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Naturally Nourished

Episode 338: Breast Implant Illness & Explant Support with Dr. Robert Whitfield

Naturally Nourished

Ali Miller RD

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness:nutrition

4.8655 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Have you heard of Breast Implant Illness? If you have implants, could they be making you sick? Tune in to hear us interview Dr. Robert Whitfield, a board certified plastic surgeon and expert in breast implant illness who now performs more explants than implants!    Breast Implant Illness (BII), according to Dr. Whitfield, is driven by an inflammatory response to the breast implant itself, or to bacteria (biofilms) that may grow on the breast implant surface or within the scar capsule. This inflammation can create a wide range of symptoms that patients experience after getting breast implants. In this episode, we dig into symptoms to look out for including chronic fatigue, brain fog, anxiety, joint pain and more. We discuss who is most susceptible to breast implant illness, how to determine if BII is driving your symptoms, when to consider explant and how you can support your body for best surgical outcomes.    Dr. Whitfield’s Bio:  Dr. Whitfield is an experienced, Board Certified Plastic Surgeon. He completed six years of surgical training at Indiana University Medical Center. He remained at the Indiana University Medical Center to complete his Plastic Surgery Residency and gained additional training in Microsurgery and Aesthetic Surgery. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and the American Medical Association.   Dr. Whitfield focuses on providing clients with nutritional guidance, nutraceutical advice, personal genetic predisposition screening, non-invasive radio frequency, minimally invasive radio frequency  and surgical options for treatments all over the body.  He has completed over 5000 breast procedures since 2004 including over 1100 breast implant removals with and without holistic transformations with fat transfer.  He has the largest series of explant specimens with PCR testing.  While serving as the President Elect of the Research Foundation he gave testimony at the FDA hearings in 2019 regarding Breast Implant Illness.    Also in this episode:  Wellness in Wimberley Women's Wellness Webinar 4/12 FREE Sign Up Here Our Protocol for Breast Implant IllnessCellular Antiox Detox Packs Rebuild Spectrum Probiotic BroccoDetox Pre and Post Surgery Protocol Beat the Bloat Cleanse About Dr. Robert Whitfield Symptoms of Breast Implant Illness The Autoimmune Breast Implant Connection Does the Type of Implant Matter? What does Breast Implant Illness Occur? How to Identify Breast Implant Illness Explant Surgery Considerations Where to find Dr. Whitfield Dr. Rob's YouTube Dr. Rob's Instagram Dr. Rob's Solutions for Plastic Surgery and Cosmetic Treatments Dr. Robert Whitfield (@drrobertwhitfield) | TikTok   Sponsors for this episode:  This episode is sponsored by Wild Foods, a company that puts quality, sustainability, and health first in all of their products. They have everything from coffee to turmeric to medicinal mushrooms, and every single product is painstakingly sourced from small farms around the globe. They take their mission seriously to fix the broken food system, and believe real food is medicine. They've partnered with us to give you guys an exclusive discount, so use the code ALIMILLERRD for 12% off your order at WildFoods.co!

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Naturally Nourished Podcast that delivers cutting-edge food is medicine solutions for optimal health.

0:12.7

Ali Miller is a nutrition expert sought up by the media in America's top medical institutes

0:18.3

for her revolutionary functional medicine interventions.

0:22.6

From disease treatment to prevention, every episode will empower you with ways to put yourself

0:28.3

back in control of your health. Please know, the topics discussed are for educational purposes

0:35.1

only. Now welcome, Integrative Dietitians, Allie Miller, and her co-host Becky You.

0:43.2

Welcome to episode 338 of the Naturally Nourished Podcast.

0:47.5

You are joining us for breast implant illness and explant support with Dr. Robert Whitfield.

0:54.3

Breast implant illness is finally getting some airtime in the mainstream, and I'm just so glad

0:59.5

that our friend, Dr. Anna Cabaca, connected us with today's guest, who is a plastic surgeon

1:05.3

here in Austin, who has become quite the expert on this topic.

1:09.5

Yes, we're going to speak to you in a moment of our protocol,

1:13.0

just kind of a high level, 100 mile up approach for things that you can do

1:17.4

if you are listening and have had breast augmentation and are considering

1:22.1

X-plant or not even considering X-plant, but want to offset the toxicity or risk concerns. So we'll go over

1:29.8

that in a moment. But before we do so, let's just chat on upcoming events. Yes. So wellness in

1:36.4

Wimberley is right around the corner. That event is coming up May 20th and 21st. and we've got about 20 spots left last time I checked.

1:49.0

This is going to be a fabulous two-day in-person foodist medicine workshop where you will meet

1:55.1

Ali and myself, as well as other like-minded people.

2:01.1

We keep saying, have you found your wellness tribe?

2:03.4

Because if not, they're going to be there, right?

2:06.5

Yeah, absolutely.

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