Don’t Underestimate the Role of Vitamin A For Healing Inside and Out after Surgery
Vitamin A is essential to all phases of wound healing, from the day of surgery to the final phase 1-2 years later. If you are a fan of pan-fried beef liver, you are in luck and can get plenty of vitamin A with a serving of beef liver every few days while healing. I’ve actually had a patient do that! But if you aren’t, then you have to eat a lot of vegetables and servings of dairy to get the daily suggested value of the vitamin.
Many US adults are not meeting dietary requirements for vitamin A intake on a daily basis, and the need for vitamin A increases in the setting of inflammation, illness, and infection. In healthy individuals, increasing intake of vitamin A in the diet or a low dose supplement such as Surgery Ready will be enough to give your body the amount it needs to heal external and internal wounds from injury, disease, trauma, or surgery. After surgery many people aren’t terribly hungry (decreased appetite) and it is hard for them to take in the amount and types of food necessary for optimizing healing. A supplement can help significantly in this setting as well. Patients who have been on steroids or continue to be on steroids need even more help and should ask their physician and surgeon about one time large doses prior to surgery.
PSA: Watch out for supplements that give TOO much vitamin A, more than 10,000 iu per day, as this can lead to organ damage, and that’s no good. Actually, it is really bad and this needs to be taken seriously.
What is Integrative Surgical Care and What does it Offer?
The surgical patient is better served through the mindful and thoughtful principles of Integrative Surgical Care, a surgeon-run and whole-patient focused wellness company bridging the philosophies of eastern and western medicines. By taking into consideration details of the surgical experience and melding that with the holistic care of the whole patient, every surgical patient can go into surgery prepared, better tolerate the operation, optimize their recovery, and minimize risk. Surgery is stressful on the mind, body, and spirit, and Integrative’s approach and services helps the patient regain control.
Surgery Ready Supplement is the only surgeon-manufactured supplement with the vitamins, minerals, and amino acids your body needs to heal and is the easiest and fastest way to start improving your surgical health. Vitamin A is one of the ingredients and I specifically used it for all of the reasons above. I carefully selected the dose and there is Vitamin D in the supplement which helps Vitamin A be used effectively. The type of vitamin A I chose was because not everyone can absorb beta-carotene. The supplement is safe to take before and after surgery. All it takes is 2 tablets and a dollar a day to improve your surgical health.
Surgery Reset Program is the only surgical wellness coaching service available. It is nurturing and encouraging while you or a loved one goes through one of the toughest times in their life. By evaluating and improving sleep, pain, inflammation/mobility, nutrition, microbiomes, and stress, you can take charge of your surgical health.
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