Intravenous Therapies

Unable to Sleep and Nothing Helping

When Kelly first met with me in my office, she spoke calmly and described her long history of an inability to sleep.

Needless to say, her level of energy suffered greatly. She tended to be quite irritable, but only because she was so deficient in resting and restoring her vitality.

Simply put, our batteries need recharging overnight by good quality sleep. Kelly had tried everything she could find. Yet nothing was of any significant benefit.

On her own she had tried vitamins, minerals, herbs, and every other known natural remedy, all without success. She had been given prescription medication, which also failed to help.

Stuck in a Vicious Cycle

It would only make sense that Kelly was stuck in the state we call “fight, flight, or freeze.”

It is in that state that our capacity to absorb and assimilate essential nutrients can become severely compromised. One of the majorly important minerals in our chemistry is magnesium, and our stores of it often become depleted from stress.

So therein is created a catch-22 in which magnesium and others are especially needed, yet they cannot make their way into the cells because of the body having shifted away from a state of rest and digest and into a priority to survive whatever seems to be a threat.

IV Therapy to the Rescue

This is the type of situation in which infusing essential nutrients into the bloodstream can make a dramatic impact. It certainly did for Kelly.

After two or three infusions of minerals with generous amounts of magnesium, her nutrient levels were restored, her sleep returned to normal, and she escaped from the vicious cycle, no longer needing any form of sleep aid.

The Dilemma of Stress plus Chronic Illness

You may have noticed that when you are acutely ill, your appetite tends to drop. You not only feel fatigued, but you often lose your interest in eating.

Well, there is wisdom in this, as you may already know. When your body is in a weakened state and trying to muster all its remaining forces to combat disease, it doesn’t want to spend its precious energy breaking down and digesting food.

In the short term, this is a good strategy, as brief periods of fasting are known to be beneficial in many illness states, especially in well-fed societies like our own.

And yet, what happens when the illness is chronic? What about the basic needs of our cells to perform their functions, especially the needs of the cells of the immune system?

Chronic Stress as Smoldering Illness

Significant levels of stress are well known to shift our body chemistry into the state we now call “fight, flight, or freeze.” The last of those three options has a hidden and very important meaning.

Not only might we halt in our tracks when stunned by a shocking event, but it is also our digestive functioning that becomes invariably compromised. The otherwise ongoing delivery of vital nutrients to our cells is put on hold while our attention and energy are directed toward whatever serious situation we are facing.

As mentioned above, this is natural, normal, and not a problem for a brief period. Yet when our lives have taken a turn into a long-term challenge, it is only a matter of time before the integrity of body chemistry and immune function begin to suffer from lack of vital nutrients.

The Glorious Marriage of Medical Technology and Nutritional Science

The intravenous route is nothing all that new in the history of medicine. It has long been useful for administering drugs like antibiotics and steroids for serious states of illness, as well as giving simple fluids both to maintain hydration and to reverse serious states of dehydration.

Yet the relatively recent blossoming of the discipline of nutritional medicine has now, to our great good fortune, introduced a wide variety of vital nutrient formulas intravenously. In bypassing a poorly functioning system of digestion and absorption, the most fundamental needs of cells can be met, sometimes with dramatic benefits.

And far beyond that, the science of infusing health-promoting substances directly into the bloodstream has continued to evolve to the point that now we have specific formulas to address a wide variety of medical conditions. Some of the formulas are very simple; others contain a complex array of nutrients.

Far Too Unknown in the IV Therapy World

As is clear from the examples above, there is great potential in using the intravenous route to administer substances that are natural parts of our body chemistry.

Yet of all the options for IV therapy, one stands out as not only very powerful, but even more natural than all the others. What could that be? Your own highly purified and energized blood!

This treatment is known as Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation, or UBI. In the technique, an ounce or two of your blood is drawn, mixed with normal saline, passed through a specialized machine that blasts it with ultraviolet light, and then infused right back into a vein.

The impact of infusing your own highly energized, purified blood is an immediate stimulation of your immune system. While it may be helpful in a variety of diseases, this form of therapy has shown itself to be particularly effective in virus infections like Epstein-Barr and Hepatitis C.