Podcast Drop Date: 1/22/2025
In this episode of the Functional Medicine Foundations Podcast, host Amber Warren, PA-C, sits down with Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C, and Heather Lucas, MSN, RN, to discuss how IV therapy can enhance the body's natural healing processes, promote vitality, and address common health concerns. From improving energy levels and immune function to aiding in recovery and detoxification, discover how this functional medicine approach can optimize your health. Listen in to discover when IV therapy may be beneficial for you and how it can be tailored to support your specific health needs.
Transcript:
Amber Warren, PA-C: Welcome to the Functional Medicine Foundations podcast, where we explore root cause medicine, engage in conversation with functional and integrative medicine experts, and build community with like minded health seekers. I'm your host, Amber Warren. Let's dig deeper.
Welcome back everybody. We're so excited to be back after just a small little hiatus after the holidays. Happy New Year! Um, we're back here at the FMI Center for Optimal Health, and today I'm so thrilled to announce I have two guests with me today. Two of our favorite practitioners and healthcare providers. So I'll start with Shelby Stoddard, who I'll do the bio first. Shelby Stoddard, FNP, MSC, CTF is a dedicated nurse practitioner passionate about uncovering the why behind symptoms to promote optimal health. With over a decade of experience spanning cardiology, family medicine, and functional medicine, she specializes in personalized care that fosters long term wellness. Shelby is trained in advanced therapies such as ozone treatments, IV nutrient support, and chronic illness management, bringing a holistic approach to conditions like Lyme fatigue and hormone optimization outside her practice. She enjoys outdoor adventures like fishing, hiking, and mountain biking, reflecting her commitment to a balanced and healthy lifestyle.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Heather Lucas is also here. Heather Lucas, MSN, BSN, RN has 14 years of experience as a registered nurse and recently graduated as a nurse practitioner. Soon to be fully board certified. With a deep passion for hormone health, she is committed to helping patients optimize their well-being and feel their best. Outside of work, Heather enjoys skiing, camping, and making cherished memories with her family. Thank you ladies for being here.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Thank you for having me.
Amber Warren, PA-C: So it's important to point out our good friend Shelby is actually here hooked up to 25g of vitamin C.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Right.
Amber Warren, PA-C: And that is what we're going to be discussing IV therapy, um, today and all the benefits and the why behind it. So she's feeling a little run down. We're in the midst of cold and flu and illness season, and we're exposed to a lot of a lot of that with the patients we see. So we said, heck, this is perfect timing. Why don't we just go and give you a boost while we're discussing what we're discussing this on the podcast? Um, and then Heather, I'm so excited to have you on. Um, she has joined our team and we are now running full fledged IV therapy here in Eagle. And so you're managing and running that department and starting IVs, and we're just so excited to have you and soon to be starting to see new clients on your own, optimizing people here. It's awesome.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: I do have to mention. Yes, please. Her, um, IV skills are amazing. I didn't even feel it.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Feel it?
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: No. I'm like I'm squeezing. And then I was like, well, it didn't even hurt.
Amber Warren, PA-C: She's done. Mine too. I don't think she's ever had an issue. Yeah, she's an amazing start. That's all of her experiences in RN.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Yes, so thanks.
Amber Warren, PA-C: And then she's a young new hip grad, the nurse practitioner. It's so exciting. Okay, so IV therapy. Um, I feel like this has talked about a lot just in the medical arena in general. Right. Because there's all these new, um, IV therapy wellness clinics popping up, you know, ran by an RN. Um, I think what we do here is unique. I always take a lot of pride in what we do and what we offer. But I do think it's unique because we have medical practitioners that are making and recommending those protocols and are really able to take in medical health history or contraindications. Um, and just create awesome personalized protocols. But I'd like you to two speak to just kind of the why behind it and really the benefits.
Heather Lucas, MSN, RN: Yeah, that's a great question. So so many people are walking around with issues with their gut health. All of us are just in our toxic environment. The foods that we eat, the water that we drink. If you're drinking tap water, please stop!
Amber Warren, PA-C: The stress that we experience.
