Whether you’ve recently returned from that once in a lifetime trip around the world, you’re a jet-setting executive or flight attendant who constantly travels for work, or even a night shift worker whose sleep schedule is out of whack from crazy hours; this IV will help you get back to your normal routine and feel better practically overnight.

We administer 1 liter of 0.9% normal saline which quickly rehydrates your body. Dehydration is a major factor during travel especially in dry un-humidified airplane cabins.

We also include L-tryptophan to help with sleep and natural melatonin production from your pineal gland. Then we throw in Zinc, B-complex, Vitamin C, and Vitamin D3 to strengthen your immune system, meaning this IV infusion can be useful before and after long trips to help protect you against those inevitable colds that creep around in airplane cabins.

Ingredients

Science

Melatonin is a hormone secreted by the pineal gland, and, like serotonin, is manufactured from the amino-acid L-Tryptophan. Serotonin is produced during the day. Melatonin is activated during the night from serotonin when darkness stimulates the brain to produce it.

Melatonin has many functions in the body: It regulates the sleep/ wake cycle (circadian rhythm) (1), it is a potent antioxidant (2) and free-radical scavenger even in small doses and may modulate the immune system, reducing inflammation.

Taken orally in small doses (0.3-3 mg) melatonin causes sedation and can help regulate and advance the sleep cycle. This IV is designed to support your natural melatonin production by providing its precursor L-trytophan. L-tryptophan gets converted to serotonin and then melatonin at night.

References

1. Mundey K, Benloucif S, Harsanyi K, Dubocovich ML, Zee, PC. Phase-dependent treatment of delayed sleep phase syndrome with melatonin. SLEEP-NEW YORK THEN WESTCHESTER, 28(10), 1271.
2. Poeggeler B, Saarela S, Reiter RJ, Tan DX, Chen LD, Manchester LC, Barlow-Walden LR. Melatonin – a highly potent endogenous radical scavenger and electron donor: new aspects of the oxidation chemistry of this indole accessed in vitro. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci.