The Benefits of Botox at a Younger Age

The Benefits of Botox

Whether you call it botulinum toxin type A, onabotulinumtoxinA or Botox, they mean the same thing. Botox is developed from a type of bacteria which causes botulism. It has been used for decades by movie stars and other celebs alike as an anti-aging technique. So how does Botox work, and does it help if you start using Botox at an early age rather than waiting until you get older? In this article I am going to discuss just that.
What causes wrinkles: Wrinkles are caused due to ongoing muscle activity. Do you know that we create wrinkles on our skin every time we make any kind of expression? Whether you make an angry expression or a frown, you are creating wrinkles around your eyebrows, face as well as your forehead. Same goes for smiling which is supposed to be healthy for our body! Make any kind of expression and your muscle gets pulled.

Every time your muscle gets pulled your skin is creased. In other words, it is the contraction of muscles which causes wrinkles to appear, and if we can get some kind of muscle relaxant that can stop our muscles from contracting automatically every time we smile or make any other kind of expression, well then these wrinkles would never appear. This kind of muscle activity occurs many times a day with or without our knowledge, causing tiny wrinkles to appear. We may not be able to see them until we get older because these wrinkles become apparent only with aging.

How Botox works: Let us say that you encounter an accident, your hand gets injured badly, and you have to spend weeks with your arm in a cast. This in turn causes a reduction in the muscle activity around that area, causing the muscles in that area to become smaller. Well, Botox works in a similar fashion. As you grow older, wrinkles and fine lines start appearing on your skin, lips and eyes. By blocking the nerve action in your muscles, which automatically stops the muscle activity in that particular area (this muscle activity is what causes wrinkles in the first place, as I discussed earlier), Botox helps to hide these wrinkles. How often you have to use Botox depends on many factors, including genetic ones. For some people, they need to use Botox regularly; for others, they need to use it only for a certain period of time after which they may not have to use Botox at all. I would suggest that you consult with a doctor before starting to use Botox.

Does it help if you start using Botox early?: Recent studies have proved that if you start using Botox in your 20s then these wrinkles may not appear as you grow old. Well, different people have got different opinions on this.
Below I list the opinions of some of the well known doctors out there:
a) Every time you make any kind of expression, your skin gets crumpled. Over time these develop into permanent scars and wrinkles as you grow older. By using Botox from an early age you will be able to prevent these wrinkles from appearing in your old age

b) We conducted a case study on a pair of twins who followed the same type of lifestyle. One of them was injected with Botox; in a later stage of their life, that girl had fewer wrinkles in her skin compared to her twin sister who did not get the Botox treatment! So yes, I would say that early use of Botox can indeed prevent wrinkles from appearing!

c) There are two types of wrinkles: static and dynamic. Static wrinkles appear when you are resting, while the dynamic ones appear when you make any kind of animated expression, such as a smile. Using Botox can certainly help with the prevention of static wrinkles.

I believe that it is safe to conclude that the benefits of using Botox at a younger age far outweigh the benefits of using it in old age

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