Heather Lucas, MSN, RN: The stress that we experience. Exactly. And so, you know, some people are just willy nilly buying supplements and thinking, oh, I'll just take some of this vitamin C or whatever just to help support immune system. Well, unfortunately, our gut isn't great at absorbing those things when our gut isn't healthy. So IV is a great route to be able to get those nutrients into our bloodstream so that our bodies can utilize them, use the full dose, and just really get the maximum benefit out of, um, helping our helping our bodies fight off toxins and invaders, virus and bacteria.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Yeah. And as much as we like to think we really can get the different nutrients and minerals from, yes, supplementation, but also food, soil depletion, mineral depletions in our soil. Like we just we just don't have the ability in our environment to have those nutrients available to us, let alone what can our body absorb and then utilize as well.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Right.
Amber Warren, PA-C: And we were kind of talking offline. Shelby, you and I were talking about how a lot of people can't even tolerate the therapeutic doses.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Right.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Of some of these things. Yeah.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Because you, I mean, if you're doing trying to make a make a change within the cell, you have to do quite a bit of vitamin C. So sometimes 4 or 5, 6000mg a lot of people can't tolerate that because it's diarrhea. And so IV therapy bypasses the gut. Um, and you just get that higher gradient across the cell. So you're making actually a cellular change too.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Right.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: And if you're using vitamin C, I mean, gosh, it's a cofactor for so many things in the body. So cellular energy is what we all want.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Yeah absolutely.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: And so it helps with ATP production.
Amber Warren, PA-C: So yeah. Yeah. We're looking when we when we deliver these nutrients intravenously, we look for it to go everywhere the blood goes, right? All the tissues, all the organs. It's really, really like very unlimited in how far it can travel right in the body. And that's where we see some of these benefits. Who is a good candidate for a therapy?
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Anyone.
Heather Lucas, MSN, RN: Anyone.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Love it.
Heather Lucas, MSN, RN: There's a variety of different IVs that you can choose from to support your immune system or for detoxing. So it just depends on what you're what you're after. What are your health goals? We can make recommendations for different IV add ons or different separate pushes that we can do to just help you to achieve your detoxing goals or your immune support goals or micronutrient deficiency goals. Just just depends on what you're after. But there's an IV for everyone.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Yeah. So kind of our bread and butter is Myers cocktail. What is that a mix of?
Heather Lucas, MSN, RN: It has some vitamin C, some electrolytes and.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Magnesium.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: B vitamins.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Calcium. Calcium. And you can to that you can add on. We have these really cool add ons which. Honestly, I haven't even memorized all of them. I know you can add on zinc.
Heather Lucas, MSN, RN: Zinc. Glutathione.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Yes.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Amino acids.
Heather Lucas, MSN, RN: Amino acids you can.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Where do we see I have questions on the I mean I know what amino acids do in the body. Where do you guys see the IV amino acids being more beneficial than the oral? I mean, besides all the reasons we listed in general.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Muscle recovery athletes and also stress response. So just helping balance the nervous system
Amber Warren, PA-C: Okay,ueah.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Anxiety. So if you're using those amino acids to help with those the neurotransmitters and help balance that sympathetic parasympathetic nervous system, it it really helps calm that.
Amber Warren, PA-C: I didn't know that about amino acids to be honest that's awesome.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: It works really well.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Okay cool. Um, the lifestyle piece is still really important. I want people to know, like, you can't just go do IV therapy and not still eat well and eat clean and get your protein in and exercise and manage your sleep and your stress. All that stuff is still really important.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Very important.
Amber Warren, PA-C: IV is just an add on to that added biohacking, or to give you that edge or to help you with the acute or chronic illness. So yeah, I think
Heather Lucas, MSN, RN: Even if you're planning a trip or you're going to be, you know, volunteering in your church's daycare or something like that, you know, maybe you want to boost your immune system before you go on that trip with a little extra vitamin C and, um, you know, just to make sure that you have a good immune support before you even go into one of those environments.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Be proactive. I mean, we all do all the time.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Right?
Amber Warren, PA-C: Right now.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: We're just talking about it.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Shelby, let's hook you up. Why wouldn't we? If you're feeling rundown and have to see clients all week with us.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Yeah, and it's in to, like, just knowing, like, even before traveling and stuff the last few days, it's like, ah, I just feel dehydrated. I just feel dehydrated. You know, how you just kind of get that mental fatigue, that brain fog, if you will, for, um, and then you just feel dry. Like I feel dry. it's just a huge thing that IV therapy can help. Just like these daily things that we kind of poo poo off and it's like, oh my gosh, this could help me like that.
