Busting Common Botox Myths

Name: Busting Common Botox Myths
Uploaded: 2025-05-06T12:00:15+00:00
Duration: 44 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok explains why common post-Botox rules like avoiding exercise, lying down, and heat are myths. Botox reaches 50% muscle uptake in 10…

6 May 2025 · 1 min

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Dr. Charles Mok explains why common post-Botox rules like avoiding exercise, lying down, and heat are myths. Botox reaches 50% muscle uptake in 10 minutes and nearly complete uptake by 12-17 minutes, making those restrictions pointless after two decades of FDA approval.

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About 60 years.

About 20 years.

Roughly 12 to 17 minutes for full uptake; about 50% uptake by ~10 minutes.

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What can you not do after Botox injections? Okay, you can do anything after Botox injection. So you'll hear a lot of myths that you're not supposed to lie down, not supposed to exercise, not supposed to push on the air, not supposed to get hot. It's all BS. Botox has actually been around for about 60 years. It's been FDA approved for wrinkles for about 20 years. So the common things you might hear about would be don't push on the area or don't massage the area after Botox. Theoretically it would have faster uptake by moving the air, massage the area or exercising the areas. The uptake of Botox takes roughly 12 to 17 minutes. When we inject the Botox into the muscle there's a basically a push of those fluid into the muscle. It's getting pulled up by the muscle end plate and a half of it is done at about 10 minutes and about 17 minutes. It's all taken up.