IV Vitamin C Treatment Takes This Long

16 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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The speaker explains that high-dose intravenous vitamin C therapy typically requires about two sessions per week over a period of 7 to 10 weeks to produce noticeable effects. A single IV session is safe but insufficient for therapeutic benefit. The treatment must be administered in a clinic where the patient receives the infusion while drinking water and relaxing. Infusion time varies based on the dose, the patient's body size, hydration level, and tolerance, ranging from just over an hour to several hours. These points highlight both the dosing schedule needed for efficacy and the practical logistics of receiving IV vitamin C.

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In humans, what we generally saw was if you're going to do high-dose vitamin C, you usually have to do about 2 a week over the course of about 7 to 10 weeks before you can really tell how much it's doing. If you just do one IV therapy, it's fine. It's not going to hurt you. But in order to get an effect, you need to do it over a particular amount of time. And so that means you're going to have to go in somewhere to get the IV vitamin C. You're going to be in the clinic and you're going to be sitting, usually drinking water and relaxing and getting your IV, but you're going to be there for a certain certain amount of time. And depending on the dose, it may be a little over an hour, it might be a few hours depending on how high the dose is, how big you are, how hydrated you are, and what your tolerance is. So there are some logistical things around it as well.