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Natural or Clean Botox Injections? Don’t Get Fooled By Advertising

I’ve had a number of patients ask me recently about natural injections for wrinkles, they’ve heard of clinics offering a product that is supposed to be a more natural form of, or the ‘purist’ form of botox- aka cleaner or safer than regular botox. Given the way these clinics are advertising “we use only the purist form of neuromodulators”, it is easy to see how patients would assume this means it’s a better product for you, assume they would be getting a healthier version of the treatment, and in turn, want to get their injections done at that clinic. Don’t succumb to misleading advertising! Yes there are differences between the various products available for wrinkle-relaxing, but these differences do not equate to one being healthier or more natural than the others. So this months blog is all about dispelling natural botox myths, breaking down basics of botox, the differences between the products on the market and what these differences really mean for the consumer.

BOTOX IS JUST A BRAND

Everyone refers to it as getting ‘botox’, but it’s time to correct your lingo, there are actually 4 types of wrinkle-relaxing preparations commercially available for dermatological application in Canada, and Botox is just one of them: OnabotulinumtoxinA marketed as BOTOX/BOTOX Cosmetic, abobotulinumtoxinA as Dysport, incobotulinumtoxinA as Xeomin, prabotulinumtoxinA as Jeuveau. Collectively, these drugs are known as neuromodulators. Botox was the first on the market, so much like Kleenex is to tissue, Botox is often inappropriately used to describe all botunlinum toxin A (BoNTA) therapy. So now that you’re in the know, I’ll be using the correct terms for anti-wrinkle injections – neuromodulators or BoNTA.
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Clearing up the Pox

Corticosteroids are anti-inflammatory medications that mimic the natural anti-inflammatory hormones in our body. They are used to control an overactive immune reaction in multiple conditions like rashes, allergies, asthma, and autoimmune disorders. They are potent and highly effective, but have significant unwanted effects, the degree of which is usually dose-dependent ie: the higher the daily dose and the longer the period of time you take the drug, the greater your risk of side effects. Many people taking steroids are often unaware of these effects or how to deal with them if they arise and do not realize how they can have life long consequences.

Preventing Pregnancy Loss. The ignored connection between miscarriage and the thyroid

Women have many questions after a miscarriage. Unless the cause is discovered to be a genetic anomaly, infection, anatomical abnormality or advanced age, the answers are many times elusive. Our medical system does not fully investigate first trimester pregnancy loss unless it has happened two or sometimes three times. This can be devastating for people trying to conceive.

What to do about the side effects of steroids?

Accutane, Retinoids & Acids For Acne – What You Need To Know

Acne is a beast. A stubborn, multifaceted beast and no two patients are alike. This makes acne one of the most challenging conditions to treat – but the good news is, we’ve got options. Plenty of options. If you’re prepared for a major lifestyle overhaul, and can endure some trial and error, then there is great hope for an acne-free future. Too often, I hear of patients being prescribed the heavy-hitters with major side-effects (accutane & systemic antibiotics) right off the bat for mild/moderate acne; even more troublesome is how many patients were prescribed these medications as teenagers. Read More

Please don’t put statins in our drinking water

Statin medications like Lipitor and Crestor are the new everyday Aspirin. Everyone and their mother is taking them. There are actually serious articles looking at the addition of statins to the public water supply.

All you need to know about Vitamin B12 – symptoms, testing and treatment

Don’t ever stop taking your Vitamin B12

All you need to know about a seriously important vitamin.
Even if you aren’t vegetarian it doesn’t mean vitamin B12 is something you can ignore.

Graves Disease

Graves’ Disease can be effectively treated by Mints Naturopathic Physicians
There are a lot of people who have Graves’ disease who tolerate anti-thyroid drug treatment just fine or successfully treat with radioactive iodine. There are also a lot of people who don’t and seek professional care on how to navigate still feeling well all the while reducing the risks of Graves’.

How to introduce solid food to a baby including all current considerations for allergic foods and the healthiest outcomes.

FROM LIQUIDS TO SOLIDS

When infants start to eat what are they supposed to be eating and how should they eat it?

If you’ve ever been told you have Irritable Bowel Syndrome you probably don’t. You probably have an infection.

Did you know we don’t produce gas? Bacteria that live in us do. Gas is supposed to be expelled evenly over time, without causing discomfort. For most of us, that’s the way it works and we naturally release believe it or not 2 Litres of gas a day. Read More

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