Dr. Mark Hyman
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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.
And he was like, listen, a lot of our patients bounce back because they're
When you bounce back, they come back to the hospital with complications, infections, problems.
And, you know, these patients who get knee surgery usually overweight and they have, that's why they have, you know, bad knees because you're putting massive forces of pressure of weight on your knees, which you're not supposed to.
I forget the math on that, but it's like...
It's like an exponential amount of force for every pound.
And they come back with complications.