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Demi Moore's Health Secret That Sucks

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Posted: 2008-03-25 17:03:19
(March 25) - Demi Moore has found a health secret that sucks. Literally.

"Just a week ago I was in Austria doing a cleanse and part of the treatment was leech therapy," Moore said on "Late Show with David Letterman" Monday night.

"It detoxifies your blood and they have a little enzyme that when they're biting down on you gets released into your blood," the actress added. "Generally you bleed for quite a bit and it detoxifies your blood."

Moore said that the treatment is uncomfortable, but a little Lamaze breathing helps her get past the pain.

"They start in a spot for me that is a horrible spot: my belly button," she said. "It crawls in and you feel it bite down on you ... and then you just watch it swell up and get fatter and fatter and then when it's super drunk on your blood it just kinda rolls over like it's stumbling out of a bar."

Moore, Letterman and Leeches

Demi Moore talks about leeches beginning a third of the way in.


According to Moore, leeches are fussy little creatures.

"Leeches don't like hair," she warned. "So if you're hairy be prepared to do a little shaving or waxing. They much prefer Brazilian."

Although it sounds bizarre, leeches do have a place in modern medicine. In 2004, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the commercial marketing of leeches for medicinal purposes for the first time when it granted approval to French company Ricarimpex SAS.

According to the FDA, leeches can help heal skin grafts by removing blood pooled under the graft and restore blood circulation in blocked veins by removing pooled blood.

Leeches have been used as an alternative treatment to blood-letting and amputation for several thousand years. They reached their height of medicinal use in the mid- 1800’s. Today they are used in medicine throughout the world as tools in skin grafts and reattachment surgery.

Moore is currently promoting her new movie, "Flawless," which co-stars Michael Caine.



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revivalblade 03:45:59 PM Mar 26 2008

Why the **** is this news?

kasel1 02:26:16 PM Mar 26 2008

Any one who has leeches put on them for therapy is a moron.

cenglishlg 12:48:52 PM Mar 26 2008

IF EMI MOORE HAD HALF A BRAIN, SHE WOULD GO TO THE LOCAL RED CROSS, DONATE SOME BLOOD, MAYBE PLATELETS IF SHE'S ABLE, AND INSTEAD OF TELLING A STUPID LITTLE TALE BOUT BLOOD-SUCKING LEECHES, SHE COULD TELL HERSELF SHE'D DONE SOMETHING WORTHWHILE. AIRHEAD!

hamsterbc 11:23:45 AM Mar 26 2008

Two questions. Is the daughter a hunch back? And why is Ashton wearing a clown suit?

jjrw1946 11:08:48 AM Mar 26 2008

demi sucks herself

hawkrjp 10:52:03 AM Mar 26 2008

demi is smoooooooooooooookin ......................................................................

gkonig2 10:36:51 AM Mar 26 2008

Leeches are everywhere, our government is loaded with them. They strive in the fields of medicine, law and politics (not to mention car mechanics)

jlc2323 10:05:20 AM Mar 26 2008

Leeches are also used to help heal after reattachment surgery. Usually in areas that don't have good blood flow such as the ear. It help draw the blood into the tissues to keep the ear alive and help it heal.
She's crazy if she thinks it will detoxify her. bds6553: you're right about the anti-coagulant. If she uses enough leeches, she could, potentially, have a bleeding problem.

bds6543 09:56:32 AM Mar 26 2008

If this is true about the leeches, she has really gone BONKERS! Leeches ARE used medicinally, but not to "cleanse" the body or blood! They release an anti coagulant, and are used in wound therapy to "clean up" wounds medically.

This girl is a nut case, and always has been. She is off the wall. Just another foolish Hollywood fad. It's not a funny prank, if indeed it is a PRANK, and that Ashton is a juvenille, little boy.. that she married a man half her age. Just shows her mentality. These ANTICS never cease to amaze me with those people.. who live in California.......They are really over the top!

clinton4usa 09:51:16 AM Mar 26 2008

Dmi Moore looks amazing. Wow.

Money *really* helps.

canmanmtc 09:47:44 AM Mar 26 2008

save them for bruce and ashton. they make GREAT bait

aristocat101 09:12:34 AM Mar 26 2008

who cares what demi does, does it really matter this is a stupid topic

preechrdan 08:42:50 AM Mar 26 2008

Which one was the real leech?

fabgad 08:33:25 AM Mar 26 2008

the only suck therapy she get is liposuction!!!!!

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