About the Series
If it creeps, crawls, buzzes or sheds its exoskeleton, there's a chance it could cure a major illness that's stumping modern medicine. Ride along as we explore the untapped healing properties of the animals and insects many think are disgusting but which sometimes turn out to be lifesavers. It's happening on this episode of the NatGeo Wild series: World's Weirdest – Creepy Cures.
Parasitic worms. Flesh-eating maggots. Blood-sucking leeches. Skin-nibbling fish. And buckets of bee venom... Modern man runs from these creatures and often tries to eradicate them. But groundbreaking research scientists - and real life MDs - are finding out just how much we need these underappreciated creepy-crawlers to get healthy and stay that way.
Watch as surgeons apply blood sucking leeches and hungry maggots to their squeamish patients. Be amazed by people who take multiple live bee stings to cure chronic pain. Journey to Mexico for a dose of intestinal parasitic worms and feast your eyes on flesh-eating fish.
In this episode of World's Weirdest, we'll get up close with five creepy critters whose revolting cures could change modern medicine. We meet the scientists who are pushing their fields to think in bold - and backward – ways. And with 3D CGI animation, we’ll go inside the patients’ bodies to see behind the mystery of these medical marvels.
Repulsive yet intriguing, these creepy cures are about reconnecting with the truths of nature - and uncovering new treatments and remedies that have been slithering, buzzing and embedding themselves under our mucous membranes since the dawn of time.
So get up close with the ickiest, slimiest and most medicinal marvels on Earth… while letting nature lend a hand, or antennae, tentacle, mandible or stinger.
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