Dr. Joshua John-Ram SchacterDr. Joshua Schacter, DO FAAOS, is America’s Holistic Orthopedic Surgeon, with nearly two decades of surgical expertise.

The Healing Power of Food and Wellness

7 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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Speaker (Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter) emphasizes "food as medicine," arguing that vitamin deficiencies and poor nutritional/metabolic health increase complication risk for elective orthopedic surgeries. COVID-19 highlighted the need to address BMI, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular and thyroid disease, hormonal imbalances, and poor diet when optimizing patients preoperatively. The speaker advocates a holistic approach to wellness rather than focusing narrowly on a single joint surgery (SA).

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The power of food as medicine and keeping us healthy and all of the vitamin deficiencies that we have and how it increases our risk of complications really came to full bloom in Covid. Covid really caused us to step back and say, wait a minute, we need to be addressing this. And then the literature starts to support things like watching our patients bmi, how much farther risk they have if they are obese, if they're diabetic, if they have cardiovascular disease, if they have thyroid disease, if their hormones aren't where they need to be, if their diet's not where it needs to be. Their risks of all of these orthopedic elective surgeries we're doing are just getting higher and higher and higher. And so again, that's where the need comes to say if we really want to get to taking care of our patients and getting them to the peak of wellness, we have to address everything, not just that specific joint SA.