The treatment everyone is talking about

For years I have been training with Richard, my hope in troubled times. Aside from the fact that Richard manages to keep my body quite in shape, he is a treasure trove of tips. Name a new restaurant in Amsterdam and he has eaten there. If you don't know which TV to buy, he comes up with extensive advice. Richard also connects his clientele with each other. People he thinks would match or complement each other. He introduced me to Ali and Eva. Ali (Pirayesh) is the best plastic surgeon in our country, perhaps even in the world. Recently, he has even become Professor Pirayesh, which sounds delightful. Aside from the fact that Ali can make us ordinary mortals more beautiful, he is especially proud of the skin he has developed that allows him to give people with severe burns a new skin. Eva Velders, Ali's wife, founded the Two Faces Foundation, of which Ali is one of the ambassadors. For the foundation, he regularly goes on missions to Colombia with other plastic surgeons. There, they use the artificial skin that Ali has developed to treat victims with severe trauma and burns.

Eva has skin like a freshly picked peach. Her secret? PRP. She asked me to undergo this treatment at their APS clinic in Amsterdam.
PRP is also known as ‘the vampire treatment’ because it works with your own blood. PRP stands for platelet-rich plasma and indeed works with your own blood.

How does it work?
While a lightly numbing cream is applied to your skin, a tube of blood is drawn. That tube is centrifuged so that a tube remains with your red blood at the bottom, then some cloudy fluid, and your plasma at the top. That plasma stimulates collagen and thickens the skin, causing fine lines to disappear. It's also good for people with rosacea and acne. Quite a win, in my case.

From the plasma in ‘my’ tube, Ali can see that I am healthy. And exhale. Always nice to hear. I have also dutifully followed the advice to avoid alcohol for a few days before the treatment. And I have been living quite decently.

The plasma is taken out of the tube and then Ali injects the plasma into the deeper skin layer. You feel it a bit, but it's not very unpleasant. Then he massages the rest of the plasma into the upper skin layer with a device. When I said it felt nice, Ali turned it up a notch. That was a bit less pleasant, but the massage afterward and resting under an LED lamp made up for it.

The result? You have little down-time from the PRP, you are quite quickly presentable again, and the next morning I found my skin already so much more radiant, fitter, and fuller. It is said to only get better in the coming days. Richard says that of all the treatments his clients undergo, this is the only one he really thinks: wow. And since he knows everything, I believe him.

Professor Pirayesh, you have a new follower.