What is Leech Therapy?
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 15 May 2021
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What is leech therapy, and is it useful? Here’s what you need to know.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Dr. Burg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast. |
| 0:07.4 | Where Dr. Burg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing |
| 0:11.3 | healthy weight. |
| 0:13.3 | Alright, so today we're going to talk about leech therapy. |
| 0:25.6 | What is it? |
| 0:27.3 | Is it actually something that people actually do? |
| 0:30.1 | Well, yes they do. |
| 0:31.2 | There's a lot of clinics. |
| 0:32.5 | I know at least in the United States they have clinics. |
| 0:35.6 | But leech therapy has been around for a very long time. |
| 0:39.3 | And in 2004, the FDA approved medical leeches as a treatment for plastic and reconstructive |
| 0:48.0 | surgery. |
| 0:49.3 | Now why? |
| 0:49.8 | What can it do? |
| 0:51.0 | Well, apparently it helps venous congestion. |
| 0:54.2 | So it can speed up healing. |
| 0:57.3 | In the saliva of leeches, there's over 100 bioactive substances with a wide range of effects, |
| 1:03.8 | acting as an anti-coagulant, blood thinner, vasodilator, anesthetic, antibiotic effect. |
| 1:11.2 | So in a diabetic, it can help suppress blood clotting. |
| 1:15.7 | Diabetics normally have thicker blood. |
| 1:18.2 | And with one of the main bioactive substances called Herudin, which is 10 times more effective |
| 1:23.7 | than heparin. |
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