FDA Safety Review of Botox - Reassessing that Fountain of Youth
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Don’t worry, I’ve not become an FDA watchdog. With my last post on the FDA’s approval of cloned animals for food product, you might think otherwise. This again is just me trying to keep my dear readers informed with thought provoking information.
Look, I’m over 40 - and even though I practice yoga daily, teach upwards of 5 classes a day, I’m not going to lie to you: I’ve thought about Botox® - the Botulinum Type A injectable used mainly for brow furrows between the eye and the deep clown creases by the sides of the mouth. In the spirit of full disclosure, I was thinking about Botox for the nice "number 11" that sits between my eyebrows that deepens in its intensity when I am tired or stressed. I would bristle at the comment, when I would be feeling my best of: "Are you upset about something?" The worst! So, as I did my research and got closer and closer to going for that safe eraser of a tell-tale sign of aging, as a yogi, something definitely kept stopping me: they’d have to inject this safe strain of botulism into my third eye which is the gateway to higher consciousness. You don’t want to mess with that. And of course, the physical side effect warnings were always a bit frightening - droopey mouth (replete with drooling), headaches, nausea, etc…
Well now the FDA has announced a safety review after some "adverse reactions" occurred this month, with some of those "reactions" in children. Bottom-line — there is no fountain of youth. Take care of your body, be sensible, eat well, exercise, and try and embrace the wrinkles and the lines as best we can. They are a part of us and earned. Quite frankly, I’ve found new love for my furrow. When it’s very present, it means I’m tired. When it’s slightly present - I’m just hyper focused!
Namaste,
[...] This saddens me deeply. First, we had the use of cloned animals for food product, then the safety review of Botox®, which has now been used widely and rampantly for years, now we have the FDA recall of 143 million [...]
SO true - we’ve all been tempted - but really, what good could come of putting a toxin in one’s system? Take a page from Isabella Rosselini and embrace age - i figure i’m earning each and everyone of my laughlines heartily!
[...] I’ve written in the past on some major infractions by the FDA in my opinion: beef recall, safety review of botox after 10 years in the marketplace… so to see EWG doing what the FDA doesn’t do is a [...]