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The long-dormant sheep placenta is "rejuvenating" again.
Just because of a video of an interview from 10 years ago.
This "archaeological video" because of its rich micro-expressions and undercurrent surging atmosphere, immediately set off a boom in sheep placenta imitation show, sheep placenta video adaptation and other boom, and its related videos even played 6.36 million on station B.
The imitation video on Station B has been played more than 6 million times
In addition, the golden phrases in the so-called "sheep placenta literature", such as "That's not because of this", are also frequently seen in the hot reviews of various events.
Sheep placenta, a beauty product that was once rumored to be a godsend, is now "unfolding" on the Internet in a witty way. With that comes the concern for "sheep placenta" itself.
"Sheep placenta is not good to use" "Can it be anti-aging"... Plastic surgery and beauty doctor Luo Qian found these messages in the background of his social science account. Luo Qian noted that people always have a strong desire to fight aging, but they do not have a clear understanding and safety concept of beauty products, and it is easy to be biased by the intricate information of the Network, "running to beauty salons for injections, or even black clinics, and even not knowing what brand of products they play."
In fact, with the Swiss government's early suspension of sheep placenta therapy, this controversial beauty therapy in terms of safety and efficacy has become extinct. However, health care products and cosmetics with sheep placenta as the selling point still have a market that cannot be underestimated.
Those products with a price of up to thousands of yuan and tens of thousands of yuan still use "Swiss sheep placenta" as a signboard, provoking consumers' imagination of beauty miracles, and even excessive pursuit. Therefore, the question of "whether sheep placenta can unfold the skin" cannot be just a humorous topic that is laughed off.
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Switzerland's "national treasure"?
Before 2015, when it was stopped by the Swiss government, sheep placenta had been a luxury trend product in the beauty industry because of its high price and magical publicity effect, which made many stars flock to it.
Among them, the star Szchenkova not only experienced it herself, but also appeared as a spokesperson in the promotional advertisement of the Swiss Health Center. In the promotional video, Szchenkova, who appeared on camera, claimed to have lived in Switzerland for many years and would accompany her husband to the Swiss Health Center for treatment every year.
According to the promotional video of the Swiss Health Center, Szchenkova will accompany her husband to the Swiss Health Center for treatment every year
"Beauty is also from the inside out, if only the surface of the skin is not enough, physical and mental health, mental health can achieve spiritual upliftment, from the inside to the outside." Schenkova said.
This advertisement declares that the Swiss Health Center is an authoritative anti-aging institution approved by the Swiss government, and the sheep embryonic cell activation therapy as an anti-aging sign is known as a "national treasure" of Switzerland.
According to The Swiss Health Center, they used the traditional buttock intramuscular injection method, as well as the latest intravenous injection method at that time.
Song Weimin, vice president of the Facial Rejuvenation Branch of the China Plastic Surgery and Beauty Association and former director of the Dermatology Department of the Third People's Hospital of Hangzhou, told the South Wind Window reporter that sheep placenta injection is to inject some growth hormone and sex hormones extracted from sheep embryos into the human body through intravenous or intramuscular injection to produce a certain effect.
The so-called sheep placenta therapy, the "live cell therapy" of sheep embryos, is essentially a xenotransplantation. Song Weimin pointed out that part of this therapy is to extract cell active substances from sheep embryos about 1 to 3 months of pregnancy and inject them into the human body, and another part is to inject the sex hormones and growth hormones required for embryonic development present in the placenta into the human body.
"The fetus, in the case of development, needs a large number of hormones to maintain its rapid growth. Therefore, using the hormones in this particular embryo may temporarily make the body's functions 'powerful'. Song Weimin introduced. Patients have reported to him that they obviously feel energetic after receiving sheep placenta therapy, or that their hands and feet have become warmer.
However, the effect may fade in the later stages.
Some patients also said they experienced side effects. For example, abnormal acne on the face due to hormone stimulation, and the quality of sleep after the beating is reduced.
