This is a YouTube video titled "The Benefits of IV Nutrition" recorded in November 2019. The content features a conversation primarily between Ask AI Mark and another speaker, discussing the use and benefits of intravenous nutrition therapy, especially for patients with chronic illness or compromised digestive systems. They explore how IV nutrition differs from hospital treatments and share personal experiences and clinical insights about its therapeutic potential and future role in general care.
One of the things we do here that's a little different and I think really helps our patients and something that I personally use to get better from chronic illness is intravenous nutrition. And you were trained as a not only registered dietitian but as a family doctor you want to do a fellowship in nutritional medicine. And what that generally means is a lot of IV nutrition but not the kind we do here. And yet we're doing things that are a little out of the box but seem to have profound benefits. So talk about the benefits and how intravenous nutrition works and how is it different from what we use in the hospital and how do we use it with patients?
Yeah, I mean IV nutrition can be really a great tool to add on and help our patients heal. So, you know, there's a few reasons why that is. So when you give something IV intravenously through the vein, then you can bypass the digestive system so if somebody's digestive system isn't really working great, remember all the people we've talked about so far, if they have inflammation, if their ability to digest and absorb their nutrients is compromised, we can bypass that and use, you know, IV nutritional therapy to give them the nutrients their body needs, whether it's B vitamins or magnesium or glutathione or there's so many things we can vitamin C, Yep. And the other reason that IV is great is we can give higher doses. And sometimes higher doses are necessary when somebody's really depleted.
Or they're really sick.
Yep, or they're really sick. Or we're really using nutrients actually as medicine or treatment, you know? So we're taking it to another level. And so because of that, IVs can be really, really powerful. And they can really help some of our patients turn the corner. when they can't really do it with pills, right? They're like, okay, we know they're B12 deficient, but they're not absorbing all this B12 I'm giving them, or you can give really high doses of IV vitamin C, which you can't give orally 'cause it's hard on the digestive system. -Cause diarrhea. -Yeah, exactly. So it can be really a powerful tool, and so it's fun to use and really see some of our patients that have been, okay, I'm just not getting there, I'm not getting there, and.
That helps them really turn the corner. -Yeah, for me it was huge. I remember when I was first sick with chronic fatigue, and the mercury poisoning, I needed massive doses of IV vitamin C and glutathione and B vitamins and things that helped me deal with that. And recently when I got sick from mold poisoning, my gut was a mess because I had antibiotics for a bad tooth and that caused colitis. And it was a whole mess and my gut wasn't working. So I did a lot of high dose IVC and glutathione and other nutrients, and it really was a big part of me getting better. So I think it's an underappreciated tool. not everybody needs it, but although there's a lot of health promoting benefits of it too, so people use it just for prevention and longevity. But it's a really powerful tool and we're doing it here at the Ultra Wellness Center and I think it's something that is in the future going to be more and more just part of general care.
