A short transcript excerpt from a YouTube video (Robert Whitfield MD) arguing that hormone testing should be required before breast implants. The speakers discuss checking hormone levels, assessing detoxification capacity and environmental toxin exposures (mold, heavy metals, parabens), evaluating gut health via stool testing, and using newer tools like metabolomics and genetic testing to understand cellular-level risks.
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If somebody were to get breast implants, it should be a prerequisite, like, they should all get their hormones tested before going through with this. Because then you would see, like, hey, I have, like, crazy whacked out estrogen and things, which is likely to lead to problems.
Oh, it gets more complicated. So everybody who has that detoxification ability now has to look at their exposures. So we used to go to the doctor and get, like, a blood count. Let's see if we're anemic. And now I'm the plastic surgeon who checks your toxin levels for mold toxins or heavy metals or environmental toxins. So don't use parabens. Make sure your products go through the environmental working group. I know y' all know this, but I'm gonna reiterate that because you get too many chemicals through products for women that cause and wreak havoc on your hormones, basically. So that combined with. We look at stool testing because a lot of gut health issues are intimately associated with this food sensitivities. I look at all those tests. Plus we have some new things. I mean, so many people come to me and say, oh, Dr. Whitfield, all my blood work's normal. I mean, they just come with reams of paper or blood work. Those tests, Alex, haven't changed since I've been alive, and I'll be 55 next week. So it's not one of those things where as especially we're actually helping. So when we look at metabolomics and these new things that are coming, like more genetic testing now, you can start to pull back the curtain, if you will, to understand what's going on at a cellular level.
