Nutrition and IV Therapy

Nutritional Counseling

It's often overlooked, but food plays a major role in your hormone health. Making the correct choices on what to eat can improve your overall physical and mental fitness, and can even help mitigate certain hormone-related conditions.

Is Nutritional Counseling Right for You?

Nearly everyone can benefit from eating healthier. It is tough to improve your diet alone, so working with a diet expert can alleviate the burden.

Nutritional counseling can help you lose weight, which can benefit those suffering from:

• Hormonal imbalance
• Malabsorption
• Nutritional deficiencies
• Hyperthyroidism
• Hypothyroidism
• Hypertension
• Depression
• Insomnia
• Diabetes

What to Expect

When meeting with Dr. Vance, it's important to provide her with detailed information about your current diet and ailments. This will allow Dr. Vance to formulate the best possible plan to fit your needs, lifestyle, and budget.

Dr. Vance will also recommend regular exercise, which is a key component to any nutritional counseling session. Like your food selection, your style and amount of exercise will be personalized to suit your needs.

IV Therapy

A healthy diet rich in vitamins and minerals is the best way to nourish your body.

There are instances though, when the body has trouble obtaining these nutrients through natural digestive functions. Conditions such as stress, a medical illness, or food intolerances can inhibit the absorption of important substances such as calcium, magnesium, zinc, selenium, vitamins B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B12, C, folic acid, glutathione, or biotin.

In these cases, injecting those nutrients directly into the blood stream may be the best option to ensure that your body is getting what it needs. This is the goal of IV nutritional therapy.

Types of IV Therapy

There are a number of IV therapies designed to either treat specific conditions or just promote overall wellness. Here are some of the most common:

Myers' Cocktail

This particular blend was developed in the 1970's by Doctor John Myers at Johns Hopkins University. It has been used to treat a number of conditions such as chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, depression, muscle spasm, asthma, hives, congestive heart failure, chest pain, infections, and senile dementia.

Glutathione Therapy

This substance improves liver and brain functions, leading to improved memory while helping to lower the risk of conditions such as dementia, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, neuropathy, and liver disease.

Chelation Therapy

This treatment helps remove heavy metals from the blood stream like iron, lead, and calcium to reduce the risk of heart attacks, strokes, senility, and certain types of cancer.

High Dose Vitamin C

Although this vitamin is commonly found in supplement form, an IV injection can provide a much higher dose than what can be obtained by taking it orally. Vitamin C is used to fight chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia.

Alpha Lipoic Acid

Helps those suffering from diabetes by improving insulin sensitivity and lowering blood sugar levels.