Dr. Robert Whitfield MD explains the purpose and content of a pre-operative "discovery session" for breast implant removal. He emphasizes a holistic evaluation to identify root causes of patients' chronic symptoms—such as toxicity, environmental exposures, Lyme disease, and dietary or micronutrient deficiencies—so that addressing these before surgery improves recovery speed and outcomes.
As mentioned previously on podcasts, we have a discovery session. And so in that session, we want to actually drill down and find root causes to how you're feeling. Because if we just concentrate on one aspect of it, say the breast implant is causing everything in terms of how you feel. We may miss or just bypass other things that are causing or contributing to chronic illness. Things like toxicity, maybe something like an environmental exposure. We may have other issues like Lyme disease. Lyme disease is a very complicated issue that takes a lot of work to both unearth and then to treat. There may be things that are specifically related to our diet. So it is more than just one thing that's being evaluated. In a discovery session with me regarding breast implant removal. Part of the bigger picture in helping you recover after surgery is identifying these, either chronic illnesses or dietary deficiencies or nutritional deficiencies separate, like micronutrient deficiencies, prior to actually undergoing a procedure. If we don't identify those and we just perform a procedure, then although you may recover from that particular portion, maybe the implant is very, very stimulating to your immune system. But if we haven't taken steps to uncover aspects of toxicity or autoimmunity or food sensitivity, things that really contribute to the overall toxic burden in your particular situation, you will not recover to your optimum. You will not recover as fast as you could. It won't be as efficient as it can be without taking those steps prior to surgery.