Amber Warren, PA-C: So every time I do IV therapy and sometimes I really just think it's the saline, you guys mix it in. I think I realize that I walk around dehydrated majority of my life. We are all so chronically dehydrated. And here at Idaho in the winter, we feel like little shriveled up raisins. Anyways, that I just think that the intracellular hydration that honestly, all of the IV therapies offer are so dramatically beneficial to ourselves. Um, you know, there's this big, all this big talk on electrolytes right now. Yeah. But I don't, you know, the benefits of IV therapy. Again, the intracellular hydration, it's huge.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: It is huge. And two, if you're coming to a place like, you know, we have here at FMI, it's you're getting that that one on one touch too. So we're really looking at what you need. Yeah. So it's not like we're giving you a packet of something and something and saying, hey, go home and take this and it might help you. It might not. Like this is going to help you. Yeah.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Yeah. So, um, you started to make the segue a little earlier. IV vitamin C. You love, C?
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Yes. Vitamin C.
Amber Warren, PA-C: So it's an antioxidant?
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Yes. Antioxidant. It's a cofactor for cellular health. Um, it helps really, with longevity. Anti-aging. So it really helps the skin.
Amber Warren, PA-C: I was going to say skin health. I know it's huge in medicine. And you don't have to go that high a dose. No. To get the skin benefits of vitamin C. No. But the higher doses. Antimicrobial. Antiviral. Antimicrobial.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Yeah. So anything like autoimmune to so like rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease, IBS um any type of heavy metal like, um detoxication, mold.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Um, cancer. I know we try to avoid the C word. We don't treat cancer here. But yeah, I am blown away by some of the conventional oncologists locally, have sent clients our way to do some of the higher dose vitamin C. Yeah, it's so cool.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: And even if you're doing both so like allopathic medicine and naturopathic medicine, you if we could work together, it'd be so great because you could reduce the amount of chemotherapy that people need just by adding.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Just the recovery from chemo.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Recovery, recovery, the nausea, hair loss, all those things.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Um, recovery also makes me think of, um, I mean, I did it after I had to, had to have a CT scan. Just the contrast. Vitamin C with glutathione. Yes. To just, you know, flush out the your body, the radioactive elements in there and just the radiation that you see. Um, post amalgam removal. I know that's in our protocol, the vitamin C with glutathione just to help flush the heavy metals, the mercury. Um, when you get amalgams removed or even some of our, um, breast explants when you get an explant done. Oh, yeah. Your implants are taken out. Um, I have a protocol that I consistently stick with to help people detox from from that procedure. And yeah, a couple of rounds of, of moderate dose of IV vitamin C is in that protocol.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Do you use glutathione too?
Amber Warren, PA-C: Yes. Yeah I know and a lot of my vitamin C glutathione protocols I've learned from you friend. It's like your favorite. And then adding in some those I know you're like it's just Johnny on the spot every week. Do it. Mhm. Um I mean and I even love the data on. Yeah. I think you mentioned mold. Right. Just even on push and mold and mold.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Well using the vitamin C with, with the glutathione really helps with that mold detoxification.
Amber Warren, PA-C: And in addition so let's let's talk about detoxification. You add on IV ozone which yes I've that's like my new favorite IV therapy protocol is ozone.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Right. So you're just what you're doing is do you want to talk about the whole protocol or just what it is.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Um, let's talk about what ozone is. Yeah. I mean, I know the protocols are different for everybody, but is that what you're saying? Let's let's touch on IV ozone and the benefits of ozone.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: So what it does is it enhances the body's ability to use oxygen and, um, be able to eliminate toxins. Yeah. So it's a it's kind of a binder but also helps help your body oxygenate. We all need more oxygen. Oxygen?
Amber Warren, PA-C: Yeah. That serves as a very potent anti-inflammatory.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: It does. And so when you're chronically even. Hypo. Hypo, um, have hypo oxygen like that. Just set yourself up for damage even more. So it helps. It helps you build and repair those to, um, helps balance the immune system. Um, and it's huge for detoxification and binding those. It's a binder.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Yeah.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Because it what it does is that you get that, um, you have oxygen, which is two oxygen molecules. We have three oxygen molecules. When you're doing ozone, you have two oxygen molecules. Then once it's in the body and then you have this other free ozone molecule, then that's what helps pick up that those free radicals and oxidative stress and get it out of the body.
