Dr. Robert Whitfield explains why implanted medical devices trigger chronic immune responses. The implant releases compounds that dysregulate immunity, sheds microscopic particles the body attacks as foreign, and allows bacteria to form biofilms in scar tissue. All three keep T cells activated and inflammation running.
That oxylipin tenhome can actually cause problems in our immune system and give us symptoms. So that's one reason that I don't leave capsule behind. The second reason is if the shell of the implant is losing particulate matter, small little pieces of it come off into the tissues. This, your body recognizes that as foreign, and then it wants to respond to it and get it out of your body. So the kind of take homes for this are there's bacteria that can be stuck up against the implant on the scar tissue, and it remains there. So that's constantly signaling back to your body and activating your immune system and its response. And the other is if any of that particulate matter comes off of the shell of the the implant capsule itself, the actual surface of the implant, then that can stimulate an immune response, because each of our T cells has a little receptor, and it's going to recognize something that's foreign.
