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so if you already know everything (like my daughter does) you can skip it til next time (whenever that is). That said, there may be something you haven’t heard. You never know.

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​That pic is from The Food Institute

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It’s a big food and beverage industry magazine thing. They do all sorts of research on foods, ingredients, restaurants, consumer habits, and so forth. Well, they were publishing an article on electrolytes drinks and powders and since we’d worked for a year or better to develop one and had done a good bit of research on them (all for nothing thanks to the FDA), they took a few quotes from me.

 

Pain relievers are fine, taken in moderation. Alcohol is relatively harmless, drunk responsibly. All manner of things are okay if you use them correctly. Lots of things are bad if you overdo them. Sports drinks are one of those things.

 

A person needs between two thousand and 2500mg of sodium a day. You get about 70% of that in your diet. Some of these drinks have as much as a thousand milligrams of sodium. You drink four or five of those things in a day, I don’t care if you’re running a marathon, you’re screwed.

 

Sodium is a good idea to help you retain water. That said, if you get five grams of sodium in a day you get bet you’re going to bloat and your blood pressure is going to spike. Pair that with an increased pulse from whatever activity it is in which you’re participating, you’re asking for a serious medical issue.

 

We tell a LOT of people to take a 20 ounce bottle of water and put in one packet of berry flavored DripDrop and one packet of cherry flavored BC Powder to help them get by until they can come see us for an IV. We always tell them “ONE AND DONE”. Lots of people like to overdo everything.

 

Don’t be one of the overdoers. Have one before your activity, then drink plain water. If you really sweat to beat the band you can have another after your activity, followed again by plain water. Drinking a half a dozen “WhateverAdes” or “IV packets” in a day is going to go bad for somebody. Please don’t let it be you.

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Five years ago...

 

Rachel bought “Suggestion / Complaint” boxes for all the locations. Those things MIGHT have spiders in them, but they DON’T seem to have any suggestions (fine) and never have any complaints.

 

I’m not stupid. I suspect some of you people are just wieners. Speak up.

 

Before you get all offended, here’s why I say that: A few days ago we had TWO people in one day in the office on whom we couldn’t get IVs started. OUCH. If it had been at the same office this space would be reserved for a “We’re Hiring a Nurse” post.

 

Anyway, I need to know if you have a problem. Why? Well, I’m selfish and greedy. If our nurse misses your IV and I don’t know about it, you go home, you are disappointed, and you drink a bunch of water. The next day you try another place. Because you’re better hydrated the get your IV on the first try. You never walk into Rapid Recovery again. Not only that, you tell Ida Mae down the street that Rapid Recovery sucks like a brand new Dyson, and IV Plus (of course I made that name up) got you going right off the bat.

 

Now we’ve lost you AND Ida Mae. More importantly, I HATE losing at anything or feeling like I didn’t do my best. I desperately always want to be the best I can be, so what I need is for you to tell me we weren’t up to snuff (for whatever reason) so I can offer you a discount to come back and get a lovely review to feed my ego. That’s why we do this job, to feel like we’re making people happy and doing something well. It ain’t like we’re getting rich off it so that’s the reward I chase.

 

So, please feel free to email me and bitch about something. Really.

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This pic is from a news story from England.

 

 I mean, we whipped their asses back in the 1770s so we shouldn’t have to care what they say about anything, but I digress.

 

Lots of IV places around us are hawking the hell out of peptide injections. Everybody wants them. We get calls, emails, messages on carrier pigeons… all sorts of requests for them. We could REALLY laugh all the way to the bank giving them.

 

Problem is, they’re a crapshoot.

 

First off, have you had a bunch of bloodwork to know if you even need them? Almost surely not. Like nobody walks in with a letter from their endocrinologist that says “Bill really needs ______ peptide injection once a week for 6 weeks.” Somebody just decides they want them and that’s good enough. I don’t recommend guessing at your own labwork, and I don’t recommend working on your own high voltage electric meter either.

 

Second, almost all the peptides available in America today are synthetic. It’s not even real. They’re the trans-fat of supplements.

 

Third, the side effects can be insane. Most people get injection site inflammation, and if that’s all you get then you’re the winner. Dizziness is common. Bad stomach problems are common. Hormonal issues are common. We’re talking about libido hormonal problems too. Not a lot I’d take in trade for that problem.

 

So, I’m not trying a pansy or a drag. If you want them, that’s awesome. Go to your primary care provider and get a crapton of labwork done and ask them if it’s okay. Then look around and find a place that isn’t using synthetics and give it a go if you want. Just don’t wing it. Almost nothing good comes from getting weird off-label medical treatments from someone who tells you it’s great because they’re making a buck off it. Why do you think it took us YEARS to finally offer NAD?

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Remember when I said our website sucks?

 

I had to type this whole thing in Word and then cut and paste it because we’re stuck on Wix nd it’s hell to do a newsletter on it. Which reminds me, we want to redo our mobile site (I know it’s awful) and are still looking for someone “in the family” who does Wix websites. I did ours. I’m not a designer. It’s awful. We need help. Before I send it off to some company I don’t know I thought I’d see if any of “our people” want to make the money. Let me know.

 

Which reminds me, if your company has outdoor workers we want you to keep their hydration in the family. We offer a corporate discount plan, AND here’s the trick: If your folks come to us to keep from falling out, leaving work due to heat exhaustion (or just dehydration), or just being ineffective, they can come to us to get back in the field and it’s not OSHA recordable or reportable. BOOM. If the summer heat leaves your company in a lurch, send us your team.

 

I’m worn out from that paragraph of selling so that's it for now.  😉

 

It was only like a month and a half between these last two, so that's pretty good! I'll try harder...

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STAY HAPPY, HEALTHY, AND HYDRATED, AND WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT TIME!!

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Bob

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