Niraj Naik discusses peptides from kambo frog secretion, including dermorphin, claimed to be 4,000 times more potent than other opioids, and dermaceptin, which fights MRSA. About 70 patents exist on individual peptides, but speakers argue isolating single compounds undermines the whole therapy's effectiveness, which is why kambo likely won't become mainstream medicine.
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About 70 (speaker-estimated).
Reportedly up to ~4,000 times more potent (attributed to "some people say").
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So why is this not in the mainstream now? Why are doctors not doing. Why aren't drug companies doing research on these peptides?
I think there are, there were a few that were isolated. I think dimorphine has been isolated as one of the bioactive peptides which is very analgesic.
Dimorphine, it's called dermorphin.
I believe attaches.
I don't know if it's mu or.
Delta opioid receptors, but it's a very potent agonist, that receptor. And I think it's. Some people say it's 4,000 more times more potent than other opioids that we work with. But I don't know where they got that from and I certainly can't find any research on it. But either way it's highly analgesic, so pain relieving.
And another one, dermaceptin I believe has.
Been isolated as an antibacterial agent which is highly effective against gram positive things like MRSA and other horrible nasties which are becoming rampant in hospitals.
So there are some companies, I think there's something like 70 patents out on.
Cambo, some of the peptides to them or what's going on with all that.
Don't you think that that defeats the object of putting patents on single peptides? This is a big problem with drugs.
Exactly. This is the thing, it's the monotherapy, it's the mono crop. When you get your whole field of props, it's like, well you're actually making that thing completely sustained, susceptible to disease or infestation because there's not this nice ecology or complex ecology that actually has inbuilt mechanisms to stop things from overrunning which I experienced trying to grow any vegetables in my veg garden in London.
It's just so overrun with slugs, but there was just such a lack of.
Birds around to actually eat the slugs.
And I don't know, it was just. I could tell there was something horribly wrong. It's like, why are there bazillions of slugs?
When I went to Mexico in the.
Mountains, I'm like, oh wow, your lettuce is so beautiful. Like how do you not get overrun by slugs? They're like, oh, I think I've seen two in my life.
And I'm just like, this is, this.
Is, this is what happens in medicine as well.
It's like monotherapy. And then the body develops a mutation.
To it because it's such a simplistic.
Thing, the orchestra that is the human body, that is biology, that is the miracle of life. When you come and you try to reduce it down to this one thing, then it's. The nature is going to find a way around it. And that's why kambo will never become mainstream, because as a whole medicine, that is the magic of it. And, and really, if you make money.
Taking it apart, then it's not going.
To be as effective and it won't make money as.
Because it's free, freely available. It's like cannabis. So, yeah, interesting.
