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" Jet lag. Oh jet lag. For my job I regularly travel to LA and my god do I suffer from the transatlantic flight. My circadian rhythm is all over the shop. Wide awake at 3am? Tick. Passing out at the dinner table at 6pm? Yep. Inability to string a sentence together for weeks after my return? Aha. And no matter how much I spend/waste on homeopathic oils, immune booster shots and green juices to try and banish jet lag, nothing seems to work. So when I returned from a particularly stressful trip to LA recently, which involved four days of torrential rain (I know, it never rains in LA) and I was offered an IV VitaDrip at The Elixir Clinic in London to help me overcome it, I couldn&amp;#039;t say yes fast enough. Well as fast as was possible given my discombobulated brain.  I&amp;#039;ve always wanted to try out a vitamin drip, which the likes of Cara Delevingne, Rihanna and Rita Ora are all fans of. So it must be good right? It involves vitamins being injected straight into your bloodsteam via an intravenous drip for a pick me up. The Elixir Clinic offers 17 different treatments, each with a different cocktail of vitamins and minerals, which promise to combat hangovers, cholesterol and even aid hair growth (I&amp;#039;m assuming of the head variety). Regular infusions are recommended for the best results.  I had assumed I would go for the Jet Lag VitaDrip but when I arrive at 6pm after work (pre a drinks party) the resident nurse has other ideas. After discussing my symptoms (inability to sleep, dull skin, dehydration, nausea, fuzzy head\u2026) she recommends I go for the Mood Support VitaDrip (\u00A3300). This contains high doses of &amp;quot;feel good&amp;quot; B vitamins, magnesium, and takes an hour. Apparently it is ideal for &amp;quot;cleansing the body and general wellbeing, leaving you feeling great&amp;quot;. Bingo. Vitamin drip chosen I take a seat in a comfy armchair in the treatment room. For some bizarre reason I hadn&amp;#039;t registered until now that having an IV drip would involve having a needle stuck into a vein in my arm for 60 minutes. So it&amp;#039;s a bit of a shock when the nurse tells me she&amp;#039;s going to pop one into my right arm. It stings a bit. She holds it in place with medical tape to ensure it doesn&amp;#039;t move out of place during my hour treatment. The needle is attached to a bag full of orange liquid \u2013 my vitamins. And the nurse gives me some magazines and says to shout if I need anything. 5mins: Nothing has happened.\u00A0 10 mins: I still feel nothing\u00A0and scroll through my Instagram feed to relieve the boredom.  14 minutes: Weird. I start getting a fizzy effervescent feeling in my nostrils. The only thing I can compare the sensation to is having a Berocca tablet shoved up your nose and it dissolving there. Not that I have ever tried this but it&amp;#039;s what I imagine it could feel like. 20mins: Things are starting to get interesting. This sensation continues and it feels quite weird, but not unpleasant, and the vitamins are clearly going in.\u00A0Not long after I start to feel extremely tired and lethargic. I&amp;#039;m so glad I&amp;#039;m sitting down as I feel very strange, like my entire body is heavy. 35 minutes: Now the exhaustion goes the opposite way and I start feeling very light headed and spaced out. Who am I? Am I really in the room? Ooh it&amp;#039;s bright in here. 45 minutes: The bizarre spaced-out feeling has lifted\u00A0and now I just feel really good. That Berocca up the nose thing is still there, but apart from that, I feel awesome. I&amp;#039;m really antsy now to get out of the building and to meet my friends. I feel way more energised than when I arrived.\u00A0The final 15 minutes drag on and on and every time I look at the IV bag it doesn&amp;#039;t appear to have gone down. Come on.  1hr:\u00A0The nurse comes in and asks me how it was. I feel quite clear-headed and that the taste of vitamins at the back of my throat is quite odd - apparently this is quite common.\u00A0She takes my drip out of my arm and puts a big plaster on my arm to stop any bleeding. I am still quite skeptical about the whole process and how long this euphoric feeling will last but in all honesty as I walk out of the building I feel better than I have in months. I have energy, I feel fresh, I am top of the world.  Later that night... When I get to my drinks party my friends tell me that my skin looks amazing and I am glowing. I celebrate my new-found energy and glowy skin\u00A0by drinking all of the red wine in the bar. The next morning: I wake up with a terrible hangover \u2013 seems IV drips can&amp;#039;t prevent that.\u00A0 Was it worth it?\u00A0If you don&amp;#039;t like needles or are planning on going out boozing, probs avoid. But\u00A0in all the photographs from the night before I do look healthy and bright eyed, and for the next few days (once I&amp;#039;ve ditched the red wine head) I do feel better, and I sleep better. While I&amp;#039;m probably not going to make this a regular thing (Zara sale &amp;amp;gt; vitamin drips, soz), it&amp;#039;s definitely something I&amp;#039;d consider if I was feeling especially drained and had a big meeting or heavy\u00A0work week ahead. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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