Active Ingredients

Färsk Health’s formulas have been carefully designed by our medical team with the intention of providing our patients access to optimized wellbeing. There are powerful actives in each of our products and each of them tackles a specific health concern.

We use reputable, traceable providers to source our ingredients, which are in compliance with GMP, OCP and PCCA standards and Health Canada. The ingredients for our IV Drips are specially scrutinized in order to keep safety as our priority: we use only ingredients with intravenous indication -never powders- with DIN and manufacture them in a DPP facility.

Vitamins

Vitamins are organic molecules that the body needs in order to function properly. Some of them have a specific biochemical function in the body, and some work together in different processes of the body.

Vitamins help the body synthesize essential nutrients and allow it to work optimally. Both deficiencies and excess of vitamins can be a threat to the body, which is why our products include the highest dosage that is safe to optimize health.

Electrolytes

Electrolytes are minerals that carry an electric charge when they enter our bloodstream, affecting fluid balance, blood pH, blood pressure, muscle tissues and brain cells. The primary electrolytes for our health are sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphate and chloride.

The kidneys and several hormones regulate the concentration of each electrolyte, but imbalances happen when certain electrolytes become higher than what the body can regulate. The most common symptom of an electrolyte imbalance is dehydration.

Amino Acids

Amino acids are organic compounds often referred to as the building blocks of proteins. They each play different key roles in the body. They are composed of nitrogen, carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, along with a variable side chain group.

The body needs 20 amino acids, nine of which are essential -which means our bodies don’t produce them on their own, so we need to source them from food or supplements. These are: Histidine, Isoleucine, Leucine, Lysine, Methionine, Phenylalanine, Threonine, Tryptophan and Valine.

From Vitamin A to Zinc, we got you covered!

Let’s take a deeper look at each of the ingredients in these categories, which you will find in our products.

Vitamin A

  • Stimulates the production of new skin cells once it has been converted to retinol by the liver
  • Contributes to keeping desirable levels of hydration in the skin
  • Boosts the immune system
  • Prevents the reproduction of viral cells, allowing the body the increased ability to produce normal, healthy immune cells to fight infections
  • Improves wound healing
  • Helps vision in dim light

Vitamin A Derivatives

See Astaxanthin, B-carotene, Lycopene and Retinol.

  • Acetate (Electrolyte)
  • Hydrates skin
  • Prevents fine lines and wrinkles
  • Helps wound healing
  • Reduces inflammation

Amino Acids

  • Restore visible skin damage by connecting peptides and proteins
  • Strengthen the surface of the skin, making fine lines and wrinkles less deep, and ensuring the skin is hydrated
  • Strengthen the immune system
  • Improve mood
  • Improve liver function

Ascorbic Acid

See Vitamin C.

  • Astaxanthin (Vitamin A Derivative)
  • Provides photoprotection against UVA spectrum, whose effects are skin sagging and wrinkling
  • Reduces the appearance of age spots
  • Hydrates skin
  • Boosts the body’s use of fatty acids, which helps endurance
  • Prevents muscle and skeletal damage
  • Intervenes in the treatment of high cholesterol
  • Provides antioxidant benefits

Vitamin B Complex

  • Increase energy levels
  • Promote cardiovascular health
  • Improve cellular health
  • Increase red blood cell production
  • Benefit brain function
  • Regulate hormonal function
  • Improve appetite
  • Intervene in nerve function
  • Aid digestion

Vitamin B1

See Thiamine.

Vitamin B2

See Riboflavin.

Vitamin B3

See Niacinamide.

Vitamin B5

See pro-Vitamin B5.

Vitamin B6

See Pyridoxine.

Vitamin B7

See Biotin.

Vitamin B9

See Folic Acid.

Vitamin B12

See Cyanocobalamin.

