Chlorophyll: Nutritional First Aid Kits – 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!