Dr. Mark Hyman

And so.

And you can talk about that to autoimmune and inflammatory issues you mentioned, to the ASIA that you talked about, this autoimmune inflammatory thing, the breast implant illness, and the cancer risk you mentioned, this lymphoma.

Even just local, you know, sort of endocrine effects as the silicone migrates and neurologic effects, cognitive effects, psychological effects.

So,

Can you kind of unpack a lot of that and just kind of talk us through each one of those?

Because it's a lot of stuff, and it's not just one thing that it causes.

Just to be clear, silicone comes from petroleum.

So this is a petrochemical industrial product.

And we know that these petrochemicals have massive effects on human health, like any other, quote, toxins.

They affect endocrine function or endocrine disruptors.

They can cause autoimmunity.

They can cause obesity.

They can cause cancer.

I mean, there's a range of effects of toxins.

It's huge.

And this is a, you know, when you say polymer, that doesn't sound like something should be in your body.

Way more common, harder to diagnose.

It's the diagnosis of exclusion.

And there can be autoimmune illnesses like Sjogren's syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic sclerosis, mixed connective tissue disease, Hashimoto's.

I mean, one in five women have hypothyroidism.