You Can Now ‘Rejuvenate’ Your Vagina by Injecting Your Own Blood into It
Dr. Pari was featured as a guest contributor in the article below, originally posted for Women’s Health by Korin Miller, June 2, 2015.
If you could have your own blood drawn and then injected into your vagina, you would, right? Hahaha. It sounds crazy, but that’s what two doctors in Europe are banking on.
The process is part of a new treatment called Rejuvula, which promises to plump and tighten your vagina, the U.K.’s Daily Mail reports. The treatment uses your own blood plasma, which is then injected into your vaginal tissue.
The goal, doctors say, is to activate stem cells in your vagina, enhancing your sexual response, giving you a higher libido, and enabling you to have more frequent orgasms. It also reportedly has health benefits, helping women who have pain during sex.
The treatment will also supposedly make the skin around your vaginalook younger and smoother.
The therapy was developed by anti-aging specialist Daniel Sister, M.D., founder of Dracula Therapy (which involves injecting your blood into your face), a.k.a. the vampire facelift, and nurse Claudia McGloin. As of right now, the treatment is only available in Sister’s clinic in London and McGloin’s clinic in Ireland, according to the Daily Mail.
But we’re talking about injecting blood into your vagina. It sounds incredibly painful—and does it even work?
Maybe, says board-certified ob-gyn Pari Ghodsi, M.D. Here’s why: The therapy is based on the science of Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP). PRP is a concentrated blood sample that contains high levels of platelets. Platelets contain growth factors that have been found to help stimulate tissue generation and repair. Studies have shown that this therapy is helpful with healing wounds, urologic procedures, bone healing, and dermatologic cosmetic procedures.
“I could see how PRP may aid in the growth of vaginal tissue, but I do not see how this would aid in increased orgasm or increased sexual desire as Dr. Sister claims,” says Ghodsi. “Both orgasm and desire are multifactorial, and having plumper vaginal tissue does not guarantee either.”
There are a few other things to consider. Susan Lin, M.D., an ob-gyn in San Mateo, California, points out that there are medications to help rejuvenate the area that don’t involve putting needles into your vagina. They’re also a fraction of Rejuvula’s $1,228 cost. (One is called Intimate Restore, and Lin says it’s a new class of topical serum that’s designed to rejuvenate the vagina without injections.)
Ghodsi also points out that, for all of the hype, there really isn’t any evidence that this procedure actually works. “Anything that does not have proven scientific data behind it, people should be cautious of,” she says.