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Micronutrient injection entails intramuscular or intravenous injection of micronutrients to restore the nutritional needs of the body.

Various preservative-free medications are injected to supplement, restore, and enhance one’s micronutritional status for anti-aging, skin support, energy and stamina, detoxification, and fat metabolism.
Micronutrient injection via intramuscular route is called shots. Micronutrient injection via the intravenous route is called infusion.

Based on the advanced diagnostic anti-aging testing, micronutrient injections are individually tailored in the areas of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, metabolites, enzymes, carbohydrate metabolism, and hormone balancing.

Micronutrient Injection, intramuscular:
Anti-Aging Shots IM
This basic intramuscular shot helps to improve the free radical damage.
Actives: antioxidants and minerals such as glutathione, acetylcysteine, zinc, and selenium.

Indications:
1. general antiaging
Collagen Shots IM
This basic intramuscular shot helps to improve collagen formation, skin hydration, and wound healing.
Actives: antioxidants and amino acids such as acetylcystein, vitamin B5, lysine, and proline.

Indications:
1. collagen formation
2. skin hydration
3. wound healing

Energy Shots IM
This basic intramuscular shot helps to improve energy level and reduce fatigue.
Actives: basic antioxidants and vitamins such as vitamin b6, vitamin 12, and acetylcarnitine.

Indications:
1. energy
2. reduce fatigue

Immunity Shots IM
This basic intramuscular shot helps to improve immunity.
Actives: basic antioxidants and vitamins such as CoQ10 and vitamin D3.

Indications:
1. improves immunity
2. improves CoQ10
3. improves Vitamin D3

LipoSlim Shots IM
This basic intramuscular shot helps to improve fat metabolism
Actives: basic vitamins and metabolites such as methinone, inositol, choline, vitamin B1, vitamin B5, vitamin B12, carnitine, chromium, and leucine.

Indications:
1. Improves fat metabolism
2. Weight management
Brightening Shots IM
This basic intramuscular shot helps to improve the free radical damage and brightens the skin from sun damage.
Actives: antioxidant glutathione and pigment brightening agent tranexamic acid.

Indications:
1. Sun protection
2. Skin brightening
DNA Repair NAD Shots IM
This basic intramuscular shot helps to replenishes suboptimal body’s coenzyme with biologically identical NAD(Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide).
Actives: NAD(Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide).

Indications:
1. Activate enzymes to protect and repair DNA
2. Increase mood
3. Improve memory
4. Improve concentration
5. Improve mental clarity
6. Increase energy
7. Reduce inflammation
8. Improves quality of sleep
9. Help to wean off addictive medicine

Micronutient injection, intravenous
Anti-Aging Pack Infusion IV
This comprehensive intravenous infusion helps to improve the free radical damage, relax, and stimulate one’s own nitric oxide.

Actives: antioxidants, vitamins, amino acids, and minerals such as acetycysteine, molybdenum, magnesium, vitamin B12, vitamin B6, vitamin B5, vitamin B complex, taurine, acetycarnitine, lysine, proline, vitamin C, calcium, zinc, and selenium, arginine, and glycine.

Indications:
1. Comprehensive antiaging
2. Relaxation and sleep
3. Jet lag
4. Stimulate nitric oxide
5. Stimulate growth hormone
Collagen Pack Infusion IV
This comprehensive intravenous infusion helps to improve collagen formation, hydration, wound healing.

Actives: antioxidants, vitamins, amino acids, and minerals such as acetylcysteine, molybdenum, magnesium, vitamin B12, vitamin B6, vitamin B5, vitamin B complex, taurine, acetylcarnitine, lysine, proline, vitamin C, calcium, zinc, and selenium.

Indications:
1. Comprehensive skin support
2. collagen formation
3. skin hydration
4. wound healing
5. skin brightening
6. enhances whole body photo-protection and improved immunity
7. prevent sun-induced pigmentation during the summer season or prior to outdoor activities
8. hastens recovery from excessive tan from intensive sun exposure.
Energy Pack Infusion IV
This comprehensive intravenous infusion helps to improve energy and reduce fatigue.

