{"id":8714,"date":"2013-07-26T04:59:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T04:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2018-11-03T05:13:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T05:13:42","slug":"botox-now-also-shrinking-oil-glands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/botox-now-also-shrinking-oil-glands\/","title":{"rendered":"Botox \u2013 Now Also Shrinking Oil Glands In The Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"
Botox is not good only for wiping out that last remaining hint of emotional expression from your face; it can also shrink the oil glands in your skin.<\/p>\n
A quick post about an interesting study I found today. For some time now researchers have speculated that a neurotransmitter acetylcholine affects sebum production. Korean researchers wanted to test this. They incubated human sebocytes (sebum producing cells) in acetylcholine and showed that it increased the activity of the cells in a petri dish, suggesting it can increase sebum production in humans.<\/p>\n
They also conducted a human trial using Botox, which can inhibit the acetylcholine pathway. Here are the details of the study:<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a graph that shows the results.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Source: Zheng Jun Li, et al. Regulation of lipid production by acetylcholine signalling in human sebaceous glands. Journal of Dermatological Science. https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0923181113002193<\/a><\/p>\n Here are the interesting points:<\/p>\n What\u2019s interesting about this is that the neurotransmitter acetylcholine is also involved in sweat production. This could explain why my skin always feels much oilier in hot and humid conditions (welcome to Thailand), but when I go somewhere cold and dry (like my home country, Finland) I don\u2019t get that oily feeling and my skin generally does much better.<\/p>\n Apparently Botox can help with excess sweat production too<\/a>. 12 \u2013 14 injections per armpit paralyzes the nerves that secrete acetylcholine causing almost immediate reduction in sweat production that lasts for 6 to 10 months. It looks like something similar happens with regard to sebum production. It\u2019s too bad they only followed the participants for 4 weeks.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know about the long-term side-effects of Botox, so I\u2019m not sure I would recommend it for controlling sebum production. But there you have it anyway, an option for those inclined to try it.<\/p>\n Here are some less invasive ways to reduce sebum production:<\/p>\n Photo Credit: ekai<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Botox is not good only for wiping out that last remaining hint of emotional expression from your face; it can also shrink the oil glands in your skin. A quick post about an interesting study I found today. For some time now researchers have speculated that a neurotransmitter acetylcholine affects sebum production. Korean researchers wanted … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81,47],"tags":[136,46],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8714"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11022,"href":"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8714\/revisions\/11022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acneeinstein.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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