Incredible Uses of Venom! Cancer Cures!! Venom can be deadly. This should come as no surprise to literally anyone. What may be surprising, however, is the amount of positive uses there are for the venom! While the bite of a snake or the sting of a bee may not be helpful to humanity on its own, scientists have spent decades studying the chemicals in these poisons and have come to some surprising discoveries. From pain helpers to Blood Pressure medicine…stay tuned to number one to find out WHICH venom is being used to help treat cancer! These Top Ten uses for venom brought to you by Zero2Hero!! Don't forget to subscribe here! https://goo.gl/NXuChu INSANE Facts about Vlad Dracula!! Romania's Top 10 BEST!! https://youtu.be/sKn3WFdWkq0 Number 10: Making Anti-venom. Okay, this one may be a bit obvious, but the best way to make an antidote for venom is to use venom itself. When someone is bit by a snake, their body reacts to the chemical that just entered the bloodstream, and they react badly. However, scientists have found ways to extract the venom from snakes, spiders and many other creepy crawlers to create anti venom that can quickly treat someone who has been bitten or stung. The process of collecting the venom is interesting, too. Scientists have to basically grab the snake and force it to bite into something, essentially “milking” it of its venom. The same goes for obtaining venom from a spider or a bee or any number of other insects. This may not be exactly what they signed up for with their chemistry major, but at least they’re helping the world! Number 9: Making pain helpers. Surprisingly, for how painful it can be to be bitten or stung, scientists have found ways to use venom, itself, to create pain helpers of all kinds. So…how does THIS work? Especially since a bite from a snake or spider is painful? As it turns out, it’s not about the bite as much as it is about controlling the amount of venom that enters the body. Particularly with spider venom, it causes pain that travels through the central nervous system to tell you that you have been bit. The problem is, a lot of venom tells your body to become paralyzed and shut down the body’s essential functions, which could lead to expiration. However, if a smaller amount of this venom is applied to a pained area of a patient, the nervous system can “lightly” paralyze the pained area, allowing for relief. This doesn’t mean that we’ll soon be prescribed a spider bite from our doctor, but it does mean we could be relieved of our pain through a controlled dose of spider venom. Number 8: Reduce Blood Pressure. All these images of bugs and snakes probably have your blood boiling, so now would be a good time to mention how venom can actually help you control your blood pressure. Since the 1970’s, doctors and scientists have been studying the proteins of viper venom. At that time, they discovered that it has a protein that disrupts the human body’s angiotensin-converting enzyme, or ACE. Disrupting the ACE is one of the most powerful ways they have found to reduce blood pressure in humans. ACE inhibitor treatments have now become a standard in the world of blood pressure reduction. See, even if these creepy crawlies are weird as heck and scary to look at, they can help reduce your blood pressure after all. Trust me! Number 7: Light Up The Brain It may not seem to useful, in fact it may seem downright pointless, but scientists have been able to use venom to light up brain cells. This may not seem like a good use of anyone’s time and money, but there is really a good use here. Researchers at the University of California, Davis have used tarantula venom to study its effects on the electrical charges that occur in and around cells. As it turns out, the venom from these fur creatures offers a chemical that can make cells light up when a potassium channel is opened or closed. Honestly, I don’t really know what that means, but, while there is no conclusive evidence yet, scientists believe that this venom’s control of lighting up cells can help fight electrical issues within the brain, such as epilepsy. If the venom is used in the right way and at the right dose, people with epilepsy and other similar disorders can find relief and maybe eventually a cure. That’s a pretty good use of deadly venom from a seemingly useless monster bug. Number 6: Treat Cancer. The world needs cancer treatments. A lot of them. Unfortunately, it’s such a unique illness that it is hard to pinpoint the exact way to best treat it. Fortunately…and I actually mean this…we have rattlesnake venom. Rattlesnake venom has a chemical named crotoxin. This chemical is known to attack and break cells. Now, normally, this is a bad thing, but when someone has cancer and a tumor that needs to be reduced, crotoxin is a perfect solution. Use the venom to target specifically the cancerous cells in the tumor, and you have a viable treatment for controlling the growth of a cancer.
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