Alternative Cancer Remedies You've Never Heard Of, Animal Venom, Urine Therapy, Nicotine For Viruses & More With Jonathan Otto.

16 Nov 2023 · 69 min
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16 Nov 2023 · 69 min

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Episode of the Ben Greenfield Life podcast featuring an interview with Jonathan Otto. The conversation covers unconventional/controversial alternative health topics: prevalence and use of venom-derived peptides in pesticides and environmental exposure; evidence that venom-like toxin peptides were detected in biological samples from COVID-19 patients; nicotine (patches ~7–14 mg) as a competitive ligand for nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and its potential therapeutic effects across conditions; urine therapy (urotherapy) including urine-derived mesenchymal stem cells (Wake Forest study reported ~140 clonal stem cells in a 24-hour urine sample with a reported replication of ~1×10^8 over three weeks); oncolytic virus therapy (Rigvir) and clinics offering alternative cancer treatments; and practical suggestions (water filtration, organic produce, nicotine patches, urine ingestion/enemas) discussed anecdotally with case examples. The episode is framed as investigative and provocative, with numerous PubMed/study references promised in the shownotes.

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7–14 mg (patch)

~140 clonal stem cells in a 24-hour urine sample; replication reported as 1 × 10^8 over a three-week period.

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