What are IM Vitamin Injections?
If you’re looking for ways to improve your health, you’ve probably spent some time thinking about how vitamins can help. But having the right nutrients in your body can do a lot more than that. Vitamins and minerals are considered essential nutrients—because acting in concert, they perform hundreds of roles in the body. They help shore up bones, heal wounds, and boost your immune system. They also convert food into energy, and repair cellular damage.
Is there a difference taking vitamins orally versus injection?
When you take something by mouth, it must pass through your digestive system before entering your bloodstream. Unfortunately, that means you lose a significant amount of the nutrients in the pill before they can provide any benefits to your body. Injections deliver a straight shot of vitamins into the bloodstream. This makes these shots highly effective for anyone who wants to focus on increasing their vitamin levels. Vitamin injections avoid that nutrient loss by delivering them directly into your bloodstream, resulting in 75 - 100% absorption. Plus, if you have any illnesses affecting your digestive system, vitamin injections could be the only supplement option your body can properly absorb.
What are the benefits of taking vitamins injections?
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How can I get the best and fastest results?
If you want to get results from a pill or supplement, you must take them daily, but to get results from vitamin injections, you stop Drip City Lounge once a week. Plus, you often see results faster with IM injections since your body absorbs 75% -100% of vitamins and nutrients immediately. We also offer IV vitamin infusions. With this approach, you receive a larger dose of vitamins and nutrients through an intravenous (IV) drip.
Isn’t over-the-counter vitamins more economical than IM vitamin injections?
Over-the-counter pills and supplements absolutely seem cheaper than vitamin injections. Your vitamin injections might have a higher price tag, but your body absorbs 100% of your personalized formula, with the added benefit of medical supervision. In most cases, the OTC vitamins come with added fillers that don’t offer any nutritional benefits. You don’t have to worry about that with vitamin injections.
If you’re looking for ways to boost your metabolism, recharge your body, or improve your wellness, vitamin injections can absolutely help.
How long do vitamin injections last?
In general, the effects of vitamin injections can last about one week.
The list of vitamins and minerals below can give you an understanding of how different types of vitamins and minerals work in your body, how much of each nutrient you need every day ensure that you are getting an adequate supply. The recommendations of these vitamins are based largely on guidelines from the Institute of Medicine.
THIAMIN (vitamin B1) - Helps convert food into energy. Needed for healthy skin, hair, muscles, and brain and is critical for nerve function.
RIBOFLAVIN (vitamin B2) - Helps convert food into energy. Needed for healthy skin, hair, blood, and brain.
NIACIN (vitamin B3, nicotinic acid) - Helps convert food into energy. Essential for healthy skin, blood cells, brain, and nervous system.
PANTOTHENIC ACID (vitamin B5) - Helps convert food into energy. Helps make lipids (fats), neurotransmitters, steroid hormones, and hemoglobin.
PYRIDOXINE (vitamin B6, pyridoxal, pyridoxine, pyridoxamine) - May reduce the risk of heart disease. Helps convert tryptophan to niacin and serotonin, a neurotransmitter that plays key roles in sleep, appetite, and moods. Helps make red blood cells Influences cognitive abilities and immune function
COBALAMIN (vitamin B12) - Aids in lowering the risk of heart disease. Assists in making new cells and breaking down some fatty acids and amino acids. Protects nerve cells and encourages their normal growth Helps make red blood cells and DNA
BIOTIN - Helps convert food into energy and synthesize glucose. Helps make and break down some fatty acids. Needed for healthy bones and hair
ASCORBIC ACID (vitamin C) - Vitamin C may lower the risk for some cancers, including those of the mouth, esophagus, stomach, and breast. Long-term use of supplemental vitamin C may protect against cataracts. Helps make collagen, a connective tissue that knits together wounds and supports blood vessel walls. Helps make the neurotransmitters serotonin and norepinephrine Acts as an antioxidant, neutralizing unstable molecules that can damage cells. Bolsters the immune system
CHOLINE - Helps make and release the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, which aids in many nerve and brain activities. Plays a role in metabolizing and transporting fats
CALCIFEROL (vitamin D) - Helps maintain normal blood levels of calcium and phosphorus, which strengthen bones. Helps form teeth and bones. Supplements can reduce the number of non-spinal fractures
ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL (vitamin E) - Acts as an antioxidant, neutralizing unstable molecules that can damage cells. Protects vitamin A and certain lipids from damage. Diets rich in vitamin E may help prevent Alzheimer's disease.
FOLIC ACID (vitamin B9, folate, folacin) - Vital for new cell creation. Helps prevent brain and spine birth defects when taken early in pregnancy; should be taken regularly by all women of child-bearing age since women may not know they are pregnant in the first weeks of pregnancy. Can lower levels of homocysteine and may reduce heart disease risk May reduce risk for colon cancer. Offsets breast cancer risk among women who consume alcohol.
CALCIUM - Builds and protects bones and teeth. Helps with muscle contractions and relaxation, blood clotting, and nerve impulse transmission. Plays a role in hormone secretion and enzyme activation. Helps maintain healthy blood pressure
CHROMIUM - Enhances the activity of insulin, helps maintain normal blood glucose levels, and is needed to free energy from glucose
MAGNESIUM - Needed for many chemical reactions in the body. Works with calcium in muscle contraction, blood clotting, and regulation of blood pressure. Helps build bones and teeth
SELENIUM - Acts as an antioxidant, neutralizing unstable molecules that can damage cells. Helps regulate thyroid hormone activity
ZINC - Helps form many enzymes and proteins and create new cells. Frees vitamin A from storage in the liver. Needed for immune system, taste, smell, and wound healing. When taken with certain antioxidants, zinc may delay the progression of age-related macular degeneration
Glutamine - glutamine supplements supports intestinal health, immune function, and other processes, especially in times of stress when the body uses more glutamine. People take glutamine for sickle cell disease, burns, to improve recovery after surgery, for injuries, and for complications of HIV/AIDS.
Arginine - As a supplement, L-arginine can be used orally and topically. It can also be administered intravenously (IV). Because L-arginine acts as a vasodilator, opening (dilating) blood vessels, many people take oral L-arginine to treat heart conditions and erectile dysfunction.
Lysine - is an essential amino acid (AA). It’s needed to help make protein. It’s also needed to break down carbohydrates and fatty acids.
Citrulline - Unlike other amino acids, citrulline doesn't build proteins. Instead, it plays an important role in the urea cycle, helping your body to get rid of harmful substances, particularly ammonia. It also plays an important role in widening your blood vessels (vasodilation) and may play a part in muscle building.
Carnitine - Plays a critical role in energy production. It transports long-chain fatty acids into the mitochondria so they can be oxidized ("burned") to produce energy. It also transports the toxic compounds generated out of this cellular organelle to prevent their accumulation.