We all know the benefit of leading a healthy lifestyle with regular exercise and a balanced diet. But between the stress of the day and how quickly our bodies use our nutritional resources, it can be easy to be depleted occasionally. At Revive MD Center in Glen Allen, VA, we understand the importance of ensuring your body has adequate nutrients to support both physical and mental health, which is why we provide several IV Therapy options.
You can think of IV Therapy as an instant boost for your overall health. This treatment directly delivers vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and antioxidants to your bloodstream for better absorption of important resources your body needs to support good health. With this treatment, you can address dehydration, immune system problems, recovery from intense activity, and even dietary deficiencies. But who are good candidates?
Who Is a Good Candidate for IV Therapy?
In recent years, IV therapy has become more popular thanks to the high level of efficacy and how supportive the results of the treatment are for general health, as well as specific health concerns. IVs are commonly used in medical settings to deliver hydration, such as in hospitals. At Revive MD Center, we use IV treatments as a way to deliver customized cocktails of nutrients to support a balanced body system.
This treatment can address a wide range of health concerns and can produce results very quickly. Most people will feel an improvement as soon as the treatment is complete. Some signs you may be a good candidate for this treatment include:
Nutritional Imbalance
Did you know about 90% of Americans have some type of nutritional imbalance on a regular basis? Try as we might, most people don’t eat enough fruits and vegetables to absorb the ideal amount of vitamins and minerals necessary for supporting health. And some people may have difficulty absorbing nutrients through their food or may use nutrients too swiftly, leading to deficiencies with long-term health consequences.
If you have a nutritional deficiency, you may experience symptoms such as fatigue, inability to concentrate, hair loss, weight gain or loss, and many other symptoms. Fortunately, IV treatment is an ideal choice to supplement for nutritional deficiencies, particularly because this treatment will bypass inadequate absorption from the digestive tract. This treatment can put your health on the right track and help you create a long-term plan to support better health in the future.
Dehydration
Most people are chronically dehydrated, either from simply not drinking enough water or because they lose too much water through activities and they do not replace water effectively. Sometimes, even choices of other beverages, such as too much coffee, can also add to dehydration.
Even if you try to get enough water each day, dehydration can still affect you and slow down important body processes. Dehydration is known to interfere with concentration, memory, and healing; it’s also linked to the faster breakdown of tissues and visible aging, including wrinkles and problems with internal organs. Luckily, the very basis of every IV cocktail is a solution that will immediately hydrate your body.
Immune System Issues
Having a weak immune system can make you more prone to common illnesses, or can even be associated with severe health conditions. Your immune system relies on having an adequate resource of certain vitamins and minerals to function well, but if you aren’t getting enough of these resources from your diet, you may be weakening your immune response.
However, boosting your immune system is easy when you can infuse your body with an adequate amount of resources like Vitamin C, which can be added to any IV cocktail. Vitamin C is known as one of the most effective boosters of the immune system, but since this is a water-soluble vitamin, many people may not hold onto this vitamin for long enough to make a difference in general immune function.
High-Level Athletes
The average person should exercise at least two to three hours a week to maintain good health, particularly for cardiovascular health and weight management. However, many people struggle to exercise enough, which can lead to certain health conditions. But did you know high-level athletes may have the opposite issue? Just like not getting enough exercise can be bad for health, exercising too much or too intensely can also deplete your body of important nutrients.
When the body is constantly pushing limits for better performance, it’s easy to go through vitamins and minerals that are necessary to support your general health, which is why some high-level athletes may have nutritional deficiencies, imbalanced electrolytes, or dehydration. IV treatments can bring the body back into balance and replenish the body as part of supportive treatment for high-level athletic training.
Chronic Fatigue
Although chronic fatigue syndrome affects less than 1% of the population, many people still feel fatigued each day. The root cause of fatigue for many people may be something as simple as nutritional deficiencies. For example, not having enough iron may cause chronic fatigue, just like lacking certain B vitamins can be associated with tiredness. Many vegans and vegetarians may feel fatigued because their diet does not provide adequate nutrients. To address fatigue with IV treatments, your symptoms, diet, and lifestyle will need to be discussed to assess which IV cocktail is ideal for your needs.
Depression and Anxiety
Many mental health conditions, such as depression and anxiety, can have root causes found in nutritional deficiencies. Like any other organ, the brain requires certain vitamins and minerals to function well, so if your body is lacking in nutrients, then your brain function may not be optimal and you may experience feelings of depression or anxiety.
In particular, Vitamins B, C, and D, and minerals like zinc and iron are essential for optimal brain health and mental health wellbeing. It’s very important to support mental health since feelings of depression or anxiety can make it difficult to make other healthy lifestyle choices.
Which Treatment Is Best for You?
There are many different IV treatments available at Revive MD Center and each cocktail has unique benefits for your overall health and wellbeing, as well as focusing on alleviating specific symptoms. In order to find the right IV treatment for you, you will need to attend a consultation so we can gather information about your health, lifestyle, medications and supplements, and other factors.
This information will be used to pinpoint the IV treatment that will be most effective for your health concerns. We will also use this information to customize a treatment plan for you, particularly if you have multiple concerns or you feel that you will need IV supplementation as part of a regular treatment for ongoing health concerns. Some of your IV therapy options include:
- Anti-Aging IV
- Athletic Performance & Recovery IV
- Hydration IV
- Myer’s Cocktail IV
- Pain Relief IV
- Vitamin C IV
- Pain Management IV
- Stem Cell IV
How Often Should You Have Treatment?
Most people will find a single IV treatment highly effective for addressing many concerns about energy, stamina, and hydration. However, the vitamins and minerals that are used in your IV therapy will eventually be used by the body, so the results of your treatment will always be temporary. Most results will only last for a few weeks before the symptoms of nutritional deficiencies will return. For that reason, many people like to have IV treatments regularly, sometimes as often as once a month or every other month to maintain good health.
We will be able to recommend a treatment schedule tailored to your health needs based on how well you respond to the treatment, how long your results last, and your preferred frequency. Your lifestyle will also play a large role in determining the frequency of your treatment. For example, high-level athletes may prefer the recovery IV treatment more often than others.
Start Feeling Better Today
Nutritional deficiencies are very common and the symptoms of these deficiencies can have a great impact on your overall health and wellbeing. When feelings like fatigue, confusion, depression, or poor immune function begin to interfere with your daily life, it may be time to use IV therapy to counteract some of these effects.
IV treatments are a great option to improve your general health and kickstart your journey to a healthier lifestyle. By addressing immediate nutritional deficiencies, you can place yourself on a better path to start feeling better and start adopting healthier lifestyle habits, including improving your diet. Contact us at Revive MD Center in Glen Allen, VA to schedule your consultation today.
