IV Therapy
IV therapy with vitamins and nutrients has been in use for many years. Today, IV therapy has proven to be effective in dealing with a multitude of conditions. If you’re healthy and want to slow down the effects of aging, increase your endurance and ability to recover from exercise, or want to boost your immune system, IV therapy can help. If you’re sick and would like some relief from your symptoms, IV therapy is also a great option depending on the condition or illness.
dr. fred harvey
Functional Medicine Practitioner
IV Nutritional Therapy
Intravenous (IV) therapy uses a needle and container of fluids to deliver nutrients and vitamins directly into your vein. This allows the fluids to get into your bloodstream faster than taking them by mouth. A variety of vitamins and minerals can be given intravenously, and they all fall under IV therapy. It’s great for boosting the immune system and fixing nutritional deficiencies. We here at Functional Medicine Florida take a unique nutrition approach to help decide what IV therapy may be best for you.
IV Chelation Therapy
Chelation therapy is a treatment for heavy metal poisoning: iron, mercury, arsenic, and lead. Some people give chelation “therapy” for other conditions such as cardiovascular disease, autism, and Alzheimer’s
How Does It Work?
Chelation therapy uses special drugs that bind to metals in your blood. You get the chelating medicine through an intravenous (IV) tube in your arm. It’s also available in pill form. Once the drug has attached to the metal, your body removes them both through your pee.
Metals that can be removed with chelation therapy include lead, mercury, and arsenic. Before you get this treatment, your doctor will do a blood test to make sure you have metal poisoning.
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what people say
Chris Vercelli
I’m a health practitioner who has worked with many of Dr. Harvey’s patients, and the feedback I’ve gotten from them about his care is wonderful. He is very well educated and very good at developing treatment plans for a variety of health problems. His approach to healthcare is SO needed in this world of cookie cutter “medicine”, and even if you only went to him for a second opinion, it’d be well worth it. Thanks for all you do Doc! God bless!
Kenn R.
Dr. Harvey is head-and-shoulders above any other medical practitioner we have encountered. When we first came to Sarasota, he gave my wife and me the most thorough physical exams we had ever had, ordering very different sets of blood tests for each of us based on his extensive initial questioning. From the blood tests, he figured out right away what had baffled my previous family doctor, and a high-dollar hematologist, and corrected my problem using simple dietary changes. With his help, my wife got off medications she had needed for decades. …Dr. Harvey is just a delightful, open person and a pleasure to work with.
Judith Harding
I’ve been a patient of Dr. Harvey’s for several years, something like seven years. He always has a very knowledgeable and supportive staff. Recently, I had a very quick and hard fall that changed my life drastically. Dr. Harvey and his staff, especially Haylee, Kerry, and Tracy have helped me through some dark days. I am so grateful for their support. I can see there is hope for me to have continued good health and quality of life.
Mrs Wright
When I came to you I was going doctor to doctor and feeling worse and believing that I was going down. All the medicines that I was taking to help me had so many adverse effects that I kept feeling worse and I never got any beneficial results. I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren’s syndrome, lifelong constipation, severe migraine headaches, insomnia, and lymphoma. I was extremely exhausted. Since I have come to see you I have never felt better. I am 80 and I feel better than I did at 50! … I have a life again! THANK YOU SO MUCH DR HARVEY!!! YOU Are my hero! I thank God every night for Him sending me to you!
Susan Miller
Best people in the world! Sweetest people! Doing the best job anyone can do on the planet present or future. Everyone here is an angel
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What we do
SERVICES WE OFFER
Preventative Diagnostics
Diagnostic testing and evaluation is an important component to understand how your body’s processes are functioning.
Brain Health
This form of medicine focuses on detecting, dealing with, and preventing conditions that come with aging.
Functional Lab Testing
Functional laboratory evaluation is an important component to understanding how your body’s processes are functioning
IV Therapy
IV therapy with vitamins and nutrients has been in use for many years. Today, IV therapy has proven to be effective in dealing with a multitude of conditions.
Nutritional Counseling
Personalized Education including the evaluation of your current dietary intake and how that impacts your current health conditions.
Toxicity Reduction
Toxicity is the byproduct of industrial society. We are subjected to exposures of many toxic substances on a daily if not minute by minute basis.