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  Why Are Celebrities Getting Vampire Facials?

A "blood facial" or "vampire facial" is a cosmetic procedure during which a doctor draws a couple vials of blood from your arm, centrifuges the blood to separate out the plasma and platelets from the red blood cells, and then adds the platelet-rich plasma back into your face. For extra absorption, the doctor pokes your face all over with a bunch of micro-needles before applying the plasma. Reminds me a little bit of making a Jell-O poke cake.

 We Looked Into the Big Claims Around Blood Facials

They've been around for years (see: Kim K getting a Vampire Facial in 2013), but a new study tries to determine just how effective they really are.

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PRP The Natural Filler

Platelet Rich Plasma therapy is used to treat volume loss in the face, hands and neck. It improves the appearance of crepey skin in the tear troughs, dark circles, facial wrinkles, acne scaring and stretch marks giving you the ultimate in illumination, skin rejuvenation and anti aging properties. Platelets are a crucial component in wound healing and contain multiple growth factors that help to expedite the body's own repair process. Ultimately, stimulating new collagen and elastin using your natural biology triggering the production of new cells over the next 6-8 weeks.

What Are PRP Injections? Everything You Need to Know About Natural Fillers

PRP has been used for decades for wound and soft tissue healing by orthopedic surgeons and wound care physicians. However, more recently, there has been a large amount of research and clinical evidence demonstrating PRP’s regenerative properties for the treatment of scars, minimizing pores, fine wrinkles, volume loss, hair loss, and skin rejuvenation

Does PRP Therapy Actually Work?

Proponents claim your own blood can be a healing elixir — think: the vampire facial — but the science is missing.

Hard Science Behind PRP Craze?

“Although platelets are the body’s natural healing machine, in that they are attracted to injured tissue sites where they release their rich content of abundant growth factors and cytokines, the resultant biological activities are complex, consisting of both anabolic and catabolic activities.”

Healing The Healthy Way: Understanding What Your Stem Cells and Platelets Already Know About You

Aging gracefully comes in many different forms but for those of us who understand our path to healing, whether you are trying to reverse the aging process, or to heal an injury, what you know is that the healthiest ways to improve our health are already in our bodies, living in our stem cells and platelets.