Beta Carotene (Vitamin A Derivative)

  • Supports eye health and prevents eye diseases
  • Provides photoprotection (prevention of UV-induced erythema)
  • Provides antioxidant benefits

Benzocaine

  • Relieves and prevents pain when used locally as an anaesthetic by preventing the propagation of sodium into the membrane of neurons, which inhibits the transmission of pain through the action potential

Biotin (Vitamin B7)

  • Helps the body convert food into energy
  • Lowers cholesterol
  • Contributes to blood sugar regulation
  • Assists in the metabolism of amino acids
  • Strengthens hair and nails
  • Boosts skin hydration

Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid)

  • Promotes healthy ageing, as it contributes to the defense system, acting as an antioxidant and an enzyme for essential growth and tissue repair of cells
  • Helps defend against the damage that UV light can cause because of its antioxidant properties.
  • Lightens hyperpigmentation and encourage new collagen to grow
  • Helps preserve existing collagen levels of the skin, which can contribute to faster healing of scars, wounds and improve fine lines and wrinkles
  • Contributes to collagen synthesis
  • Repairs membrane-bound, oxidized vitamin E
  • Helps the body produce the collagen necessary to resolve sink injuries
  • Tackles hyperpigmentation from sun damage or acne scarring
  • Reduces elastin production when overproduced following photodamage
  • Boosts immunity
  • Contributes to managing high blood pressure and may lower risk of heart disease
  • Reduces blood uric acid levels, which can help with joint inflammation and pain
  • Helps prevent iron deficiency

  • Chloride (Electrolyte)
  • Balances fluids inside and outside of cells
  • Optimizes pH in bodily fluids
  • Helps maintain proper blood volumes
  • Contributes to achieving desirable blood pressure levels

Cyanocobalamin (Vitamin B12)

  • Increases energy by helping with the conversion of food to glucose
  • Boosts athletic performance
  • Keeps nerves and red blood cells healthy
  • Increases red blood cell production and their oxygen-carrying capacity
  • Prevents certain types of anemia, like megaloblastic anaemia, which makes people tired and weak
  • Supports bone health and may prevent osteoporosis
  • Improves mood and may improve other symptoms of depression
  • Benefits brain health by preventing the loss of neurons

Vitamin D

  • Enhances mood by keeping energy levels up and increasing blood flow
  • Regulates calcium and phosphorus in the body, which helps maintain healthy growth of bones and teeth
  • Modulates inflammation, which helps heal damaged skin, including scars and wounds
  • Activates the innate and adaptive immune systems
  • Facilitates the reparation of skin tissue needed to recover the injured skin
  • Serves several biological functions in skin, including regulating the proliferation and differentiation of keratinocytes, hair follicle cycling, and tumor suppression
  • Provides photoprotective effects
  • Inhibits stress related protein activation
  • Suppresses production of pro-inflammatory proteins

Vitamin E

  • Slows down processes that damage cells, which can prevent and delay certain cancers and disease states
  • Strengthens the immune system
  • Assists on cellular restoration caused by sun damage, scars and burns, promoting smoother skin and improved texture
  • Prevents oxidative damage to cells caused by free radicals given its antioxidant properties
  • Protects against collagen cross-linking and lipid peroxidation, which directly affects skin elasticity
  • Provides photoprotection

Electrolytes

  • Intervene in fluid balance
  • Support hydration
  • Contribute to blood pH
  • Maintain desirable blood pressure levels
  • Help the body produce energy
  • Stimulate muscle contractions including those that keep the heart beating
  • Impact brain cells

Folic Acid (Vitamin B9)

  • Helps produce and maintain new cells
  • Protects cellular changes to DNA
  • Reduces inflammation
  • Improves certain types of anemia, like folate deficiency anemia
  • Reduces heart disease risk factors from the interaction of certain nutrients in the blood
  • Helps optimize the health of the nervous system
  • Promotes brain health and may contribute to the treatment of mental health disorders

Glutamic Acid (Amino Acid)

  • Triggers the body’s own production of glutathione
  • Improves memory and focus
  • Boosts the immune system
  • Detoxifies the body
  • Improves athletic performance
  • Benefits the digestive system, especially those with acid problems

