A short YouTube conversation between Robert Whitfield MD and Dr. Fang emphasizing the role of diet, nutrition, nutraceuticals, and lifestyle changes (sleep, hydration, air and water quality) in improving surgical recovery. They argue care should begin months before surgery, addressing inflammation and toxicity burden, and mention genetic considerations (single nucleotide polymorphisms) as an underemphasized part of medical education. Speakers also note specific practice-level choices (Jasper air filters, Echo water filtration) and a selective approach to patients to avoid delays in recovery.
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Think that and you can comment on this too. I think that's a huge miss in medical education now. Is not really aggressively addressing even the simplest understanding of single nucleotide polymorphisms and mutations and things where instead of a symptom based disease model, you go back and think about like, all right, you can't pick your parents and you can't outrun a bad diet. But I agree and wanted Dr. Fang to share her philosophy with about which you could go to her website and see she really cares about your diet. Just like we do at our practice. I've become more and more rigid about who I'll work with because neither you or I can afford to have delays in recovery for our patients. Because that's not I, I call that not a problem. That we can diminish that problem in our practices so we can work harder on diet and nutrition way up front and nutraceuticals and lifestyle changes and decreasing inflammation and toxicity burden by just making choices. Like we use Jasper air filters, we use echo water filtration. We try to really educate our patients. Like you have to start doing these things. You have to start lowering your inflammation before you ever have surgery. Like surgery is not the impetus to start. This process starts many, many months beforehand to get you into a better position. But if you sleep better, eat better, drink better fluid, breathe better air, you'll do better.
Agree. I'm amazed at how similar our approaches are to health. That's really good because, you know, most good things people will agree on if you have enough experience doing this work. So I'm just so happy, so happy to hear that you're doing all of that and that just confirm you know what I'm doing. So you know, this has been a wonderful, wonderful chat.
But to many of the things that are extremely important to me were in alignment with and how patients take care of themselves and how we want them to take care of them themselves and promote a more efficient recovery process. We're all very motivated in alignment with the mission of helping our patients recover faster.
