If you’re feeling tired, hung over or unwell, Jennifer Burland Adams and Claire McDevitt have a solution: a shot of wellness sent straight into your arm.

In November the pair opened The Dripbar on 12 Trott Road in Hamilton, offering 14 different, customisable intravenous drips.

“These are different formulations of vitamins and minerals at different strengths, depending on how the client is feeling,” Ms Burland Adams said.

Some people come in because they are feeling a loss of energy, while others want to boost their immune system to ward off illness. A drip called metabolism helps with weight loss.

The Dripbar is an offshoot of Epic Wellness, another business the pair started in 2023.

The enterprise made at-home genetic testing available to customers who wanted to gain health and wellness insights from their own DNA.

“The epigenetics report would inform the client about whether they were deficient in something or whether their body did not absorb something well,” Ms Burland Adams said.

However, after the test results came through, clients were sometimes unsure of how to use the information.

“We started the Dripbar in November to support our clients on their health and wellness journey,” Ms Burland Adams said.

The Dripbar also provides intramuscular shots, compression therapy and red light therapy.

Customers must fill out a comprehensive medical form before a registered nurse administers the IV.

“We have a doctor in Bermuda who signs off on our standing orders and is our local medical director,” she said. “We also work with the chief medical officer of the Dripbar in Canada.”

In addition, they have partnered with The Dripbar in the US, a franchise with more than 100 locations.

“They have a whole medical team, a pharmacy team and a research and development team that has done all the research and created these formulas,” Ms Burland-Adams said. “They have set the health and safety protocols. We are not part of that franchise, because this is Bermuda, but we feel really confident in having them as our partner.”

She discovered IV infusion therapy while trying out different wellness centres overseas.

“I have looked at cryotherapy (using cold temperatures on the body), infrared therapy and red light therapy,” she said. “I tried doing IVs as well. That is where I got the idea to do this.”

The Dripbar is located at Treehouse Bermuda, the wellness hub, for the moment.

“It is a small space, but we wanted to make sure we had proof of concept first,” Ms Burland Adams said. “We have not been able to introduce everything yet, but we have proven that it works.”

They have repeat clients and have introduced a membership format for people who want several drips a month.

“We have had tourists find us also, so we are definitely outgrowing the space,” she said.

Ms Burland Adams is herself a fan of IV infusion. “One of the perks of being the co-owner is that I get to enjoy IVs as well,” she said. “I usually have two or three a month.”

If she was not travelling frequently she would probably have one every week.

She often gets an infusion of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, a coenzyme central to metabolism.

“Your body makes a lot of it when you are younger,” she said. “It tells your cells what to be like. As we get older our production of NAD slows down.”

Proponents of taking NAD believe it can enhance energy production, support DNA repair and slow the ageing process.

“I started taking that a year and a half ago and it has really made a difference to me,” she said.

Lifestyle drips are $249 for non-members of the Dripbar. Members committing to one drip a month get 20 per cent off.