Amber Warren, PA-C: And not even just your clients, but even just maybe your more chronic disease. Or I should even say chronic fatigue clients, do they see benefits after that first pass of ozone? Or is it something that really needs really needs to build up in the body?
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Some will. Some do. I would say it generally takes more than one. Okay. So more I would say more of that 5 to 10 treatments is where you'll notice a difference. Okay.
Amber Warren, PA-C: And my understanding with ozone there's essentially no side effects. It's so safe.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: It is safe. If you're getting the right obviously there can be you know, if you're not using it, getting the right gamma, you have to low gamma. Make sure you're mixing it right. Use a little bit of heparin so it's not clotting those things when you when you make your protocol. Um but it's it can be it's very beneficial for the, for the masses for sure.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Yeah I love that. Um, other benefits of IV ozone. We talked about mold, chronic diseases, viruses.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Viruses huge, hugely for viruses, bacteria, parasites, yeast.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Cool. It's anti-aging.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Mhm. Anti-aging. Um. Natural chelator. Um.
Amber Warren, PA-C: What's chelation for our patients that don't, our listeners that don't know.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: So that's when you're kind of binding those toxins in the body and taking them out.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Getting it out. Yeah.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Super beneficial for detox that along with vitamin C.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Yep.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Huge huge chelation or detoxification.
Amber Warren, PA-C: So some of the protocols I've used from you start clients out with vitamin C, um, with a glutathione push at the end, that glutathione body's master antioxidant that our liver makes. And then you'll after a few rounds of that, add in the ozone. Yeah, that's what I've noticed. Yeah. And is that kind of you're prepping the body with the vitamin C and glutathione? Yeah. To get the most benefits out of ozone. Is that what you're doing?
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: I feel like that's just it's setting the body up to be able to receive the ozone or the ozone treatment a little bit better than if you're just. You're all of a sudden someone who has not had, you know, that support in the past. Now you're blasting them with these high dose vitamin C, these glutathione and this ozone all at once. The very first time, they don't seem to seem to tolerate as much. We want you to come back. We want to set you up for success. And so I feel like that just sets the body and the immune system up for success rather than, um, failure. Not that it's failure, but it's. If you don't if you really feel like it's not, it's adversely affecting you. You're not going to do it again. Even though we know it's good. It's just I don't know. I like the stages.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Yeah. No. And just ensure tolerance and again and also just making sure people their resources we're using them wisely. Right. Doing IV therapy every week. It can add up. And so we want to make sure we're getting the best bang for your buck when you're doing some of these protocols. That's that's so awesome. Um, one that and even just IV saline. We talked about that. You come in dehydrated. You've been ill, you've been traveling. You've been sick. Just come to a boost of a reasonable bag of extra fluid just to get.
Heather Lucas, MSN, RN: It's different than just drinking water. Yes.
Amber Warren, PA-C: How is it different?
Heather Lucas, MSN, RN: Just. Well, just drinking water. You turn it into urine and you excrete it out. Water with electrolytes put in. Well, now you're starting to move to water into the cell. But you're only able to absorb so much, you're still making urine with it going directly into your bloodstream. You're getting immediate hydration to your cells. And of course, saline contains electrolytes to push it into cells, too. So you're just getting more. You're getting a better bang for your buck.
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Heather Lucas, MSN, RN: Than drinking glasses of water.
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Amber Warren, PA-C: Um, I actually have myself on um NAD. NAD, I've been researching a lot about it, and I'm doing a version of a protocol on myself right now. I think you're doing it too, right? You've been playing with Little NAD.
