Nutrition can help you ensure that your diet, and vitamin regiment is optimized in preparation for your surgery.

Heal Me Program

For pre-post op patients. Some helpful hints before surgery.

Take the natural path to recovery in internal external Healing program. The healthier you are before surgery will surely speed up your recovery. Our goal here is to help you minimize post-operative swelling and bruising, improve wound healing, limit scar appearance, help you have less pain and discomfort, promote repair and growth of tissues damaged by surgery, and protect the body from infection by enhancing the immune system defenses.

Let me begin with water, I can not stress how important it is to start drinking 8-10 8oz. glasses of water per day starting 2 weeks before surgery. Being well hydrated will help make you more comfortable during the time when you can have nothing by mouth as specified by your surgeon. This will also help flush out toxins in your body, especially after anesthesia, and other surgery drugs. You should continue the water after surgery for continued removal of these substances, as well as facilitating your healing. Water will also help reduce water retention which can make you unnecessarily uncomfortable at this time. Supplements, vitamins minerals, antioxidants, and amino acids have also been shown to be vital for preparing the body for surgery, and post op for a speedy recovery.

Diet

Increase the amount of high quality protein you consume in the weeks before as well as the weeks following surgery. Increasing your protein will help your body to do the work it needs to do, a lot more effectively and quickly. Select high quality protein such as chicken, fish and eggs and try to avoid greasy foods. If you are a vegetarian make sure you are meeting your protein needs, if not exceeding them.

Incorporate dark leafy greens into your meals the weeks before your surgery if you can, as well as in the weeks following your surgery. This could be difficult for you in the beginning, but a combination of these particular foods, works synergistically in your body, and will boost your healing capacity. And I promise you little discipline goes a long way especially in this case which is surgery.

The stress of even minor surgery lowers vitamin levels producing physiological changes on the body requiring extra energy for the body to mend itself.

Homeopathic and vitamin supplements have become a natural therapy for patients to heal more quickly and with less bruising.

Always check with you're Physician before taking any medication, or dietary supplements.

DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS NOT TO BE TAKEN TWO WEEKS BEFORE, AND TWO WEEKS AFTER SURGERY.

PROTOCOL FOR PRE-OP SURGERY
For a Speedy and Healthy Recovery

Three to four weeks prior to your surgery, (Protocol structured for each individual patient)

We suggest first starting a patient on a BIOTICS DETOX PROGRAM. Providing the patient is healthy, and that there aren't any contraindications with medications he or she may be taking. Biotics Detox Program CAN BE ANYWHERE FROM SEVEN TO TWENTY ONE DAYS DEPENDING ON THE PATIENT, AND HIS OR HER BODY'S NEEDS.
It is a great way to jump start the body into feeling healthier, more energetic, and ultimately more confident and in control of what their body's need are.
Our Detox program does not require, "fasting," foods are incorporated into this program. However, common food allergens are removed from the diet. The patient is given a booklet, with a reference guide of foods that are suggested.

Hidden allergen foods may include, foods including wheat, rye, oats, and barley, which are found in breads pastas, and other products from refined flour. A wheat allergy is one of the most common of all allergies, and is affecting more and more people with our modern dependence on a diet high in wheat. You can be living with a wheat allergy, and this is a great opportunity, (BIOTICS DETOX PROGRAM) to determine if you might have one. Most people who speak of a wheat allergy are referring to wheat intolerance. (GLUTAN INTOLERANCE)
Wheat intolerance is when you have difficulty digesting wheat, which may seem less important. It is a slower onset, but certainly involves the immune system.
Gluten Intolerance appears as chronic symptoms' like aching joints, gastrointestinal problems, depression, eczema, low blood iron levels and others.
Substitutes for these foods will be explained.

• ELIMINATE OR REDUCE - ALCOHOL, CAFFEINE, SODA, SOY MILK, AND HIGH REFINED SUGARS.
Meats - unless organic meat and poultry are typically high in ingredients such as estrogens, antibiotics, and all other processed foods as well.
Dairy - products are most likely to cause allergies. Many people find that they are sensitive to dairy products experiencing a host of symptoms, flatulence, (gas) bloating, diarrhea, and fatigue when they consume milk and other milk products. Yet, because adverse reaction to foods doesn't necessarily occur right after the consumption of these foods, sometimes occurring hours or even days after a dairy product has been eaten many people are uncertain as to which specific food may have triggered the unforeseen and unwanted symptoms.
Fat - foods high in fats and oils including peanuts, refined oils and shortening, by eliminating or reducing these types of fats it lessens the burden placed on your system.

AS MENTIONED ABOVE THERE IS A LIST OF FOODS IN THE BOOKLET THAT ARE HYPOALLERGENIC. THERE ARE MANY FOOD CHOICES TO KEEP THE PATIENT SATIATED WHILE ON THIS PROGRAM.

Take 1 whole pack with shake in the morning.
Take 2nd. Pack with shake in the afternoon.
Take 3rd Pack before or after dinner.

4) Vitamin - BIO B 100 COMPLEX - A water soluble vitamin, which helps to metabolize protein, is crucial in tissue repair and will also facilitate healing.
Take 2 in the morning with shake or shortly after with breakfast.

• BIO - C PLUS 1000 - Vitamin C is an antioxidant which supports the immune system. It appears that vitamin C acts as a reducing agent; it neutralizes toxins which help pre-post op surgery.

Take 1 in the morning with shake or shortly after with breakfast.
Take 1 in the afternoon with shake or shortly after with lunch

PROTOCOL FORPOST-OPERATIVE
For a Speedy and Healthy Recovery