Anti-aging? Healthy aging with blood purification!
Everyone ages and no one can escape the progression of time. However, through healthy blood circulation, aging can be healthy. I talked to Dr. Choi Moon-seop, CEO of Grace On and Young Plastic Surgery Clinic, about blood purification therapy that removes harmful substances from the blood.
Q. Park Bo-hyun, CEO of B&H Korea (hereinafter referred to as Park Bo-hyun): What kind of procedure is blood purification?
A. Choi Moon-seop, CEO of Grace Plastic Surgery Clinic (hereinafter referred to as Choi Moon-seop): Blood accounts for about 8% of our weight. Usually, different types of blood cells and components of plasma maintain an optimal balance, but when the such balance is broken, fatal diseases may occur. Blood plays a very important role in supplying oxygen and carbon dioxide in the human body to provide nutrients. However, as we get older, cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood vessels accumulate and weaken your blood quality, and as these symptoms persist, blood circulation disorders appear.
Blood purification is a procedure that filters out cholesterol and triglycerides through external blood purification devices and injects them back into the body to directly improve the cause of weakening function. It is safe because it draws and injects blood through veins, not arteries, and it is performed slowly over three to four hours. Also, it is different from conventional dialysis in that it lowers cholesterol density while maintains high-density cholesterol levels, which are known as the good fat.
Q. Park Bo-hyun: What are the effects of blood purification therapy?
A. Choi Moon-seop: Blood purification can reduce cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood which helps to prevent various diseases. In particular, blood circulation disorders caused by hyperlipidemia are greatly improved, so blood circulation becomes smooth and metabolism becomes active again. Also, if blood circulation is improved, it will help blood to reach further toward the end points of our body, so our hands and feet are warmer. In the case of men, there are reports of improvement in erectile dysfunction or sexual dysfunction. In fact, some patients said that they felt a little itching at the tip of their nose or fingertips after the procedure.
Q. Park Bo-hyun: What kind of equipment does your hospital uses?
A. Choi Moon-seop: I am using a product from Asahi Kasei Medical from Japan. This equipment is currently the most advanced technology-applied product, and its stability has been verified and is used by several university hospitals and clinics in Korea. It was imported by the Korean Food and Drug Administration through formal customs clearance, and the equipment is maintained regularly.
Q. Park Bo-hyun: What types of people should receive blood purification treatment?
A. Choi Moon-seop: It is recommended for those who smoke and drink, and those who have an unhealthy diet, and lack of exercise. It is for those who are under constant stress, especially among CEOs in their 40s and 50s, those who feels significant decrease in biological function due to aging, or those with erectile dysfunction and sexual dysfunction. Usually, such people have poor blood circulation due to higher cholesterol levels, and they often feels immediately relief after the procedure, which is a very important driving force to managing their health.
Q. Park Bo-hyun: There are many similar procedures related to blood purification on the market, what are the differences?
A. Choi Moon-seop: There are many procedures on the market that use the same expression “blood purification”. Among them, a typical procedure called "Euphoton" is a treatment that simply injects oxygen into the human body. That's why it's cheap and it can be done quickly compared to the purification method. But it doesn't actually have the same effect as blood purification. On the other hand, blood purification therapy is a plasma exchange technique, which can be visually confirmed as sticky blood comes out of the body and filtered through a double membrane filter, and then turn to be soft and watery before it enters the body again. There is a clear difference in principle and effectness between the procedure we offered here at the hospital to purify blood directly and the simple oxygen injection form on the market.
Q. Park Bo-hyun: Is there any physical strain or aftereffects due to the procedure?
A. Choi Moon-seop: Before performing blood purification therapy, patients receive various tests and consultations with a specialist. As the blood purification therapy has been published several times in medical journals, its effectiveness and stability have been verified, and it is performed according to strict standards under the guidance of a specialist. In addition, as soon as an hour after the procedure, your body would be able to live your daily life normally. In addition, our emergency medical staff and specialists are always on standby, so you can relax and take a rest.
The test results also allow you to immediately compare liver damage levels, total cholesterol, bad cholesterol and phospholipid conditions before and after blood purification. It is recommended 3 months of rest between each purification procedures. Although it varies by individuals, blood purification is generally done twice a year.