Heather Lucas, MSN, RN: Yeah. I have to call you out. You're not doing the exact same protocol. We're doing different protocol. It'll be interesting to compare notes.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Yeah. I mean, NAD is a co-enzyme. Um, and it it really right now to me is like all the rage and biohacking and longevity medicine. And I do think Shelby and I, offline, were talking about how it has a lot of similar benefits to ozone, and I would definitely agree with that. Um, but we're seeing people using it for chronic fatigue issues, you know, maybe the fibromyalgia type, you know, it really helps to boost mitochondrial health, which make make energy cellular energy, right. Make ATP in your body. So I've, I've actually, um, I've had a couple clients do it lately even just that first loading dose, which is a pretty low dose because you do have to kind of work up to the higher doses. We usually start at start at 250-500mg, the goal getting closer to 2000mg in some of these, some of these protocols. Um, even just at 250, I had a client like last week say it took away every ounce of fatigue. She was really she was down with something over Christmas and just struggling to get brain fog and energy back. She's like, that worked absolute wonders for me. And she had been on oral NAD supplements like precursors to NAD, and it wasn't touching her fatigue. She'd been doing that for two months.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Um, so yeah, cognitive issues, brain fog. It can restore metabolism, cellular turnover, um, sleep strength, recovery from exercise. Um, just I'm seeing so many benefits, even in myself. I'm noticing that mostly, um, cognition, exercise, recovery and sleep. Um, being on the and I'm doing subcutaneous nad the infusions two, three, maybe four hours. Some people, you know don't tolerate it as much they can get. Um, I mean, I get dizzy a little bit right after my injection, even if I go really slow. But I know talking to Karli, who is our IV nurse, and Meridian, she says she'll see a lot of clients with dizziness and nausea and maybe even some chest tightness. So she has to go really slow with some of those clients that are more, more sensitive. I just was having a hard time finding time to come do a three hour infusion. So I do love that we can offer that, um, subcutaneous so our clients can do it, do it from home and be a little bit more control of that. But I'm intrigued. I'm so far I'm very, very intrigued. And I'm still at pretty low doses of it. Are you what are you noticing? Are you noticing anything?
Heather Lucas, MSN, RN: Yeah, I've noticed, uh, energy improvement for sure. Good. Um, just kind of. Yeah. That mental clarity that you mentioned and, um. Yeah, just post-exercise recovery and just overall, I mean, I do sleep great. Yeah, I don't know, I do so many different things to help with sleep, but yeah, I mean, maybe the NAD is helping with that too. But, um, I definitely notice and I feel like my skin really doing something for my skin too. I feel like my skin is getting softer.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Even in January?
Heather Lucas, MSN, RN: Even in January in this dry.
Amber Warren, PA-C: So the shriveled raisin thing, that's just us. I guess that's just Shelby and I. Heather doesn't deal with that.
Heather Lucas, MSN, RN: It's going to be using the NAD.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: I need to use NAD. We use NAD and IV fluids.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Yeah, that's what I was going to say too. Honestly, I've been doing IV ozone here and there since September, October as well. So I have been playing with a lot of different kind of biohacking things. So it is always hard to separate out the one thing that helps us, because all of us kind of play on each other, our family members, before we really implement on our patients
Heather Lucas, MSN, RN: We got to try it.
Amber Warren, PA-C: We got to try it!
Heather Lucas, MSN, RN: Be a testament to our product.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Yes, absolutely. Um, I do want to touch on phosphatidylcholine. I don't know if you guys have a lot to say about that. That's something we offer, and I know we do a fair amount of for, I mean, I, I, I recommend a lot of it in my mold detox protocols. So phosphatidylcholine is a is a nutrient that helps to and it comes orally as well. But from my experience in the data I've looked at, it's so much more beneficial when it's given intravenously, but it really helps to stabilize the cell membranes, to hold on to nutrients and help to push the toxins out. Um, that's how That's how it works mechanistically. And I have seen really, really favorable favorable outcomes in my just detox patients in general, but very specifically mold. Um, have you guys seen that? Have you are you using that in your protocols?
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Yeah. Because you're really you need to get balance on that cellular, that cell integrity. Yeah. And until and so and then also so it can make that great make those shifts or the gradients across the cells so you can get what's in the cell. It hasn't been serving you out. So you can get you know, receive what's good. That's going to be good to help you repair or build, repair, stimulate immune system, all those things. Yeah.
Amber Warren, PA-C: So I use it for detox without micronutrients.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Yes.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Right. We all know the number and types of micronutrients you need to detox. So holding on to those nutrients and not just expelling everything out of the cell is, is really important. Yeah. But that cellular gradient. That's a really good point. Yeah I'm I'm enjoying it. I just for me sometimes I have a hard time really picking out okay. You can't come do five kinds of IVs every week. You know who would really benefit, mostly from phosphatidylcholine versus ozone? And really.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Yeah, I think everybody could benefit from all of them.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Exactly!
