Healing Fast After Surgery

Dishing Up Nutrition

Nutritional Weight & Wellness, Inc.

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:nutrition, Nutrition

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🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Americans undergo an average of nine surgical procedures in their lifetime, so today, we’re sharing tips and tools on how to eat real food and support your body for the best possible surgical recovery. If you haven’t had a surgical procedure yet, odds are that something will arise in the future, even if it’s just a minor procedure. Both of our co-hosts for this show have had major surgeries and know firsthand what the typical recommendations are that your surgeon and nursing staff tell you to do ahead of time to prepare. Tune in to hear what you can do with food and a few key supplements to help your body heal to reduce some of your post-surgery pain, swelling, risk of infection, and slower wound healing.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by Nutritional Weight and Wellness. We are
0:04.7	companies specializing in life-changing nutrition education and counseling. I'm Melanie Beasley, a licensed
0:10.7	and registered dietitian, and I've been in the field for over 30 years and really enjoy
0:15.0	meeting with my clients, either in person or virtually. I've noticed a pattern in the last
0:20.5	decade that ties into today's topic,
0:23.3	which is healing fast after surgery. More and more of my clients talk about having upcoming
0:30.6	surgery scheduled or they list off several surgeries they've had in the past. I don't remember
0:36.8	surgery being so common 10 or 20 years
0:39.5	ago. It could because I was younger and my group of people wasn't having surgeries, but I feel like
0:44.6	my clients, I'm hearing more surgery. That is really interesting, Melanie. And one reason
0:50.7	surgeries are more common these days. There actually are statistics about this. Well, it could be because Americans have a longer lifespan. The average male lives to be 74 and the average female lives to be age 79. And there was an article in Johns Hopkins medicine and it said that more than a third of all surgeries in
1:12.3	United States hospitals, now this is both inpatient and outpatient surgeries, they're performed
1:18.5	on people age 65 and older. Wow. So statistically, we are having more surgeries in our country.
1:26.8	Based on, yes, the number of surgeries happening and the average age of how long folks are living these days.
1:35.0	Yeah.
1:35.6	And those parts start breaking down.
1:37.3	Mm-hmm.
1:37.9	So basically one in three people getting surgery are over the age of 65.
1:42.8	Well, that could explain with our aging population why it is more
1:46.7	common these days to get surgery. I read something else while preparing for the podcast that Americans
1:53.2	undergo an average of nine surgical procedures in their lifetime. And this came from the data
1:59.5	found in the American College of Surgeons. And that number
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