SAN RAMON, CALIFORNIA – Are you the kind of person who lugs around a 2 gallon water bottle wherever you go? Do you start conversations with strangers about their hydration habits?
For a new store/clinic in San Ramon, that would actually be considered a low-key approach to hydration.
The new clinic, Hydration Room, has opened its doors at City Center Bishop Ranch in San Ramon, bringing a growing wellness trend to the East Bay.
The clinic specializes in IV hydration therapy, a treatment that delivers fluids, vitamins, and nutrients directly into the bloodstream through an intravenous drip. Supporters say the treatment can help people recover from dehydration, fatigue, illness, or strenuous exercise.
Treatments on offer at the San Ramon location include IV-based hydration, as well as hangover recovery therapies, vitamin infusions, and much else.
Most IV sessions take about 45–60 minutes and are administered by trained medical staff in a clinic setting, the Hydration Room says.
The new clinic is located in the popular City Center Bishop Ranch shopping and dining complex on Bollinger Canyon Road, near West Elm and across from Pottery Barn.
The company behind the clinic operates dozens of locations across California and promotes its treatments as physician-developed wellness therapies. Like “med spas”, it’s a new trend towards blending wellness and medicine.
IV hydration clinics have been popping up in cities across the country in recent years. Because IV therapy delivers fluids and vitamins directly into the bloodstream, it bypasses the digestive system, which proponents say allows nutrients to be absorbed more efficiently.
Physicians say that treatments can have benefits, although simply drinking water works well for many people, too.
