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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ม.ค. 2013
- We met with a guy who's been injecting himself with snake venom for 20 years and he looks better than ever.
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Check out Steve's Comment Response video here! bit.ly/Venom-Response
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The hemotoxins which attack human blood cells in a tree viper's venom can result in an agonising death in less than 30 minutes. The neurotoxins in a cobra bite can kill a person in half that time. for the past 20 years Steve Ludwin has been sticking all this lovely deadly snake juice in a syringe and mainlining it all the way to immortality. Privately milking an array of deadly snakes including rattlesnakes, monocled cobras, and a few casual vipers thrown in to the mix, Steve has been injecting what would for any normal human be fatal amounts venom into his body since the late 80s.
The basic principle - laid out by pioneer herpetologist, Bill Haast, who died last year at the age of 100 - is that regular exposure to the venom results in the body developing an immunity. Steve claims to not only never get ill, but that cobra venom is the ultimate pick me up, with effects lasting a days after injecting, making Steve stronger, faster and more resilient. Finally it looks like mainstream scientific research might be catching up.
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Injecting yourself with cobra venom to improve your skateboard skills is the most edgelord thing I've ever heard
punk fucking rock*
Hahahahaha
Yeah
666th like!
@@Scott.guitar You know what that means! You've been selected as the next sacrifice to our great dark overlord, Lucifer! Congratulations!
The reason why this dude looks so young is bcos he shed his old skin like 5 times a year.
😁😁😁😁
Lol
LMFAO 😂🤣😅
Lol!!
You just won my 'YT comment of the day' award.
The longer I watch, the more my respect for him grows. I walked into this thinking he was going to be a nutcase but left the video pleasantly surprised.
Lmaoooo I was like he's pretty chill
I agree. My exact thoughts!
Interesting, for me it was the opposite experience
I am getting ready to leave now and he seems like a nutcase to me :/
Yeah same here. I'm a recovering drug addict/alcoholic so I do kinda see where he's coming from and at least he semi somewhat knows what he's doing and he looks pretty damn good for his age. I remember how sore my arms were just from shooting up H I can't even imagine how badly sore and they hurt with snake venom! OUCH! But if that's his thing and he's not hurting anybody, more power to him!
I actually love this guy. He’s so unique, he’s literally just living his good life.
Keep it up strange man!
This is so necro and frostbitten It's insane.
We’re all gonna feel like dumbasses when he lives to 124
Jake Erickson you won’t be here to witness it though! 😜
@@conniestyles3435 i will be tho
Aaaa... I see, youse on the venom!😲
Hell the first fuckin dude to ever inject venom was 101 so I'd be damned if I don't start injecting fuckin snake venom tomorrow
Jake Erickson lmao
Wait till he finds out about heroin
Im so sorry for you. Sucks to be addicted.
@Eric Andre dude I'm also a heroin addict but I don't inject it, I smoke it in a foil with cigarettes and now I'm trying to avoid it and right now I'm suffering because I'm not smoking heroin right now..
It really sucks to be an addict.. I'm really realizing now and thinking I should not have gone further than weed.. I messed myself up
Eric Andre yup same here started with OxyContin now straight fentanyl. Goin yo trestment monday wish me luck
Wait till he finds out about injecting heroine and crack cocain together. 😃
Y’all got issues💀 stick to blunts man
VICE, please do a follow-up video on this guy! This is one of my favorite videos!
Thanks for watching and more coming soon. Follow my channel for news
@@sludwin ❤
Vice did do a follow up on this guy 4 years ago. th-cam.com/video/AcbqB0pFRPA/w-d-xo.html&ab
Steve, as of 2019, was still alive, using venom and looking just as great. He played with Nirvana at Reading festival in 1992, and wrote music for Placebo! Thanks to him being willing to do this to himself, great feats have been made in modern medicine.
The mosquito that sucked his blood: 💀
i’m high and this made me laugh for 10 minutes
@@hanna-wp6es love it
Stolen
@@phoking5888 yeah i saw it as a comment under another video like this and it made me laugh so i wanted other people to see it, i dont see the problem, do you?
😂
"When I was 17." Than it showed a picture of him with a snake at age 17. The guy looks exactly the same at the age of 46. Damnnn.
It would be crazy if all this time all we had to do was inject snake venom to become immortal Lol
@Michael Bonés you gonna pay for my prime to watch it? cuz I ain't buying that TRASH
Incredible.
Are you guys blind and idiots?
He clearly looks in his 40s, and also clearly has dyed his hair.
Also, look at someone like Prof. Brian Cox, he's nearly 50 and looks much younger, without injecting venom.
