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06/10/2024

The Best Way to Administer Ketamine

Ketamine has been found to be a safe and effective treatment for depression when administered via more than half a dozen different methods or “routes”. Of these, intravenous (IV) ketamine — that is, injected into a vein — is the most common, and the bulk of depression research conducted with ketamine is with this route of administration. This is because it allows for very precise dosing since we know with perfect accuracy how much gets into your blood circulation and therefore your brain. In medical terminology, it has 100% bioavailability.

After IV, the most common are intranasal (IN) ketamine, followed by sublingual and oral ketamine. Effective figures drop off after Ketamine IV with IN (25-50%), sublingual (~20-30%), and oral (~10-20%) ketamine.

In addition to bioavailability, another important characteristic is how fast the effects kick in and how long they last. Vitality Medical Infusions offers the “Gold-Standard” of Ketamine with Intravenous (IV) Infusion.

Intravenous (IV) Infusion
Bioavailability: 100%
Onset of Effects: 10 minutes

Intranasal (IN)
Bioavailability: ~25-50%
Onset of Effects: 5 minutes

Sublingual
Bioavailability: ~20-30%
Onset of Effects: 10 minutes

Oral
Bioavailability: ~10-20%
Onset of Effects: 30 minutes

Call our experienced Ketamine medical team for an appointment.

05/24/2024

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05/17/2024

Yale Medicine Says Ketamine IV is an Option for Depression

When someone has depression, there are changes in the brain’s circuitry, including how neurons communicate with one another. Ketamine seems to allow for a regrowth of synapses according to the Yale School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry.

The Yale School of Medicine is yet another example of esteemed medical institutions endorsing Ketamine IV.

When you struggle with depression, anxiety, and pain … think Ketamine IV. The IV application of Ketamine is the “Gold-Standard” on how it is administered. Pills, sprays, and other substitutes can’t match the efficacy of Ketamine IV.

Call Vitality Medical Infusions for the available Ketamine IV, IV Vitamin Infusions, and Ozone treatments. We take care of your pain.

In this video, Yale Medicine psychiatric specialists discuss how ketamine can help treat depression.

04/30/2024

Ketamine: non-toxic fast and sustained-effect antidepressant

New treatments for depression are needed that act rapidly and also have sustained effects. Ketamine differs from most antidepressants because it produces antidepressant effects within hours instead of weeks like most other medications. This is enormously helpful for patients, potentially reducing their risk of death and su***de in the short term.

Vitality Medical Infusions offers the “Gold Standard” Ketamine IV. Our medically trained staff supervise and administer Ketamine through IV.

IV Treatments for Depression, Anxiety, Pain, Migraines, Anti-Aging, Healing after Surgery, Clearer and Brighter Skin. All therapies administered by a CRNA, RN, NP, or MD.

A new Northwestern Medicine study identifies mechanisms that enable ketamine to work rapidly and also have long-term effects.

04/08/2024

How Ketamine “Reshapes” the Brain

Scientists believe that depression may be due to a connection problem between nerve cells in areas of the brain that regulate mood. Research suggests that people with long-term depression may have fewer of the synapses that allow these nerve cells to communicate.

Medically supervised IV ketamine infusion therapy has been found to reactivate existing connections and to grow new ones, helping the brain to “shake loose” negative thoughts and shift out of depression. Because the brain has actually been “reshaped,” it may explain why antidepressant medications that didn’t work in the past, may help after ketamine therapy.

Although ketamine can be administered in many ways (oral, nasal spray and injection), intravenous (IV) infusion is the most extensively studied method to date. “Most patients will require multiple infusion sessions to experience symptom relief, which may vary from less than one week to 7-8 weeks or longer,” says Dr. Gao.

Vitality Medical Infusions offers "the gold standard" of Medical IV Ketamine. Call us for more information today.

Recent research shows that, for some people, ketamine therapy may relieve depressive symptoms and restore quality of life when other treatments have failed.

03/20/2024

Veterans Benefit From Ketamine

University of Michigan and the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System say that almost half of 215 veterans who'd been suffering severe, treatment-resistant depression benefited from six weeks of ketamine infusions.

Anxiety and depression is a real medical issue with our veterans and Vitality Medical Infusions is available to help our servicemen. We are located in Bethesda near NIH and the Walter Reed Medical Center. We have onsite free parking and easy access to our offices.

Call us today.

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2024-02-06/veterans-study-shows-effectiveness-of-ketamine-against-depression

03/13/2024

Ketamine Found Effective in Treating Severe Depression

Great news from the Harvard Gazette about Ketamine and effective treatments for depression and anxiety. The results are published in the New England Journal of Medicine and can be read on this link.

Vitality Medical Infusions offers the gold standard of IV Ketamine treatments. call our experienced staff on how we can help you with depression, pain and anxiety.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/05/ketamine-found-effective-in-treatment-resistant-depression/

https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2302399

02/02/2024

Emma Stone and IV Glutathione Treatments for Singing

NPR Fresh Air interview with Emma Stone talks about how she prepares for roles. Stone has two Oscar nominations for Poor Things: One for Best Actress and one for Best Picture, as a producer. She spoke with Terry Gross about working with an intimacy coordinator, why she sees her anxiety as a superpower, and how she has IV Glutathione treatments. In roles where Emma needs to sing, she would get IV Glutathione treatments (prescribed by her ENT doc) 2x week to help manage her vocal cord polyps.

You can listen to Fresh Air and the interview with Emma Stone here.

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/31/1197962259/emma-stone-poor-things

You can also read the article from NIH (The National Institute of Health) on glutathione and Oxidative Stress and Low Glutathione in Common Ear, Nose, and Throat Conditions.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27622960/

Stone has two Oscar nominations for Poor Things: One for best actress and one for best picture, as a producer. She spoke with Terry Gross about working with an intimacy coordinator, why she sees her anxiety as a superpower, and how Superbad changed her life.

12/20/2023

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