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What Is A Compounding Pharmacy? The Science Behind Medications Customized Just for You | Shaun Noorian
Wed, 06 Nov 2024
Imagine a pharmacy that tailors medications specifically for your body. In this episode, Dr. Mark Hyman speaks with Shaun Noorian, founder of Empower Pharmacy, about the resurgence of compounding pharmacies and how they’re addressing critical health needs. Learn how compounded medications are offering solutions for chronic conditions, drug shortages, and even hormone and peptide therapies that help patients thrive. In this episode, we discuss: The Importance of Compounding Pharmacies The Impact of Compounding on Chronic Illness Hormone Replacement Therapy and Personalized Medicine Compounded Testosterone Treatments The Controversy Behind Semaglutides Like Ozempic View Show Notes From This Episode Get Free Weekly Health Tips from Dr. Hyman Sign Up for Dr. Hyman’s Weekly Longevity Journal This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Qualia, BIOptimizers, and Fatty15. Streamline your lab orders with Rupa Health. Access more than 3,500 specialty lab tests and register for a FREE live demo at RupaHealth.com. Decrease your "zombie cells" with Qualia Senolytic. Visit QualiaLife.com/Hyman to get 50% off and use code HYMAN for an additional 15% off your order. During November, BIOptimizers is offering $100 with of free gifts with purchase at Bioptimizers.com/Hyman with code Hyman10. Fatty15 contains pure, award-winning C15:0 in a bioavailable form. Get an exclusive 15% off a 90-day starter kit subscription. Just visit Fatty15.com and use code DRHYMAN10 to get started.
What is a Compounding Pharmacy?
I was at a wedding this weekend, and they had a nurse come and give everybody IVs after a party weekend. I'd love to kind of hear your perspective on the sort of intravenous nutrient therapies and what they can be used for, who they help, and how people should think about them. It's like why not just take the vitamin, right? Right.
A lot of these IV cocktails that these IV nutrition centers or mobile nurses are administering to patients, they are 100% bioavailable when infused. And some of these, you'd have to take tens of grams or hundreds of grams orally to be able to get an equivalent effect. And some of these, you can't take in those amounts.
For example, vitamin C. If you take more than a gram, you're going to poop your brains out.
It's true. Vitamin C can be very helpful for allergy. I had a patient with an acute allergic reaction to environmental allergies. Not like a but like he was just miserable. And I hooked him up and I gave him 50 grams of IV vitamin C, which is a very large dose. In cancer therapy, they're using 75 grams. You couldn't take that orally.
Right. There's no way. You'd have to use it. You would poop your entire body out, I think, if you did that.
And so by infusing it... By the way, people, if you're constipated, taking a lot of vitamin C is going to help you. And it's not going to hurt you.
It's not going to be an enjoyable experience, but it'll do the job. But, you know, if... For example, for oncology treatment, vitamin C has been known to be used off-label to potentially help the patient's immune system fight whatever disease. It's also been used to help fight viral or other infections.
Yeah, even in the ICU it would help with the recovery from sepsis and other things.
Right, right.
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