Some people just retain their youthful looks, it's genetics, not venom.
4o7KeV timestamp?
He’s so healthy he can’t stop shaking
He looks like 30-35 and is what, 48-55?
@@IvnValmont he looks his age. He just has a child like haircut and demeanor
This guy is on to something I'm a security guard at a cancer center in miami and a well known doctor actually told me some properties of snake venom has been known to combat certain cancers
What's the doctors name?
Don't tell doctors name to none of this guy's asking for it.
...my leg started to rot...never want to do that again...
-injects self with snake venom
I think the putrefaction proces only happens when u get bit a snake not with an injection
I think it was due to the bacteria on snakes teeth no due to venom
@@jakubhrdy4543 some snake venoms are known to cause tissue necrosis. It's also mentioned in the video at the 4:01 mark
he says never want to happened again,not,i never want to do....
You're a fucking sherlock
"You DO NOT want that on your finger."
Injects it into his veins.
He’s doing it subcutaneously - not into a vein.
@@rockstarmom3121 nevertheless
@Ouija ZaZa Gaming you have the qualities of a serial killer. I'm not joking. And it's not good man.
I believe we found the next Spider-Man super villain. 🐍🐍💉⚗️
@Ouija ZaZa Gaming just saying ur such a fucking weirdo what dumb fuck finds pleasure in harming living things??? Just ain't right buddy🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
This is wild!!! I've always been a staunch supporter in doing what you want with your own body- as long as you aren't hurting any other living thing in the process. He definitely has reverence and respect for his snakes, if not outright love, and treats them well. It may be his experimentation that eventually saves thousands of lives, or finds new ways to stop nerve pain, or any number of things. Marie Curie didn't know from the beginning exactly what she had on her hands when she started working with radioactive elements... Brave people do big things, and this guy is definitely more brave than most! Good for him for doing what he wants do do with his own body!
Exactly my thoughts! I clicked on this expecting some lunatic, but he's a very smart, brave guy and I really admire the respect and care he has for snakes
He's a bit like a modern-day Marie Curie, now that you mention it! Very cool
You can see the essential tremor he has at 6:33 and 13:35 this tremor is most likely the neurological effects of the snake venom.
Not really
He’s definitely in slytherin
Charles Madden stop...just...no
He looks like severus
He’s not cunning, I think he’s better in hufflepuff
he’s also absolutely fucked in the head
Indeed lol
A snake once bit this guy, and after 8 days of excruciating pain.. the snake died.
That's a chuck norris joke lol
Hahahha
lilpapichone chick norris is a pussy
lilpapichone unpopular opinion
420 likes
9 years later... is he still alive any problems right now?
Alive and kicking. Search Worship The Snake
Was About Too Ask The Same Question..
Lol this snake dude has the energy I need for 2023
@@erichern7571 it’s a non stop venom party
@@erichern7571 worddd
This just shows how much your childhood affects you whether to inspire you or to traumatise you
What my mom interprets doing weed is.
doing weed huh?
@@brodylockley3141 Aussies
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Every time you do weed its a gamble
How many weeds do you like to do
I must have missed the "getting high" part.
Right
I know right. How much more click bait can they get. Shitty video
Well for him the high is like steroids as he said he feels alive for a good 12 hours
Yes Sir!!
Kid was shuffling between traffic on his skateboards while reading a book. Pretty sure he wasn't exactly sober.
I honestly hope this guy is okay. I wonder how he is doing now
Good question
Vice did an update video on him 4 years ago, he's still doing fine and looks like he's barely aged at all. th-cam.com/video/AcbqB0pFRPA/w-d-xo.html&ab
HE DIED RIP
did he really ?@@leelunk8235
@@leelunk8235 you sure ?
Steve definitely gave me hope for humanity, 10 years back i watched this and loved it. Big inspiration for sure ! with love from Denmark!
Pros: he’s successfully stoped ageing.
Cons: he shakes like he has 90yo athritis
yep. all that neurotoxin probably damages the nerve connections to his extremeties that he keeps injecting. side effects
Id shake too if I had a bunch of damn snakes in my house
It seems like he was shaking before he started injecting himself maybe not a side effect but he just has an issue with nervousness or something
@squabby jabbles thats facts i use tp shake when i had snakes, they move silently and are on sneaky
slow death
"1 drop of cobra venom can kill 20-30 grown men"
*shoots up 2 drops*
He is 80 grown men
Absolute madman, incredible.
