IV NUTRIENT THERAPY for
DISEASE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT
ENERGY EHANCEMENT AND LONGEVITY
IMPROVED SURGERY OUTCOME
Surgeons were the first to use IV nutrient therapy many years ago to improve post-operative healing and the trend continues to this day with numerous studies showing better surgical results. Strong immunity and wound healing depend on a symphony of nutrients, such as vitamin C, zinc, B vitamins and more. Americans are overfed and undernourished. Research estimates that 90% have nutrient deficiencies. Our food is mineral depleted, and many people have digestive issues that impair nutrient absorption. Intravenous nutrient therapy provides quick benefit for disease treatment and prevention, as well as improved energy production and longevity.
THE FOLLOWING IVS ARE AVAILABLE AT MINDBODY MEDICINE CENTER:
- BASIC NUTRITIONAL IV
- PRE-SURGERY NUTRIENTS TO IMPROVE WOUND HEALING
- IMMUNE SUPPORT
- AUTOIMMUNE AND NEUROPATHY TREATMENT
- ENERGY PRODUCTION & MITOCHONDRIAL REGENERATION using NAD
- Includes oral supplements designed to enhance outcome
- LONGEVITY ENHANCEMENT using IV NAD
- Includes oral supplements designed to enhance outcome
- NEUROTRANSMITTER SUPPORT
- VITAMIN C – HIGH DOSE FOR CANCER
- 25 grams
- 50 grams
- 75 grams
- ADDICTION RECOVERY 10 DAY PROGRAM daily NAD
- Includes intensive therapy to change the biological and psychological basis for addiction
- ANTI-VIRAL HIGH VITAMIN C
- ANXIETY TREATMENT
- ASTHMA TREATMENT
- ALPHA LIPOIC ACID TREATMENT
- MACULAR DEGENERATION plus glutathione
- B12 HIGH DOSE THERAPY
- ARRYTHMIA IV
- GLUATHIONE FOR DETOXIFICTION
Research has shown that IV nutrient therapy can improve the following:
- Fatigue (31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
- Fibromyalgia (37)
- Asthma (5, 6, 9, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25)
- Addiction Recovery – opiates and alcohol (38)
- Athletic performance
- Migraine headache (28, 29)
- Coronary artery disease and angina (1)
- Cardiac arrhythmia (10)
- Congestive heart failure
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Cancer (39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
- Alzheimer’s disease and dementia
- Parkinson’s disease
- High blood pressure (8)
- Immune deficiency
- Chronic infection (4)
- Macular degeneration
- Malabsorption syndromes
- Upper respiratory infections
- Allergic rhinitis (27)
- Chronic urticaria
The medical science supporting IV and oral nutrient therapy:
Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies Are Widespread In Americans
The HANES I and II Studies (Health and Nutrition Examination Survey) conducted by the Federal government in 1982 identified over 70% of the American population to be at risk for the clinical impact of long-term dietary deficiencies.
McCarron et al. JAMA, 275(14): 1128-29, 1996
More than 50% of Americans consume inadequate amounts of calcium, including people in all age, sex, and ethnic categories.
McCarron et al. JAMA, 275(14): 1128-29, 1996
The American average daily intake of folic acid is 242 mcg compared to the US recommended dietary allowance (RDA) of 400 mcg,1989
Subar, et al. Am J Clin Nutrition, 50: 508-16, 1989
The typical American diet provides only one-half to two-thirds of the RDA of 400 mg for magnesium
Seelig, M, Magnesium Deficiency in the Pathogenesis of Disease, NY, Plenum Press, 1980
4In summary, the available evidence supports the hypothesis that zinc deficiency is an important public health problem both internationally and domestically (zinc is required for every aspect of immune function).
Sandstead, HH, Am J of Diseases in Children, vol 145, Aug 1991
American Farmland Is Mineral Deficient and So Are We
“99% of the American people are deficient in minerals, and a marked deficiency in any of these important minerals actually results in disease. Out physical well-being is more directly dependent upon the minerals we take into our systems than upon calories or vitamins, or upon precise proportions of starch, protein or carbohydrates we consume.
This discovery is one of the latest and most important contributions of science to the problem of human health. Most us today are suffering from certain dangerous diet deficiencies which cannot be remedied unto the depleted soils from which our foods come are brought into proper mineral balance. The alarming fact is that the foods – fruits, vegetables and grain, now being raised on millions of acres of land that no longer contains enough of certain needed minerals are starving us – no matter how much of them we eat!”
Excerpt from US Senate Document No. 264, 2nd session of the 74th Congress (1936)
Elderly Americans Are Especially Vulnerable to Nutrient Deficiencies
Fewer than half of older adults meet dietary recommendations for vitamin D, vitamin E, folate, calcium, dairy products, grains, vegetables and fruits.”
Foote, JA, et al. J Am Coll Nutri 2000;19:628-640
25% to 85% of nursing home residents are malnourished”
Compan B, et al. J Nutr Health Aging 1999; 3:146-151
The prevalence of malnutrition in hospitalized older adults has been reported to range from 7% to 85%, depending on diagnostic criteria used.”
Joosten, E et al. Aging (Milano) 1999; 11: 390-394
Conditions associated with malnutrition in the elderly:
- Alcoholism
- Anemia
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular disease
- Cataracts
- Chronic infection
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Congestive heart failure
- Depression
- Dementia
- Esophageal candidiasis
- Essential tremors
- Gallbladder disease
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Hyperthyroidism
- Immune deficiency
- Macular degeneration
- Malabsorption syndromes
- Parkinson’s disease
- Pressure sores
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteopenia
Kamel HK, Ann Long Term Care 1998;6:250-258
Singh AF, et al Principles of Geriatric Medicine. 4th ed, McGraw Hill, 1999
Prescription Medications Can Cause Nutrient Loss
The following commonly prescribed drugs are associated with nutrient depletion:
- Acid blockers
- Antibiotics
- Antidepressants
- Anti-inflammatories e.g. aspirin, NSAIDS
- Blood pressure medications
- Cholesterol lowering medications
- Estrogen
- Oral anti-diabetic medications
- Tranquilizers
Health Sciences Institute, vol. 4, no 3, 1999
Chronic Stress Causes Nutrient Deficiency
In 1979, three Nobel laureates working with Hans Selye discovered the following:
- Chronic stress causes vitamin deficiencies in the body
- The severity of the deficiency correlated with the severity of the stress.
- When nutrients are restored to the body, people can manage stress more effectively.
Nutritional Deficiencies and Diseases
Inadequate intakes of vitamins and minerals from food are widespread (e.g. in the U.S.: 56% for magnesium; 12% for zinc; 16% menstruating women for iron; 16% of women for folate) and can lead to DNA damage, mitochondrial decay, and other pathologies.
An optimum intake of micronutrients and metabolites, which varies with age and genetics, should tune up metabolism and markedly increase health at little cost, particularly for the poor, obese, and elderly.
Ames, Bruce. Adequate micronutrient nutrition to delay the degenerative Diseases of aging,
Am. J Clin Nutrition, in press
“You can trace every sickness, every disease, and every ailment to a mineral deficiency,” Dr. Linus Pauling, Stanford University; winner of two Nobel Prizes.
Nutritional Deficiencies and “not Feeling Well”
“Marginal vitamin deficiency is a middle ground between adequate nutritional status and the point at which frank deficiency disease symptoms develop”
Because there are no specific symptoms, this intermediate stage of depletion is frequently not apparent. In lay terms, it may be just the difference between feeling “at one’s best” and feeling “under the weather.”
“Marginal deficiency . . . may affect the body’s ability to resist disease and infection, its ability to recover from surgery, stress or disease, the ability of the brain to function at a higher level and, in general, the optimal development and efficient function of the total person.”
The Kellogg Report: The Impact of Nutrition, Environment & Lifestyle on the
Health of Americans. JD Beardsley, et al Annandale-On-Hudson, NY 1989
“Marginal nutrient deficiencies are widespread and can cause a variety of nonspecific symptoms while they weaken the body’s defense against serious illnesses”
Thurnham, DJ. Proc Nutr Soc 40:155-63, 1981
Nutritional Supplements Are Safe
Many critics of nutritional supplements claim that they have not been proven to be safe in rigorous double-blind placebo-controlled studies like those required to prove drug safety. The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA), outlines the documented safety records of supplements, refuting the contention that dietary supplements should meet the same guidelines as pharmaceutical drugs.
According to data from the 2002 Poison Control Center database on the risk of death from various sources in the USA:
- Dietary supplements: 0.001%
- Honeybee stings: 0.008%
- Lightning: 0.0041%
- Firearms accidents: o.079%
- Motor vehicle accidents: 2.20%
- Alcohol: 4.49%
- Properly prescribed & Used Drugs: 5.18%
- Smoking: 7.19%
- Cancer: 22.11%
- Cardiovascular disease: 47%.
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