Did you know that preventative Botox is actually aging you

faster? We want to build collagen, which Botox will

simply not do. Use your gua sha and do your facial

exercises. You have to be consistent with your treatments and

your supplements, and I promise you, you will see results. If

you are in your 40s or 50s, you need to listen up

now. Are you falling for the Botox trap? Well, you don't

need to anymore. My advice is simple. Welcome

to the Holistic Skin Guru, where what's on the surface is just

as important as what's underneath. I'm your host, Aamena. Let's

dive deep into the world of holistic skincare. Preventative

Botox is actually aging you. Have you seen

recent photos of Jennifer Aniston? I mean, the

girl's still gorgeous, but can you notice that she's aged a

little because of the work that she's had done? Now,

this is what's going to happen to a lot of people who have

been thinking that they're using Botox in a preventative way.

Vogue has just done an article about this, so check

it out. You see, while the Botox is freezing the

area, commonly around the eyes and forehead, this

is what people are missing, is the fact that these areas lack

the fatty tissue, and as the person ages, the

cellular structure is aging as well. But

with Botox, the client missed this, and when they

do realize it could be too late. So what should you

be doing? Well, you should be looking at collagen-inducing

treatments, because this is what provides the support for

your face and the structure for your skin. So

when you are injecting the muscle with Botox, you're

actually losing volume because that's what Botox does.

It shrinks the muscle. Think about it. Botox

is designed to freeze the muscle, right? So when

a person is paralyzed or bedridden due to illness, what

happens to their muscles in their body? They lose muscle

mass from inactivity. The same thing

happens to the muscles in your face. So everyone

is having Botox in the forehead and around the eyes, but when

we freeze those muscles, we can get what's called atrophy

and we can lose facial volume. This is what

makes you look old. Now, more

and more injectors are doing what is called baby Botox, but

this too can result in atrophy in the injected facial muscle.

We can see permanent changes in the muscle composition even

after the muscle recovers its movement, with

significant loss of volume. Now, why is everyone being

told to do this every three months? Is it big pharma? Is

it greed? Know what is being injected in

you, understand its purpose, and what

it was designed to do and how it affects you. So

ask yourself this, are you falling for the Botox trap?

Well, you don't need to anymore. Hear me out. My

advice is simple. While I am not by any means anti-Botox,

it has its place in the industry. If you are in your 40s

or 50s, you need to listen up now. limit

your Botox injections and switch to a good skincare

routine instead. You need to be thinking about collagen

banking. And you're going to hear me talking about this consistently in

every single podcast, because I truly believe this

is the way of fighting the aging process. While

I'm not an injector, I do know how it works and

I do some extensive reading on this topic as I need to

understand how to advise my clients who have already

started with Botox and want or are looking for

an alternative. We don't want to lose our volume. We

want to build collagen, which Botox will simply not

do. We want our complete face needs to look balanced and

natural. I want you to think about collagen. Collagen

is king. So do your collagen banking treatments.

Like the treatment that we do in our clinic is called Neolifting

Buckle Massage, which is an amazing treatment for

lifting and building collagen in the skin. Use

your washer and do your facial exercises. Use

it with castor oil, black seed oil, sea

buckthorn oils. These are all great with facial massage

and they help the skin to improve its hydration, elasticity

and texture. Microneedling through PRF,

this is a great way to get your body to do the work for you.

You get stem cells and growth factors and exosomes that

come from your own blood, which will give you the best

results. This is a quick treatment, about 30 to

40 minutes, and the skin will rejuvenate and will help you to recover

from too much Botox. Check out my video on PRF and

PRP treatments to get a better understanding of how these

treatments work. Don't forget about supplementing your

diet and adding a hydrolyzed collagen to your diet

so that your body can start to build extra collagen naturally.

And the research and evidence is already out there. It's telling us

that this is going to help your body's own collagen production long-term.

But like anything, you have to be consistent with your treatments

and your supplements, and I promise you, you will see results.

Catch you on the next episode. Thank you for joining me on

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