This is the second half of your prep file. When you take each supplement matters as much as which ones — the schedule below is built around the real interactions. Below it: the months from now to surgery, in order. Same rule as always — your surgeon's instructions win every time.
Timing isn't optional — it's the difference between supplements that work and supplements that cancel each other out. Zinc and iron can't share a meal. Serrapeptase needs an empty stomach or it causes nausea. Vitamin C is paired with iron at dinner on purpose. This schedule is built around those rules.
If any came back off in June, recheck now to see if your protocol is moving the numbers. You want these in range before October so you're not scrambling in the final stretch.
Serrapeptase, bromelain, MSM, NAC, vitamin C, zinc, protein, collagen. These are your workhorses through this window. Don't drop them because you feel fine — the work is quiet, not dramatic.
Add niacinamide 4–5% now if it's not already in your routine — it regulates oil and is safe long-term. The zinc and MSM in your stack are working on this from the inside too. SPF every single day — you're building new collagen right now and it's photosensitive.
If weight loss is happening, this is the window where gradual counts. Drastic changes in September or October are too close to surgery and change what your surgeon is working with. Keep it gradual and surgeon-approved.
Here's what nobody on the internet tells you: a lot of "healthy" supplements thin your blood, and going into a facelift on them means more bleeding, more bruising, and real hematoma risk — which on the face is serious. In the run-up to November, the smart move isn't more. It's off.
Blood-thinning supplements have been off for two weeks. Nicotine has been gone for at least four weeks, ideally much longer. Alcohol off. Weed off per anesthesia's date.
Your vitamin D, ferritin, CRP, and anything that came back off in June has been corrected and rechecked. You're walking in with optimized numbers, not hoping for the best.
Vitamin D3, magnesium glycinate, B-complex, probiotic, protein and collagen peptides, and enough water. These stay until your surgeon says otherwise.
After surgery is where the dosed enzymes, arnica timing, prescription support, and "restart this, not that" decisions live. That gets written by your medical team off your labs and how you're healing — not pulled from a website. Your post-op protocol loads in once it's built.