{"id":"guest:287","sourceProfileId":280,"slug":"john-fullbright","name":"John Fullbright","headline":"Lightning Strike Survivor | Bee Venom Therapy Advocate | Professional Guide & Photographer","bio":"John Fulbright is a wilderness guide, adventure consultant, and professional photographer who spent over 35 years building his career in the most remote and challenging environments on Earth. His work took him to mountains, rivers, and desert canyons where most people would turn back, establishing him as an expert in extreme outdoor conditions and adventure photography.\n\nFulbright's life took a dramatic turn in 2004 when a lightning strike triggered a complete neurological collapse, awakening dormant Lyme disease from a childhood tick bite at age 12. The combination of lightning damage and Lyme disease, along with four co-infections, devastated his immune system and left him with over 50 debilitating symptoms including tremors, memory loss, heart palpitations, and complete disability. After being told by conventional medicine that his case was hopeless and facing treatment costs of $300,000, Fulbright discovered Hoshindo, an ancient Japanese meridian therapy using live bee venom.\n\nWithin hours of his first bee venom treatment, Fulbright experienced a remarkable transformation, returning to activities like kayaking that he hadn't been able to do in years. Over the past 11 years since his recovery, he has become a global practitioner and coach in Hoshindo therapy, working with thousands of patients worldwide who have been abandoned by conventional medicine. His unique combination of wilderness expertise and groundbreaking alternative healing methods has made him a sought-after consultant for those facing seemingly impossible health challenges.\n\nRemarkably, despite nearly dying from a lightning strike, Fulbright continues to photograph lightning and chase storms, embodying his childhood fascination with his superhero Shazam - a character transformed by lightning. His story represents the intersection of extreme adventure, near-death experience, and revolutionary healing practices.","originalBio":"John Fulbright is a wilderness guide, adventure consultant, and professional photographer who spent over 35 years building his career in the most remote and challenging environments on Earth. His work took him to mountains, rivers, and desert canyons where most people would turn back, establishing him as an expert in extreme outdoor conditions and adventure photography.\n\nFulbright's life took a dramatic turn in 2004 when a lightning strike triggered a complete neurological collapse, awakening dormant Lyme disease from a childhood tick bite at age 12. The combination of lightning damage and Lyme disease, along with four co-infections, devastated his immune system and left him with over 50 debilitating symptoms including tremors, memory loss, heart palpitations, and complete disability. After being told by conventional medicine that his case was hopeless and facing treatment costs of $300,000, Fulbright discovered Hoshindo, an ancient Japanese meridian therapy using live bee venom.\n\nWithin hours of his first bee venom treatment, Fulbright experienced a remarkable transformation, returning to activities like kayaking that he hadn't been able to do in years. Over the past 11 years since his recovery, he has become a global practitioner and coach in Hoshindo therapy, working with thousands of patients worldwide who have been abandoned by conventional medicine. His unique combination of wilderness expertise and groundbreaking alternative healing methods has made him a sought-after consultant for those facing seemingly impossible health challenges.\n\nRemarkably, despite nearly dying from a lightning strike, Fulbright continues to photograph lightning and chase storms, embodying his childhood fascination with his superhero Shazam - a character transformed by lightning. His story represents the intersection of extreme adventure, near-death experience, and revolutionary healing practices.","portrait":"https://app.conversationos.live/api/public/guest-photo/john-fullbright.jpg","originalHeadshot":"https://app.conversationos.live/api/public/guest-photo/john-fullbright.jpg","topics":["Center Stage","Lyme Disease Recovery","Bee Venom Therapy","Hoshindo Treatment","Alternative Medicine","Lightning Strike Survival","Wilderness Adventure","Neurological Collapse","Traditional Japanese Medicine","Patient Coaching","Adventure Photography"],"expertise":"Bee Venom Therapy, Lyme Disease Recovery, Nature-Based Healing, Wilderness Photography & Guiding","product":"center-stage","socialLinks":{"youtube":"https://youtube.com/@johnfullbright8877","facebook":"https://www.facebook.com/share/1E7Knjhooy/?mibextid=wwXIfr","instagram":"https://instagram.com/john.fullbright","linkedin":"https://linkedin.com/in/johnfullbright"},"sameAs":["https://youtube.com/@johnfullbright8877","https://www.facebook.com/share/1E7Knjhooy/?mibextid=wwXIfr","https://instagram.com/john.fullbright","https://linkedin.com/in/johnfullbright"],"appearances":[{"showName":"Mornings in the Lab","segment":"Center Stage","date":"2026-04-21","sourceUrl":"","videoId":null},{"showName":"Mornings in the Lab","segment":"Center Stage","date":"2026-04-24","sourceUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1fmhdOkmdc","videoId":"B1fmhdOkmdc"}],"primaryVideoId":"B1fmhdOkmdc","primaryTitle":"","episodeNumber":"","authoritySegment":"","clips":[{"videoId":"B1fmhdOkmdc","title":"LIGHTNING AWAKENS DISEASE","quote":"In 2004, after getting hit by lightning, burning my insides like your Basically, my system fell apart.","description":"How a lightning strike triggered dormant Lyme disease that would disable him for a decade.","thumbnail":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/B1fmhdOkmdc/hqdefault.jpg"},{"videoId":"B1fmhdOkmdc","title":"IMMEDIATE MIRACLE","quote":"Within 2 hours after my first treatment, I went back to the river.","description":"Going from complete disability to advanced kayaking tricks in just hours with bee venom therapy.","thumbnail":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/B1fmhdOkmdc/hqdefault.jpg"},{"videoId":"B1fmhdOkmdc","title":"ATHLETE TO HELPLESS","quote":"I went from you know, being very capable outdoor athlete to not being able to lift my brand new little baby out of her crib.","description":"The devastating contrast between his peak physical abilities and rock-bottom disability.","thumbnail":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/B1fmhdOkmdc/hqdefault.jpg"}],"insights":[{"eyebrow":"LIGHTNING AWAKENS DISEASE","quote":"In 2004, after getting hit by lightning, burning my insides like your Basically, my system fell apart. And by the time I realized in 2014 that I was dying of Lyme, I was disabled, fully suicidal.","context":"Fulbright explains how the lightning strike in 2004 awakened dormant Lyme disease he'd carried since age 12, leading to a decade-long decline into complete disability.","topic":"Medical Crisis","timestamp":null},{"eyebrow":"COMPLETE SYSTEM COLLAPSE","quote":"Basically, 50 different symptoms, couldn't sleep, tremors, no memory. Heart palpitations, couldn't smell, couldn't sleep. Just my immune system was in collapse.","context":"He describes the devastating scope of his neurological breakdown, showing how the lightning-activated Lyme disease affected every aspect of his physical and mental functioning.","topic":"Health Deterioration","timestamp":null},{"eyebrow":"EXPENSIVE CONVENTIONAL FAILURE","quote":"I called a center in Arizona and for the symptoms I had, they said it'd be about $300,000 cash to get IV drip antibiotics for maybe 9 months. And there was just no way I could afford it. They didn't take insurance.","context":"This reveals the prohibitive cost and limitations of conventional Lyme treatment, setting up why he had to seek alternative solutions.","topic":"Healthcare System","timestamp":null},{"eyebrow":"IMMEDIATE BEE VENOM MIRACLE","quote":"Within 2 hours after my first treatment, I went back to the river. I hadn't kayaked in 2 years and I was able to start doing flips and all kinds of tricks again like I hadn't missed a day.","context":"Fulbright describes the remarkable speed of his recovery with Hoshindo therapy, going from complete disability to performing advanced kayaking maneuvers in just hours.","topic":"Breakthrough Treatment","timestamp":null},{"eyebrow":"FROM ATHLETE TO HELPLESS","quote":"I went from you know, being very capable outdoor athlete to not being able to lift my brand new little baby out of her crib.","context":"This stark contrast illustrates the severity of his condition and how far he had fallen from his peak physical capabilities as an adventure professional.","topic":"Personal Impact","timestamp":null},{"eyebrow":"ANCIENT WISDOM OVER PHARMA","quote":"This is used daily today in China and Korea and all throughout a lot of Asia still and it is just one of the most powerful things ever.","context":"He positions Hoshindo as established traditional medicine rather than experimental treatment, lending credibility to his unconventional approach.","topic":"Alternative Medicine","timestamp":null},{"eyebrow":"WATER-SOLUBLE HEALING","quote":"Bee venom is water soluble, it's all natural and because it's water soluble, it goes through every cell in the body.","context":"Fulbright explains the scientific mechanism behind why bee venom therapy is uniquely effective compared to other treatments.","topic":"Treatment Mechanism","timestamp":null},{"eyebrow":"GLOBAL