Myers' Cocktail

Most supplements are taken one bottle at a time. The Myers' Cocktail takes the opposite approach: it combines several nutrients the body uses together and delivers them in a single infusion. The logic is straightforward — the vitamins and minerals involved in energy, immune function, and stress all depend on one another, so supplying them at the same time makes practical sense.

B-complex vitamins act as cofactors in the reactions that turn food into cellular energy, and magnesium is required for the steps that produce ATP, the body's energy currency. Pairing them mirrors how these nutrients actually work inside cells — neither does its job well without the others present.

Vitamin C contributes antioxidant and immune support and assists collagen formation, while calcium and magnesium support normal muscle and nerve function. Together they round out a blend aimed at general wellness rather than any single symptom.

Delivering these nutrients intravenously sidesteps the digestive tract, where absorption of minerals like magnesium and of higher doses of vitamin C is limited. That is the core rationale for the IV route — it allows blood levels that oral tablets struggle to reach. The Myers' Cocktail is intended to supplement a healthy lifestyle, not to replace a balanced diet or to treat a medical condition.

The Myers' Cocktail is named after John Myers, MD, a physician in Baltimore, Maryland, who treated patients with intravenous vitamins and minerals beginning in the 1960s and continuing until his death in 1984. Working largely from clinical observation, Dr. Myers built a loyal following of patients who returned for regular infusions.

After Dr. Myers passed away, Alan Gaby, MD, a physician who inherited many of his patients, refined and standardized the formula. It was Dr. Gaby who documented the protocol and gave it the name it carries today, publishing a widely cited review of intravenous nutrient therapy in 2002.¹ His paper turned an informal in-office recipe into a defined, repeatable protocol.

In the decades since, the Myers' Cocktail has become one of the most widely used IV nutrient blends in integrative and wellness medicine. The version offered today stays close to the original — magnesium, calcium, a range of B vitamins, and vitamin C — the same combination that earned the formula its reputation over more than half a century of use.

¹ Gaby AR. Intravenous nutrient therapy: the “Myers' cocktail.” Altern Med Rev. 2002;7(5):389–403.