2024-07-14 17:29:14
Kim Kardashian is following an anti-aging trend from Hollywood. What’s behind the treatment with salmon sperm?
For some time now, stars and starlets have been using a special anti-aging method: treatment with salmon sperm. US actress Jennifer Aniston has already tried it and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian has also had it injected. The 43-year-old revealed this in a recent episode of the format “The Kardashians”: “I had a salmon sperm facial treatment in which it was injected into my face.” But what is behind the therapy? And is it even effective?
Dr. Eveline Urselmann explains to the German edition of “Vogue” magazine that the method does not involve injecting “pure salmon sperm.” “Instead, treatment is carried out using so-called polynucleotides. Polynucleotides can be used in many different ways. On the one hand, they stimulate the natural production of collagen and hyaluronic acid, but they also stimulate skin renewal. They also have an antioxidant effect, anti-inflammatory properties, and can even be beneficial for redness and mild forms of rosacea because they strengthen blood vessels,” says the expert in aesthetic medicine.
Dermatologist Dr. Kerstin Ortlechner goes into even more detail and explains: “A nucleotide is the connection of a nucleic base (base) with a simple sugar, a pentose. Polynucleotides are several linked nucleotides that occur naturally in the DNA and RNA of salmon. More precisely, in sperm.” During therapy, the polynucleotides are injected in the form of a gel that contains these DNA and RNA fragments.
“This was discovered through skin transplants using fish skin, for example after burns. It is very biocompatible with the human body. 13 years ago, the first professor in Italy used polynucleotides to promote wound healing, because polynucleotides do nothing other than stimulate the skin cells to regenerate,” says Ortlechner.
The treatment is designed as a course of treatment and is usually applied three to four times, each time at intervals of three to four weeks. “In contrast to fillers with an immediate effect, polynucleotides need weeks to months before a visible effect occurs,” explains Urselmann. This is therefore not about a short-term effect, but rather a long-term one.