Does nutritional therapy work?

andrew9236

I have been feeling tired for the last year or so. A friend recommended me some fancy expensive multivitamins so they could remove the deficiencies that my body has. After two months of using it and finding no significant difference, I searched it on Google. I learned that multivitamins are practically nothing but an expensive version of pee. So, how different is IV nutritional therapy from fancy vitamin pills?

cmriverside

Hm. Why are you considering IV? That seems pretty extreme, and I would think you have some really serious health issues if a medical team has recommended that.

Or...are you selling IVNT?

yirara

So how do you know you had any deficiencies to start with? If you weren't tested for them then you don't know. Also keep in mind that some ingredients of multivitamins can hide actual deficiencies. Vitamin B12 is one such thing: your body needs the active form. The blood test only checks all B12 and just taking a multivitamin might raise serum levels enough to hide a deficiency, while you're still deficient. Congratulations, now you've wasted at least 4 months of getting diagnosed should you have an actual deficiency because it can take as long as this for your serum levels to be down again. Basically: don't take random multivitamins, regardless of them being tablets or i.v. If you're deficient in something follow the recommendations of your doctor. And seriously, if you read that tablets are useless why do you think i.v. would do anything for you?

paperpudding

Which deficincies exactly does your body have and how do you know that?

My thought on vitamin deficiency is that you do not need to take anything unless it is a specific thing for a specific proven purpose - ie your body is deficient as shown by blood test or a specific reason like women taking folate pre pregnancy or Vitamin D in osteoporosis.

If people want to take a general multi vitamin because they feel their diet is not nutitionally balanced for some reason - sure, no problem

But dont do anything more than that , if even that, without proper medical guidance.

sollyn23l2

Williamlee92 wrote: »

andrew9236 wrote: »

I have been feeling tired for the last year or so. A friend recommended me some fancy expensive multivitamins so they could remove the deficiencies that my body has. After two months of using it and finding no significant difference, I searched it on Google. I learned that multivitamins are practically nothing but an expensive version of pee. So, how different is IV nutritional therapy from fancy vitamin pills?

Hi, I hope your fatigue issues get resolved soon. You are right; as per research in Australia, it was proven that multivitamins are good, but only to cure some specific deficiencies and only to some extent. The multivitamins usually do not dissolve into the bloodstream and become an 'Expensive urine' source.

IV therapy, on the other hand, is a way to inject minerals and vitamins directly into your veins. IV nutritional therapies are an efficient and smart way to do multivitamins' job. These therapies are safe and excellent for boosting your immune system. When multivitamins are injected instead of being consumed orally, they are not partially metabolized like in the oral consumption of pills.

No. Just. No. That's really not how it works.

cmriverside

Williamlee92 wrote: »

andrew9236 wrote: »

I have been feeling tired for the last year or so. A friend recommended me some fancy expensive multivitamins so they could remove the deficiencies that my body has. After two months of using it and finding no significant difference, I searched it on Google. I learned that multivitamins are practically nothing but an expensive version of pee. So, how different is IV nutritional therapy from fancy vitamin pills?

Hi, I hope your fatigue issues get resolved soon. You are right; as per research in Australia, it was proven that multivitamins are good, but only to cure some specific deficiencies and only to some extent. The multivitamins usually do not dissolve into the bloodstream and become an 'Expensive urine' source.

IV therapy, on the other hand, is a way to inject minerals and vitamins directly into your veins. IV nutritional therapies are an efficient and smart way to do multivitamins' job. These therapies are safe and excellent for boosting your immune system. When multivitamins are injected instead of being consumed orally, they are not partially metabolized like in the oral consumption of pills.

No.

Just no. These salons which administer this garbage are not regulated, have uncertified people poking needles into peoples' arms, the stuff injected into their bloodstream does NOT act as any kind of miracle cure.

You're just trying to sell your

Snake.
Oil.

paperpudding

Goigle tells me " A sock puppet, in the context of online communications, is a fake identity created to promote someone or something through blogs, wikis, forums or social networking sites such as Facebook or Twitter."

Like when a one post poster asks a question and another one post poster conveniently has the answer,complete with advertising link.

Sorry, off topic comment, nothing to do with this thread. Of course not. William posting was just a coincidence.

kshama2001

andrew9236 wrote: »

I have been feeling tired for the last year or so. A friend recommended me some fancy expensive multivitamins so they could remove the deficiencies that my body has. After two months of using it and finding no significant difference, I searched it on Google. I learned that multivitamins are practically nothing but an expensive version of pee. So, how different is IV nutritional therapy from fancy vitamin pills?

When I have fatigue, I go to a doctor and get tests done. Based on those tests, I get a plan of action which does indeed help with the fatigue.

hoodlisa1979

I've been fatigued for a good while, I've ignored it but then I got other symptoms so I specifically asked the docs to check my vitamin d levels amongst other things,turns out its very low and I now how to take high doses for 8 weeks, at no point did I think to myself you know what I'll get the beauty therapist to hook me up for a £25 saline bag with god knows what in it because ill take a guess at why my hairs falling out because I guarantee they would have been none the wiser and neither would you, why waste money on expensive vitamins for more expensive vitamins, at that point id be pissing in the wind never mind down the toilet, go to the doctors if ya not feeling great and find out the route cause! And in answer to your question there is no difference between the 2 except you take one by mouth and the other with the risk of a myriad of not pleasant things!