Doctor Fish

 Never underestimate the chinese: a chinese newspaper article states that for the search of everlasting youth you can dive into a pool filled with so called doctor fish who come swimming to you and start eating your body. Well, not that drastically, but due to their instincts they're bound to eat the dead cells of your skin leaving only healthy skin.

Hm, this might come in handy. If suddenly your arm falls off when bathing in a spa, for instance ... But don't you confuse them with those nutty Penis Fishes ... [...]
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Fish that feed on dead skin cells are a nice spa treatment
According to this article in a Chinese newspaper, beauty-seekers in Southern China (and other parts of the world) are soaking themselves in pools filled with a type of small fish that eat human skin:

Garra Rufa, a type of small tropical fish, also nicknamed Chinchin Yu, nibble fish or simply doctor fish, are put in hot springs. As they can live and swim freely in at least 43-degree-hot waters, they are naturally used for the treatment of skin diseases in such spas. When placed in the spa, these fish can feed themselves on the dead cells of the human body, since they only consume such cells, leaving the healthy skin of the human body to grow. The whole process is reportedly free of pain. It won't hurt and the bather might feel a pleasant tingling on his or her skin.
Link. Wikipedia says the fish only do this when they don't have anything better to eat: Link. Image: photo.eastday.com. (Thanks, C.M.)

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