Intravenous (IV) therapy offers the absolute solution to nutrition and absorption problems of oral administration. It is a method of feeding vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and other therapeutic substances directly into the bloodstream, in order to correct and optimize intracellular nutrient deficiencies and maximize absorption. IVT allows immediate absorption of nutrients and therapeutic substances at accurate doses and provides immediate effect at a cellular level. Oral administration of vitamins and mineral in the form of tablets and capsules is the most frequently used route of administration and is the most convenient and economic. However, most of the vitamins and mineral supplements available in the market contains excipients that are not food-based, petroleum, rocks, and artificial food dyes, as well as genetically-modified ingredients which can cause development of cancer. Billion of dollars each year on supplements, yet many of these supplements contain ingredients that prevent absorption or can have adverse effects.In addition to the risk posed by these excipients, oral dosage forms also has unpredictable gastrointestinal drug absorption. The presence of food in the gastrointestinal tract may alter the gut pH, gastric motility and emptying time, as well as the rate and extent of drug absorption. Also, drugs that passes the gastrointestinal tract goes to the liver first before reaching the blood stream. This liver passing, also known as ‘first pass effect’, causes degradation of the drugs an inactive form. Therefore, only 20-40% are absorbed and reaches the site of action consequently decreasing the therapeutic effect. With IV Therapy, no portion of the drug is wasted and degraded. Most of the vitamins and minerals and therapeutic substances are supplied directly to the general circulation going to where it is needed resulting to a more effective and immediate action.
