Nutritional Prehabilitation: Trends in Supplementation Based on Sustainable Dairy Protein Sources

Overview

Journal Curr Nutr Rep

Specialty Nutritional Sciences

Date 2025 Feb 11

PMID 39932655

Authors

Luciana Cecilia Muchut

Leandro Fabian Bustos

Maria Eugenia Hidalgo

Franco Emanuel Vasile

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Abstract

Purpose Of Review: Prehabilitation is an emerging clinical practice that aims to improve the surgical recovery and quality of life of patients undergoing intensive treatments. This review intends to describe the state of the art in prehabilitation, highlighting the role of nutritional strategies and the current trends in supplements.

Recent Findings: Up-to-date studies have shown the importance of optimizing the nutritional status of patients to cope with the physical and metabolic demands of surgery and intensive treatments. In the context of nutritional prehabilitation, oral nutritional supplementation has emerged as a preferred strategy. The effectiveness of prehabilitation has been demonstrated in various clinical contexts. However, the lack of standardized protocols makes it hard to compare the outcomes. Despite the variability in this type of nutritional intervention found in reports, it has been shown that the most common oral nutritional supplements (ONS) contain dairy proteins. The use of whey proteins represents a promising approach from both a nutritional and a sustainability perspective.

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