To Beauty queens and those who wish to compete, as well as to all gullible health nuts.

All around the globe there is talk about medications that will reduce wrinkles, one of the major concerns with people who wish to "remain young". Some of these treatments are truly effective. They use compounds that relax facial muscles which, in this example, cause one to raise one's eye brows which leads to wrinkles in the forehead. The treatment, of course, work on the flow of the appropriate signals to and from the brain. A study conducted in Zurich - my hometown! - indicated that in the test case not only the targeted muscles were affected. It turns out that very near the area of the brain that controls the facial muscles associated with forehead wrinkles lies the area that controls sensitivity and reflectivity in the hands! It should not come as a surprise that the study revealed a change in dexterity / sensitivity in the hands as a byproduct of the 'treatment to reduce wrinkles on the forehead'. The point is that chemicals (more approvingly known also and pharmaceuticals or medicines) introduced into our bio-system do not necessarily restrict their influence to the areas targeted by the designer. Of course there was no time lost to object by the various national and international health authorities and the manufacturer of the medication in question. One said the treatment in question has been proven safe and the other insists that the medication had been approved and the test sample was too small to be significant.

I have the feeling that the pharmaceutical world and the producers of iPhone and smart phone apps have the same problem: they must be out on the market before the competition, or they lose practically all the investment made in the preparation for the 'coming out'. In the case of an app, that investment is small. In the case of the pharmaceuticals it is often mind boggling huge. While the apps creators simply harass you with a never ending stream of 'updates' which simply address mistakes that could have been prevented if proper diligence had been exercised earlier in the game, there is also no time for the pharmaceutical industry to exercise proper diligence, so, once out on the market with a product, they keep their fingers crossed and wait for the complaints to come in. Then, they first take cover behind the  'authorities' who approved the product in the first place, and only next will they go to work on remediation.

So, my thought an my advise are: be aware of the snake oil salesman. His actions not only concern forehead wrinkles, but everything from anemia to zits.