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: And that's why I like using it in stages or different, different phases. You're using different things because you're you're your end goal is to get your cells healthy and get more oxygenation and more circulation. And, you know, because it's going to help your whole body. But to be able to receive what we're trying to do that in stages so you can heal different things different times.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Yeah. Well and everybody's so different. They might have phenomenal benefits to 3 or 4 rounds of vitamin C with glutathione. They might not need much more. But our other more, um, more sensitive patients, more chronically ill people that have mold toxicity or Lyme for years and years and years, they're they're going to need a little bit more hefty, a little bit more...
Heather Lucas, MSN, RN: more support.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: More support, support, more IVs, and know that they may feel worse before they get better.
Amber Warren, PA-C: And more nervous system work, right?
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Yes.
Amber Warren, PA-C: we all know those patients need to feel safe. Their nervous system needs to tell them they're safe so they can detox and can heal. Because that's not always an automatic state the body wants to go to. Detox is not an easy place for most people to live.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Right.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Within that parasympathetic, we have to push that parasympathetic nervous system for the body to do what they want. So it's so much more than just showing up at an IV center and doing IV to detox or to heal your Lyme or to, you know, fix your chronic fatigue syndrome. There's so much more we do.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: There's we do a lot. It's amazing. It's a great team.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Yeah. It's awesome. I'm blessed every day to do what we do. Anything we didn't touch on IV therapy is worth mentioning. Shelby, I know you're you are our pro. You probably have more experience than any of our practitioners in IV therapy protocols and modalities. So I want to make sure we've picked your brain as much as we can.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Yeah, I'm just looking through here. We covered, um, all the basics of what I mean, overall cellular processes that what it does detoxify, energy, um, helps with skin recovery of any sort, whether it's athlete or illness, chronic illness. Um, for autoimmune type situations as well. Rheumatoid arthritis. Osteoarthritis. Mhm. Um helping with obviously with immune system with white blood cell production. Um hydration. We talked about that. Um and then to how it can, um, just IV therapy can just help with weight loss to.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Oh, yeah, improving metabolism. And also, you know, the detox aspects that these fat soluble toxins, as we lose weight, you have to be on some kind of detox support or else those toxins just reenter circulation and wreak all sorts of havoc on the body. So yeah, there's a reason we have these weight loss packages that include IV therapy and include detox protocols, because that's such an important part of weight loss, you can make yourself really sick. It can be really hard on your liver and just really hard on hard on yourself if you're not supporting that. So yeah, um, both boosting metabolism and supporting detox while you're actively losing weight is important.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Yeah. And just helping clean up that, that bloodstream for that to help with, um, cellular oxygenation and, you know, our red blood cells, it helps with red blood cells too. Our red blood cells build every three new ones every three months. Some of them we get rid of easy. Some of them are sort of are senescent and kind of misshapen. And they just sort of float around and cause more and they can cause more havoc and, um, you know, dysfunction. And so that will it really helps clean that up.
Amber Warren, PA-C: My favorite part about doing IV ozone is when you inject the ozone into the bag where your blood is, you literally see it turn bright red. And I'm like, yep, that's what I want. Put that back in my body. Yeah, it's amazing just to see it like full of oxygen and so healing and healthy. Yes, it truly is like blood purification. It's awesome. Thank you for your time, Shelby. I hope you start feeling better.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Oh yeah. I have a.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Some a lot of hope. You're going to wake up in the morning after 25g of C and feel like a new woman.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Yes, 25g with C. Magnesium. Calcium. Zinc.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Oh yeah, that's right, we did the add-ons.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: We did that on the fluids. Yes.
Amber Warren, PA-C: So there's no better way to end the podcast than to talk about, um, everything you just put into your body.
Heather Lucas, MSN, RN: Yes. You're already starting to feel better.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Yeah.
Amber Warren, PA-C: I can tell.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: My eyes so.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Fast. Can you, can you. She's already. She's already better, folks.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: The the bags IV, vitamin C, you get like a little horse. That's sort of. That's normal. Yeah. Yeah.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Well, you didn't get horse a little bit. Oh, a little bit.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Okay.
Amber Warren, PA-C: So anyway thank you ladies. Thank you so much for tuning in tonight.
Heather Lucas, MSN, RN: Thank you.
Shelby Stoddard, FNP-C: Thank you.
Amber Warren, PA-C: Thank you for listening to the Functional Medicine Foundations podcast. For more information on topics covered today. Specialties available at the FMI center for Optimal Health and the highest quality of supplements and more, go to funmedfoundations.com.