Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.

We are a Minnesota company that specializes in real food nutrition education and counseling.

Since we work with hundreds of clients every year, we frequently meet people who are experiencing

pivotal moments in their lives. It might be preparing for the birth of a new baby or a new

grandbaby, graduating from high school or college or graduate school, changing jobs,

mourning the loss of a loved one, preparing to run or bike a major race, or recovering from

an accident or an illness. Another pivotal moment that may occur in someone's life is when they

have surgery.

A few months ago, we did a show on Healing Fast After Surgery, and in that show, we shared a surprising statistic.

We shared that the average person will have nine surgeries in their lifetime.

Nine surgeries.

And we have a population of people who are living longer and longer. That only increases the likelihood of hitting that number. Some surgeries

are planned and are scheduled a few weeks or a few months in advance like a joint replacement

surgery or cataract surgery. Some surgeries

are unplanned like an emergency appendectomy or an emergency C-section. Yeah, some surgeries

are very minor. You walk out the same day with some ice and some Tylenol. And some surgeries

are major. They require time in the hospital afterwards

to heal and recover. And you may be off your feet or maybe mostly on the couch or the recliner for

several weeks. Many knee surgeries are in that latter category. So we've seen people at all stages

in their surgical preparation and recoveries.

I actually love when I get a client coming in who is thinking about how to optimize their

nutrition and their supplements before surgery and strategize their nutrition for after

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