Dr. Robert Whitfield argues that surgery outcomes improve when doctors assess genetics, gut health, and toxicity exposure before the operating room. He describes a teacher with brain fog and fatigue from old implants who recovered after targeted supplements, dietary changes, and sleep optimization reduced her inflammatory markers.
I feel like at this point, after almost 30 years of operating, it's much more effective, much, you know, better for patients to have more and more preparation and better understanding of their genetics, toxicity burden, gut health, food sensitivities, and hormonal balance prior to an operation rather than trying to react to problems afterwards. Now, if you don't think this is the case, I had a teacher show me this in fact. She is a great example of someone who is completely naive to supplementation and dietary modification. So she called us, she had implants for years and had a lot of difficulty with brain fog and fatigue. She is a teacher and only could come in the summer when she was done with teaching. So we put her on the program and at that point we're measuring very specific urinary metabolites, which we don't do now, but we could follow those and they dropped over time, indicating that her inflammation was decreasing. So we know just by running the protocol and paying attention to sleep hygiene and nutrition that you can reduce your inflammation. So I feel like surgery without preparation is, is not the way we should be taking care of patients.
