Hi, I'm Dr.
Johnny.
Thanks for joining me today.
I'm answering the question that you have asked about home galvanic devices.
A lot of people use them and they're popular, but people are kind of scared.
Are they going to get rid of my filler?
Will they melt my fat?
Well, they make my Botox not work as long as it could.
And those are actually great questions that I'm going to answer.
If you like these videos, you remember click like in the comments,
tell me like at home devices, I'll give you more of these.
I reviewed the led mask.
Just about a week ago.
And a lot of people ask about these galvanic acts as well as with the masks.
So with facial filler, a lot of people who use these devices either use
them because they don't want to do filler, but most people grow graduate
to do filler or Botox along the way.
And what will the effect be?
Understand like galvanic mechanism.
I think it's very important to understand how they work.
And the idea is one of four ways.
One is.
Increasing the ATP in the cells, the energy.
So that makes the cell more youthful and bigger is number two, increasing
fiber formation that I show you with my bio stimulator injections.
You can look at those to see how those were.
Number three, to take skincare products like hyaluronic acid
or vitamin C, drive them deeper.
Into the tissue so that they work better.
And number four is muscle stimulation, but there's not a lot of data on galvanic,
in my opinion, actually like them.
I think there's a lot of anecdotal evidence.
I think a lot of you, people at home, and I do want to know in the
comments below what you're using and do you like it, and in the links
below in the more info section below this video, you can click on there.
And on my store, I have the one that I liked the most, and I've
been involved with galvanic for.
Bout 15 years in fact had a couple of my own that I use
with my patients and even sold.
So I'm well versed in them and they have an electrical charge.
They work by electrical charge.
So people say, Hey, can they get rid of my filler?
We'll tackle filler first.
It's important to know before your filler leaves.
The manufacturer real product at least is autoclave.
It's moist heating autoclave.
And that means that it's heated to temperatures often
above a hundred degrees.
C or Celsius.
The body runs at about 37 38 per reference, uh, boiling
points around a hundred degrees.
So you can see very hot galvanic.
Don't produce much heat at all.
Certainly they're not going to get you up to the 43 degrees, which is where he
. Well, then I did my video and building college and naturally yeah, 43 degrees
Celsius is where we want to get your home.
Radio-frequency.
And high-frequency ultrasounds to get to the temperature, to
where you can build more college.
And by way of fibroblasts, that's not how gal banks work or are purported to work.
So they do not melt your filler.
Uh, you would have to have much hotter temperatures and
in fact, RF microneedling.
Watch my video on hottest treatment of 2021.
You inject needles, they heat up and you produce call Jenna fibroblasts.
That temperature gets to about six 67 degrees between 60 and 70 degrees,
depending on the manufacturer.
Very hot, quite painful.
If you don't use the right anesthetic, but that won't even dissolve your filler.
The one cab, God, I want you to know about.
Is that if there's suction involved or rolling, you could
allow the filler then to migrate.
So it won't melt, but vigorous massage can allow the filler to
migrate which it does naturally.
Anyway, watch my video.
If you want to know about filler migration, it's entitled the lip
filling craze, and I talked about filler migration there now onto Botox.
Great question.
Because as I said, galvanic are thought to work through myo modulation
and modulation or, or changing the way the muscles move in the face,
which of course is what Botox does.
It stops the muscle movement.
That's one of the things it does.
So I haven't had Botox here, maybe eight months.
You can see, I have a strong frown, uh, but that's what it's supposed to do.
I put Botox here.
I would not, I'd go.
And nothing would move.
So it's supposed to do that.
If you use a galvanic, would that stop it?
Well, When we inject Botox, Dysport Xeomin Javo any real neuromodulator, it's
bound to proteins, except for Xeomin.
Zeeman's a one that's not bound to proteins.
So it's thought that you don't get resistance Zeum in particularly,
and you can get it to the others because they have proteins.
I have a whole video on Botox, resistance of why it doesn't work,
but it binds the receptor in the body in about an hour and a half.
It does most of its work in an hour and a half.
So.
The galvanic X there's no real data on this, but I have never seen.
And I do not believe that they're going to change the duration of neuromodulator
again, they don't work that way.
And how Botox like products work is they stop the release of acetylcholine.
At the neuromuscular junction.
So the muscle communicates with the nerve, the nerve we say,
contract, the nerve goes, boom.
They communicate.
And then the muscle does not contract.
And that's the end muscle, which is in this case, my glove up Labella.
So is that binding of that receptor occurs then hours now again, I'm going
to tell you another caveat here is that.
You should not increase blood flow to where the injections were done.
I say for about four hours, not a lot of good studies on this, but
we noticed back in the early two thousands that some people didn't
get as good, a response as others.
Right.
And people would go in they'd exercise, they'd increase blood flow.
And one of the theories was is that they would wash out the Botox product, uh,
if they exercise or they increase blood flow in any way to that area too quickly.
So by using a galvanic immediately after your treatment,
you can increase blood flow.
It's one of the ways.
Facial massage and galvanic are even thought to work.
I guess that would be the fifth way, but they don't talk about it because it's
the massage part of what you're doing.
It's not actually the electrical, uh, uh, movement of electrons in
the skin that's creating that use.
So, yeah.
The massage is not something the company is going to say, Hey, uh,
just the massage alone without the electrical stimulation works.
Uh, why would you buy the device for 400 bucks?
So I like personally galvanic, if you want me to review them, I'm happy to do so.
Uh, but I am a fan.
A lot of the evidence is anecdotal.
There's no good studies for me to present to you on the four mechanisms
of how people think they work.
Um, they do not melt your fillers.
The caveat is the massage.
They will not, uh, in my opinion, make your Botox, uh, last any
less, but I wouldn't do it safely.
Within 24 hours is a nice rule of thumb.
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