Dr. Mark Hyman

Because, you know, if your tissues are bad and you're malnourished and you're eating tons of sugar and you're inflamed and you have insulin resistance, which is to some degree over 90% of the population is on the spectrum, not of autism, but on the spectrum of insulin dysregulation and blood sugar issues, you know, you're not going to heal as well.

Like if your vitamin A is low or your zinc is low or your protein is low, as you said, or you have a

Lower levels of omega-3s.

Even copper, like all these micronutrients that are super important.

And so I'm curious, you know, what I really found interesting was as I began to do functional medicine, I started to like, you know, use supplements and things 30 years ago.

And one of the only other doctors, two groups of doctors using supplements were plastic surgeons and dermatologists.

And I was like, this is fascinating.

And they're recommending stuff for wound healing and repair and recovery.

And I actually, there were supplement companies that had like a pre and post-op supplements, which I thought were amazing.

And I use a lot of my patients.

Yeah, I recommend them all the time.

What should people do to prepare?

And what should people do after in terms of their diet and the right supplementation regimen to help them get through surgery?

But is there really evidence about the omega-3s?

Like, is it just a... We just know that it's things of blood.

It's a problem.

We just hypothesize that it might... I recommend them afterwards all the time.

Yeah.

We were about to do a study with the head of orthopedics at, or one of the key orthopedic surgeons at Cleveland Clinic, I think.

And he wanted to do a study on knee transplants, like knee replacements.