I find my energy comes and goes – I certainly don’t have the boundless energy of my teen years, and have had some horribly low energy points in my life, but on the whole it’s pretty good.
I attribute that to cutting gluten out of my diet, but that’s another story. Before I cut it out, I was genuinely struggling and one of the few things that really helped was having a vitamin drip. It sounds like the stuff of Hollywood, but vitamin drips are readily available these days. I had mine a couple of years ago when it was really a very new thing.
I’m just reading a press release that’s claiming all sorts of anti-ageing benefits (which are dubious) but it is widely acknowledged that bypassing the digestive system with intravenous vitamins will give you more of a kick start than taking tablets. If I hadn’t tried it for myself, I’d be very sceptical, but at the time I was desperate and willing to try anything.
Ideally, you’d consider a vitamin drip a quick fix booster for when you really, really need one, but if you’ve got consistently flagging energy levels, it’s important that you look for the root cause.
So what’s in a booster drip? It depends where you go to have it and what your requirements are, but an energy booster would look something like this: Vitamin C, Glutathione, Selenium, Magnesium Sulphate, Vitamin B1, Vitamin B6 and or Vitamin B12.
And, the procedure is as you’d imagine – you lie on a couch, have the needle inserted and relax for half an hour or so as the liquid goes in. I didn’t feel any different until the next day (you might expect a slight laxative effect) and a full 24 hours from having the drip. It was transformative – my mood was up and my energy was infinitely improved. I felt, just, lighter and brighter.
The effect wasn’t long lasting – less than a week, I’d say. But, the doctor who did my procedure did say that nothing was functioning properly and I was at the stage of complete exhaustion, so it’s no surprise that one drip had a short effect. However, it was that experience that reminded me what things could be like, energy wise, and I took steps to deal with it.
There’s no real anti-ageing effects here, despite the claims – it’s far more about function. As you can imagine, these super shots don’t come cheap.
Clinica Fiore is based in Covent Garden and is offering them for £150, and a course of five for £699 HERE. But do shop around. Crucially, ensure that a qualified nurse or doctor is administrating these. You wouldn’t go to hospital and expect the orderly to fit you up to a drip – the same applies here.
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I think that like you, I would rather look at my lifestyle, especially my diet and exercise bad habits and address the problem from that angle. Approaching menopause means your going to have highs and lows in all areas. Rather than fighting it every step of the way (who said we must be “on” at all times??), accept it as part of the ageing process and find ways to adapt. Its taken me a long time to practice what I’m preaching here, but its made such a different to my outlook on life.
Ali
I would definitely use a vitamin drip again though if I was in a low energy phase and absolutely had to be able to bring it on for a high energy job or something. But, yes, the whole approach is best – just sometimes, it’s not possible to make the adjustments to be precise enough for exactly when you need it! For example, for a weekend away or something when you just want the energy to do everything I think it’s useful. Certainly not harmful. But at £150 a pop, it would have to be one special weekend! x