Posted on 09/02/2020 12:03:08 PM PDT by EBH
Praise God for his honey bees
Amen!
Do female beekeepers, who occasionally get stung, have lower incidences of this type of cancer? I wonder.
A friend with MS tells me bee venom is supposed to be helpful for that. Hmm.
Hold the venom, pass the honey.
It will never be approved by the FDA - no profit for big pharma.
“Do female beekeepers, who occasionally get stung, have lower incidences of this type of cancer?”
What a great question, unfortunately, I suspect that there are not enough female bee keepers to get a statistically valid sample size.
You would be hard pressed to find a more helpful incest than the Honey Bee :)
So just flashing your boobs at a bee hive and getting stung might work??
INSECT than the Honey Bee
And this is the last we will ever hear of it.
“In Dr Duffy’s research the bees were put to sleep with carbon dioxide and kept on ice before the venom barb was pulled out from the abdomen of the bee and the venom was extracted and injected into the tumours.”
“Save the honeybee!”
Wow. Sure am glad they made sure those bees were properly sedated, rather than ripping them limb from limb, without anesthesia, like a worthless clump of cells sometimes referred to as a human fetus.
But, follow up question: Were the bees ok?
Do I need a /s?
My wife had HER2 and we had bees. She was never stung because of all the chemicals from Chemo. She sure enjoyed watching them fly around.
Got to love the Honeybee
Yes. PETA will be here real soon.
Its a logical question, probably one that will not have a definitive answer. For one thing, in the experiment, the collected venom was injected directly into the tumor. The necessary local serum levels of mellitin were not mentioned, and might be far higher than could be achieved by an occasional sting. But sometimes, these real-life retrospective studies (You’ve got triple negative cancer, what’s your occupation) can be suggestive.
My grandfather was a beekeeper. When his arthritis was bothering him he would stick his hand in a hive for about five seconds to get bitten. He swore this would relieve his pain. I now have arthritis but I’m not yet at the point to do what he did.
Had an uncle that kept bees and he swore the getting stung helped his arthritis.
Collected bee venom is very expensive.
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