You Are More Than Your Body: Body Positivity, Breast Implants And Recovery From Breast Implant Illness with Candice Barley
Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration
Corinna Bellizzi
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This week we invite you to think about the Body Positivity movement, and being comfortable in your own skin while we confront the topic of body modification and elective surgeries that involve implants. If you are considering a physical modification to your body It's important to understand the risks, the inflammatory conditions that can erupt, and how these problems can erode your health so you can identify the root cause of these issues if they arise for you.
One Woman's Incredible Journey
To navigate this difficult conversation I was joined by Candice Barley on Nutrition Without Compromise. She shared her reasons for getting breast implants (4 times over), and her ultimate decision to remove them through explant surgery "en block" because she was so sick for so long.
But No One Believed Her
She talks about the incredible health challenges she faced for years and how she suddenly just knew that her sickness was caused by her breast implants. Sadly, no one believed her.
Becoming A Patient Advocate
She had to learn to advocate for herself - and now she does the same for other women who need help on their health journeys related to Breast Implant Illness (BII).
There's A Better Way
There is a better way to increase your breast size - using your own body's fat stores. Breast reconstruction and breast augmentation can both be solved naturally. Candice shares about these options. The doctor she advocates for, Dr. Robert Whitfield, recently expanded on these methods in his guest appearance on Dave Asprey's The Human Upgrade (hotlinked from our episode page). You should definitely give that a listen after this show.
About Candice Barley
Candice Barley is an actress, producer, and mother of three sons who turned into a Patient Advocate as a result of being incapacitated from the effects of her breast implants. She began sharing her journey first on the red carpet and now uses her different platforms to share resources, products, and interviews with expert doctors, to help educate and empower women with breast implants.
Key takeaways from this episode:
- Candice’s awakening as a patient advocate
- What it is like to undergo breast explant surgery
- Effects of breast implant surgery
- The recovery process from breast explant surgery
- Alternatives for breast augmentation
Candice's Website: https://olisticolife.com
Candice's Instagram: https://instagram.com/olisticolife
How Breast Implants Compromise Your Health and Make You Sick, Rob Whitfield, M.D. on Dave Asprey's The Human Upgrade (ep. #1043)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the social impact of conscious companies and everyday heroes. |
| 0:09.7 | Hear inspiring stories from those who put people in planet before profit and personal gain. |
| 0:15.3 | You'll learn how you can make a difference, vote with your dollars, and get involved today. |
| 0:20.1 | Here's your host, Karina Belizzi. |
| 0:25.3 | Hello, fellow do-goaters and friends. I'm your host, Karina Belizzi. As someone in my mid-40s, |
| 0:32.7 | I've had plenty of time to reflect on things like body image, insecurity, and how augmenting or changing |
| 0:41.6 | our physical appearance can hold a promise of fulfillment whether or not it actually delivers. |
| 0:48.5 | This could come in many forms. Some choose to go ahead and do things like get spa treatments and body wraps. |
| 0:56.7 | Perhaps they exercise a lot, even too much. Or they use things like waist trainers and targeted |
| 1:02.7 | exercises to build that extra little emphasis in certain areas of their bodies. This can all be |
| 1:10.6 | a sort of dysmorphia. |
| 1:12.7 | And so I want to talk today first about body positivity as I positioned this week's episode. |
| 1:19.6 | The reality is that we all have some insecurities. You might have heard passing comments as you're |
| 1:27.1 | going through your formative years. |
| 1:28.3 | I mean, heck, in my case, it was Anthony Vanzant antagonizing me about my thunder thighs or calling me |
| 1:37.3 | corinoceros as I had yet to grow into my nose. |
| 1:42.3 | Sure, I don't have the perfect nose. I don't have the perfectly symmetrical face either. |
| 1:48.1 | And I do tend to carry a bit of weight in my thighs. But today, so many women are looking for |
| 1:55.2 | that curvaceous look. They're going to extremes to get it. Sometimes they even get implants in their |
| 1:59.9 | thighs or their hips and their butts. Now, to attain these sorts of physiques, sometimes even medical intervention |
| 2:08.1 | is used. Whether it be something as simple as getting a little rhinoplasty, something I have obviously |
| 2:14.3 | for went, or simple things like lip injections to have fuller lips, |
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