Sunday, April 27, 2014

Venom Superman

There is a man a in California who injects himself with different kinds of snake venom. This man is 46 years old and accruing to test done by doctors his skin and health conditions are of a 28 year old. The different kinds of snake venom used for injecting are both neurotoxins and hemotoxins. He even gets a feeling of euphoria from certain neurotoxins. he has become slightly immune to snake venom and if any other person takes the dosage he does they would die. He has been using venom injection for twenty years after learning about it from a famous herpetologist, Bill Hast. he using snakes such from cobra and  rattlesnake lineages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q_m-rDUNw0
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5 comments:

  1. Allison WelchApril 28, 2014 at 12:37 AM

    This guy doesn't seem like he's in it for the science. Contrast with Bill Haast: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/bill-haast-dies-at-100-florida-snake-man-provided-venom-for-snakebite-serum/2011/06/18/AGgZjfaH_story.html

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  2. AnonymousApril 28, 2014 at 2:01 PM

    This just seems like it would be suicidal. Does the venom not build-up? How are there no seemingly adverse reactions?

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  3. AnonymousApril 28, 2014 at 11:02 PM

    THAT VIDEO WAS SO CREEPY. This dude seems like he really has no idea what he's doing...

    Snake venom has always been so interesting to me, but this guy seems to take it to a whole other level.

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  4. AnonymousApril 29, 2014 at 7:01 PM

    I'm glad there was someone around like Bill Haast who could not only get venom from snakes with such efficiency but also used his own blood to help bite victims. If they come up with a more practical way to take snake venom I might even be willing to give it a try! This website sells a number of snake related products (http://sabaibay.com/snake-farm-products ) but I wouldn't know what to trust until the science behind the harm/benefits of snake venom are better understood. I'm really glad that Bill reached his goal of living to be 100!

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  5. Allison WelchApril 29, 2014 at 11:38 PM

    Not only would I not trust the efficacy of those products, I would be willing to bet that their production involves killing snakes. It strikes me as a herpetological parallel to rhino horn: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/rhinoceros/rhino-horn-use-fact-vs-fiction/1178/

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