Dr. Robert Whitfield argues surgeons should test patients before operating, not guess. His SHARP Method uses genetic testing to check MTHFR status, vitamin D metabolism, and antioxidant pathways, which affect how treatments like glutathione work and whether surgery will succeed.
Let's start with the foundation. You cannot fix what you don't know or hasn't been measured. So let's, let's think about that. I get people running protocols all the time on things they've never measured that they don't understand. And then when I ask them about it, they can't actually come back and give me a cogent response of why they're doing it. They're just doing it. So as a surgeon, as a plastic surgeon, I don't like to guess. I like to have some kind of benchmark, some kind of metric, some kind of tool that I can measure and refer back to. So when a patient comes to me, my preference is obviously not to guess. I would prefer to test before anyone gets near the operating room. We have a whole series of tests we run through the SHARP Method. We run a comprehensive panel of tests including genetic testing. We look at your genetics for things like MTHFR status, vitamin D metabolism issues, problems in your antioxidant pathway, things that, uh, crop up in the glucuronidation pathway, um, and, and further hamper our use of glutathione,
