{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Gardens of Earthly Delight","title":"The Healing Sting w/ Kate Hinkens","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4152,"description":"Kate Hinkens had been dealing with Lyme disease since she was seven years old. After years of misdiagnosis, relapse, and months of intravenous antibiotics that left her sleeping eighteen hours a day and unable to finish a sentence, she found her way to bee venom therapy - ordering bees online, standing in her bathroom with tweezers, and stinging herself until something shifted.\nKate is now a beekeeper and bee venom therapy practitioner who teaches people how to self-administer BVT for chronic illness. In this episode we get into the biochemistry of why bee venom can do things antibiotics can't, what a low-histamine diet looks like during treatment, the full medicine cabinet of the hive: honey, propolis, royal jelly, bee pollen, bee bread, the ethics of beekeeping, and what bees have to teach us about reciprocity with the natural world.\nTIMESTAMPS:\n00:00 Intro \n01:28 Kate's Lyme disease history and years of misdiagnosis \n03:17 Why Lyme is so hard to diagnose and treat \n05:00 The antibiotic route and why it stopped working \n08:25 Discovering bee venom therapy \n10:00 The science: melittin, biofilms, and chronic Lyme \n12:30 Apamin and the blood-brain barrier \n14:00 Immune regulation and systemic inflammation \n16:00 Diet and detox during BVT \n19:00 Alpha-gal and the Lone Star tick \n21:30 Andrew's own Lyme disease experience \n23:00 Royal jelly, propolis, honey, bee pollen, and bee bread \n32:00 The ethics of beekeeping and native bee populations \n40:00 Does it matter what species of bee you use? \n43:00 The honeybee's origins in North America \n45:00 The ethics of using bees for BVT \n49:00 Fun facts: how honey is actually made \n54:00 How bees make decisions \n57:00 The geometry of the honeycomb \n59:00 The vibrational frequency of bees and healing \n1:01:20 Kate's bee boxes and her BVT practice \n1:02:41 How this deepened her connection to nature \n1:05:07 Favorite food memory\nCONNECT WITH KATE HINKENS\nWebsite: stinglab.org\nInstagram: @katehinkens\nFOLLOW GARDENS OF EARTHLY...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/9EmmdNPFGH5KAwG2qiPUaQ3rRxt4jbBisODUISWHgaU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jNDNl/MWFjOGI1NTdkZjll/ZTBjOGI5MDEzYWI0/ZjczOC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}