🧪Anyone on social media these days has seen the viral warnings about aesthetic treatments, often from non-medical influencers, “gut health coaches,” and self-help wellness experts.
🙄We’ve heard it all:
💉 “Botulinum toxin will destroy your gut microbiome”
💉 “You’ll lose empathy and become depersonalised!”
💉 “Filler slides around your face, builds up forever, and causes autoimmune disease”
💉 “Dissolving filler will melt your face and give you chronic fatigue syndrome”
💉 “Treatments will shut down your lymphatic system”
🧬These pseudoscientific claims are often laced with just enough science-y language to sound credible, but they’re clickbait, not clinical evidence.
🧠One viral post claimed dissolving filler triggers mitochondrial dysfunction. Another warned that toxin “rewires your brain.” Yes, complications exist. Yes, we should be cautious. But these exaggerated horror stories only spread fear and confusion.
🔬Fear-based narratives undermine safe, effective, evidence-based treatments and erode trust in qualified medical professionals. Rather stick to the science, and leave the scare tactics to horror films.
💉You’re safest in the hands of an experienced registered AAMSSA doctor !