Aesthetic medicine is a field that continues to rise exponentially in Spain. Currently, there are more than 6,000 health centers authorized by the Government to carry out interventions in this field, with a majority of the public made up of women between 40 and 60 years of age.
Whether for superficial or deeper changes, these ages comprise "the phase in which an important hormonal change that affects your life enters", as Elsa Anka has exposed during this week.
The presenter from Barcelona, known for participating in programs such as El gran juego de la oca and replacing her daughter Lidia Torrent in charge of First Dates, conducted an interview for Focus, Cuatro's investigative case program.
Anka spoke at length about cosmetic operations among women of that age group, in which she is, in addition to exclusively telling how she had undergone the latest trending treatment: the "anti-aging chip".
According to several recent studies, women would age twice as fast as men. The main reason for this accelerated aging, according to research, is menopause and some other pathologies.
The set of these events leads to a drop in estrogen production, which ends up not generating more hormones and aging the body faster. Controlling hormone levels has become big business, and the chip in question is its latest evolution.
This small implant, the size of a grain of rice, is placed under the skin of the buttock through a small intervention. One of those in charge of this operation, Dr. Iván Mañero, explained that this was the way to give the body the hormones that are lost with age.
“The chip is like a pill, but it is inserted under the skin with all the hormones that each person needs. It is not a standard, it depends on each person and that chip is released day after day, ”he told the Mediaset program.
Anka was one of the many people in Spain who decided to try this system to check its effectiveness and avoid problems as the years passed. “The main discomfort is like a pinprick of anesthesia.
They give you a little dot that you have to wear for a week and it's not more upsetting either, ”he said in the interview. According to the data of the program, this treatment can cost around 400 euros, with effects that can be noticed, at long last, for six months.
It didn't take long for Anka to see the effectiveness of the treatment. “I noticed the effects after fifteen days. I noticed that you start to win... You live. Sometimes at this stage you feel a bit dead from the waist down and then you come back to life,” she explained to Focus reporters.
Dr. Mañero also highlighted how people mainly sought therapies to simply prevent aging, although some clinics have stopped using it after not all patients have been able to notice its effects.
