Vitamin IV ‘wellness centers’ are cropping up around Utah. Does the trendy service work?

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This new wellness trend is said to help treat fatigue, migraines, hangovers and more, but its effectiveness hasn’t been proven. Utah is seeing businesses offer it more and more anyway.

Vitamin infusions are said to help treat fatigue, migraines, hangovers and more, but their effectiveness hasn’t been proven.

Before Brimley and his wife opened FIKA, the couple were living in Nashville, Tenn., where vitamin IV therapy is “really popular,” especially around the “hangover bachelorette party scene,” he said. Some even offered home visits, catering to country music stars and other professionals. “I don’t want to say yes, this will cure these things, and it’s proven,” Reynolds said of vitamin IV therapy, “because ... I can’t say that.”

Tommy Lloyd, who owns The Vitamin Bar, is a firefighter paramedic in the Salt Lake Valley who’s also from Utah. When people come into FIKA complaining of low energy and fatigue, “if they just were to get fluids, they would feel much better and their energy would be back up,” Brimley said. But they aim to help with any “underlying nutrition” needs as well.“But if someone chooses to take a multivitamin, or specifically an iron supplement or something ...

 

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