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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Emma Beddington

I am a tweakment holdout. When will wrinkles, bad teeth and big pores be back in fashion?

Woman having facial injections
Will we end up with an attractiveness inequality gap? Photograph: CoffeeAndMilk/Getty Images (posed by model)

Totally neutral question, no right or wrong answer: how do you feel about salmon sperm?

It’s not a Nordic culinary microtrend or a sex thing, but a beauty treatment, in which “Polydeoxyribonucleotides (PDRN) derived from purified fragments of DNA extracted from yes, ‘salmon sperm’” are injected into your face. It does seem to work: proper research has found PDRN has wound-repairing properties in hard-to-treat contexts such as diabetic ulcers and deep burns. Good news (unless you’re a male salmon). But what is it doing in healthy faces?

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