Glutathione

  • Inhibits melanin production, resulting in lightening of the skin
  • Repairs oxidized vitamin E reduction of skin pigmentation
  • Prevents visible signs of ageing of the skin -like fine lines, hydration and elasticity, given its powerful endogenous antioxidant properties
  • Assists programmed cell death, known as apoptosis
  • Contributes to DNA production, the building blocks of proteins and cells
  • Strengthens the immune system
  • Detoxifies the liver
  • Helps the liver and gallbladder deal with fats
  • Kills free radicals in our bodies
  • Helps support brain health

Histidine (Amino Acid)

  • Intervenes in the growth and repair of tissues
  • Assists in the production of red blood cells
  • Enables the formation of myelin sheaths, which are layers surrounding nerves, allowing for faster transmission of signals to the brain
  • Improves cognitive function
  • Maintains normal levels of hemoglobin, which delivers oxygen from the lungs to the tissues of the body
  • Helps weight management
  • Affects sexual function
  • Helps optimize sleep-wake cycles

Isoleucine (Amino Acid)

  • Enhances immune function
  • Contributes to hemoglobin production
  • Helps control blood sugar
  • Regulates energy
  • Assists in healing injured muscles and the development of lean body mass

L-Cysteine (Amino Acid)

  • See N-Acetylcysteine.

Leucine (Amino Acid)

  • Helps regulate blood sugar levels
  • Stimulates wound healing
  • Produces growth hormones
  • Helps build muscle

Levocarnitine

  • Increases stamina
  • Promotes utilization of fats for energy
  • Aids in athletic recovery
  • Minimizes muscle soreness
  • Contributes to heart health

Lidocaine

  • Numbs the treatment area quickly and efficiently by altering the conduction of signals in neurons and blocking the voltage-gated sodium channels and preventing the generation of an action potential

Lycopene (Vitamin A Derivative)

  • Mitigates oxidative damage due to UV light exposure
  • Improves heart health
  • Contributes to eye health
  • Provides antioxidant benefits

Lysine (Amino Acid)

  • Helps in energy production, especially from fats
  • Helps lower cholesterol
  • Enhances immune function
  • Contributes to calcium absorption and retention
  • Improves anxiety by blocking the receptors involved in stress response
  • Intervenes in the production of collagen and elastin

Magnesium (Electrolyte)

  • Creates energy by activating ATP within cells, which allows increased physical performance
  • Contributes to protein formation
  • Helps create and repair DNA and RNA
  • Plays a critical role in the contraction of muscles
  • Prevents cramps
  • Contributes to anti-inflammatory properties in muscles and joints to help decrease pain levels
  • Regulates the nervous system
  • Provides antioxidant benefits

Methionine (Amino Acid)

  • Plays an important role in the absorption of zinc and selenium, minerals that are vital to our health
  • Improves wound healing
  • Lowers cholesterol levels by increasing lecithin production in the liver
  • Nourishes hair, nails and skin
  • Slows down cellular aging
  • Provides antioxidant benefits

N-Acetylcysteine (Amino Acid)

  • Precludes glutathione
  • Promotes detox of the liver and kidneys
  • Boosts brain health
  • Stabilizes blood sugar by decreasing inflammation in fat cells
  • Provides antioxidant benefits

Niacinamide (Vitamin B3)

  • Releases energy from food through the metabolism of glucose, fat and alcohol
  • Boosts the immune system
  • Protects against oxidative stress
  • Helps keep the skin and nervous system healthy in cell synthesis
  • Contributes to the growth of a ceramide barrier which helps retain moisture
  • Reduces inflammation of the skin
  • Minimizes the appearance of pores
  • Diminishes hyperpigmentation

Phenylalanine (Amino Acid)

  • Contributes to stress management through the production of epinephrine and norepinephrine
  • Boosts mood by contributing to the release of dopamine
  • Plays an integral role in the structure and function of proteins and enzymes and producing other amino acids

Phosphate (Electrolyte)

  • Helps maintain bones strong and healthy
  • Manages how the body stores and uses energy
  • Reduces muscle pain after exercise
  • Filters out waste in the kidneys
  • Grows, maintains and repairs tissue and cells
  • Produces DNA and RNA, the body’s building blocks
  • Maintains a regular heartbeat
  • Facilitates nerve conduction
  • Balances and uses vitamins such as vitamins B and D as well as other minerals such as iodine, magnesium and zinc