Luo Qian pointed out that the Swiss "live cell therapy" was only used to treat diseases in the early stage, and gradually developed some applications of anti-aging in the later stage. "But so far, we don't have a large number of cases to form evidence for evidence-based medicine. It's hard to say that the safety and efficacy of this technology is passable. ”
Regarding the so-called anti-aging and anti-resistance effects of sheep placenta, researchers at home and abroad have also done some research, but the vast majority of them are carried out in cells or animals.
"Sheep placenta itself has many other components besides living cells. If you only use a so-called drug with unclear components to treat or anti-aging in general, it is difficult to have absolute credibility. Luo Qian said.
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Temptation and stop
Although the efficacy of sheep placenta has not been proven by modern medicine, this exotic high-end beauty method has attracted a large number of beauty enthusiasts to try it.
Although the cost of a shot of sheep placenta is as little as more than 200,000 yuan, and the price is as high as 500,000, 600,000, or even 800,000, around 2010, sheep placenta has a lot of attraction among China's high-consumption population, and it has become a combination of medical and tourism activities in Switzerland.
A sheep placenta website in Switzerland in 2015
According to the Medical Products Division of the Swiss Federal Health Service, in 2011 alone, Switzerland issued entry visas for medical purposes to 913 Chinese tourists, of whom about 80% received sheep placenta therapy.
The treatment with Swiss sheep placenta as the selling point has also formed a mature industrial chain. Chinese agents have recommended personalized packages with different prices according to the different physical conditions of customers, and then arranged for them to travel such as hospital physical examination, accommodation, anti-aging treatment, etc., and also provided visas, transfers, medical translations and other full-process services.
Song Weimin introduced to the South Wind Window that the agent will organize interested customers to conduct a physical examination in The country first, to prove that the physical condition is sufficient to meet the conditions for carrying out medical behavior, and if there are infectious diseases, tumors, etc., they do not meet the conditions.
If it is proved to be so, the customer is taken to a scenic sanatorium in Switzerland. They visit sanatoriums, laboratories, and Caucasian black sheep that will provide sheep placenta and sheep embryos like tourists.
2010 report on sheep placenta treatment
After the visit, these customers may be taken on a tour of Switzerland's scenic spots. During this time, the designated goats are sent to the laboratory for sheep placenta extraction, etc. When the sheep placenta is made, customers will receive sheep placenta injection treatment in the nursing home, and if there is no finished sheep placenta, they can also be brought back to China to continue the injection.
"People who have just finished taking sheep placenta will feel energetic, but there are also hidden dangers. For example, after playing with sex hormones and growth hormones, the speed of virus replication of some infectious diseases will be faster, and it may also aggravate the probability of tumors and cancers, and promote some unnecessary development of the human body. Song Weimin has always been cautious about this kind of hidden treatment.
As early as 2008, the National Health Commission has publicly stated that sheep placenta contains bioactive ingredients, lacks edible history and edible safety certificates in the mainland, and cannot be used as an ordinary food raw material
Sheep placenta agents also once targeted public hospitals because of their persuasive authority. Song Weimin remembers that when he was the deputy director of the Dermatology Department of the Third People's Hospital of Hangzhou, there were constantly sheep placenta agents who came to him and hoped to endorse him, but Song Weimin eventually refused.
Song Weimin's refusal was correct.
In 2015, the Swiss medical regulator completely suspended the anti-aging therapy of sheep placenta. At that time, a spokesman for the Swiss Drug Regulatory Agency told the media that there was no scientific evidence that sheep placenta live cell therapy had any anti-aging effects, and that the therapy could pose significant health risks.
In addition, the Swiss Medical Authority also said that the relevant Swiss authorities have not issued a power of attorney to any institution that provides live cell therapies such as sheep placenta. There are no legal beauty institutions or clinics in Switzerland that offer cosmetic treatments for live cell therapy.
The Swiss Food and Drug Administration halted the sheep placenta injection program
In 2015, CCTV interviewed the Swiss Medical Authority during an investigation into the chaos of sheep placenta products, and said that so-called fresh cell therapies such as sheep placenta may lead to health risks such as allergies, abscesses at the injection site, and even the spread of animal pathogens, as well as diseases of the own immune system.
