Figure 1:

Short course of preoperative dietary prehabilitation (DietPreHab) results in improved response to antibiotic exposure, starvation, and surgical injury. The experimental design (A) demonstrates how the mice are subjected to their dietary intervention along with the diet composition of SD and WD represented within the pie chart. The total percent weight gain at the end of the dietary interventions (B),after prehabilitation (C),and the amount of weight loss following 5 days of antibiotic exposure (D) are displayed. The survival curves (E) demonstrate the survival differences between WD (n = 14), SD (n = 14), 3DP (n = 21), and 7DP (n = 9) * p< 0.05, ** p< 0.01, *** p< 0.001, **** p <0.0001