Vladimir Putin bathes in blood of DEER ANTLERS to boost his sex drive, report says
Russian President Vladimir Putin allegedly bathes in deer antler blood to boost his sex drive and general health. Reports have claimed that Putin is following this barbaric ancient ritual, which is dubbed a 'natural viagra', in order to boost his potency, even though it is condemned by animal rights groups.
According to a report by Proekt, a Russian investigative journalism outlet banned in Russia, Putin frequently visits a clinic in the Altai Mountains in Siberia, advertising such treatment which claims to have a number of health benefits, including male potency. Furthermore, the report says that an acquaintance of the president claims that he had been warned that there was no conclusive evidence of the benefits of antler blood baths, but Putin still continues the treatment as he likes it and has revisited Altai multiple times for the treatment.
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An extract is taken from the antlers of red deer, which are brutally removed with a saw in the spring when they are full of fresh blood. Proekt reported that the Altai farm clinic, which exports antlers for use in Chinese medicine, claims that blood "extracted from red deer antlers acts as a strong tonic, especially for men's potency." Besides sex drive, it also strengthens the body's bones, muscles, teeth, eyes, and hearing, and cures pleurisy, pneumonia, asthma, joint pain, osteoporosis, and problems with the spine.
According to reports, this barbaric practice is said to have been introduced to Putin by the current Russian defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, in the early 2000s.The Russian leader's bizarre habit of taking blood baths was first reported in 2017. Ahead of Putin's visit to Altai in 2016, at least 70kg of stag horns were prepared for him to take baths in, according to local media outlet kapitalist.tv. He is even alleged to have introduced former Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi to the gruesome tradition.
But such a practise is strictly condemned by animal rights groups and they call the practice 'barbaric', as disturbing accounts from deer farms describe how each animal is "herded into a special cutting chamber", where it is clamped in a press with its head on a ledge. Observers say the creatures are bewildered and shell-shocked, with their eyes filled with fright.
One observer said, "Two or three stand on the stag's back from above; one holds the prized antlers, the other, his trainer, on the animal's muzzle, immobilising the head. One cuts the antlers, the other foot on the back of the neck, preventing the beast from moving a centimetre until it is divested of its valuable trophy. "