Glutathione is known for being the body’s natural detoxifier and antioxidant. It repairs, restores, and protects the cells in our body. It plays a crucial role for vital organs, such as the liver, kidneys, and intestine. High doses of glutathione can enhance the energy production, promote our mood and immunity, and helps the appearance of our skin.
Alpha Lipoic Acid helps lower blood sugar levels. It improves peripheral diabetic neuropathy, nerve pain, burning, itching, and tingling. Some integrative clinics use it to help cancer patients fight their disease more effectively to augment the benefits of traditional treatments.
For example, there is Allergy Testing. Some labs, such as ALCAT in Florida can look for hundreds of foods, food colorings, chemical ingredients that can affect our health. By checking and knowing what we need to stay away from and to what extent can alone improve our health.
Everybody seen people of their age and wonder, how come some of the people from my age group look naturally so young and others with the same birthday are more mature and unwell appearing. There are a few things that can cause early aging. Some of them, such as genetics are harder to turn around, but there are number of important ones that we need to investigate and when found we can do something about them. The last few decades the medical research revealed number of them. Mineral and vitamin levels, amino acids, peptides, telomere length, stem cells, cholesterol ratios, specific diet, fast, exercise, weight reduction, reducing inflammation – are all useful knowledge. The one that we have seen in our practices that create comorbidity, numerous chronic conditions, pain, and suffering are the auto-immune diseases. Lately more and more medical research point to the Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) and other viruses that are present in number of autoimmune diseases. Not only present, but now the newest research implicates and explains how the Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV / HHV 4) causes, for example Multiple Sclerosis, Chronic Fatigue / Fibromyalgia, Lupus. As a young MD, I personally suffered from Chronic Fatigue / Fibromyalgia 25 years ago when most providers did not believe it existed. I got cured with a specific regimen of Myers Cocktail by a knowledgeable DO practitioner. It is important to have consultation to know what to look for, what treatment to employ, how long, what diet to eat, detoxifications to use, and how to have a great chance for recovery, living without pain and have great energy. That is what we work toward.
When we do IV therapies, nearly 100 % of the nutrients reach our cells through the bloodstream. Oral supplements are certainly important, but one can only take so much and half of it break down in our digestive system. For example, one can only take maybe 3 gm of Vitamin C daily before diarrhea sets in and the vitamin is wasted. 10 or 25 grams, or even more Vitamin C through the IV route gets to the organs and the cells to provide the benefit. Some supplements, such as NAD+, Alpha Lipoic Acid, Glutathione, and others, although found as oral supplements, studies show that most of it is broken down by the stomach acid and not absorbed in their beneficial forms. Fruits and vegetables are certainly beneficial in their natural forms, but the nutrients and medications that target a specific health condition are better given in the IV form for immediate effect.
