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week's latest program to help you and your family take control of your health.

Welcome, everyone, Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health. And we're delighted to

have Dr. Eric Pinar join us again.

He was with us recently because he was my general surgeon, but focusing completely on hernia surgeries,

that helped me resolve my hernias. And a lot of people appreciated that, and we didn't have as much time as we would have liked,

but we're going to fill up that gap with this interview today.

And I want to emphasize a few points.

I'm going to share my personal experience and some of the things that I believe you need to pay attention to be aware of,

especially if you have scheduled a surgery or going into it.

And I think some of my considerations and evaluations will be helpful, not only for hernia

surgeries, but other surgeries.

Because there's some important principles you need to really understand if you're

going to optimize your healing and improve your biology.

So there's one point that we really want to emphasize, and I'll let Dr. Pinar,

who is out of Jacksonville, Florida, just a little bit north of me. And the reason I chose him,

because my local surgeon was really a good surgeon, probably as equally qualified as Dr. Pinar,

but unfortunately he had an

administrative staff that was one of the worst I've ever seen in a medical practice just

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