When it comes to your health, this is one aspect of your life that you know you must stay on top of if you want to live to a ripe old age. There are many ways that you can augment your health. Improving your diet, exercise, stress reduction, and other tactics have helped health conscious people increase their longevity considerably. It does not matter that conditions like diabetes or heart disease are on the rise. Most of these conditions are actually preventable or manageable with IV therapy.
Sickness and disease happen for a reason. Often the causal mechanism of poor health can be traced back to one or more lifestyle factors, such as adequate nutrition. Your body is in constant need of certain nutrients to be able to function at an optimal level. When your body does not get an adequate supply of these nutrients, it becomes incapable of operating at peak efficiency. For this reason, you understand that supplementing your diet with other nutrients is critical to keeping your body in shape and augmenting your performance. This is where IV therapy can become a major game changer for you.
Oral Supplements vs. IV
Since you are responsible with your health, you do everything you can to make sure your body is getting a daily regimen of supplemented nutrients. Unfortunately, the supplements you take orally will not be as easily absorbed and utilized by your body as you may have hoped. The simple fact is that your own digestion filters out certain nutrients as a matter of practice. This makes it nearly impossible to uptake high doses of critical nutrients through normal digestion. In addition, taking supplements orally can sometimes even upset your stomach.
To avoid problems like these, IV therapy cleverly bypasses your digestion altogether. By introducing nutrients directly into the bloodstream, this makes 100% of the nutrients you are receiving through IV therapy accessible to the cells that need these nutrients the most. In addition, an IV drip can also take things to a whole new level by hydrating your body in the process of delivering these life promoting nutrients your cells are waiting to receive.
Uses of IV Therapy
There are many reasons to use IV Therapy. Aside from increasing the amount of nutrients you get into your body, this approach can be an effective way to mitigate a number of different health problems. You may have a particularly difficult cold or flu that you cannot seem to shake. By receiving IV therapy, you could effectively provide your body with the boost it needs to help your immune system come out swinging. You might even travel a lot, and need some help getting over jet lag. This is where IV therapy can help you better adapt to a change in time zones, or it can help you to increase your energy levels in general if you suffer with chronic fatigue. Additionally, this therapeutic procedure can help to provide nutrients that aid in the body’s ability to return to a state of hormone balance.
Contact our office today to schedule your consultation and discover the other ways this treatment may be able to benefit you! Optimal Health & Wellness is conveniently located in Pasadena, CA.