Did you know that Hawthorn Healing Arts Center offers nutritional IV therapy? These IVs can help improve performance and recovery for the weekend (or professional) athlete, delivering essential nutrients to the body. Most of you reading this have taken a multiple vitamin mineral supplement. Nutritional IV’s are simply a more efficient way to get these nutrients into your body. Even the most high-quality supplements with a healthy intestinal tract only allow for 10-25% absorption. Once absorbed, these nutrients go straight to the liver, which processes and destroys another fraction of orally ingested supplements in a process called “first pass metabolism.” But IV nutrition bypasses the gut and the liver, providing 100% absorption!
For the performing athlete, this IV increases ATP- the energy currency in the body and was created for the athlete that wants to boost their training efforts and performance before the big race or event. Enhanced with B Vitamins and other essential minerals and nutrients, the effects of this IV therapy include up regulating mitochondrial function. Mitochondria transform the oxygen we breathe into energy, which is especially important in the heart and muscle tissue. These tissues have a high energy demand and increased energy production means optimal performance.
During sports muscles get damaged from microscopic tears and trauma, which causes delayed onset muscle soreness. For the recovery, our IV gets nutrients and electrolytes to tissues fast. High in Antioxidants and minerals, this IV promotes healing and repair; replenishing and relaxing tired or strained muscles.
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