Vitamin IV & Injection Therapy
Heal and recover with IV Therapy on beautiful Salt Spring Island
IV therapy is the administration of fluid nutrients into your vein for fast delivery and higher dosing.
Using IV Therapy we can replete your body with nutrients to support tissue healing and recovery and help build resiliency in your system. We administer high doses of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, or other treatments directly into your bloodstream, and by bypassing the digestive system we can administer higher doses than the body would otherwise be able to absorb. Injection therapies are similar, but smaller dose, and administered as a muscular injection.
While in an ideal context we would be able to get all these nutrients from our food, often this is not the case: whether that is because our digestive system isn’t functioning well so our absorption is impaired, or as a result of a lifetime of a less than optimal diet, or from eating food grown in less than optimal soil.
Nutrients are essential building blocks for all of your physiologic functions, including overall metabolism and energy production, hormone synthesis, immune function, cellular healing, and neurotransmitter production. General wellness vitamin therapies are available as well as targeted treatment approaches to support specific body systems or tissues.
IV therapies are a natural way to stimulate your vis or your qi, the body’s inherent life force.
IV & IM Therapy Helps With
IMPROVING ENERGY
PHYSICAL HEALING
Pre/post surgery, injury recovery support, sports recovery
DETOx
HEALTH OPTIMIZATION
Improving overall vitality & resiliency
MEDICATION TAPERING
ANTI-AGING
Immune SYSTEM SUPPORT
Chronic & acute infections
Integrative Cancer Care
INFLAMMATION
HEAVY METAL CHELATION
REHYDRATION
Especially helpful for nausea of pregnancy or sports recovery
BURNOUT & FATIGUE
MIGRAINES
MOOD
ANEMIA & LOW IRON STORES
Vitamin IV & Injection Treatments We Offer at Madrona
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IV iron is an effective and quick method of improving iron stores, especially for patients with severely low levels or who have difficulty improving iron levels despite supplementation. Statistics show that one in four women are iron deficient – this treatment may be helpful and even life changing for many people. In particular, we often use iron IVs during preconception planning, pregnancy, or postpartum.
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Our High-Dose Vitamin/Mineral IV is our most frequently administered IV type. It is a comprehensive blend of water soluble vitamins, containing calcium, magnesium, selenium, zinc, a high dose of vitamin C, the B complex vitamins, as well as amino acids and trace minerals.
As vitamins and minerals are essential building blocks for any healing process, this is a treatment that is useful for many different conditions, including fatigue and burnout, chronic conditions, postpartum healing, folks who are actively working on a specific healing process and need a boost, Irritable Bowel Disease (IBD) or other gut absorption issues, and more.
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The Myers Cocktail is a more basic, smaller version of our High-Dose Vitamin/Mineral IV recipe. This is a classic recipe offered by many clinics, containing 100mL of saline solution as a base and a combination of calcium, magnesium, B-vitamins, and vitamin C.
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A quick way to replete your B12 levels and improve energy
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Vitamin D is fat soluble so can be administered in a high dose over a short period of time to replete your vitamin D status and improve immune function, mood, bone density, and more. Current lab results are required to guide dosing.
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Glutathione is perhaps THE most important antioxidant in the body. Your body makes it in the liver, but it gets depleted by any form of inflammatory process. This treatment is often used for detox support, anti-inflammatory support, and is very popular in longevity medicine.
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High-dose vitamin C therapy is a cancer treatment that is useful for both treatment as well as adjunctive care to support chemo/radiation tolerability for specific types of cancers.
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This formulation is targeted to support injury recovery or pre- and post-surgery support. a high-dose of vitamin C specific additional amino acids for collagen tissue healing support.
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Rehydration IVs are useful for improving hydration status. This may be especially helpful during nausea of pregnancy where rehydration therapy is highly effective and a primary treatment approach. This also may be useful in a high-intensity sport or training context or for any other reason for dehydration.
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NAD+ is an IV that may be useful for improving energy specifically by supporting the mitochondria and mitochondrial dysfunction.
Mitochondrial dysfunction may be part of the pathology of many different conditions including cardiovascular disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and more.
The mitochondria are the “powerhouse of the cell” found in every cell in the body. They transform glucose into ATP (essentially transforming one energy packed into a smaller energy packet that is useful on a cellular level). When this process gets disrupted this is called mitochondrial dysfunction. This is like friction in the system making it less efficient. NAD+ IVs are one method to address and heal this friction.
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IVs may be part of a comprehensive chelation protocol with your ND. Chelation is a treatment to remove toxic heavy metals from the body. IVs may include EDTA, DMSO, or DMPS, depending on patient need based on particular toxic exposures.
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In addition we offer a handful of other IV types including PolyMVA, Hydrogen Peroxide, DCA, and more - inquire with us if there is something you are interested in that you don’t see here.
The Process
If you are a current patient of the clinic, speak to your naturopathic physician about whether a particular type of IV therapy would be right for you.
If you are under care of a naturopathic physician off island or outside of Madrona and are interested in doing your IV protocol through our clinic, please contact us. We often administer treatment protocols on behalf of doctors as needed.
If you are interested in trying IV therapy but are not a current patient, you can book in for a “First IV Visit”. This 15-minute visit is a focussed consultation with a naturopathic physician to gather information about your primary health concerns and goals. We will ensure that an IV visit is a safe and appropriate treatment for you, and together make a plan for the best course of IV therapy for your goals. Patients interested in iron IV therapy will require a more thorough 30-minute initial visit to discuss the benefits, risks, and logistics of treatment. Please contact the clinic for details.
The process for IM injection therapy is similar. New patients of the clinic can book a “First Injection Visit”. Injections are a lower dose and less expensive alternative to IV therapy.
