if your holiday season involves endless socializing, there’s a good chance alcohol will be involved and, at some point, you’re going to be hungover. making merry and overindulging are, for some, what the holidays are all about. trouble is, the festive functions don’t let up until early january. you need to rally and not turn into the grinch.
make spirits bright again by trying one of these local hangover cures.
iv nutrient infusion
it’s one thing to take an ibuprofen and a b-vitamin as a preventive measure before bed. it’s quite another to mainline your meds in a doctor’s office. while the jury is out on whether iv vitamin therapy improves the health of people who suffer from vitamin deficiencies, there appears to be little risk in one-off treatments.
this type of iv therapy mostly bypasses the gastro-intestinal tract and delivers nutrients right to the bloodstream and tissue level. this means patients receive much higher doses of vitamins and nutrients than they could ever take by mouth. “it delivers the highest possible absorption,” avows tammy glenn, a registered nurse, who administers iv nutrient infusions at papillon medical.
here, infusions are tailored to your needs and after a quick consultation with a doctor, you’ll be hooked up to an iv delivering concoctions reputed to energize, revitalize, detox or manifest an inner glow. ingredients can include magnesium, b and c vitamins, amino acids, glutathione (an antioxidant) and phosphatidylcholine, a phospholipid which helps to support the liver. infusions take anywhere from 30 to 90 minutes on mondays and thursdays at papillon medical in calgary’s gulf canada square.