By Leah Hardy
They call it "Dracula Therapy", and if that isn't enough to freak you out, it involves having your face injected with your own blood. But S3 Therapy is the hottest news in anti-ageing right now.
The name is short for Stimulated Self Serum skin therapy, and has been introduced to the UK by the innovative London-based French cosmetic doctor, Daniel Sister.
The idea is that a doctor draws vials of your own blood, then separates it into the red blood cells, the clear serum and the platelets. Then, after vitamins and amino acids have been added, the enriched serum is injected back into your face.
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So, does it hurt? Yes. This, says Dr Sister, stimulates DNA repair, heals scars and makes dry, wizened, wrinkled and lacklustre skin look and feel younger naturally, without the need for synthetic fillers or harsh and painful lasers or peels.
If S3 sounds weird, it has a surprisingly respectable medical pedigree. For more than two decades, dentists have used patient's own "serum" to make receding gums regenerate themselves.
And in the US, several studies indicate that injecting plateletrich plasma into sports injuries can lead to faster recovery.
The secret? The serum is rich in growth factors, natural proteins that can supercharge healing and reverse damage in the body.
Dr Sister says: "I thought, if serum therapy was good enough for bones and soft tissue like gums, then it could do even better in the skin."
He decided to merge platelet-rich plasma therapy, which involves deep injections into damaged soft tissue, with the traditional French beauty treatment, mesotherapy, which involves dozens of tiny injections of vitamins and minerals into the superficial layers of the skin.
Plastic surgeons tend to sneer at mesotherapy, but studies have shown that trauma to the skin in the form of tiny puncture holes can dramatically increase natural collagen levels.
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