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IV Vitamin C is not fraudulent. It has decades of history.

In the 1970s I was a nationally ranked bicycle road racer. It is a very demanding sport; I used to ride over 300 miles a week about 10 months out of the year. We were always looking for anything that would give us an edge.

One of the things people tried were massive doses of vitamin C. I think the main thing it did was give your kidneys and liver a good workout trying filter it all back out, but I remember some people getting rashes and other unpleasant side effects such as becoming dehydrated. It seemed obvious to me even as a young man that it was stupid and did nothing to help people to ride their bicycles further, faster, and with less fatigue. Even so, we had some middle aged scam artist who called himself a doctor come to one of our bicycle racing club meetings pushing this nonsense.

I don't remember anyone who gave him money for his vitamin C “treatment” getting really sick, but most of them gave it up fairly quickly when it gave no positive results.

But you are right people have been taking massive doses of various nutritional supplements for decades. Fortunately most of them do little harm and do nothing more than create expensive urine. I don't know anything about this particular organization but in a lot of similar situations, the people taking the money are charlatans. One should try to remember that our bodies can use only so much of anything we eat, drink, breath, absorb or have injected into our blood. Even drinking too much water in a short period of time can kill someone.