A short segment from a YouTube video by Robert Whitfield MD offering practical measures to accelerate recovery after breast explant surgery. The speaker recommends in-office therapies (red light therapy, lymphatic massage, hyperbaric oxygen), dietary optimization and supplements, and explains that improving oncotic pressure helps shift from a ‘leaky’ post-op phase to an anabolic phase so swelling resolves faster.
We also use red light therapy in my office. We also use lymphatic massage in my office. We have many clients who use hyperbaric oxygen therapy to enhance their recovery. Taking supplements, as I mentioned, optimizing diet carefully, following instructions and staying on track with your diet really limits fluid accumulation by changing, you know, your oncotic pressure, which is the protein content in your blood, so that you go from a leaky phase or catabolic phase after surgery to an anabolic phase or a non leaky phase so that you absorb your fluid, pee it out, your swelling goes down more quickly.
