Demi Moore Loves Leeches

Demi Moore shared one of her unauthodox beauty secrets with David Letterman on his show last night. The eternally youthful star revealed that she recently traveled to a clinic in Austria for some leech therapy to help her get in shape before embarking on promotion for her new movie, ironically entitled Flawless.

"I feel like I've always been someone looking for the cutting edge of things that optimize your health and healing," said Moore. "These aren't just swamp leaches, we're talking about highly trained medical leeches. These aren't just some low level scavengers. These are high level blood suckers."

"It detoxifies your blood. They have a little enzyme, that when they're biting down on you, it gets released into your blood. And generally you bleed quite a bit, and your health is optimized. It detoxifies your blood. I'm feeling very detoxified right now."

"They start in a spot for me that is a horrible spot, which is my belly button. They test it out. They're in a little jar...and they pull it out, and they have to stick it in my belly button. Now I'm telling you, my belly button, if somebody just touches it, I want to literally just punch them."

"So we have the little sampler first, which is in the belly button. It crawls in, and you feel it bite down on you, and you want to go you 'bastard'. And then you relax, you work on your Lemaze breathing just to kind of relax, and then you just watch it swell up and get fatter and fatter. Then when it's super drunk on your blood it just rolls over like it's stumbling out of a bar."

According to Wikipedia, "large adults can consume up to 15 grams of blood in a single meal." Vampires could learn a lot from these little creatures. Before feasting, the hermaphrodite bloodsuckers release an anesthetic, and a powerful anti-coagulant (Hirudin), which stops the blood from clotting and allows unhindered feasting.

Medicinal leech therapy has been popular throughout history, and is still used in hospitals today. The creatures have been used to treat numerous conditions including tonsillitis and piles. They can help reduce swelling, and are therefore commonly used after surgery, and have also been used successfully to treat varicose veins. Hmnn, perhaps Moore's not so flawless after all.

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