Mood Enhancing IV Therapy in Edmonton

Our Naturopaths offer Edmonton mood treatments. 

We can compliment our oral mood treatments with Vitamin IV therapy.

Vitamin, hormone and neurotransmitter testing is often used to uncover the causes of your mood issues.

IV delivery of vitamins can increase brain levels of key nutrients for anxiety and depression. 

IV Therapy for mood is a preferred treatment of our Naturopaths for mood issues because it can give rapid results like no other natural treatment can. 

Naturopathic Medicine & Mood

Although we see robust results with IV Therapy and mood our Naturopathic Doctors have a few favorites for the treatment of low moods that we like to do orally. The Tryptophan derivative, 5-HTP has been shown to be at least as effective as, ( and better tolerated) than fluvoxamine (an SSRI) and in another study the effect of 5-HTP was similar to that of fluoxetine (also an SSRI). In our experience, dependency and withdrawal is far less prevalent with 5HTP than what's seen with SSRIs and SNRIs. Vitamin B6 appears to play a role in serotonin synthesis and is a useful adjust in addition to 5HTP and B6 has shown promise in mood changes in women related oral contraceptive use. 

Numerous case reports demonstrate that Tyrosine, an amino acid like Tryptophan can also improve moods (likely because it is a precursor to Dopamine). 

Numerous positive studies exist demonstrating substantially improved moods in patients that ingest EPA dominant fish oils. Fish oil is certainly not a rapidly acting treatment so our Naturopaths usually suggest it as a long term foundational mood treatment in our Edmonton patients. 

Methylfolate is an interesting mood nutrient our Naturopaths often use. MTHF can significantly increase the response rate to SSRIs and our Naturopaths usually add additional MTHF to our IVs once we assess tolerance to intravenous Methyl-B12.

Herbally speaking our Naturopathic Doctors have has success with low hyperforin based St.John's Wort extracts, which can sometimes be co-administered with other mood medications.

Mood Enhancing IVs

Key IV Facts

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One IV bags is used.

S/M

Short and Medium length administration options. 

Our Naturopaths may use neurotransmitter testing in difficult cases to pinpoint exactly where you need support especially if initial hormonal investigations (Thyroid, Androgens) prove less than fruitful. Urinary neurotransmitter testing can measure: Serotonin, Dopamine, Norepinephrine, Epinephrine, PEA, Histamine, Glutamate, GABA and Glycine. 

IV therapy to compliment the our vitamin and herbal protocols is often suggested by our Naturopathic Doctors for our Edmonton patients. Your  Naturopath at TruMed will carefully construct a protocol to improve your mood depending on what's found in our investigations. 

IV therapy can provide a rapid and robust response for mood, the effects are typically durable and reproducible when treatments are repeated. We've seen results in anxiety, depression and bi-polar primarily with IV nutrient therapy. 

Intravenous Vitamin Therapy can usually be safely combined with many standard medications for mood like anti-depressants (SSRI, SNRI etc). 

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