Most of us do our best to avoid encounters with bloodsucking leeches. Alex Bogatyriova not only loves her leeches, but she treats them like pets and happily allows them to feed on her blood.
According to the Daily Mail, the London-based mother of two credits her creepy crawlers with assisting in more than 100 pounds of weight loss. Even better, the 48-year-old says, leeches have helped to enhance her sex life.
“For the first time ever,” she tells the Mail, “I am experiencing multiple orgasms. It’s wonderful.”
So attached is she to her toxin-removing “babies” that Bogatyriova encourages them to crawl inside her mouth (apparently, they help keep her gums clean), and she lets the glorified worms work their magic on leg scars. Explains the leech lady: “They have aided detoxification, helped improve my general well-being, and using them was key to my weight loss.”
She claims to have dropped pounds without altering her diet or exercising. Bogatyriova found out about leech therapy while taking classes in alternative health therapy. When a lecturer mentioned that leeches can stand in for a diet, Bogatyriova “was astounded.”
Proof of concept came when, as students, she and her classmates needed to do leech treatments to one another. “Every day for a week, I had a leech put on my bottom for minutes,” she remembers. “It sucked out the blood, and by the end of the week my clothes felt loose. I thought it was [due to] poor washing, but I checked my weight and had lost [13 pounds].” She “was shocked.”
These days she keeps leeches on her butt for up to two hours, and has used over 200 leeches to achieve weight loss. Improving the alternative-medicine lover’s sex life requires leeches being placed inside her cervix. “It’s an area rich in blood vessels, and that means that [the leeches] remove more toxins,” says Bogatyriova, advising that women count the leeches prior to insertion. She insists that the process is painless, and that the leeches get removed with tweezers: “Suddenly I was wanting sex all the time, and I was having multiple orgasms. ”
The bloodsucking enthusiast adds: “I feel like a teenager again.”