Ep 48 Botulism: Why are you the way you are?

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Health & Fitness, Science

4.8 • 17.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

You don’t look surprised to see this in your podcast feed - or is that just the botox? This week we’re taking a tour of the wonderful world of Clostridium botulinum and the toxin it produces, at once both poison and prescription. First, we delve into how botulinum toxin acts to paralyze your muscles and under what circumstances you might encounter it. Then we iron out the wrinkles of the why of botulinum toxin, an answer that involves migratory birds, maggots, and marshes. The story continues with blood sausages, an unfortunate funeral party, and a massive shift from toxin to treatment as the therapeutic potential of botulinum toxin is explored. And the best part of this episode? Georgia. Hardstark. You’ve heard the always amazing, ever hilarious, and one of our personal heroes Georgia Hardstark on My Favorite Murder, but now listen to her share her firsthand experience with getting botox facial injections. This episode ranks among our top favorites we've ever recorded, and we hope you love it as much as we do!

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0:00.0	This is Justin from The Generation Y, and we're doing a four-part series on rambling the story of
0:05.0	Khalif Browder, a young boy falsely accused of stealing a backpack and held at Rikers Island for three
0:10.7	years without trial. This story is about a young life caught in the middle of the Justice System.
0:16.1	Listen to Generation Y on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:20.9	Hi, I'm Georgia Hard Stark and I co-host the podcast My Favorite Murder. And, uh, of course I had
0:27.9	heard about Botox for years. I think everyone, you know, knew about it and knew what it was. And it
0:33.9	didn't even cross my mind until I had a friend who got it done and she was, you know, we were both
0:39.5	in our mid-30s, so he was thinking like, well, I don't need it yet. And then I saw her face and it looked,
0:48.1	it just, you know, she didn't, she looked awake, I guess, was the thing that really hit struck me.
0:54.4	And then I was in this really cool, like, secret Los Angeles ladies Facebook group.
1:01.3	And they all got it done. And so I kept, like, it normalized it for me. And we were all, you know,
1:06.8	they were there from their mid-20s to 30s to 40s. It was all ages. So it didn't suddenly feel
1:12.9	like this thing that only, you know, you had to get when you were older and already, you know, having
1:18.2	issues, the way I read about it was that it was preventative, which I found really interesting,
1:23.7	because, you know, the less you're making the furring your brows and making those creases,
1:29.8	the less the lines are going to stick around. And I was really nervous because it's, you know,
1:35.6	I had to get past feeling vain about it, which I think is a normal thought. And then I, you know,
1:44.0	I just realized there were these little things about my, you know, wrinkles that were bothering me.
1:49.8	And I think that's the main thing is like, it's not for everyone and everyone, and wrinkles are
1:55.1	beautiful, and not everyone, you know, is going to want to do it. And I think that's totally fair. But
1:59.8	I think if it's for me, it's like a simple fix that will make me just feel a little more confident,
2:06.8	you know, which is a big huge plus for me. So, you know, it's like, change your face, not
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