Whether you are looking for a boost to your immune system during cold and flu season, suffer from a chronic illness and need some extra support, or are looking for an easy way to enhance your energy, this IV is a great place to start.

It is a comprehensive infusion of some of the key cellular ingredients needed for optimal energy and a healthy immune system. It provides powerful antioxidants such as vitamin C and glutathione as well as all the B vitamins which rev-up your metabolic processes, enhance energy production, promote neurotransmitter production, and manage methylation.

Minerals such as zinc, selenium and magnesium are also included due to their crucial role as co-factors (necessary helpers) for hundreds of metabolic reactions throughout the body. They are involved in DNA replication, messaging, immune function, hormone synthesis and energy production to name just a few.

Start with this IV if you’re new to infusion therapy, need an immune boost, suffer from chronic illness, or experience chronic or recurring fatigue.

As always, we encourage you try a personally customized version of this treatment after evaluation and advanced metabolic testing with the help of our Functional Medicine team.

Immune – Mini IV

The Immune – Mini IV is the equivalent of the famous “Meyer’s Cocktail” and provides nearly the same nutrients as the “Immune Wellness IV” but in smaller quantities with less hydration (250 cc). At only 20 minutes to infuse, it’s perfect for those in a hurry who still want to get a wide spectrum of vitamin, mineral and antioxidant support.

Ingredients

Science

All cells require energy in the form of ATP to function properly and this energy is made in our mitochondria—small organelles inside each of our cells.

Let’s take the nervous system as an example. Neurons (nerve cells) need energy from mitochondria to make neurotransmitters and myelin, the electric insulation of the cell, to communicate messages to muscles, heart, lungs, intestines and other parts of the brain or nervous system.

Without enough energy from the mitochondria your nerve cells’ communication starts to fail and a host of symptoms may develop including fatigue, weakness, headaches, tingling and numbness, heart palpitations, arrhythmia, and digestive issues like constipation and bloating to name just a few.

Similar problems occur when any of the cells in your body don’t make enough energy. Imagine, for example, what happens to your immune system. Basically, it just shuts down. The result? You can’t fend off disease, you are at greater risk for chronic illness, your energy plummets and more.

So if the mitochondria are this important let’s zoom in and take a look inside…

A Look at How Energy is Made

Here is what your mitochondria look like:

Now let’s zoom in one more time and look inside each mitochondria where the citric acid cycle (also called the Krebs or TCA acid cycle) takes place…

This all looks very complicated even to medical students (I used to glaze over looking at it)… but it’s an essential metabolic process required for all complex life forms to exist.

Here is a simplified version of how this process works.

1. Raw materials from the foods you eat—protein, carbohydrate and fats—go through the citric acid cycle.
2. They are converted into NADH and FADH2 via a series of steps.
3. NADH and FADH2 then go through the “electron transport chain” also inside your mitochondria.
4. ATP—the energy currency in each cell—is created.

This is how the energy that keeps every one of your cells functioning is made.

Why am I explaining all of this to you? Because each of the steps in energy production requires specific co-factors for it to work optimally. Ingredients like magnesium, zinc, glutathione and the B vitamins, all of which are included in this IV.