Dr. Anthony Youn

Okay, so breast implants, I'm happy to talk about that and breast implant illness.

I know you've talked about your experience with implants and stuff.

So I've got definitely an opinion on that.

As far as fat grafting to the breasts, a lot of people are talking about that now as kind of like a natural alternative.

And as a surgery, it is, in general, very safe to perform.

Essentially what you do is you liposuction fat from your hips or your thighs,

or your tummy, and then we purify the fat and then inject it into the breasts.

And as far as immediate complications, it's usually pretty low risk.

The thing that a lot of plastic surgeons, and I don't know of anybody talking about this but me, honestly, like I have not heard anybody but me, so maybe I don't know and everybody else does, but when you think about it theoretically, okay, one in nine women will get breast cancer in their lifetime.

So the breast essentially is a cancer-prone organ.

As sad as it is, that's the truth.

um we know over the last 10 to 15 years that our fat is chock full of stem cells stem cells are cells that are so young that the belief is that you put them into a body part and they will essentially turn into cells for that body part and that's the reason why it's exciting for things like cancer if you have to have an organ removed the idea is that hey i wonder if stem cells can help to remake that organ essentially

So theoretically then what happens if you take a cancer-prone Oregon, like a breast and you inject it with a ton of stem cells haphazardly all around the Oregon.

What if, for example, you are 47, she is.

And let's say she has a family history of breast cancer.

Let's say she has a cluster of dysplastic cells, meaning cells that are not normal that could eventually create a cancer.

But there's so few of them and they're not that aggressive that they won't turn into a cancer until she turns 140 years old.

But now you inject a bunch of stem cells around those cells.

Those stem cells then will turn into the cells that they are around.

Is it possible that now she develops a breast cancer when she turns 60 or 65?