 | | 5 / 7 5. Taking placental extract injections
In their quest to stop the clock, some women have resorted to placenta injections, which are touted to maintain youthfulness and improve health, so much so that they have become a hit particularly in Asian countries such as Japan and Korea.
Why it's not worth it: Injecting placenta extracts into your body is controversial at the very least, and has its risks: The Contonal University Hospital in Switzerland published a report in the British Medical Journal of a patient who developed blistering skin disease after receiving injections of human placental extracts. "The hazards of injecting extracts of human tissues have not been fully considered, although this practice is becoming popular in the quest for maintaining youth," the doctors leading the case warn.
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