Vitamin Drip Infusions Gain Favor in Hollywood

[garbon]

http://gma.yahoo.com/vitamin-drip-infusions-gain-favor-hollywood-064030962--abc-news-music.html

Taking vitamins orally might soon fall out of favor as more Americans opt to drip them straight into their veins.

More exhausted people are heading to private clinics and getting hooked up to a vitamin I.V. for their energy-boosting cocktail infusion.

The technique was fueled, in part, by a photo that pop star Rihanna tweeted last month with her arm hooked up to an intravenous drip. Turns out she was enjoying the so-called "party-girl drip."

Other A-list celebrities that have reportedly jumped on the liquid vitamin bandwagon include Simon Cowell, Cindy Crawford and Madonna.

It's not just stars who are following Rihanna's lead. Music executive Carmen Key gets her 45-minute session once a week at a clinic in Los Angeles.

Everything from vitamins C and B to minerals like zinc and chromium are pumped straight into her arm: "Instead of feeling energized, you feel alive," Key said.

Eating a salad, taking a nap and traditional vitamins don't compare, Key said. "That would probably do four percent of what this does," she said.

The session is pricey and can run $175 to $275. Critics call it extreme and wonder whether it actually offers anything nutritious that food or traditional vitamins can't.

Doctors and patients at Patient's Medical, a holistic wellness center in New York City, swear by it.

"I.V. is pretty much instant gratification," Dr. Kamau Kokayi said.

[The Brain]

Simon Cowell, Cindy Crawford and Madonna

Does it work on careers?

[derspiess]

As much as I dislike needles, if it were less pricey I'd be all over it.  Worst part of Crohn's is the fatigue.

[Fate]

Unless you have something like chronic alcoholism then... okay, I guess it's Hollywood. But yeah, this would be something useful if you had Crohn's, pernicious anemia, or some other malabsorption problem. Not if you're otherwise healthy.

Americans have some of the most expensive urine in the world. Most of those vitamins are going straight down the drain, IV or not.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Idiots.  Hollywood sucks.

[mongers]

Can I say it, please can I say it ....? 

[Darth Wagtaros]

Can I say it, please can I say it ....? 

Yes.

[mongers]

Can I say it, please can I say it ....? 

Yes.

Only In America.     

[Iormlund]

Jesus fucking Christ what a bunch of morons.

[garbon]

Can I say it, please can I say it ....? 

Yes.

Only In America.     

Ahem. []In[/] California. We're just fabulous that way.

[katmai]

You gave up your California status mister!

[garbon]

You gave up your California status mister!

In trade for the only city in the US with equal claim.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Can I say it, please can I say it ....? 

Yes.

Only In America.     

Ahem. []In[/] California. We're just fabulous that way.

I thought the clinic was in NYC?

[Zoupa]

California: science tards. Why are they so gullible?

[katmai]

Frenchman:surrender monkeys. What can't they fight?