Breast Implant Illness with Danica Patrick
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
The Hidden Epidemic of Breast Implant Illness with Danica Patrick
When professional race car driver and podcast host Danica Patrick heard Dr. Daniel Amen say this, she gave him a high-five and responded, "Thank you for saying that. Not many doctors do." Danica lived with breast implants for 7 years before choosing to have them removed. She had been dealing with health issues, including low thyroid function, leaky gut, and severe heavy metal toxicity, which she thinks may have been linked to the implants. Her healthcare providers treated her thyroid and gut issues, but the biggest change in her health came after breast implant removal. "I found immediate relief," she says.
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| 0:00.0 | Every day you are making your brain better or you are making it worse. |
| 0:07.1 | Stay with us to learn how you can change your brain for the better every day. |
| 0:14.6 | Hi, Danica. |
| 0:15.6 | Hi, Dr. Raymond, how are you? |
| 0:17.0 | So nice to see you. |
| 0:18.1 | So nice to see you. |
| 0:19.5 | Excited to see your brain? |
| 0:37.7 | I don't know how excited I am for you to truly see me, but I am. I love this stuff. I'm just, you know, knowledge is power. And no matter what it looks like, I know that it only gets better from here. So let's see what damage I've done. Well, and that's what I tell people, no matter what we see is good news. You raced professionally, how long? |
| 0:41.6 | Professionally, I raced for 27 years, but I guess I was, I started getting paid when I was 19. |
| 0:47.9 | But let's skip that. |
| 0:48.8 | I started racing Indy cars when I was 23. |
| 0:51.2 | And I retired at 36 or 7. |
| 0:55.0 | Wow, that's a long. |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah, so good 15 years at the professional level where I was going 200 miles an hour. |
| 1:03.0 | In recent years, there's been some health stuff. |
| 1:07.0 | Originally, when I went to my OB and had blood work done, that's where I started and my thyroid |
| 1:12.8 | was low. |
| 1:13.8 | I thought, oh, this will be so easy. |
| 1:16.1 | Just give me this magic pill and everything will be fine and it was merely scratching the |
| 1:19.7 | surface. |
| 1:21.5 | What ended up coming through was severe heavy metal toxicity, especially mercury, and a array of different things, dysbiosis, leaky gut, and other things. |
| 1:35.0 | And health is just so interesting because it's such a jigsaw puzzle. |
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