Robert Whitfield MDAmerica's Breast Implant Illness Expert™

Optimize Your Recovery: Diet Strategies for Faster Healing

3 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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Robert Whitfield MD discusses advanced recovery strategies with a focus on dietary adjustments to improve surgical recovery. In this excerpt he recommends increasing protein intake before surgery to optimize "nitrogen balance," which helps patients move from a stress-responsive phase into a healing phase and may decrease downtime and improve recovery efficiency.

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Advanced recovery. And we're always looking for more and more ways to, you know, decrease downtime, improve our efficiency and recovery. So we'll alter diets, increase protein in the diet even before surgery. So that really putting you in the best sense of what we call nitrogen balance. But that will help you go from the, you know, stress responsive surgery into a healing phase. And that will help you. And that's just, you know, the physical component of this.