IV Wellness Therapy: The Hidden Cost of Chasing Shortcuts (Jordan L. Shlain MD)

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We’re living in an age where people willingly pay hundreds of dollars to inject vitamins directly into their bloodstream — vitamins they could get from a $5 bottle at the pharmacy. But this is what should worry you: These expensive nutrient injections also contain a cocktail of microplastics and chemical additives that your body wasn’t designed to process.

This isn’t hyperbole. This is science, and it’s urgent.

Here’s what the wellness clinics won’t tell you, because frankly, most of them don’t know: every IV bag and its tubing is essentially a plastic container, releasing microscopic particles directly into your bloodstream.

This isn’t theoretical. A 2025 peer reviewed study documented that commonly used IV infusion products released up to 58,200 microplastic particles per liter of IV fluid. The particles consisted of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polypropylene (PP), and polyethylene (PE), and ranged in size from 10 nanometers to 3.6 micrometers. A previous 2023 study by the same group found bags made of PVC released up to 0.52 micrograms of microplastics per 250 ml of IV infusion.

Think about that for a moment. The bags and tubing themselves shed these particles. They’re too small for standard medical filters to catch, which means they’re now circulating in your blood, potentially lodging in your organs, and accumulating in ways we’re only beginning to understand.

But it gets worse. Many IV bags still contain polyvinyl chloride (PVC), which leaches DEHP — a known endocrine disruptor and probable carcinogen.

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#2

This would apply to ALL IV medications

Example all plastic syringes have a silicone film coating on the inside.

When was the last time you received an injection in an all glass syringe with glass barrel?

Same goes for the carrying solution,solution have been in bags for months {look at the date stamped printed on the bag]

Infusion lines are all plastic.
For ALL

The is not just “IV Wellness Therapy”

In my view;
Commenting on just “IV Wellness” alone is B$, “hyperbole” for all.

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#3

Sure… but if young people start doing IV injections on a regular (weekly?) basis, this could be a significant issue. Most healthy people are not doing regular IV injections or infusions, etc. - so I see this as an outlier case for people targeting healthy longevity.

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Do not worry. Weekly iv treatments are too expensive for the youth.

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The surface area of contact between the plastic bag and the fluid is also larger in IV solutions, and the fluid is in contact with said plastic longer, than, say a solution / drug being drawn from a glass vial into a plastic syringe and getting injected shortly thereafter. I should think it highly likely that the amount of microplastics going into your bloodstream from IV infusions is much higher.

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Not for the “youth” in the Silicon Valley, I suspect:

From CGPT5:
The cost of NAD⁺ IV infusions in the U.S. varies widely depending on the clinic, location, dosage, and duration. Based on publicly available sources, here is a reasonable range:

Type / Context Typical Cost Range*
Lower-end / small doses / modest clinics ~$250 to ~$500 per session (primarypreventioncenter.com)
Mid-range / more standard protocols ~$500 to ~$1,000 per session (Jinfiniti Precision Medicine)
High-end / large doses / premium clinics / “ultra” infusions ~$1,000 to ~$1,500+ per session (PureDropIV)
Example clinic pricing (for reference) MD Infusions: $299 for 250 mg, $399 for 500 mg, $599 for 1,000 mg (MD Infusions); Cienega Med Spa (LA): $349 for “NAD Lite,” up to $1,495 for “Ultra” dose (Cienega Medical Spa)
  • “Per session” here generally means one infusion appointment. Many NAD protocols involve multiple sessions (a “loading” series, followed by maintenance), which increases overall cost.

So, in practice, a typical NAD⁺ IV infusion in the U.S. today will often fall somewhere between $300 and $1,200, with many clinics quoting ~$500–$1,000 as a common price point.

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#7

There’s a clinic in a mid size NE town where my BIL lives and they offer these injections on a $200 monthly membership — two a month — at a wellness center. Plenty of people doing them on the regular.

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