We regularly have folks ask us, “What’s so special about The Health Patch? What makes you different from any other health food store?” Well, first of all, we aren’t a health food store! We actually sell very few food items. We do have a few alternative flours and natural sweeteners that aren’t available is your local grocery store, and we do have some healthy snack foods and juices that our customers have asked us to carry for them. But the primary differences are best spotlighted within the two bylines that we use with the store name “The Health Patch.”
The first byline is “Cultivating Naturopathic Care for Total Health.” We think we are unique in Oklahoma in that we are a staff of five Naturopathic Doctors who use holistic approaches to total health care for our customers. Our customers may drop in and talk to us in the aisles about the health advice they need and we listen! Then we direct them to the supplements that we feel will best help them achieve “total health”. We’re unique in that we have the knowledge and will take the time to work with each customer.
If they need more help than we can give them in just a few minutes in the aisles, we are also available for private consultations where the Naturopathic Doctor of their choice can take an hour or so at a time and work with them. They can schedule one appointment, or as many appointments as they need for as long as they feel we are needed. We will keep records and follow their progress as their counselors and advisors. They talk – we listen – we advise!
Our other byline is “Alternative Health Clinic & Market.” We are, more accurately, a supplement store. In the “market” part of our care, we offer what we believe are the best brands of vitamin, mineral and herbal supplements available. We offer them in a variety of forms: encapsulated, in tablet form, numerous powders, the popular gummies, many in liquid form, and several as teas or in bulk which they can purchase by the ounce.
It is also our goal to affordably provide both our care and our products. We offer free memberships in the Nature’s Sunshine Company so everyone may purchase their products at the member’s 22% discount every day. We have an agreement with the NOW Foods Company so that we can offer ALL their products at a 30% discount EVERY Thursday. We have selected the third (3rd) Tuesday of every month as the day to offer ALL our store products to EVERYONE at a 20% discount. And we offer daily 10% discounts to seniors over 65, all active duty and retired military families with an ID, all first responders (police and firefighters) in uniform or with an ID, and we recently added ALL teachers with an ID.
If you are looking for affordable, alternative health care and counseling, and the best available health supplements, or just a quick healthy snack, drop in to The Health Patch. Let us provide naturopathic care for YOUR total health.
- Randy Lee, ND, Owner, The Health Patch – Alternative Health Clinic & Market, 1024 S. Douglas Blvd, MWC, Phone 736-1030, e-mail: pawpaw@thehealthpatch.com, offering private consultations by appointment.
