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How a Friend of Mine Looked Much Younger in a Matter of Days
When you smile, frown, raise your eyebrows, or move any of your facial muscles, overtime, you could get wrinkles. What if in certain areas of the face, those facial muscles aren’t that active? Doesn’t this mean you would have less wrinkles? For the most part, yes! Welcome to Botox.
Getting Botox involves you getting an injection containing a toxin. What?! Well, it is temporary (around 3 months) and it doesn’t yield the severe outcomes as compared to actually contracting the botulinum toxin (leading to botulism).
So, that is the name of the toxin. The botulinum toxin. The botulinum toxin exerts a specific mechanism in our body. We have neurons that send signals to our muscles for them to contract. For example, if a neuron is stimulated, an electric signal will run down the axon of the neuron until it reaches the end of the neuron. The very end of the neuron is called the axon terminal. This is where certain neurotransmitters are kept in vesicles. When the electric signal reaches the end of the neuron (in this case we are talking about a motor neuron, meaning it is a neuron supplying muscle tissue), acetylcholine is released. Acetylcholine can then…
