Time may heal all wounds, but a new study shows that taking a supplement that combines several antioxidant nutrients can do it nearly 20% faster. In practical terms, this translates to shaving about three days off the recovery time following a facelift or similar plastic surgery procedures. “That really is dramatic, and frankly, I didn’t expect it,” says researcher Rod J. Rohrich, MD, president of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and chairman of plastic surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. “If you can translate this kind of faster healing after a facelift or a breast augmentation, you are talking about a cost savings in the recovery process and getting back to work sooner that could amount to billions [of dollars],” he tells WebMD. In a small study, Rohrich and his colleagues at UT’s Advanced Wound Healing and Tissue Regeneration Laboratory tested the effects of a new supplement called InflammEnz, available via the Internet but only with a doctor’s prescription.
