Boost energy, immunity, and recovery with customized intravenous therapy
Intravenous therapy—also known as IV therapy or parenteral therapy—is a highly effective clinical method for delivering essential vitamins, minerals, and amino acids directly into the bloodstream. By introducing these nutrients straight into the vein, we bypass the digestive system entirely, ensuring that 100% of the therapeutic dose is available for immediate use by your body.
Why Choose IV Therapy Over Oral Supplements?
While a nutrient-dense diet is the foundation of health, several factors can prevent us from getting what we need from food alone. Poor gut health, chronic inflammation, and high stress levels can significantly impair your body’s ability to absorb and utilize oral nutrients.
IV therapy offers distinct clinical advantages:
- Higher Therapeutic Doses: We can administer concentrations of nutrients that would otherwise irritate the digestive tract if taken by mouth.
- Cellular Absorption: The high concentration gradient created in the bloodstream “pushes” nutrients into your cells, where they are immediately used for vital processes, especially energy production.
- Rapid Bioavailability: Because it skips the breakdown process in the stomach and liver, your body can begin utilizing the building blocks for tissue repair and molecular function instantly.
Tailored to Your Unique Health Goals
As a rapid delivery system, IV therapy is a versatile tool that can be used to address a wide variety of conditions. Depending on your health status and treatment objectives, we can customize a formula specifically for you. IV therapy is highly effective as:
- A Standalone Treatment: To quickly address acute deficiencies, dehydration, or fatigue.
- An Adjunct Therapy: To enhance the effectiveness of other treatments by ensuring your body has the nutritional resources it needs to heal and respond.
Start Your Wellness Journey
Whether you are looking to manage a chronic condition, reduce the physical impact of stress, or simply optimize your energy levels, IV therapy provides a powerful, direct path to wellness.
If you have questions about our specific formulas or how this treatment might benefit you, we invite you to book a Free 15-minute Consultation with our Naturopathic Doctors online or call our clinic directly at 604-492-0333.
Frequently Asked Questions
A base of saline or sterile water mixed with B vitamins, high dose vitamin C, several minerals and possibly amino acids. Depending on what reason you are coming in, your IV can be tailored to help with a variety of conditions.
250 mL bags take approximately 40-60 minutes and 100 mL bags take approximately 20-40 minutes so you may want to bring a book!
IV therapy can be beneficial for a wide variety of patients because it can be adjusted to meet your particular needs. The most common reasons are for stress, fatigue, sleep, tissue healing such as after injury or surgery, boosting the immune system, malabsorption conditions in which the patient is not getting enough nutrients in their diets (e.g. Celiac, Crohn’s, Colitis), hormone balancing, and mood balancing.
IV therapy is a faster, more available way to get nutrients to the tissues. Since the solution is going into the veins, we avoid the digestive system and detoxification processes in the liver, allowing the vitamins and minerals to be immediately available. Since we are avoiding the digestive system, we can also dose much higher without having any intestinal irritation, which is especially helpful in those with non-optimal digestive systems.
This can be quite variable. Some people come in before cold and flu season 1-2 times to help build up their immune system, or help heal tissues after surgery/injury. Generally, it is suggested to do once/week for 4-6 weeks, but we are constantly reassessing depending on progress being made.
As we are injecting the solution into you veins, there can be risks. Most common is discomfort and bruising at the site of injection. There is a possibility that the solution can go out of the vein into the surrounding tissue, which is extremely irritating, but goes away quickly. There is very small risk of anaphylaxis, infection, or fainting(depending on how well you do with needles).
Yes, discuss with your Naturopathic Doctor before undergoing IV therapy to ensure it is safe for you.
Yes, but please tell your ND if you have any pre-existing kidney, liver, or heart conditions, as well a condition called Glucose-6-Phosphate Deficiency.