Do You Want to Heal Faster?: Part I Protein Intake

By Al E Roberts

Learn how important protein is for wound healing and for the senior population. Use the included copyrighted formula, The Roberts' Formula for Modified BMI Weight for Protein Intake for Wound Healing, to determine how much protein you need in your diet every day.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Health to Heal Inc.
• Release date: Apr 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9798985783841

Al E Roberts

Al E. Roberts is a Registered Nurse board certified from the American Board of Wound Management, American Rehabilitation Nurses Association, and National Board of Diving and Hyperbaric Medical Technicians. He started his journey in the medical field in 1999, as and Emergency Medical Technician. He received his first wound care related board certification in 2006. Al has been incorporating nutrition as a first line treatment in wounds since 2008. He founded Health to Heal Inc. as a nonprofit charity outreach, to help educate clinicians, doctors and the general public how to heal wounds faster using nutritional intake. Wound care is one of the worst fields in medicine when we consider prevalence of wounds, amputation rates and mortality rates as a result of chronic wounds.

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Preface

Wound care is one of the most difficult fields in medicine. Is that really a true statement? It must be true because people are dying from non-healing wounds every day. The rate of amputation related to non-healing wounds is out of control. Statistics have said, if you are a diabetic and you have a wound on your foot, your five-year mortality rate is greater than 50%. Additionally, statistics say that chronic wounds can be even more deadly than some cancers. As the years go by, the statistics continue to worsen. The industry continues to look for the best treatment or best dressing for a wound rather than realizing that the body is how wounds heal and then learning how to fix the body. Over the past few years, researchers have even begun to link other degenerative disease processes in the body to protein-malnutrition.

Doctors and nurses continue to struggle with how to treat holes in people rather than evaluating the person first. There is a saying in the wound care industry, Treat the whole patient, not the hole in the patient. So many doctors and nurses know it and can quote it, but for most they seem to be just words. For me, these are words that I live by. I practice with the primary focus of nutrition first. Doing so begins to build a foundation for the body to heal. Afterall, it is our body that heals our wounds, not some wonderful dressing. Of course, my goal for healing includes choosing a most correct dressing for the situation, but it’s nutrition that is always my first line of