Lvl. 100 Mafia Boss
😂😂😂
He diluted it
Huge respect to this guy … very unique individual .. he’s on to something here
He just called that "5mLs" and he's using u-100 insulin needles. That is "0.05mLs" I hope he doesn't use u-40s without converting the difference. Christopher Columbus was also not looking for the fountain of youth, he was banished from England. It was Ponce De Leon who was looking for the fountain of youth.
Nah the snakes are paid actors for sure
ZRuiiN _ first reply
😂😂
CAN confirm, was one of the snakes
Xxx tank turret
when willl the sheeple open their eyes. This snakes are just trying to take away our right to conceal pet rabbits
I fully expected this video to end with a black screen that said, *Steve died shortly after the making of this video.*
The Campfire same
G this comment is fire
he’s still kicking and got a show deal. Today’s TH-cam episode is on snake church in West Virginia.
They gave him his own spin off show. th-cam.com/video/Lj3GQPWafJc/w-d-xo.html
Pp
This guy is hilarious... The venom makes me go as fast as the bus 🚌🤪
That venom has definetly affected his nervous system.
Gym manager: "You cant inject steroids in here!"
Snake guy: "Dont worry, its just hemotoxins bro"
Zach S 😭😂
Lol
Zach S casually slides across ground in an s shaped way
@@kitnguyen1964 😂😂😂
@Ouija ZaZa Gaming Dunno how you can think torture of any living creature is a good thing.
This is so cool. I’ve basically been doing the same thing for 12 years except with drugs instead of snake venom.
Do you think scientists could use my blood to get people high?
2 weeks clean....I'm here like, uh, snake venom high, ? Addicts ..amirite?
@@blindjoe8300 good question
lol same
They had us in the first half, not gonna lie.
The way his hands shake!!
I think the lights are on, but nobodies home...
he shot up while listening to acdc sounds like a party to me
You mean vacuum'd sume push and necrotic shit outta himself... less party more metal i guess ?
Xd
Ohh yeah yeah brothet
Plot twist, he just pretends he’s injecting venom it’s actually pcp and crack
benjamin shiffman ZJIXJJX
benjamin shiffman 😂😂😂
Alex Hardy you can shoot smartie candy if you’re dumb enough
@Alex Hardy yes you can shoot crack
chromium jesta or vinegar
"I don't even have a proper American high school education".....could have fooled me.
Now this is one situation where an update is warranted.
yeah write to yr nearest Vice office and demand a follow up before I suicide myself( Even though I am ecstatically happy)....But big pharma wants me dead. Help!
my heroin addiction doesn't look as bad now
LOL
Tell me why was thinking same thing my alcohol heroin benzo weed addiction aint shit then whats this venom do ay can i mix wit my heron
why so many have that same avatar that you have?
ollvi because we run youtube and soon the world join us or hev gey
Sua ide is suacide. Dont matter is its quick or long term.lol
Bro just smoke weed and take shrooms like the rest of us
Lexie Tibbs why?
Why does everyone have to be equal ? 😂
We will not conform to your standards and rules.
@@XmarlonXPT because, different is weird man. "just be like me bc I'm not weird man, I know I'm not weird because EVERYONE does it."
RedDeadTryhardBichFromGTA Yuh well m8 I’m sorry to inform you
If you live just to try to be the same as the others you are just another sheep or a sistem rat :) you won’t ever mark your story in this world because like you there are many others that do the casual stuff day after day
But different people they will mark this world you know why ? Because they do stuff nobody else has done before that’s what causes them to be great and remembered
They teach us something else that people like you or me wouldn’t know
It doesn’t matter if it’s good or bad stuff
What matters is that we learn something from it
@@XmarlonXPT dude it's called sarcasm, I put quotations for a reason
I admire him for having such passion. We are all free and should be free to do what we want as long as we don't hurt others. You go brother and God bless.
He's only slightly eccentric, and in fact way more down to earth then i would have imagined. I would not inject myself with anything (other then opiates of course) but really, i bet he's a cool guy to hang with
What? How could you write something like that?
Benzos are also ok to inject.
Gotta give that guy credit for looking 32 at 48 !
Ok but with Parkinson symptom
probably cuz he was stoopid like a 3 year olds when he was 12 lol
It’s all that snake venom, does wonders for the skin
@@baiideka9238 I am sure its not Parkinsons. Not a doctor here but i think it is nerve damage from the neurotoxin he has been injecting for years. nerve damage can make you tremble.
No cap bro u taught he was in his mid 30s
slytherin for sure
Rubaontiful 🤣🤣🤣😂
Lol
Or is he Gryffindor, because it takes massive balls to be daring enough to inject snake venom???
Or maybe he's Ravenclaw, because he did all his research on his own and didn't need professional education to learn about snake venom injections???