Potassium (Electrolyte)

  • Regulates fluid balance
  • Controls electrical activity of the heart and muscles
  • Protects against loss of muscle mass
  • Preserves bone mineral density
  • Reduces formation of kidney stones
  • Helps lower blood pressure
  • Contributes to generating nerve impulses

Pro-Vitamin B5 (Vitamin B5)

  • Facilitates metabolism of energy and proper absorption of nutrients, breaking down fats and carbohydrates
  • Assists in neurological functions through the production of acetylcholine
  • Regulates melatonin production
  • Helps certain kinds of anemia because it contributes to red blood cell production
  • Promotes healthy skin, hair, eyes and liver

Pyridoxine (Vitamin B6)

  • Improves mood and reduces symptoms of depression through its contribution to the production of serotonin, dopamine and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)
  • Aids in hemoglobin production, which can prevent and treat certain kinds of anemia
  • Decreases elevated levels of homocysteine, which are associated with heart disease and certain eye problems
  • Enhances the production of collagen
  • Restores skin hydration
  • Improves skin texture

Retinol (Vitamin A Derivative)

  • Reduces fine lines and wrinkles
  • Diminishes age spots
  • Helps cut down excess sebum production, which reduces the risk of acne
  • Enhances the body’s immunity against infections
  • Contributes to the proper functioning of eyes and vision
  • Prevents urinary stones

Riboflavin (Vitamin B2)

  • Works as a precursor of coenzymes important for many bodily processes
  • Helps the breakdown of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates
  • Contributes to maintaining desirable energy levels by converting carbohydrates into adenosine triphosphate (ATP)
  • Improves respiration and energy production within the mitochondria of brain cells, which can assist in treating migraines
  • Provides antioxidant benefits

Selenium

  • Lowers markers of inflammation in the body
  • Contributes to the proper functioning of the thyroid gland, which regulates the metabolism
  • Boosts the immune system by lowering oxidative stress
  • Aids in skin proliferation
  • Provides antioxidant benefits

Sodium (Electrolyte)

  • Helps control fluids in the body, impacting blood pressure
  • Intervenes in muscle and nerve function

Threonine (Amino Acid)

  • Helps energy production
  • Supports digestive health
  • Supports muscle and bone health
  • Helps prevent fatty liver
  • Plays a role in fat metabolism
  • Enhances immune function
  • Contributes to structural proteins such as collagen and elastin -essential components of the skin and connective tissue

Thiamine (Vitamin B1)

  • Aids in processing sugar and amino acids
  • Decreases levels of albumin in the urine, which helps protect against kidney damage
  • Increases the ability of the body to convert carbohydrates in our food to energy, which is essential for glucose metabolism and keeps insulin levels within the desirable range
  • Helps prevent complications in the nervous system, brain, muscles, heart, stomach and intestines
  • Contributes to the flow of electrolytes into and out of muscle and nerve cells

Tetracaine

  • Blocks the transmission of nerve impulses, working as a local anesthetic by altering the function of calcium release channels that control the release of calcium from intracellular stores

Tocopherols

  • See Vitamin E.

Tryptophan (Amino Acid)

  • Supports nitrogen balance, which contributes to the creation of serotonin
  • Contributes to restful sleep
  • Regulates appetite and mood
  • Improves PMS symptoms
  • Provides relief from anxiety and depression and improved emotional well-being

Valine (Amino Acid)

  • Prevents muscle breakdown and boosts athletic performance
  • Helps stimulate muscle growth and regeneration and is involved in energy production
  • Detoxifies the body, particularly from nitrogen

Zinc

  • Helps regulate iron levels, which in turn provides the body with an energy boost, increasing red blood cell production
  • Prevents the reproduction of viral cells, improving the body’s ability to produce normal, healthy immune cells to fight infections
  • Assists in the creation of cellular protein and DNA
  • Improves wound healing
  • Aids in skin proliferation
  • Provides antioxidant benefits