Gwyneth Paltrow just talked about an unusual wellness treatment she underwent because of the health issues she was having.
In a conversation with Daily mailthe 53-year-old actress revealed that she had undergone a therapeutic plasma exchange treatment, in which a professional drew the blood, separated the abnormal antibodies from the blood and returned it to the patient.
Therapeutic plasma exchange is most commonly used to treat health problems such as blood or neurological disorders and blood cancer.
However, this procedure is still controversial in the medical field due to the lack of high-level evidence.
Gwyneth explained that she had five sessions of the treatment at a clinic in Chicago, with a price tag of up to $50,000, which helped alleviate the brain fog she had been experiencing.
“I’ve been through a lot of health issues with those kinds of ambiguous chronic things that medicine normally has a harder time dealing with: chronic fatigue, brain fog,” she said.
She continued, “I was so interested in this idea that we could filter things out of our blood that were making us sicker.”
“I felt great after,” the Iron man star admitted, adding, “I felt this instant relief and clarity and lightness.”
Gwyneth is also no stranger to unusual treatments, all in the name of her wellness and lifestyle brand Goop.
In the past, she’s tried everything from rectal ozone therapy to coffee enemas and bee sting therapy, telling The New York Times that she was “open to anything.”
“I got stung by bees. It’s a thousand-year-old treatment called apitherapy,” she explained to the outlet.
“People use it to get rid of inflammation and scars. It’s actually pretty incredible when you examine it. But man, it’s painful,” Gwyneth Paltrow concluded.