No. He's definitely Hufflepuff, because he's gonna die at the metaphorical hands of a snake just like Cedric Diggory.
Lol
Scarlet's Sanctuary da faqe
I hope he knows that if he were to get bit by one of his venomous snakes a hospital won’t have anti-venom for it. Hospital’s won’t have that kind of thing for an exotic venomous snake. I hope he is knowledgeable enough to carry anti-venom for each of his different snakes.
He takes the saying what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger to a whole nother level
Yep!
Honestly this just seems like a self harm addiction with extra steps.
😂😂😂
Yeah that's what I was thinking
Okay rick c-134-op
@@MrBones-yc1jg c137 dickhead
AMAZINGLY ACCURATE!
Love how this man compares sticking venom in his body to a spicy chicken challenge
Hahahaha seriously 🤣
Heh. Go Vegan. Vegan chicken. ☺️😋
It is, just his body is what's being deep fried
Seth Yellin naa bro vegan is trash, every vegan substitute tastes horrible
I checked the comment section excacly as he said that xD
im more concerned for the neighbors if one of these beasts escapes
the more i listen to him, im liking him! He is not harming animal or any other person the world need more of him
dermatologists hate him!!!!!
he's never even had a zit! lol
@Just a Simple pig If anyone is showing her a snake it's this guy
@Just a Simple pig Erik?
bella vantuyle you can milk my snake 🐍
Not gonna lie... He really does look and even sound young for someone who's almost 50..
Julian shit u right
Shit he's 50?!
Marlon Gidluck ytppo age like milk, that may be why they do.
if you don't think i'm doing this next month we have clearly never met in real life
Be safe
I hope this man is still around. Sadly when you discover things that can change the wind direction to a sport played by corporations you will never win.
Injects snake venom and ride thru traffic on a skateboard....I need him as a friend.
Moves like a snake lol snakeman and Spiderman make a good dual lol
Teenager trapped in a 43 year old body: how can I skateboard faster? Inject cobra venom!!!!!!!! I am the cobra!!!! *skateboards in S shapes*
TheHorizonTries get him a ripstick
If it thickens your blood it could be acting like EPO which is popular among professional bicyclists.
RandyLeftHandy that’s a great point and now I’m curious if there’s something to it.
TheHorizonTries 😂😂😂
😂😂
Im willing to pay for the coffee to meet this guy BUT staying only at the coffee shop
O R O C H I M A R U!!
Heroin is a powerful drug
Snake venom: hold my needle
I don't get why everyone was hating on this guy
I mean, he's not hurting anyone
Maybe himself...
Probably isn't even hurting himself at this point tbh.
Does not appear to have harmed him. Maybe he is on to something big. There are some amazing properties of venoms that have benefited medical science. Facts.
BirdNest Gaming the person who commented about him being worse than a murderer and pedophile what an idiot.
@@AlejandraGonzalez-nl1wj he even said it was sarcastic though
Wait til you have to pay for his hospital bill
Props to this guy do what makes you happy but if its crazy enough keep sharing so we can see and learn
i really hope some doctors have tracked this
Weird flex but ok
TrondHelm haha
TrondHelm what an absolute madlad!
strange boast but alright
R/madlads
LAME
He looks like the type of weird kid in high school who puts mustard in their chocolate milk
Luis Chavez that character does not exist but good try
Bro i shit you not there was this white boy in 6th grade 😂
BEST COMMENT HANDS DOWN! LMFAO
Who the fuck puts mustard on chocolate milk?
Luis Chavez yep, that’s about right.
Reading a rattlesnake book while skating?? Coolest fucking dude ever
I feel like im watching the beginning of a marvel movie… but jokes aside we need people like this in the world
I wouldnt do it, but its people like this who end up finding out new info, for better or worse
Ummm no its people like this who die in there apartment alone and there only found because there stinking the neighborhood up.
dana woolaver k, how do u think smallpox was cured? It’s people like this who did that, by injecting people with cowpox and other diseases/viruses, and boom, they saved millions of lives, dozens of millions
dana woolaver update: his blood is now being used to make antivenoms, he’s 51 and looks like he’s in his 30s, and still isn’t even close to dying, guess u were completely wrong lmfao
Exactly
@LᗩᑎDO LᗩᑎD yes but he's looking past conventional antivenom treatments
On all levels except physical,
I am a snake.
@@ethanbooysen7092 He's obviously a penguin you can tell cuz he
has no Zits
Hiss
furry
I'm curious of what you look like physically after seeing your photo
He obviously rides a scooter at his local skate park.
he's doing what he loves and doesn't seem to be hurting others, let him be i admire the courage to just not care what others may think and pursue what u what
It’s been ten years. I need a follow up video and if this dude looks the same still then he’s the genius and the rest of us should take notes.
