Did you know that vitamin C deficiency occurs often in patients with infections, trauma, and cancer? And that surgery significantly depletes the body of vitamin C?

Use the following questions to learn more about your surgical wellness strength, weaknesses, and interests.

Diet is deeply personal and emotional, and we need to get to bottom of this to make progress. Integrating eastern and western medicine therapies can help make this easier.

Successful recovery is related to the overall level of stress in a patient’s life. Anxiety and pessimism before surgery are associated with more pain after surgery.

Taking pain management seriously and using an INTEGRATIVE approach is imperative for best surgical recovery and overall quality of life.

For the 10 millionth time, our food intake and sedentary lifestyle are harmful, but now it’s going to cause YOU big problems in surgery.

The health of the bacteria on our skin impacts the ability to heal surgical wounds.

Up to 70% of Americans struggle with sleep once a week. 1/3 struggle on a nightly basis. This is a lot, but I would say that closer to 100% of my surgical patients have trouble sleeping at some point they are under my care.

A few years ago I realized that, as a surgeon focused only on surgical problems, I was actually NEGLECTING THE PATIENT. Like, wow. What a revelation…!

Up to 70% of patients with breast cancer report sleep complaints- can’t fall asleep, can’t stay asleep, wake up frequently, poor sleep quality.

Sugar is everywhere. Even if the labels on food packaging don’t explicitly say “sugar,” there are a dozen other forms that it takes that cause the same effects on your body.