Heavy Metals and Chemicals 

Scroll below for a list of the heavy metals used in the manufacturing process for each of the current FDA approved breast implants: Allergan (saline & silicone), Mentor (saline & silicone), Ideal (saline), Sientra (silicone). These lists are derived directly from each manufacturer and specific implant’s FDA Summary of Safety and Effectiveness Data (SSED), links are included. You can show the list of heavy metals for your specific implant to whomever is doing your analysis so each metal can be tested for. Scroll further for analyses of the chemicals in the PIP and Dow silicone breast implants.

Effects of Heavy Metal Exposure:

Heavy metals are neurotoxic. The brain and central nervous system are particularly vulnerable. Negative health effects include: they get deposited in fatty tissues and bones, displace minerals and disrupt metabolic functions, support the development of fungal, bacterial, and viral infections (particularly fungal), upset digestion, alter endocrine and gland activity, and damage organs such as the liver and kidneys.

Most importantly, heavy metals disrupt metabolic functions in two ways:

1. They compete for the same receptors as our vital minerals, therefore they displace and hinder their physiological roles (ex. lead, fluoride, and aluminum displace calcium – they get stored and weaken the bones).

2. They accumulate and disrupt functions in vital organs such as the brain, bone, liver, kidney, heart, etc.

Toxic metals can cause damage by interfering, blocking, replacing, depleting, and poisoning many aspects of the body. There are hundreds of metabolic processes in the body where enzymes use either minerals or essential metals as cofactors to do their job and what heavy metals do is that by having similar configurations (molecular mimicry) they displace the good metals and minerals, and in doing so the enzymes do not work. Therefore whatever metabolic process you are doing – whether energy production, sugar metabolism, getting rid of toxins, etc. – the heavy metals can interfere with it. Additionally they create many imbalances with our healthy metals, elements and minerals: low calcium, low magnesium, low lithium, low iodine, low zinc, high copper, and more.

1. Heavy Metals in Silicone Breast Implants  

Allergan Natrelle Silicone:          Allergan Natrelle 410 Anatomical Silicone:

Separately, are also listed the heavy metal catalysts as:  Tin & Platinum

Sources – FDA SSED:

• Allergan Natrelle Silicone (pg. 6)
• Allergan Natrelle 410 Anatomical (pgs. 9-10)

Mentor MemoryGel Silicone:      Mentor MemoryShape Silicone:

Sources – FDA SSED:

• Mentor MemoryGel Silicone (pg. 8)
• Mentor MemoryShape Silicone (pgs. 12-13)

Sientra Silicone:

Source – FDA SSED:

• Sientra Silicone (pgs. 6-7)

2. Heavy Metals in Saline Breast Implants 

Allergan Natrelle Saline:

Source – FDA SSED:

• Allergan Natrelle Saline (pg. 6))

Mentor Saline:

Source – FDA SSED:

• Mentor Saline (pg. 6-7)

Ideal Saline:

Source – FDA SSED:

• Ideal Saline (pg. 8)

– Other Breast Implant Chemicals –

PIP Implant Ingredient Analysis by Dr. Giangiacomo Beretta: