If Botox is a drug made from a toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum (the same toxin that causes a life-threatening type of food poisoning called botulism) why doesn’t it make us sick?
In: Biology
It’s always the dose that makes a poison. There’s a safe dose for everything as long as it’s small enough.
Botulin is a powerful neurotoxin that paralyzes your muscles, but in in microscopic doses, it turns out that the paralytic effect is pretty good at masking wrinkles.
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