Steve Ludwin - who injects snake venom into people for 30 years to be younger and healthier

He claimed that snake venom helped me to get younger and avoid many diseases.

Warning: Poisonous snake venom is extremely dangerous, if you have the opportunity, don't imitate the "50-year-old young man", Steve Ludwin.

For more than 30 years, this man named Steve Ludwin has injected himself with snake venom, initially out of curiosity and later because of the wonderful effects that he himself perceived and asserted himself. There have been many medical experts, the researchers recommend that this is extremely dangerous, and that fresh snake venom has not been scientifically proven to be safe and beneficial, but Ludwin ignored those words. and still do what I believe.

Steve Ludwin.

The man faced death for 30 years to protect what he believed

'The pain happens every time a snake venom is injected like someone who holds a sledgehammer hard on my hand, then burns it,' explained Ludwin. ' Evolution itself told me not to do that' . But obviously he didn't care about that. The venom injection seems to have become the hobby of this British musician.

In the basement of his house are 17 snakes, of which 15 are poisonous, coming from all over the world. He said that from childhood, he was attracted to this reptile: always loved drawing beautiful snakes, bought by his parents for a tropical South American python when he was young to raise. However, at that time in his mind he had not formed the idea of ​​injecting snake venom into a healthy person.

And that fateful day came: he met Bill Haast when he was 10 years old and this snake venom researcher gave him an impression of never forgetting. Since 1948, Mr. Haast has conducted an immunity test with snake venom on his own body. Haast had been bitten by venomous snakes for a total of 172 throughout his research career and seemed to be immune to snake venom as well as not often sick. He is 100 years old.

Expert on Snake Bill Haast when young.

It was this living proof that led Ludwin to follow this dangerous child: gradually injecting small pieces of poisonous snake into him to force himself to build an immune system with snake venom .

He himself is an example of the belief that he has with snake venom: Ludwin is immune to snake venom, which is both abundant and healthy and makes him younger. These conclusions are all self-assertive, there is no scientific evidence for this. 'Most people say I don't look like a person in my 50s , ' he said. 'I really think I've met something special'.

Ludwin is both immune to snake venom and health, and makes him younger.

Obviously, the absence of scientific evidence would mean that countless researchers opposed Ludwin injecting snake venom into his body like this: having no scientific basis and being immensely danger. Wolfgang Wüster, a senior lecturer in zoology at Bangor University, Wales, does not believe in this 'living proof' . ' He admitted that he was younger than he was and many other benefits, but obviously he was just one example of this.'

Experience (almost) deadly

Not everything goes well with him, because often playing with fire will definitely burn you. He recounted that nine years ago, he had almost lost his life when overdose of snake venom. At that time, he had to inject 3 different types of snake venom into his hand at once, an extremely inadequate experiment and it was a disaster.

As soon as the snake venom entered his arm, he knew that something was wrong with the snake venom dose this time. His hand swelled up to the size of a baseball glove, his arm swelled up and swelled to the shoulder.

Ludwin's hand was inflated after injecting snake venom, of course this was not an accident 30 years ago.

When he told the doctor that he had injected 3 different snake venom into his hands, they did not believe it was true. He had to lie down for 3 days in the intensive care room and the doctor told him that it was possible that they would have to completely cut off his snake's venom, if Ludwin wanted to keep his life. In the end, they didn't have to cut anything down, but Ludwin still returned home.

A week later, the doctors insisted that they wanted to see him again. They studied his poisonous arm and were surprised that they had never seen such a surprising speed of recovery. Ludwin believed that it was the immunity he had obtained from the amount of snake venom previously injected. And perhaps if he was bitten by a poisonous snake, his chances of survival were extremely high.

The change came to him, when his own snake venom injection became a scientific research tool, opening new doors for the study of venom and how to combat venom.

Get snake venom.

The goal is to produce a new antitoxin

According to the World Health Organization WHO, every year 100,000 people die from snake bites, more than 300,000 others are permanently affected by snake bites. In 2010, one of the world's leading manufacturers of snake venom stopped producing its main drug, citing 'lack of demand and there seems to be no mutation in future market demand'. .

So the price of these antitoxin drugs increases, making it harder for people with bitten in developing countries to access these drugs, or without the financial ability to afford them. medicine money. And yet, drug manufacturers today use technology already more than 100 years ago. They took fresh snake venom, injected with horses, goats or sheep.

Weeks later, antibodies from those animals will be taken, when their immune system is able to resist the venom of snake venom.

Steve Ludwin took snake venom to prepare for injection.

Four years ago, researchers at the University of Copenhagen contacted Ludwin, wishing to create a whole new process of antitoxin production. Instead of using animal blood, they wanted to use Ludwin's blood. Antibodies from a human must be much better than animals.

'Steve himself is a factory. "It produces antibodies against a variety of snake venom ," said Brian Lohse, head of research. 'He is the key to opening every door.'

If this research is successful, scientists will collude with nonprofit organizations or charities to create antitoxin with a current cheaper fake.'Without Steve's DNA, we won't be able to do these things.'

Perhaps for the first time, the production of solid antitoxin has been studied and produced from human blood.

Since 2013, Ludwin has flown to Copenhagen 4 times a year to donate blood and bone marrow to science. Between those times, he kept a detailed record of the types of snake venom, the amount of venom he had injected himself. Perhaps for the first time, the production of solid antitoxin has been studied and produced from human blood.

Mr. Lohse said this was the only case, mainly because it was too dangerous. Although he was happy that he had Ludwin as a tester, he did not want others to imitate this reckless '50-year-old boy' .

'I feel like a cat and have used up all my 8 lives. If I had an accident, maybe that would be the end, 'said Steve Ludwin, who had injected snake venom into his body for 30 years. 'I will still inject snake venom into my body because of the faith I have created, but I will definitely stop this in the future and gradually inject less snake venom.'