There are lots of good reasons to try and follow a healthier diet.

You lose weight, you feel good, but the main reason to live a longer, happy, productive

life.

Sounds good, right?

And though it may sound deceptively easy, the devil is in the details.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

Medicine is messy.

One of the reasons researchers experiment on animals is that they can create uniformed

standardized injuries to test potential remedies.

It's not like you can just cut open 50 people and see if something works better than a sugar

pill.

Oh, but we can.

People go into surgery all the time.

Today we take a close look at how to speed recovery after surgery.

The efficacy of turmeric, and pain and post-operative fatigue after laparoscopic colostostectomy,

people getting their gall bladder removed.

A double blind, randomized placebo controlled study.

50 people were cut into given turmeric or an identical looking placebo, along with rescue

analgesics, actual painkillers to take if the pain becomes unbearable.

Even though it's just laparoscopic surgery, people don't realize what a toll it can take.

It can be out of commission for a month.

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