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Don't be too frightened. Most generally healthy people do amazingly well with today's anesthesia. The physicians tend to give much more controlled doses than is years past. They've refined it(alot like they did with chemotherapy).

The body truly is it's own best pharmacy. It continually strives for balance and finds itself in a diseased state only after years of the onslaughts of heavy stressors that leave it unable to compensate.

I always suggest that people start on a quality multivitamin, some antioxidants and a reputable pro biotic prior to any kind of surgery. It helps the body deal with stress, maximizes the immune system function and promotes early healing.

If someone is a heavy drinker or is on prescription meds which tax the liver, there are some excellent supplements out there that are very safe and have been used for years that will assist in promoting the most effective liver function. This is extremely important because the liver detoxifies all the pharmaceuticals that we put in our bodies. A healthy liver will clear most drugs pretty quickly.

Unfortunately, people having surgery are sometimes in a lot of pain and tend to have taken a large amount of anti-inflammatory type drugs. These are very hard on the liver and it uses up a lot of it's enzymes during the process of breaking these chemicals down for excretion.

To go back to the point of my last post. Two of the co-factors used in the body's creation of enzymes are Magnesium and the B vitamins. Best to have a good amount of those to help the body function effectively.
Good luck, is it elective surgery?

‘If someone is a heavy drinker or is on prescription meds which tax the liver, there are some excellent supplements out there that are very safe and have been used for years that will assist in promoting the most effective liver function. This is extremely important because the liver detoxifies all the pharmaceuticals that we put in our bodies. A healthy liver will clear most drugs pretty quickly.”

And those would be what? Please?

Thank you SO very much for your advice and encouragement.!

It is most comforting = especially since I regularly take a magnesium/calcium (proportionately balanced) and B's - along with Co-Q10, folic and cod liver oil - the latter in capsules, thank you! And I take pro-biotics on and off. (the only prescrip. I take is enalapril)

I haven't taken milk thistle for a long time, but I think I'll get some.

I really appreciate your advice and encouragement.