Dr. Robert Whitfield discusses why diet matters in breast implant removal surgery, especially with fat transfer. He focuses on reducing inflammation and supporting healing through clean proteins like grass-fed meat, while avoiding glyphosate exposure. He also tests for genetic variations that affect how well patients detoxify environmental toxins like mold.
So, for instance, if we had a patient undergoing a complicated fat transfer after an explant, and we're doing this at the same time to give them optimal results, we want everything in their diets, everything controlled to the point where we're going to decrease inflammation, we're going to increase the amino acid availability to enhance recovery. So we want to know the foods they're putting in, which is the fuel for the patient to recover on. We want to make sure those are all things they can absorb without sensitivity. And we will make sure the right kinds of foods we want, say, meats or poultry that are pasture raised, grass fed. We don't want them to have vegetables that have GMOs in them because that increases glyphosate levels, which has lots of downstream effects and can increase your disposition towards leaky gut and lack of absorption of nutrients. If I feel that in your history, as we discuss what's going on with you from an environmental standpoint, if you live in an area or had a recent home renovation or had a big water leak, then you're very at risk to have had a toxic mold exposure that in concordance with a genetic predisposition to really limited detoxification ability, either through limited glutathione metabolism, limited DNA methylation, limited at the mitochondrial level, superoxide dismutase to handle oxygen free radicals. If you have that kind of disposition that I recognized during a discovery session, then we're going to add more genetic testing to your preoperative situation so that we figure out both upfront how you're going to handle and detoxify so that on the back end we're managing all of that more appropriately. It may be modification of nutraceuticals so that we have supplements that can really help you detoxify more efficiently because you shouldn't have glutathione or you should have things that help you methylate better.
