I tell this to everyone facing any kind of surgery.
A wound healing study was completed in 2014 and subsequently peer reviewed and published in March of 2015 in the American Journal Of Surgery (Reference 1). It clearly showed that raising glutathione levels before surgery (a surgical incision is considered a wound in medicine) and keeping the level elevated after surgery dramatically reduced the healing time, increased the strength of the healed wound, and significantly reduced any resulting scar.
It was an animal based study that involved genetically identical rodents. This was necessary since the animals would be dissected to understand what healing was happening below the skin.
A friend of mine, Fran, had a double knee replacement done about three years ago. (On a side note, I told her I thought she was nuts trying to have both knees done at the same time. I was thinking of practical things like getting down onto and up from the toilet. Although her surgeon was originally resistant, she convinced him. Clearly a very determined woman.) She was aware of the study and listened to my related recommendations. For a month before the surgery she took a set of supplements aimed at increasing her intracellular glutathione levels. She continued for a month after the surgery, then gradually went back to her normal levels.
At her 10 day followup visit, her doctor was amazed at how completely she had healed and couldn’t figure it out. Well she explained it to him and referred him to the study. But according to the rules he operates under he is unable to tell any of his patients about it. Such is the world of modern medicine.
She conformed religiously to the required post-surgery physiotherapy regimen. And not long after she was walking normally with no pain.
References
Reference 1: Saltman, Adam E., d-ribose-l-cysteine supplementation enhances wound healing in a rodent model, American Journal Of Surgery. (March 2015)
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