Well...i think this dude was an only child, very intelligent, with parents who were busy making money while little feller had lots of time and opportunity with his flight card and found himself a hero in that snake handling guy. So now he's doing this. He's a friendly guy, He's not bothering you. Be nice. I bet he's a great friend. Defiantly entertaining.
Agreed
I hate to be that guy, definitely*
He is almost expermenting on himself
201 L (bet)
LoneMile343 *is not almost is lol
Survives 5000 different snake poisons,dies of mosquito bite.
LOL!
Lmao
thank god theres only a few POISIONOUS snakes.
The most underrated comment in this video
Malzahar Kassadin 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
all im asking is why doesn't he wear gloves when milking them? hes so iconic
As a nursing student, couldn’t help but to think “NOOO, that’s not how you open an ampule! God I hope he used a filtered needle to draw the water out”
I like how he kinda just does this
This man knows no fear wether he lives 100 years longer or 30 minutes
We are all dead from the day we are born,do what makes you happy
Brave AF!! You couldn't pay me to touch these snakes.
DUDE! Screw all of those hateful pricks, you should be practicing medicine, I've seen actual moron doctors who've found their PHD in an obvious cracker jack box, and they've killed so many people due to their stupid risks or lack of knowledge. It's not like your pushing your methods onto anyone. Keep doing YOU man, I totally dig what you stand for with this!
This dude is 46?! Somebody get me a goddamn snake!
I thought this guy was a bad ass when he was just injecting one snakes venom at a time into himself. Then I find out hes injecting all the venom from all his snakes at the same time ! what a absolute savage!!!!!!
chillin shadows what a madlad!
He is for sure immune to cyberbullying.
Two things come to my mind.
How do you start doing it without dying the first time you inject the venom.
And can you do it with every venomous snakes?
Ohh. What about spiders and scorpions venom.
The venom is so good for him it's giving him health tremors.
Not to mention health ulcers and healing necrosis.
Arran Greig og
I could be stuck in a room with venomous snakes and needles for 1 million years and that that would’ve never crossed my mind
brotha u look happy , that matters
I’m curious about those tremors. Did he always have them? Or did he develop them
* injects venom *
*I AM SPEED*
46 years old? this bro looks like 25
Mike ur mom looks 25
More like 32, but not 46.
Shlomo Mikenstein
You must know some old looking 25 year olds
Well maybe snake venom delayed his again process?
Sorting Hat: “SLYTHERIN!”
People don't realize this man is more rare and a blessing to humanity and science than any astronaut or other rare job... His blood and body is a living potential cure to so many ailments, ageing, super anti-venom, cancer research, he needs to have a team live with him and help test him and use his blood to study it and get him more regimented. He's definitely a prize and Uber unique individual.
Guys that keep big snakes are keeping a secret. You got to love this guy.
Plz tell me the meaning of it
Small penises
True, my uncle had a huge snake and he ended up killing himself, wonder what secret he held to his grave, must've been crazy.
'I'm not a moron attached to this arm. Oh wait I am' that part was amazing comedic
He was making me so nervous when he was milking these snakes because his hand was shaking while holding their head
Yea like, he does this everyday?
Those are intention tremors, his nervous system is overloaded or damaged, I have the same effect from my antidepressant medications.
@@ANMS.cyberpunk wait anti depressant damage the nervous system ?intresting
@@randomness4989 bro you can't just trust random ppl in comment sections, and he also said overloaded OR damaged.
Hey VICE, did you have any liver or kidney flush so far? You will keep these toxins elimination organs in a good shape.if you will do a few sessions of each.
Doctor: "So I'm gonna put you on this new medication. Do you currently take any medication that might interact with it?"
Him: "Well there is one thing..."
The best part is when he is reading the comments and not being all butt hurt by them lol
Str8drahhp cuz he's stoopid
@Ouija ZaZa Gaming why you so butthurt about snakes booooyy????
Ouija ZaZa Gaming holy shit lmao
@Ouija ZaZa Gaming yeah they do and thats why the children doesnt talk to you that and because the parents tell them to not talk to you because you know , janitor = pedophile
Dickhammer had me rolling.
This guy could be some villain in a Spiderman comic.
This is like a villain origin story lol
I honestly admired this guy as a kid because of his courage yet even as it got older, I’m actually amazed that someone like Kim would be able to survive this kind of crap, because seriously I mean he’s only human
This is my first time watching him but I like how he just laugh at the hate comments cuz many people get depressed when they see hate comments.