Actives: antioxidants, vitamins, amino acids, and minerals such as acetycysteine, molybdenum, magnesium, vitamin B12, vitamin B6, vitamin B5, vitamin B complex, taurine, acetycarnitine, vitamin C, and calcium.

Indications:
1. comprehensive stamina support
2. Energy
3. reduce fatigue

Detoxification Pack Infusion IV
This comprehensive intravenous infusion helps to detoxify the body.

Actives: antioxidant such as glutathione.

Indications:
1. comprehensive detoxification

List of Commonly Used Actives
Vit D
Category: fat soluble vitamin
Skin Protection against sun damage Essential for bone health
Protection against breast and prostate cancer
Protection against autoimmune disease
Protection against upper respiratory illness

CoQ10
category: fat soluble antioxidant
skin: photoprotection
metabolism: energy production

NAD
Cateogry: coenzyme
Coenzyme helps to generate energy, maintain DNA health, activate antiaging enzymes, improve detoxification, improve sleep, upkeep neurological cellular signaling, and maintain stem cell functioning

Acetylcysteine
Category: amino acid
Antioxidant: support for glutathione production
Detoxification: liver detoxification and chelation for heavy metals
Skin hydration: mucous thining

Molybdenum
Category: trace mineral
Detoxification: liver detoxification and reduction of excess copper
Nervous system: neuroprotective effects

Magnesium chloride
Category: electrolyte
Muscle relaxant: Helpful for asthma, muscle cramps, high blood pressure, and migrane

Vitamin B12, cobalamin
Category: water soluble vitamin
Convert homocysteine to methionine
Used to synthesize myelin sheaths on nerves

Vitamin B6, Pyridoxine
Category: water soluble vitamin
Metabolism: Coenzyme for metabolism for carbohydrates, lipids, and protein

Vitamin B5, Dexpanthenol
Category: water soluble vitamin
Skin: helps tissue hydration and acne control
Metabolism: essential for carbohydrate and fatty acid metabolism
Important for production of steroid hormone and hemoglobin

Vitamin B2, riboflavin
Category: water soluble vitamin
Skin: helps mucous secretion
Required for glutathione synthesis

Vitamin B1, Thiamine
Category: water soluble vitamin
Metabolism: essential for energy metabolism

Vitamin B Complex
Category: water soluble vitamin
Components: Combined thiamine, riboflavin, niacinamide, dexpanthenol, and pyridoxine
helpful for neuropathic pain

Biotin
Category: water soluble vitamin
Metabolism: Cofactor for fatty acid metabolism, amino acids, and glucose metabolism

Folinic acid
Category: water soluble coenzyme
Metabolism: Cofactor for fatty acid metabolism, amino acids, and glucose metabolism

Vitamin B3, Niacinamide
Skin hydration
Deficiency results in cholesterol, heart disease, and pellagra

Multivitamin
Category: water and fat soluble vitamins
Combined vitamin C, A, D, B1, B2, B5, B6, B3, K, E, biotin, folic acid, B12.

Taurine
Category: amino acid
Metabolism: Master osmolyte regulating sodium, calcium, chloride outside of cells, and magnesium and potassium inside the cells.
Detoxification: chelator for heavy metals and toxin removal
Maintains cardiovascular health
Improves glucose metabolism

Acetylcarnitine
Category: amino acid
Skin: reduce excessive oil
Metabolism: fat burning and energy production

Vitamin C
Category: water soluble vitamin
Skin: photoprotection and collagen synthesis
Antioxidant: Water soluble antioxidant used to neutralize free radicals
Detoxification: mild calcium chelation
Immunity: Doses higher than 25 grams have oxidative effects which create peroxide surge, with cytotoxic effects for cancer and virus.

