Creating A Nutritional First Aid Kit - Part 2

Earlier this month, we discussed the importance of creating and maintaining a "Nutritional First Aid Kit."  The focus of the first newsletter centered on fevers and how you can utilize nutritional products such as Calcium Lactate and Sesame Seed Oil to support the body's natural fever regulating mechanism.  Part two of this newsletter series will focus on blood loss.

My wife and I have a large bottle of unopened CHLOROPHYLL COMPLEX in our "Nutritional First Aid Kit" in our home, and we even take this product with us when we go on vacation in case of emergency.  Chlorophyll is the portion of the plant that gives it a green color.  It is also used in photosynthesis where in the plant creates cellular energy from sunlight.  Chlorophyll is often referred to as the "blood" of the plant.  Chlorophyll and hemoglobin (a major substance in human blood that carries oxygen throughout our body) both have what is known as a porphyrin ring.  In chlorophyll, the center of the porphyrin ring contains magnesium, while in hemoglobin, the center of the ring contains iron.

In 1934, Dr. Rothemund and his colleagues reported that the porphyrins from chlorophyll could stimulate the synthesis of red blood cells in a variety of animals.  Drs. Hughes and Latner fed several doses and forms of chlorophyll to anemic rabbits in 1936. Extremely small doses of purified chlorophyll or large doses of "a crude chlorophyll extract" produced "a very favorable effect on hemoglobin regeneration". They suggested that "the chlorophyll is acting as a physiological stimulant of the bone marrow and is not really concerned with the actual chemistry of regeneration of the porphyrin." This means that components of chlorophyll found in foods or when fed in very small purified amounts may stimulate the synthesis of red blood cells in the bone marrow.

To claim that chlorophyll and hemoglobin are directly interchangeable is a large oversimplification the relationship between these two substances, but having chlorophyll available in an emergency situation can play an important roll in a person that is experiencing blood loss.  For this reason, we have a bottle of CHLOROPHYLL COMPLEX in our "Nutritional First Aid Kit" and are grateful that it remains unopened.

Nutritional Pearl: Chlorophyll in conjunction with iron supplements helps to reduce iron deficiency anemia more efficiently than iron supplements alone!

We're A Favorite Place on Google!

The Hayden Institute was recently recognized by as being a “Favorite Place on Google!”   As part of this recognition, Google sent a nice letter congratulating us for the services that we offer and the growth and activity that our business had made in our community.  According to Google, we were "one of less than 250,000 businesses in the U.S. to receive this recognition; that is less than 1% of all U.S. businesses!"

Google has also supplied a QR Code (black and white barcode) for our office to use which will allow people to check us out via their smart phones.  By scanning this code, you can pull up directions to our office, see patient reviews, and find out more about our office.

In honor of being a "Favorite Place," we are offering a $25 coupon for your next office visit if you go HERE (or click the QR code) and write a review of our office.  Please be honest with your comments (good/bad/etc) so that future patients will benefit from what you have to say. 

Thank you for your time and reviews!
-Dr. Chase Hayden

P.S. If you have a smart phone, try scanning the QR code with your barcode application.  It still blows me away that phones can do this now days!

Creating A Nutritional First Aid Kit - Part 1

When it comes to nutritional supplementation, most people think of prevention or long term use to provide relief for the symptoms that they are experiencing – this is not the only application of nutrition!  In my practice, I often have parents and patients ask what they can do in “emergency situations” while still following a holistic approach to the problem.  Since “emergency situations” vary greatly from case to case, the following information should not be used to treat any specific condition, and you should always consult a licensed medical provider when a critical situation arises. 

In my home, my wife and I use the information that will be found in this newsletter, and we have a “medicine cabinet” which we use as our “Nutritional First Aid Kit.”  We have used the following recommendations with our children, on our patients, and in our lives.  My sincere hope is that you will be able to use nutrition to change the life of those you love as we have been able to do in our own families.

Our Nutritional First Aid Kit contains the following items: Calcium Lactate, Sesame Seed Oil, Antronex, Chlorophyll Complex, Congaplex, Thymex, Cataplex AC, Min-Tran, and Intestinal Cleanse #3.  The newsletters of the next few months will focus on the benefit of using concentrated whole food nutrition for specific “emergency situations.” 

Fevers and Children and Adults: 

As a parent, a sick child with an elevated temperature can be heart wrenching.  Whether the child is a few hours old to their teenage years, we do not want them to suffer.  When a fever is present, we have multiple questions and options to think about.  Do we really want to stop the natural reaction of the fever? How high is too high for a fever?  What do we do?  Children’s strength Acetaminophen and Ibuprofen both act as pain relievers and fever reducers but can be lethal in the wrong dose (Click here for dosing.) and have recently had various large spectrum recalls of certain products.  Avoid Aspirin with children. 

In my opinion, fevers are a good thing and should not be prevented in most cases.  A fever is the body’s natural response and happens for a reason.  When the body’s temperature increases, it allows the immune system to more efficiently neutralize the immune burden.  Calcium supplementation with a feverous child often produces amazing results.  Teething children, fevers that won’t break, and the restlessness associated with fever usually respond well.  After experimenting with numerous types of calcium supplements, I strongly encourage my patients to AVOID Calcium Carbonate, and use CALCIUM LACTATE with childhood fevers.

With children (and adults) that do not respond to CALCIUM LACTATE, my Nutritional First Aid Kit contains SESAME SEED OIL from Standard Process.  Sesame seed oil contains torulitine which is used to strengthen the blood.  When a fever lingers after supplementing with Calcium Lactate, adding Sesame Seed Oil often creates an optimal environment within the blood for the body's natural immune system to take care of the problem, leading to a non-toxic solution to control the increased temperature.

When you or your child have a fever, contact your natural health care provider to see if your personal Nutritional First Aid Kit is a good alternative.