Take a quick look in your nearest shop’s beauty aisle, and you will see dozens of anti-aging products, each claiming to have ‘proprietary’ ingredients that have been clinically proven to reduce wrinkles. While these products may have a small positive effect on the elasticity of your skin, none will come close to what Botox can achieve. But Botox is a poison. In fact, it is one of the most toxic substances on the planet.
Beauty and the Lethal Beast
Botox is made from Clostridium Botulinum, which is a bacterium. The bacterium is perhaps best known for its ability to cause botulism, which is a lethal condition. Clostridium Botulinum is found in soil, so you may feel that you are actually having dirt injected in your skin. In reality, however, it has been completely cleaned and treated to form Botox itself. But it is still interesting because it shows you that the product is actually quite natural.
If you were to look at Botox injections under a microscope, you will find that it uses the Botulinum Toxin (Bo-Tox) Type A. There are actually seven different types of Botulinum toxin. Four of these, A included, can lead to human beings becoming sick. In fact, if you were to eat Type A, you would develop food poisoning – or botulism. Food poisoning is a form of poisoning and, while rare, can kill.
So when did poison, and a poison that paralyzes your muscles at that, become a treatment against wrinkles? Well, this was actually an accidental discovery. Botox was originally developed for very different things, including excessive sweating and migraines. Both were aided by Botox by effectively paralyzing certain parts of the body. During this, it was discovered that people also experienced fewer wrinkles and the Botox we know and love today was born. The rest, as they say, is history.
While Botox is becoming increasingly popular, you have to understand what type of risk you are actually placing yourself under. It is believed that 1 ng/kg of the bacteria has the potential to kill every single human being on this planet. Strychnine, by contrast, would only be able to do this if you had six metric tons of it. As such, Botox seems more likely to be a biological weapon than something that is used the world over by people who want to look younger!
All of the above may have shocked you to some degrees. However, if you were to look into all prescription drugs that exist today, you will find that many of them contain very dangerous substances. Cancer treatment drugs in particular are really shocking. What matters, however, is that doctors have found a way to take a lethal natural substance and to transform it into something that could potentially save lives!
If you are looking for the best Botox Orange County has to offer, make sure you do your research and only choose a clinic that is properly licensed and registered for the safe use of Botox.