Calcium gluconate
Category: electrolyte
Metabolism: normalizes Ph, restores calcium level
Support muscle contraction and heart conduction

Lysine
Category: amino acid
Skin: support collagen formation

Proline
Category: amino acid
Skin: support collagen formation

Selenium
Category: trace mineral
Skin: photoprotection
Enhance glutathione
Help to regulate thyroid function

Zinc sulfate
Category: trace mineral
Skin: photoprotection and oil control
Immune support

Arginine
Category: amino acid
Metabolism: precursor to nitric oxide
Stimulates growth hormone, glucagon, and insulin

Glycine
Category: amino acid
Metabolism: Support glutathione production

Chromium
Category: trace mineral
Metabolism: control of diabetes and insulin

Methionine/Inositol/Choline
Category: amino acid
Metabolism: fat metabolism

Sodium Bicarbonate
Category: pH adjuster

Glutathione
Category: amino acid
Skin: skin brightening for postinflammatory pigmentation and photoprotection
Antioxidant: Master antioxidant
Detoxification: liver detoxification, chelator for heavy metals
Immunity: Immune booster against virus and cancer
Nervous system: Helpful for Parkinson’s disease
Support glucose metabolism

Tranexamic acid
Category: hemostatic agent
Skin: skin brightening for postinflammatory pigmentation and photoprotection


Compared to oral supplementation, Micronutrient Injection:

1. is much more completely absorbed
2. bypasses the gastrointestinal side effects
3. Delivers higher and more effective dosage
4. Delivers results much more quickly
5. Accumulates intracellular micronutrients over time more efficiently
6. longer term relief over the lon


• Low Energy
• Fatique
• Easily Stressed
• No restful sleep
• Frequent jet lags
• Decreased memory
• Brain fog
• Depressed mood
• Low immunity
• Frequent virus infection
• Exposure to environmental toxin
• Reduced exercise endurance
• Muscle pain and joint inflammation
• Poor circulation
• High blood pressure
• High cholesterol
• Frequent respiratory inflammation
• Intestinal health
• detoxification
• Elevated sugar
• Food craving
• Menstrual cramps
• Heavy bleeding
• Hot flush
• Decreased sexual function
• Dry skin
• Weight gain
• Abdominal fat
• Muscle atrophy
• Weaker bones
• Decreased visual acuity
• Decreased hearing


Patients with realistic expectation and understand that, while shown to be helpful for the enhancement of well-being, the service is an off-label use and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

1. Patients with unrealistic expectation
2. Patients with low blood sugar, dehydration, acute disease, autoimmune disorder, blood disorder, cancer, or on bleeding thinning medications.
3. Patients on blood pressure or diabetes medications may require a downward adjustment of the medicine

After advanced diagnostic antiaging testing, Micronutrient injection, either intramuscular and/or intravenous, can begin.

Micronutrient Injection, Intramuscular
Patient may receive treatment in standing or supine position generally in the buttock area. Treatment can be given once or twice weekly.

Micronutrient Injection, Intravenous
Micronutrient Injection, Intravenous in sitting or supine position in the forearm area. Prior fluid intake and food is required. An intravenous catheter is started, followed by slow drip over a course of half hour to one hour. Treatment can give given once or twice weekly.


The results are seen in days, although best results accumulate over sessions. Most patients often find more energy to work and to enjoy life.

Combined with proper diet and exercise, results are long lasting with further treatments suggested for maintenance.
Additional maintenance is required.
Healthy eating and exercise are helpful to enhance results.
Further treatment may be recommended to further results.
There is generally no recovery. Most people return to work and activities immediately.

Injection site soreness
Irritation in the vein, secondary to infuser’s effects on the circulatory system
Arm pain at the infusion site, lasting for a few days.
Dizziness
Lightheadedness
Lowering of blood pressure
Lowering of blood sugar
Headaches
Muscle cramps or weakness

Cost of treatment options ranges from three to five digits. An in-person consultation with your specialist physician will help to determine the best suitable solution to your own individual needs.
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