New Potential ED Treatment from Banana Spider Venom

[dantan]

https://www.businessinsider.com/new-ere ... om-2023-10

When a human gets bit by the venomous Brazilian banana spider (Phoneutria nigriventer), their initial symptoms — rash, sweating, nausea — may sound normal for a spider bite. But what may develop later is a bit more unorthodox — a painful, hours-long erection.

That rigid reaction is the basis behind a new erectile dysfunction treatment that passed its first round of human testing. The treatment uses a synthetic form of the Brazilian banana spider's venom in a gel that users can apply directly to their genitalia.

The drug still has to pass through other trials before it's approved for commercial use, but passing the first round shows that the gel is safe for humans and does what it's prescribed to do.

With these early results, the gel has "great potential to become an internationally recognized medicine," Carolina Nunes, a biologist whose been studying the banana spiders' venom for almost two decades, told EuroNews.

The Brazilian banana spider, not to be confused with the harmless banana spider in the US, is found around the jungles of South America.

Scientists like Nunes have been investigating its venom as a treatment for ED since at least 2008.

How the spider venom-inspired gel helps treat ED

The cause of ED can be psychological or physical. If it's physical, using medications like Viagra or Cialis, which increase blood flow to the penis, usually does the trick.

But not everyone can take these medications. Because ED pills relax blood vessels and increase blood flow around the whole body, people with low blood pressure, kidney or liver disease, or a history of stroke or heart attack may not be able to take it.

But the gel only targets the area it's applied to, and doesn't have effects all over the body, which means it would probably be safer for the 30% of people who can't take the already available oral treatments, according to Interesting Engineering.

The first round of testing also included women, and found that the treatment was safe and effective for them to use too. Some of the problems that women suffer in the bedroom may also be solved by increasing blood flow to their genitalia.

The next round of testing will compare the drug to other available erectile medications to see if it works better.

[Lost Sheep]

https://www.businessinsider.com/new-erectile-dysfunction-treatment-from-banana-spider-venom-2023-10

When a human gets bit by the venomous Brazilian banana spider (Phoneutria nigriventer), their initial symptoms — rash, sweating, nausea — may sound normal for a spider bite. But what may develop later is a bit more unorthodox — a painful, hours-long erection.
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dantan, you left out the final symptom of the spider's bite. Death. In the first stories I heard about this, the spider bite producing the erection also was universally fatal. That the undesirable effects of the venom are avoidable is wonderful news. That transfer to a partner's genitals are not problematic is even better.

p.s. I wonder about transfer to a partner's mouth is being studied - or to other bodily orifices.

[ready2go]

spider man ! lets go ! for usa to approve it unlike the clot shot ,it will probably take years .

[Hunchback]

I've read about this, years ago.
It's sad how fucking SLOW research on ED advances. They managed to get us "safe" covid vaccines in a few months, meanwhile ED treatment is still in the stone age - pills that cause sever side effects, injections that fail to work eventually, barbaric implants that replace your dick with plastic forever...

I was hoping a "decent" solution would be found while i was still young, but now i am turning 40 next year and we are still stuck exactly where we were since i first started my treatment in 2007. :/