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Okay so perhaps the first subject I want to talk about today isn’t a side-effect (though ‘what-the’ could be diagnosable!)
Point One today is the story reported by Cherry Woodburn about The Human Barbie (Sarah Burge) “sharing the needle” – the Botox Needle – with her 16 year old daughter. Ms Burge has had over 100 cosmetic procedures herself, and while it’s no one else’s business what she chooses to do to her body – and money – I wonder about the wisdom of choosing to inject her daughter with Botox.
It is, she says, to protect her daughter from back-street ripoff merchants, because her daughter is concerned about lines around her mouth and on her forehead, and kids at school are talking about having “B”.
I’ve written a few times about Botox, so clearly I’m not a fan of the stuff; it changes the way we experience emotions. And this brings me to my second point – the stuff quickly begins moving from the site of the injection into other parts of the body. Well, it does in rats – what odds it does in humans too? There’s a reason people need top-ups isn’t there? That’s because the body’s natural processes moves it from the site of the injection, away to – yes where? Research indicates botox, which is remember, the highly toxic botulism, a rare disease that causes paralysis, when injected into the face, migrates to various parts of the brain.
I don’t know about you, but I’d be a little concerned about what a toxin known to cause paralysis is getting up to in my hippcampus
For a future post, I would like to speak with an acupuncturist about the energetic side effects of the botox injections into the various face points, which also happen to coincide with acpuncture points.