Awaremed Medical Institute

IV Therapies

Heal faster and better after any Stress or any Surgery

Nutritional Supplements

Even if you eat well, your body might not be absorbing the vitamins and minerals it needs to fight the aging process. IV therapy boosts the antioxidant vitamin and mineral levels in your body much more effectively than oral supplements. You can choose from a variety of IV cocktails, each designed to help your body repair damage, prevent aging, and recover its youthful vigor. We all want to live healthier lives. A big part of improving one’s health has to do with optimizing nutrition. Many women are now eating organic foods, as well as taking vitamins, minerals and nutritional supplements. While many citizens are conscious of the importance of proper nutrition for their daily living, they forget that this is even more important for their recovery from illness or any stressors. Many scientific studies have demonstrated that most our bodies lack adequate level of minerals and vitamins to properly heal after daily stresses. This slows their healing and makes their recovery more uncomfortable and protracted.

Nutritional Optimization with IV therapy

Nutrition Optimization encompasses providing patients with vitamin, mineral, amino acid, and herbal support to maximize their bodies healing potential during their recovery from daily stressors. Each of us requires a number of essential nutrients to achieve optimum health. However, because most of us do not follow a well balanced diet on a consistent basis, we often do not obtain the nutrients that our bodies need. Nutritional Optimization plan utilizes scientifically formulated blends of essential nutritional elements that are needed for optimal DNA and protein synthesis, cellular proliferation and mending, wound healing and immune function. This way you feel better and heal faster.

What is I.V. nutritional therapy?
Intravenous Nutritional Therapy is a method of delivering vitamins, minerals, and amino acids directly into the bloodstream and is used to correct intracellular nutrient deficiencies. Oral intake of such high doses is simply not effective due to absorption limitations from the digestive process, especially after surgery. Patients can get up to 10 times the nutrients in one treatment as they could get orally in one day. A good example of this is the use of Vitamin C when trying to overcome a cold due to a viral infection. The antiviral effects of Vitamin C are seen when blood levels are around 10-15 mg/dL. This level is achievable with I.V. therapy but not orally. Oral dosage typically peaks with blood levels around 1.2-4.0 mg/dL vs. I.V. therapy of 50-90 mg/dL.

How is the I.V. Therapy administered?
At AWAREmed Medical Institute and Cinzia the SPA  I.V. Nutritional therapy is administered in a most relaxing and meditative setting where the patient is lying down or reclining. The treatment is provided by a Registered Nurse who specializes in I.V. therapy, under the direct supervision of a physician. A very tiny butterfly needle is used to minimize any discomfort. The treatment takes approximately 20-30 minutes, during which time you can listen to music and/or read a magazine.

What is the vitamin /Vitamin-Mineral I.V. protocol for optimal recovery and Health?
I.V. Nutritional Therapies is usually given as a series of five treatments. One treatment administered within every week for five weeks. This regiment provides the essential nutritional supplements for healing at the time when you need it the most.

The essential nutrients required for healing include:

Proteins: Protein deficiency impairs wound healing since protein is needed for fibroblast proliferation, new blood vessel formation and collagen production. In addition to wound healing, proteins are essential to the function of the immune system and the central nervous system.

Vitamin C: Vitamin C, or ascorbic acid is an essential water-soluble nutrient that plays a very important role in wound healing by increasing collagen and elastin synthesis. This is essential for proper healing of your incisions and surgical scars. Vitamin C also enhances white blood cell and neutrophil function of your immune system, which helps prevent infection.

B Complex Vitamins: Vitamin B deficiency adversely affects wound healing in a number of ways as it is required for collagen linkage, protein synthesis, DNA synthesis and ensuring a healthy immune system.

Zinc: Zinc is required for multiple aspects of wound healing including normal nucleic acid metabolism, DNA synthesis, protein synthesis, synthesis of structural proteins such as collagen, the function of several hundred enzymes, and for normal insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1) production.

Copper: Copper is a required cofactor for the enzyme lysyl oxidase, which plays a role in the cross-linking (and strengthening) of connective tissue.

Antioxidants: The stress of surgery produces many free-radials that can damage tissue and slow down the healing process. Antioxidants protect against free-radical damage. Loosely defined, a free-radical is a highly reactive molecule that can bind to, and destroy healthy cells. Antioxidants like Vitamin C, Vitamin, A, selenium, copper, and manganese are very important in providing protection against free-radical damage. It is believed that antioxidants play an important role in wounded tissue protection and healing.

Other important nutrients and herbs:

Glutathione: Is a tripeptide, a compound composed of three amino acids (cysteine, glutamic acid, and glycine). It is responsible for the health of most of the cells in your body. It is involved in recycling antioxidants such as Vitamin C and E, protein synthesis, DNA synthesis and repair, stimulating production of interleukin 1 and 2 which help regulate your immune system and is itself a powerful antioxidant.

Bromelain: is an enzyme shown to have significant anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties. Used prior to and following a surgical procedure it can help to reduce healing time, swelling and bruising. Because it is also a powerful anticoagulant it should not be taken with blood thinners (aspirin, warfarin, etc.).

Arnica: Perhaps the most widely recognized homeopathic agent in use in medicine today is derived from Arnica Montana. Arnica is available in pellet, topical or injectable forms. It is frequently used preoperatively, to help decrease the incidence and extent of swelling and bruising.

Cost of IV Nutritional Support

The fee for intravenous vitamin therapy ranges a few hundred dollars, which is a minute cost for safeguarding your health journey endeavor.
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