At-Home IV Drips Are the Latest Luxury Building Amenity (NYT)

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I don’t think there is much scientific evidence to support this, but people seem pretty open to IV treatments, so perhaps there is a future for IV rapamycin, or other longevity therapies (plasmapheresis anyone?)

This was not Mr. Viragh’s first experiment with intravenous drip therapy, marketed as a hangover cure and an immune system booster. He started getting the treatments two years ago at a wellness and longevity club near his previous apartment in Hollywood. Mr. Viragh now gets them monthly; he said the infusions help stave off jet lag after flights home to Budapest, where he owns a small film production company, and to promote healing from the procedures he’s been getting to remove his 10 tattoos.

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#2

I think I will stick with not having tattoos in the first place.

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#3

It’s remarkably easy to separate fools (rich ones) from their money. One of the reasons why I make sure not to make anything from the things I prescribe or order. Massive conflict of interest … and this is the most wonderful placebo. I have colleagues doing this and making a lot of money - even going to peoples homes to give them various worthless infusions that even if they do anything would be equally available in oral forms … but that doesn’t make any money.

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#4

My ex gf used to use IV drips whenever she is tired. Me, I hate needles, especially self administration.

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#5

My ex gf used to use IV drips whenever she is tired.

Wait, what? Couldn’t she just take a nap or something?

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Don’t ask me but she swears by them. Allows her to keep going without going to sleep. A bit like ice but doesn’t give you the nasties.

#7

That road surely ends badly.

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#8

Too funny. I once decided to get a tattoo. I thought if I could think of an image that would be powerful enough, I would be proud to display it forever. Then I spent a year trying to come up with my powerful image before giving up. I’m glad I got past that phase without a scar.

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#9

Doing that for awhile might work but soon the fridge might start talkin’…

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Completely different, but this reminded me of a personal trainer who worked at the gym I went to 20 years ago. He slept- ate! He’d wake up with all sorts of food and wrappers all over the place. Fortunately for him, he was a fit young guy so it was not too bad, but can you imagine gaining weight and having bad blood work only to discover you were doing it while sleeping!!!

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Funny how that works. I don’t have sleep-X problems, but wish I had a sleep-exercise one. Instead of waking up to food wrappers, I’d wake up already done with my workout for the day. What a time saver, not to mention avoiding all the unpleasantness (I hate exercising even though I do it diligently). Hey, if there’s sleep walking why not sleep jogging, lol. But on a more serious note, such sleep activity is connected with later developing PD and other neurological disorders.

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