HLTH Forward Podcast

Smriti Kirubanandan

HLTH (Health) Forward is where we hold space for Healthcare leaders, physicians, and key health policymakers to discuss what takes us to move Healthcare Forward. We want to hear challenges, ideas, and out-of-the-box solutions for us to unite our ecosystems further and move the needle towards an innovative, affordable, and all-inclusive healthcare ecosystem. * Not affiliated with HLTH events

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HLTH Forward Podcast

Episodes (83)

Tuesday The Man Who Injected Himself With Snake Venom 800+ Times — Tim Friede on Building a Universal Antivenom
Tue Jul 7th Better Data. Better Care : With Nigam Shah , Chief Data Scientist @Stanford Health Care
May 4th Left Behind: The DNA We Don't Know We're Sharing, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Information and Bio Artist

HLTH Forward Podcast

Jul 21, 2026
32½ minutes
22 MB

⚠️ Please do not attempt anything discussed in this episode. My guest today is Tim Friede — a name some listeners may recognize from Stan Lee's Superhumans, where he appeared as "Antivenom," or from National Geographic's Snake Underworld, or from the paper published last year in Cell that made his decades of self-experimentation suddenly, scientifically undeniable. For over two decades, Tim did something no research institution would sanction: he injected himself with snake venom — hundreds of times, from some of the deadliest species on Earth — in an effort to build immunity no antivenom could offer. He was bit...

HLTH Forward Podcast

The Man Who Injected Himself With Snake Venom 800+ Times — Tim Friede on Building a Universal Antivenom

Smriti Kirubanandan

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