Because sheep placenta is injected directly into the human body as an allogeneic protein, it is likely to cause immune problems. Experts pointed out that the safety of live cell therapy can not be guaranteed, but also may cause allergic reactions, some people after the beating, may appear skin rash, serious high fever, joint muscle pain, resulting in liver and kidney damage, neurological damage, if there is vasculitis and other serious inflammation, may also cause some life-threatening situations.
Song Weimin introduced that at that time, the Swiss government also found that prion proteins in cattle and sheep could cause transmission, which could lead to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and mad cow disease. Due to the occlusive nature and difficulty of knowing this prion protein, the Swiss government has also completely banned the medical practice of injecting sheep placenta into the human body.
Currently, no country in the world has certified sheep placenta therapy as legal.
Nowadays, it seems that playing sheep placenta does not necessarily achieve "inside-out" beauty, but may encounter "inside-out" health dangers.
The heartwarming sheep placenta treatment is just a costly anti-aging adventure.
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Beautiful lies
The popularity of sheep placenta therapy has receded, but the legend of sheep placenta has always existed.
Nowadays, with "sheep placenta" as the keyword, searching on e-commerce and social platforms, there are still a large number of skin care products and beauty products with "youth beauty" and "body tonic" as the selling points.
At present, the e-commerce platform is still filled with a large number of skin care products and beauty products with sheep placenta as the selling point
As a customer, the reporter of the South Wind Window consulted Xiao Ji, a sales agent who sold sheep placenta products. Xiao Ji said that the sheep placenta she represents is a Swiss genuine product, including serums, masks and so on. Take one of the sheep placenta serums as an example, it is known as "improving the quality of reborn cells" and "alleviating skin aging", etc., there are three different sheep placenta concentrations, the higher the concentration, the stronger the so-called anti-aging ability.
Xiao Ji introduced that the price of sheep placenta essence is about 4,000 yuan per course of treatment, and it only needs to be used 4 times a year. "The price is not cheap, because the effect is also obvious, it is pharmaceutical grade packaging." Xiao Ji sells the road.
But in the eyes of professionals, such beauty products are more like "sheep placenta" as a gimmick. Song Weimin believes that from the extract of sheep placenta, sheep placenta itself is a relatively large molecule protein, and it is impossible to enter the human skin with the molecular weight of a living cell.
Some sheep placenta beauty products claim to fill in wrinkles
"Now these products about sheep placenta, more are fried concepts, rubbing heat only, in fact, the real sheep placenta should be living cells, if it is made into oral or other smears, it is impossible to advertise such a good effect as living cells." Luo Qian said.
In addition, this cream, mask may also contain some hormone components, because the production of many facial spots, moles is related to hormones, if there is a lot of estrogen may lead to aggravation.
In addition to external beauty products, sheep placenta is also made into oral health product capsules. But such an approach may not have a greater effect.
Tu Ping, deputy director of the Department of Dermatology of Peking University First Hospital, said in an interview with the media that sheep placenta as a protein is broken down into small components such as short peptides or amino acids if it enters the intestine through oral administration and passes through the digestive function of the intestine. After this ingredient enters the human body, its effect is equivalent to people drinking a bowl of broth or eating a piece of cooked beef.
If sheep placenta as a protein enters the human body by oral administration, its effect is equivalent to people drinking a bowl of broth or eating a piece of cooked beef
The former Ministry of Health pointed out in the reply on the use of sheep placenta as an ordinary food raw material that the sheep placenta contains a variety of biologically active ingredients, and lacks extensive consumption history and edible safety certificates in the mainland, and cannot be used as ordinary food raw materials.
The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China has also replied that there are currently no national food safety standards for the lyophilized powder of natural lamb essence extract and lyophilized powder extracted from small lamb essence in mainland China.
Tearing off the mystery of sheep placenta, it is like a beauty lie wandering in a vague area.
Song Weimin finally stressed that "the use of sheep placenta in skin care is actually of little significance, and there is no need for external use."
"And injecting sheep placenta is definitely illegal and stupid no matter where it is." This stuff craze is long gone. ”
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