00:00We're just gonna get some nice IV bags. It's just what we consider a really fun day.
00:15Healthy people are trying to inject themselves with vitamins that they don't need
00:18when people that are unhealthy actually need those medical supplies.
00:22You go into an office, which is usually like a spa, or they come to your home,
00:32and someone who's certified and licensed like a nurse or a nurse practitioner applies an IV,
00:37usually into the veins in your arm right here, and they'll be giving you a different cocktail
00:43of different IV vitamins. The infusion will take somewhere between 30 to 60 minutes usually. The
00:50cost is generally somewhere between one to three hundred dollars, but I've seen prices up to a
00:54thousand dollars. The best drip for you would probably be the Nutri-Cleanse. The Nutri-Cleanse
01:06is our signature drip. If you look at the websites for a lot of these companies, they advertise many
01:11different claims such as cure for a hangover, to boost your energy, to boost your immunity,
01:17to prevent and reverse aging.
01:27IV vitamin therapy was popularized by a doctor called Dr. Myers. Dr. Myers came up with the
01:33Myers cocktail. What's in that is generally vitamin C, magnesium, calcium, and a mixture of
01:40a few B vitamins. That's probably the most popular one. The next probably most popular one is ones
01:44that have like a lot of vitamin C.
02:04Overall, there's not good evidence in this field. These practices are not done in academic medical
02:11centers. The only IV vitamin therapy that you'll receive in an academic medical center is IV iron.
02:17Certainly, vitamins can be extremely helpful. I see rampant vitamin deficiencies. None of these
02:22things are like a doctor is saying, oh, you're deficient in this vitamin or that vitamin,
02:27and that I want you to get this infusion. A lot of times what happens is I'll do a consultation,
02:32I'll figure out what you're eating, what do you actually need, and then if I'm suspicious,
02:35I'll check your labs. I'm not just saying, oh, hey, nice to meet you. Here's a bag
02:41of IV vitamins. I think it'll make you feel better.
02:48Anytime you stick a needle in a vein, it can clot. I see a lot of clotting nowadays,
02:54so this is something to actually take seriously. You don't want to be getting IVs all the time.
03:00Now, the other question is what's in the bag? A lot of these IV vitamin places, they probably
03:05are using sanitary technique, but we actually don't know. There have been instances of people
03:10getting infections because the bag was unsanitary. I experienced this firsthand because I was on the
03:21front lines during COVID. I was running COVID ICUs with my colleagues. We ran out of almost
03:28everything you can think of running out of. It was scary. These medical supplies are limited,
03:33and they should really be going to medical centers first.
03:35The American approach to health is that we want quick fixes. Unfortunately, they don't exist.
03:42If they do exist, there's very few. That's why if you really want to get better, you want to be
03:46healthy, eat a proper diet, and maybe supplement with a multivitamin or specific vitamins in
03:52consultation with your doctor and work on your lifestyle. The two most potent medicines on the
03:57planet are diet, you are what you eat literally, and daily routine, what you do every single day.
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