In my own clinical practice, I have observed good results with IV nutritional supplements for a host of clinical states. Similar clinical benefits have been obtained by many other physicians who are well-versed in the principles and practice of nutritional medicine.
The following represent some of the main categories of usage:
1) Acute and Chronic, Disabling Fatigue
2) Acute viral infections, where the commonly used antibiotics are of no significant value.
3) Altered states of bowel ecology. These states include a host of entities including, but not limited to, multiple food allergies, mal-absorptive dysfunctional, recurrent episodes of Candida overgrowth or infection, antibiotic-associated colitis, and all sorts of chronic bowel inflammatory disease including ulcerative colitis and crohn’s colitis.
4) Asthma and incapacitating bronchial spasm associated with pulmonary emphys.
5) Autoimmune and immunodeficiency syndromes.
6) Bacterial infections under treatment with appropriate antibiotics. The purpose here is to protect the tissue from drug toxicity.
7) Major surgery (before and after) The purpose here is to facilitate and expedite wound healing. It provides a counterbalance to the oxidative and other molecular stresses caused by the surgical procedures.
8) Chemotherapy (before and after therapy to protect the tissues from toxic effects of chemotherapy drugs and radiation drugs)
9) Radiotherapy (before and after) The purpose here is also to protect tissues from toxic effects of chemotherapy drugs and radiation injury.
10) Chemical sensitivity where functional enzymatic defects do not permit nutrients to be metabolized to their biologically active products. Some outstanding examples of such nutrients are minerals such as magnesium, zinc, and manganese.
11) Food and mold allergy coexisting with mal absorption, a circumstance generally associated with impaired absorption of oral nutrients.
12) Heavy metal toxicity and heavy metal overload without clinical evidence of enzymatic inactivation.
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