Does IV Nutrition Promote Stronger Immune Function?

Your immune system plays a vital role in preventing illness and keeping you well overall. Not surprisingly, such an important system also uses a lot of resources, including several key micronutrients. If you’re deficient in needed vitamins and minerals, your immune system can suffer, putting you at an increased risk of disease.

IV Replenish Bar helps boost immunity with IV therapy options aimed at optimizing nutrition and fluids — including providing the immune support your body needs for maximum protection. In this post, our team explains how making IV infusions part of your health routine can help you promote stronger immune system function.

Nutrition and immunity

Most people think of nutrition in terms of the calories they consume, but good nutrition is also about the vitamins, minerals, and other micronutrients necessary for good health. Even a minor deficiency can have major implications for your health and wellness, including the health of your immune system.

While many people are familiar with vitamin C’s role in helping to prevent disease, that’s just one micronutrient you need to know about. The National Institutes of Health recognizes several micronutrients for their roles in immune function, including vitamins A, B6, B9, B12, C, D, E, and K, as well as minerals like copper, iodine, iron, magnesium, selenium, and zinc.

These micronutrients perform a variety of immune-related functions. Some support immune responses that help fight off diseases, while others improve immune cell function and even ward off age-related changes and environmental influences, such as pollution, that can compromise immunity over time.

Alarmingly, data also show that millions of Americans suffer from nutrient deficiencies, including lower-than-recommended levels of several micronutrients involved in immune function. American diets tend to focus a lot on processed or convenience foods that are often abysmally low in important nutrients, leaving you at risk of chronic disease and acute illness.

Benefits of IV nutritional infusion

It’s tempting to think that you can correct a vitamin deficiency with over-the-counter vitamins and nutritional supplements, but these options have drawbacks. Despite what their labels say, many supplements don’t contain the levels of micronutrients they purport to, meaning you can spend a lot of money on oral supplements without receiving the benefits you expect.

These supplements can also cause unwanted side effects, like gastric upset. What’s more, oral supplements need to travel through your digestive system for you to absorb the vitamins and minerals, but they can get broken down and diluted in your digestive tract, making them far less effective by the time they reach your bloodstream. 

IV nutritional therapy addresses these problems with custom solutions featuring precise levels of micronutrients for optimal effects based on your needs and goals. Plus, because those micronutrients and fluids are delivered directly to your bloodstream, there’s no risk of dilution.

IV infusions can also be an ideal solution for people with inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, or any condition that makes it harder for your digestive system to absorb nutrients.

Give your immune system the support it needs

Your immune system works 24/7, 365 days a year to help you stay healthy. IV infusion therapy provides a tool to help it function at its best. 

To learn more about IV nutrition and its benefits for your overall health, request an appointment online or over the phone with the team at IV Replenish Bar in Brooklyn, New York, today.