Read through the websites of the numerous drip bars and they all tout dehydration as some form of mildly scary pandemic that humans suffer. True, maybe most Americans don’t drink as much water as they should, but chronic dehydration is not something the average person suffers from. The body has autonomic responses that tell you if you’re thirsty to drink something.
Most IV bars use shady tactics to make you believe you’re nearly a candidate for a walk-on appearance of “The Walking Dead” unless they hydrate your body stat.
IV bars use the same tactics as med spas where everything is an upsell1 and cross-sell.2 We are highly suspicious of practitioners who don’t provide what they promise – a completely balanced product right from the get-go.
What makes us different? If hydration isn’t a real problem, and someone takes their vitamins, then why should your be interested in Nutritional IV?
Plenty of reasons.
Our digestive tract has a variety of acids and alkaline substances that tear apart food and break things down into usable forms. Read any vitamin bottle and you should be concerned when it says, “Contains 300% of your daily requirement” for any given nutrient. We are familiar with the dangers of taking too many vitamins, so why would they be allowed to sell such toxically high doses? Because the pH of stomach acid is between 1.5 – 2.0, just barely above battery acid and is corrosive enough to dissolve metal!
Vitamin manufacturers pack a huge amount of vitamins into the tablets knowing the vast majority will not make it through the sludge-grinder that is our stomach.
By providing nutrients intravenously, we bypass the digestive system to deliver the nutrients where they belong in the first place: the tissues of the body itself.
Blood is wonderful. It’s magic juice. It’s our perpetual secret sauce. Blood’s job is to deliver oxygen and nutrients and remove waste and CO2. Healthy blood has lots of happy platelets, red blood cells, white blood cells, juicy plasma, warrior cells to fight invaders etc. There is so much going on in this rich soup.
It seems that every little part of your body is highly vascularized and receiving plenty of nutrition at all times, but that’s actually not the case. The body channels blood to the body parts most in use and demanding nutrition at any given time.
Our mission is to provide our clients with an experience that goes far beyond traditional nutritional intravenous (IV) therapy. Nutritional IV therapy provides essential electrolytes, hydration, and nutrients which are delivered directly to the tissues that need them via the bloodstream.
We do not purchase pre-mixed bags from a factory that produces bags for drip bars across the country. At TRACE IV, we mix our bags in front of our clients, like tableside guacamole. We explain to them the benefits of each nutrient we are adding, and they can see that they are truly getting a far more robust formula than offered elsewhere.
We do not have any “boosters” to sell. We have formulated our bags to be richer in the nutrients recommended for their various benefits for our clients to meet their specific interests such as:
Ingesting vitamins is an inefficient way of getting nutrients. Manufacturers may put as much 1,000 times the daily requirement for a nutrient in a tablet because so much of it never reaches the body and is destroyed through the digestive acids.
Many report feeling sick after taking vitamins on an empty stomach as they can be irritating. By supplying nutrients to the bloodstream, pressure is taken off the stomach.
Your experience with us will last a little over an hour. In addition to supplying nutrients to meet your specific needs or goals (such as nutrients clinically shown to help bolster the immune system, athletic recovery and repair, anti-aging, slimming, pain management, or celebratory recovery) we use other modalities to relax your body, and drive nutrients deeper to all tissues.
This extra time to relax and rejuvenate ensures electrolytes, fluid and nutrients are adequately supplied to every cell in the body. It also ensures proper absorption and utilization of nutrients. While we can increase the drip rate, we don’t recommend that as it can overwhelm the kidneys and cause them to go into “dump” mode and release the nutrients via urine. We want you to enjoy deep tissue hydration and allow your body to absorb and utilize the nutrients in the most effective way possible.
We do not buy pre-made IV bags and re-market them with differing purported benefits. We have carefully crafted each formulation to meet specific the specific demands of our clients. Your healthcare professional will mix and prepare your bag in front of you so that you see the nutrients and know without doubt you are getting the very richest supply of nourishment, freshly made with no degradation of the nutrients.
If you are terrified of needles, this may not be a therapy you will enjoy! A licensed healthcare professional certified in the procedure of IV insertion will attend to the preparation and insertion of your IV.
Our goal is to alleviate any fear or anxiety you have regarding receipt of IV therapy so that you can enjoy the experience.
Millions of IV lines are started each day in hospitals, clinics, ambulances, and spas. With administration of any and all medicines and nutrients, whether intravenously, orally, transdermally, inhaled or injected, there is potential for adverse reactions and side effects in certain individuals. For IV therapy, reactions can be mild to severe and include but are not limited to:
