Anti wrinkle injections proven to change how the brain works.
Little scary, isn't it?
And this was the University of California at Irvine.
As I take you through this study, I want you to think of the repercussions
of not just injections, to stop muscle moving in the frown, how it affects the
brain, but also think about lip fillers.
Think about surgeries, body changes.
We now know the injections.
Change how the brain works in this study with a functional MRI where they
could actually look at sections in the brain and watch how they're working
neurochemically, but think about.
There's money involved in real life, so people getting positive, um, reactions not
only from people walking down the street, but also financially as influencers on
social media and all that goes with that.
Also, think about lip billers and the positive reinforcement that people
get when they get a little bit of lip filler and then they go a little bit.
And then it spirals at a control when we go through this study.
Think of that and how that applies to this one.
Pretty fascinating stuff.
Let's dive in.
So again, uci, and it was the modulation of the amygdala activity.
Based on seeing emotional faces.
I'll show you in a minute.
Due to botch line toxin type A injections that prevent frowning, that's Botox
that we use in clinical practice.
And of note, they did use 20 units, which is the therapeutic dose that we use in
practice, and they treated the gola.
Now many of you know that we use Botox to treat depression and sometimes anxiety.
This will give you a little bit of feedback into what that's all about.
Okay, so let's look.
It's, it's based on the fact that there's a feedback hypothesis.
So when you see an angrier happy face, we normally contract or flex
the relevant muscles to create the expression to assist in identifying
and experience the emotion reflected.
So if you see someone angry, you kind of frown and if you so
see someone happy, you smile.
It's a natural thing we do.
So they investigated this feedback hypothesis using bolin tox.
Injections in the glabella to induce temporary paralysis, so you cannot
move the glabella or this frown area.
Exactly what we do in practice, they measured the functional brain activity
during the processing of emotional faces.
Now there were 10 females.
That viewed pictures of happy and angry faces during these
two functional MRI studies.
Now it is a small study of note, but I see this in clinical practice
and that's why I'm presenting this to you cuz I believe it's real.
So, um, what they did is they showed these faces prior to getting the Botox
and then following the injections, what they found pre versus active
modulation of activity of the amygdala, which is an area in the brain for.
And angry faces as well as modulation of the Fugi Formm gris, that's
another area for happy faces.
So consistent with our predictions, preventing frowning through the
inhibition of a gella muscle contraction.
So when they, they, they, they predicted this would happen cuz we
know from clinical prac practice.
And at the end here, when we're done with this, I'm gonna tell you a whole nother
level of this that we should be aware of.
Um, but as they predict, The modulation of the amygdala and fusiform geris activity
following Botox may reflect compensatory processes in a neuro anatomical circuit,
involved in emotional processing that is engaged with this feedback.
These data contribute.
Here you go to the con to to the growing literature suggesting
that inhibition of a gobel.
Alters the neuronal activity for emotional processing.
Let's take this to another level so this we can measure with MRIs.
It affects the brain.
Anti wrinkle injections affect the brain.
Think about this.
When people get their lips done, you know what happens?
People want more and more and they love their lips filled.
They get positive responses from other people.
That triggers something in the brain, and I think that is accentuating a lot
of the body dysmorphic disorder, B d, d, that we're seeing and people don't stop.
So we need to create awareness about this.
It's not just that you can't contract here or that the lips
get bigger and we like the look.
There's much more.
And now we know functionally in the brain things are changing and we're
altering not the structure of the brain, but the chemicals, what we call
neurotransmitters, feelings, and emotion.
It gets pretty scary.
What say you of this study?
Imagine Wrinkle injections changing how our brain works.
We know this clinically.
Here's your proof.
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