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What's up? It's Dr. Christopher Ryan coming at you from the studios of KCPR here in Portland,

Oregon. How's everybody doing? It's been a nice day here. I was planning to do this podcast

about six hours ago, but there are trucks and bulldozers in front of my house all fucking

day. So it was impossible to record anything. So now the sun has set the construction workers

have gone home and here we are. A lot to get to today. First of all, you know, I sort of

been doing this thing, giving people advice, answering emails. Today I thought I'd give

some blanket advice, okay? Women, do not get breast implants unless you're looking at

like reconstructive surgery or something. I've got a close friend got some breast implants

a while ago. Everything seemed to be fine. Then they started getting some fibrosis, some

encapsulation. It's called where scarty issue forms around the implant. Your body's trying

to sort of build a wall between this foreign object and the rest of you. And she went

in to have that removed and that's when the trouble started. The doctor who was removing

this material, messed with her, some nerves. She had some serious pain when she was recovering,

didn't know what was going on. Led to muscle atrophy, led to skeletal problems, led to

more nervous system problems. So here we are years later and this woman is still dealing

with the repercussions of that. It happens. It happens quite a lot. You don't hear about

it, but it does. I know there are people who are saying, yeah, but the techniques are

better now. The materials are better now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, they are. But I've got

to tell you, I really think that things like breast implants are more often than not a

physical attempt to address the psychological issue. And the world's full of that, right?

Life is full of those sorts of things where we try to make a whole bunch of money because

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