicitly on how much you can do afterwards in terms of— I would say, um, we use Flowpresso for lymphatic massage. We also use hyperbaric post-op for fat transfers. I think those are two critical factors. It would be your access to those. So if you were just here with me, um, obviously I could get you recovered faster. That's my philosophy, and that's what I do. Okay. All right, any other questions? This has been really good. Y'all are doing a good job. I don't know that I have— hold on, I don't have my comments turned on. On, uh, I forgot to turn my comments on, on my live stream on StreamYard. Oh shoot, that's usually where I get, uh, so Pirby01, what is the recovery time for an explant fat transfer? So normally, like, I have done several, uh, explants this week. And they're all in the office recovering. And they typically go back to their homes if they're local. Obviously, they're in Austin, then they're coming back and forth the first week. Everybody who's flying out will fly out typically next week. So they spend about a week with us. And then when you're doing a fat transfer, it depends on how many areas you take fat from. And the same thing holds true. I definitely want everybody to have a well-thought-out recovery plan. We leverage hyperbaric oxygen, lymphatic massage, proper nutrition, supplementation, rest to really enhance your gut. Okay, y'all, I'm gonna end the stream. Oh, and you can have another fat transfer. I apologize, uh, Catalina. You can have another fat transfer, of course, but we have to look into why you felt like the fat transfer initially wasn't, um, potentially— we didn't get as much out of it. So maintenance of BMI, understanding diet, exercise, balance, those are all super important. Sally McGuire on Facebook is asking, is it possible to have any breast after mastectomy without implants? Sally, that's a super specific question. I think you should make a a call to my team and let's discuss that. That's very specific and I have to review the case. I got Ian Welch trying to join me from TikTok. All right, all right, Welchy. All right, y'all, I got to get back to the clinic today. Now, everybody who wants more specific data, we go live inside my clinic and ask me direct questions, 7 PM Central on Tuesdays, drrobcircle.com. So I'll put that in the comment section. I'll leave this run for a moment so that everybody sees this. This is to join my, uh, live community. Remember to go to this. It accesses my website as well. We have all the, um, new material up. We've worked diligently over the past, um, several months to really enhance everything for the user on our website and in our circle. Okay, it's free to join. I go live there every Tuesday night, 7 PM Central, and then on Wednesday, like I said, I try to do middle of the day so I help everybody kind of who works later or who's out of the country. And then once again on Thursdays, um, Oh, hi Victoria, we look forward to seeing you on July 14th. Okay, y'all, I'm gonna shut it down, okay?