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WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT BOTOX...
...Boomers will not grow old gracefully," says Baird, 49, who should know. "Botox will be huge." In this case, Botox--the wrinkle-smoothing injection--is a metaphor for all kinds of vanity and health products and services that Baird says boomers will want in order to look young and live young into their 70s. These range from organic food and fresh juices to alternative medicines and health spas. Baird's firm owns Equinox Fitness Clubs, Elizabeth Arden Salons Holdings and the Grand Expeditions travel company and has interests in weight control, antiaging therapies and adult education. Healthy living, he estimates...
...Todd Troost, chairman of neurology at Wake Forest and lead researcher on the botox study, says he is not entirely sure why botox works. "It appears to relax muscles in the head, neck and jaw that when inflamed may trigger migraines," he says. But Troost adds that it also seems to interfere directly with the brain's pain-signaling mechanism...
...which in April approved botox injections for wrinkle removal only, has not yet endorsed botox as a treatment for migraines--although doctors are able to administer it to patients "off label." The treatments are neither easy nor cheap. They involve 30 or 40 injections around the head, temple, jaw, neck and shoulders, cost $1,000 or more and wear off after three or four months. Some patients will still prefer less invasive preventive measures, such as getting plenty of sleep and cutting back on red wine, chocolate and aged cheeses...
...Shirley Kennedy, 52, speaks for many patients when she swears by her botox shots. For 30 years, she says, she suffered from migraines so severe that she felt "as if every hair on my head was about to blow off." That has all changed. "Botox was a lifesaver," she says. "I no longer have migraines." She probably has fewer wrinkles too. --With reporting by Miriam C. Falco/Atlanta...