
Do you believe leeches can help you looks more younger?
The Egyptians apparently swore by leeches for everything from headaches to gout, and they were popular during the 1800s when blood-letting (draining blood out of a patient) was seen as a good thing.
Their mystical powers do have some basis in fact. When they feed, leeches secrete a variety of different substances into the wound, including anti-inflammatories and an anti-coagulant called hirudin that stops blood from clotting.
So what’s this all about?
Actually, this is what Demi Moore did. She uses blood-sucking leeches as a beauty treatment. Leeches are great for detoxifying your blood and, although she’d always thought that the liver and the kidneys did a fairly good job of that, she still happy to try anything that may help.











