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Anytime you hear a republican complain about spending research money on some seemingly silly thing remember this research. A lot of research sounds weird and pointless from the outside, but you don’t know what it might build up to.
Lizard research is also how we got Ozempic.
https://globalnews.ca/news/9793403/ozempic-canada-scientist-venomous-lizard-weight-loss/
Uhh… pretty sure this is like the 10,000th cure taken from nature? Star Trek was immitating life for that plot… Why are people so god damn ignorant to reality?
This isn’t even the first lizard based medicine. There have been several different ones. Notably GLP-1s.
Gotta get that lizard neck
Anything that eats insects is friend–lizards, birds, spiders, toddlers. All are friend.
Lyme, no “s”
I think it’s more sci-fi that there was this one guy who’s blood was tapped for decades to prevent miscarriages all over the world (blood type incompatibilities between universal donor mothers and the fetuses they carried).
Frogs cure cancer.
Eastern fence lizard
lives in California and has poison blood
You really expect me to believe this shit?
It says ‘western fence lizard’ though
Im being gaslit and gangstalked.
And yet, I bet that a lot of morons would rather go “extreme Paleo” and gnaw on a lizard rather than getting a little injection.
Don’t judge me. I hate needles and if eating a lizard will tip the scales in my favor, it’s their own damned fault for being delicious, nutritious, and apparently immunicious. It’s a word. I just made it up, though.
