Breast Implant Removal — Dallas, TX

Taylor Dukes is a functional medicine nurse practitioner and health educator with a large online following, based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area. After researching breast implant illness both personally and professionally, she chose to travel to Austin for her explant with Dr. Whitfield — and shared why on his podcast.

“It’s so much more than just the surgery and just the follow-up appointment,” Taylor said. “It is: what do you do before? How do you get your detox pathways open? How do you decrease inflammation? And then the procedure itself, and then the recovery.”

Her pre-operative workup included genetic and drug-metabolism testing to help personalize her surgical medications, and her recovery followed the SHARP Method — hyperbaric oxygen therapy, lymphatic treatment, and red light therapy the day after surgery. Two days post-op, she was well enough for a meal out in Austin: “I’m in my jammies, but I’m getting the good food before I head home,” she said. “It was amazing, I loved it.”

Her advice to other DFW-area women weighing the same decision: “If you have the opportunity and the means to do it, do it ASAP.”