Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Why Breast Implants and Saunas Can Be Dangerous

3 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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A short excerpt from a YouTube interview (Robert Whitfield MD with Lauren Bostick) describing a case where sauna use appears to have caused heavy-metal leaching from a breast implant shell. Evidence cited includes a urine toxicity test showing metals, symptom improvement after explantation, and normalization on repeat testing. The clinician explicitly advises that people with breast implants should avoid saunas.

Questions this video answers

Yes.

A urine toxicity test.

She felt markedly better (reported feeling "amazing" and taking recovery selfies) and repeat heavy-metal testing showed the metals were gone.

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And this is why I get in trouble when I talk about saunas like I did on Lauren's show. So Lauren Bostick was cooking herself in her sauna and not melting her implants, but causing leaching from her implants. So the metals were coming out of the shell of the device. The device was degrading. And it was shown in her urine toxicity test, which I have. And after she explanted, she felt amazing. She was taking selfies with me in the recovery room, which is not normal.
But that's very. Lauren.
Correct. The people who do that have that kind of characteristic that a lot more heavy metal exposure. And then when we repeated her heavy metal toxicity test, she had all of those gone.
Should people with breast implants be avoiding saunas?
Yes.
Wow.