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Netflix has a documentary series called Unwell which dissects these modern "health therapies". They have an episode on Bee Sting therapy, which the documentary
by jbob2000 6y ago
Netflix has a documentary series called Unwell which dissects these modern "health therapies". They have an episode on Bee Sting therapy, which the documentary does a pretty good job of explaining fairly. I recommend this if you're curious about the state of this practice.
Bee venom is a mixture of more than 40 different compounds and its mixture varies a lot from bee to bee. Whatever effect you can get from these compounds would be better served by studying the compounds rather than nature's uncontrolled homogenisation of them.
- Valgrim 6y agoIt seems that's exactly what the researcher has done: "She said a component of the venom called melittin is what had the killing effect. The researchers reproduced the melittin synthetically and found it mirrored the majority of the anti-cancer effects of the honeybee venom." "It effectively shut down the signalling pathways for the reproduction of triple-negative and HER2 cancer cells."