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Nutrition for Your Immune System During Surgery

  • July 17, 2003

British Medical Journal posts has an editorial documenting how nutrients can be used to enhance response to surgery. The nutrients most often studied for immunonutrition are arginine, glutamine, branched chain amino acids, omega-3 fatty acids, and nucleotides The editorial comments how three studies note that these nutrients produce significant reductions in post surgical infections and also reduce total hospital stays. This is great confirmation of an earlier article I...