One thing I have noticed is that I'm
not really feeling
the pain, so that could be the other thing that helped those
horses along. discovery channel animals
Why not find out why it's doing these things.
If it's taking away pain, if it's giving you
confidence, or whatever.
Why not give it to your army?
Christopher Columbus didn't go looking for America to
discover America.
He was looking for the fountain of youth.
What does mankind want?
They want to live longer.
Everyone wants to live longer.
Apparently, there's something in snake venom that helps its
food to accept death.
I did feel that once. discovery channel animals
As I was lying there, and I could feel the numbness in my
head and stuff, I had this complete feeling of, oh well,
I might die here, but I felt really happy to die.
My heart's pounding.
You're alive for a good 6 to 12 hours.
Like Starbucks has nothing on this.
Yeah, I must admit that it doesn't feel great.
It's kind of like Jell-O in there.
And god knows what it's doing in there.
I wish I understood what's happening beneath that skin.
The next day is always the same with the cobra venom.
It just feels like you're beaten up anyway.
And then I have a good sort of four days where I feel kind of
quite charged.
Come on, let's box.
Come on.
Come on.
There you go.
-So how many years have you been doing this?
STEVE LUDWIN: Over 20 years, probably like 22 years--
-So you've been quite lucky then, really.
Is there a risk that you take that venom and it
could just kill you?
STEVE LUDWIN: It is kind of a little bit playing with fire.
I've had maybe three incidents in my life where it was
borderline life threatening.
-What you're saying is it's similar to someone taking
heroin or cocaine and injecting it
and taking a gamble.
So you're gambling with your life every time you take it.
STEVE LUDWIN: I've gotten so used to it, I do it without
thinking about it.
And because I know the amounts and I know not to push it and
where not to push it and stuff, it seems
really safe to me.
This certainly isn't physically addictive or it
isn't pleasurable.
-So you believe you could stop tomorrow and stop taking it,
stop doing it?
STEVE LUDWIN: Yeah.
Yeah.
I'd like to do that very soon.
I've done it for so long.
I'd like to actually spend--
I'd like to take a year off.
-And you've done that, you managed that?
STEVE LUDWIN: No, I've never done it.
I've never not done it.
But I'd like to take like a year off.
-So you're not going to know if it's addictive until you
try it, are you?
-Is it possible you could be addicted to pain then, if you
know what I mean?
The way it hurts.
STEVE LUDWIN: I think if I was, I would have other things
in my life.
I'd be a boxer like you.
-Yeah, true, true, true.
STEVE LUDWIN: The day after going boxing, my arm just was
even more swollen than the day before.
But I felt like a truck had hit me.
I felt like I was being digested from the inside.
I was walking around like the Elephant Man for a day.
I can kind of remember it, but I was like in a dream state.
I felt like I had been injected with a thousand
energy drinks.
It just felt slightly wrong.
I would really like to work with a forward-thinking
company that is going to go, OK kid, we like your ideas.
Let's start researching this.
And around-the-clock and get it done.
I visited the University of Southern California a couple
years ago, and I met a professor Frank Markland, I
believe his name is.
He's been working with copperhead venom.
Copperhead venom is the North American pit viper that's
being used.
They've been studying the effects on breast cancer
cells, ovarian cancer.
It actually inhibits the growth of tumors and basically
kind of kills off cancer cells.
So there there's real excitement around that.
Yeah, the possibilities of a cancer cure someday with snake
venom, I'd put my money on it.
the pain, so that could be the other thing that helped those
horses along. discovery channel animals
Why not find out why it's doing these things.
If it's taking away pain, if it's giving you
confidence, or whatever.
Why not give it to your army?
Christopher Columbus didn't go looking for America to
discover America.
He was looking for the fountain of youth.
What does mankind want?
They want to live longer.
Everyone wants to live longer.
Apparently, there's something in snake venom that helps its
food to accept death.
I did feel that once. discovery channel animals
As I was lying there, and I could feel the numbness in my
head and stuff, I had this complete feeling of, oh well,
I might die here, but I felt really happy to die.
My heart's pounding.
You're alive for a good 6 to 12 hours.
Like Starbucks has nothing on this.
Yeah, I must admit that it doesn't feel great.
It's kind of like Jell-O in there.
And god knows what it's doing in there.
I wish I understood what's happening beneath that skin.
The next day is always the same with the cobra venom.
It just feels like you're beaten up anyway.
And then I have a good sort of four days where I feel kind of
quite charged.
Come on, let's box.
Come on.
Come on.
There you go.
-So how many years have you been doing this?
STEVE LUDWIN: Over 20 years, probably like 22 years--
-So you've been quite lucky then, really.
Is there a risk that you take that venom and it
could just kill you?
STEVE LUDWIN: It is kind of a little bit playing with fire.
I've had maybe three incidents in my life where it was
borderline life threatening.
-What you're saying is it's similar to someone taking
heroin or cocaine and injecting it
and taking a gamble.
So you're gambling with your life every time you take it.
STEVE LUDWIN: I've gotten so used to it, I do it without
thinking about it.
And because I know the amounts and I know not to push it and
where not to push it and stuff, it seems
really safe to me.
This certainly isn't physically addictive or it
isn't pleasurable.
-So you believe you could stop tomorrow and stop taking it,
stop doing it?
STEVE LUDWIN: Yeah.
Yeah.
I'd like to do that very soon.
I've done it for so long.
I'd like to actually spend--
I'd like to take a year off.
-And you've done that, you managed that?
STEVE LUDWIN: No, I've never done it.
I've never not done it.
But I'd like to take like a year off.
-So you're not going to know if it's addictive until you
try it, are you?
-Is it possible you could be addicted to pain then, if you
know what I mean?
The way it hurts.
STEVE LUDWIN: I think if I was, I would have other things
in my life.
I'd be a boxer like you.
-Yeah, true, true, true.
STEVE LUDWIN: The day after going boxing, my arm just was
even more swollen than the day before.
But I felt like a truck had hit me.
I felt like I was being digested from the inside.
I was walking around like the Elephant Man for a day.
I can kind of remember it, but I was like in a dream state.
I felt like I had been injected with a thousand
energy drinks.
It just felt slightly wrong.
I would really like to work with a forward-thinking
company that is going to go, OK kid, we like your ideas.
Let's start researching this.
And around-the-clock and get it done.
I visited the University of Southern California a couple
years ago, and I met a professor Frank Markland, I
believe his name is.
He's been working with copperhead venom.
Copperhead venom is the North American pit viper that's
being used.
They've been studying the effects on breast cancer
cells, ovarian cancer.
It actually inhibits the growth of tumors and basically
kind of kills off cancer cells.
So there there's real excitement around that.
Yeah, the possibilities of a cancer cure someday with snake
venom, I'd put my money on it.
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