Dr. Robert Whitfield says fat graft success depends on 8-12 weeks of prep before surgery, not the procedure itself. His protocol requires 100-150g of protein daily and addresses genetics, gut health, and inflammation. He claims his patients retain significantly more fat than the typical 50% loss reported in medical literature.
Why would that happen? Same hand, same OR, same instruments. We'll even say the same technician, same anesthesia. And the difference then is not what happens during surgery, right? It's the prep. So the 8, 10, 12 weeks beforehand and the recovery, right? Recovery can be very, very engineered. And if you don't engineer it properly, your body will default into more of a a prolonged inflammatory response, immune system activation, and potentially, you know, failure of the fat graft. I'm going to show you exactly how we engineer step by step the same protocol I use with every patient, the same system that produces very high retention rates, much higher typically than published in the literature. Now, that seems pretty shocking nowadays. There weren't any tests for genetics inflammatory burden, toxicity burden, gut health, food sensitivities, hormone balance. Nothing was looked at in more detail. And certainly, you know, in terms of diet, there may have been minimal counseling, but obviously we're very stringent about diet, really encouraging people to get 100 to 150 grams of protein a day with a good amount of healthy fats. And then You know, if someone were to go through that standard process and lose, we'll say, half of the fat, it was typically said that that's normal, that's expected, and that's how fat transfer works.
