Can Botulism Toxin Seriously Impact Your Brain
Botox can get into your head. Literally. Analysts from Pisa, Italy have been injecting rats with botox and watching what occurs. The following results were a little surprising.
Botox injection blocks the release of neurotransmitters from explicit nerves. When it is released into the skin, it is taken up by the nerves, and over time blocks the release of neurotransmitters, shutting down those nerves.
In dermatology, we use botox to shut off the nerves that control muscles in your face, like your forehead and brow. With those nerves blocked, you cannot contract the muscles, so they stay flat. It is analogous to having wrinkles in your pants. While you are upright, the pants hang loosely and are smooth. When you sit, your thighs and hips crinkle the material, forming creases or wrinkles. In the same way, when your facial muscles contract, they crunch up, creasing the skin and forming wrinkles.
So what about the botox?
Results from this Italian study refute the belief that botox stays domestically in the epidermis. They revealed that the botox injected into the rats followed the nerves back to the rodents brain, shutting downnerves there.
What does this mean?
This is a critical question. The study was focusedin rats, not folk. We do not know if it might do the same thing in humans even if some botox did get into the brain, there’s no evidence at all that it has any meaningful effect, bad. For example, we know that smoking kills brain cells and stops other cells from developing. Does that mean that smokers or ex-smokers have any meaningful brain effects from their habit?
Botox is a wonderful and tough drug. In treating wrinkles and fine lines, there are not many if any treatments short of intrusive surgery that will compare to the results that botox offers. It is a drug and has side-effects and has the capability to be misused and even abused. Botox has been used safely in millions of people, but there are risks . It’s also expensive and its effects are temporary, so botox isnot for everyone.
If you are not ok with assuming risks of botox, or your position doesn’t make allowance for it, then consider this viable alternative : use a night cream that contains Tazorac or ROC. No facial cream is more effective at reducing fine lines than tretinoin.
If you recently had botox and look in the mirror one morning and think that you are 10 years younger, don’t worry, it’s not brain damage, it’s just your face on botox.