This document discusses surgical nutritional support, including the history and importance of artificial nutrition, metabolic adaptations in catabolic states, nutritional assessment, and approaches to enteral and parenteral nutrition. It covers indications for nutritional support, routes of administration, considerations for formulas including calorie-nitrogen ratios, and potential complications of enteral and parenteral nutrition administration. Metabolism in stress and starvation states and the regulation of protein synthesis and degradation are also summarized.