What To Do With Your Nutrition When Injured: Interview With Dr. Layne Norton
When injuries occur, we are told a wide variety of things by our doctors. Depending on the severity of the injury, we are either told to begin taking NSAIDs, go to physical therapy, rest for a prescribed period of time, or even get surgery. What we aren’t told, however, is how we should alter our diet. Given that nutrition is at the core of our health, this seems like a huge gap in the recovery process.
What might be the cause of this? When individuals become injured, the first person that they will go to is their doctor. While the aforementioned advice that the doctor gives is integral to the injury recovery process, the medical school provides insufficient education on matters concerning nutrition. According to a study done by NYU School of Medicine in 2008 called “What Do Resident Physicians Know about Nutrition? An Evaluation of Attitudes, Self-Perceived Proficiency, and Knowledge” (1), 94% of respondents — who were physicians — felt that it is their duty to inform their patients about nutrition. Yet, only 14% of them feel confident in doing so. This has been replicated by a 2015 study done by The Journal of Biomedical Education on “The State of Nutrition Education in US Medical Schools.” According to that study (2), the average amount of hours required to be allocated towards nutritional education in medical…