HEALING MISSION","quote":"Now I've got, you know, thousands of patients throughout the world that I coach.","context":"This demonstrates how his personal recovery has scaled into a global practice, helping others who face similar hopeless medical situations.","topic":"Professional Impact","timestamp":null}],"quotes":["Within 2 hours after my first treatment, I went back to the river. I hadn't kayaked in 2 years and I was able to start doing flips and all kinds of tricks again like I hadn't missed a day.","I went from being very capable outdoor athlete to not being able to lift my brand new little baby out of her crib.","Bee venom is water soluble, it's all natural and because it's water soluble, it goes through every cell in the body.","I was disabled, fully suicidal. Basically, 50 different symptoms, couldn't sleep, tremors, no memory.","Now I've got thousands of patients throughout the world that I coach."],"faqs":[{"question":"How did lightning trigger John Fulbright's Lyme disease?","answer":"The 2004 lightning strike essentially 'woke up' dormant Lyme disease that Fulbright had been carrying since a tick bite at age 12. His immune system had kept the disease in check for decades, but the lightning strike caused his system to collapse, allowing the Lyme and four co-infections to overwhelm his body. By 2014, he was completely disabled with over 50 symptoms including tremors, memory loss, and heart palpitations."},{"question":"What is Hoshindo and how does it work?","answer":"Hoshindo is an ancient Japanese meridian therapy that combines acupuncture principles with live bee venom. The bee venom is applied to specific meridian points on the body. Because bee venom is water-soluble and all-natural, it can penetrate every cell in the body, making it uniquely effective for systemic conditions like Lyme disease. This therapy is still used daily throughout China, Korea, and much of Asia."},{"question":"How quickly did bee venom therapy work for Fulbright?","answer":"The results were remarkably fast. Within just 2 hours of his first bee venom treatment, Fulbright was able to return to kayaking - something he hadn't done in 2 years due to his disability. He could perform flips and advanced maneuvers as if he hadn't missed a day. This dramatic turnaround occurred after years of progressive deterioration and conventional medicine offering no viable solutions."},{"question":"Why did Fulbright choose bee therapy over conventional treatment?","answer":"Conventional treatment was prohibitively expensive and offered no guarantees. A center in Arizona quoted $300,000 cash for 9 months of IV antibiotic drips, with no insurance coverage. Having already spent 10 years recovering from the lightning strike, he wasn't willing to start 'eating handfuls of antibiotics.' With nothing left to lose and facing complete disability, the bee therapy represented an affordable alternative when medicine had given up on him."},{"question":"How has Fulbright's experience led to helping others?","answer":"Over the past 11 years since his recovery, Fulbright has become a global practitioner and coach in Hoshindo therapy. He now works with thousands of patients worldwide - specifically those who have been abandoned by conventional medicine and told there's nothing left to try. His unique background as both a patient who experienced the therapy's power and a wilderness professional gives him credibility with people facing seemingly hopeless health situations."},{"question":"What was Fulbright's background before his health crisis?","answer":"Fulbright spent over 35 years as a wilderness guide, adventure consultant, and professional photographer. His 'office' was in the most extreme environments on Earth - mountains, rivers, and desert canyons where most people would turn back. He was a highly capable outdoor athlete who specialized in working in conditions that would challenge even experienced adventurers, making his complete physical collapse all the more dramatic."}],"transcript":"Listen, listen, listen. We have a\nbirthday boy in the lab today. Tommy?\nWhat the hell, man? Everyone's got to\nhave a hobby, dude.\nYou're kind of ruining the party here.\nDon't listen to him, Ramon. Welcome back\nto the lab. It's good to have you here,\nRamon. Happy birthday.\nWhat's up, guys? How are you doing?\nHappy birthday, Ramon. Thank you. How\nare you? How's it going?\n>> Is that you in there?\nThat was me, John. That was me. That's\nyour baby boy in there. I was getting in\nsome rounds in with the sumo guy. Let me\ntell you something, that guy was [ __ ]\nawesome, man. He was awesome. I went to\nthis My wife took me to a sumo and sushi\nevent and that surprised me with being\nup there in the ring. And let me tell\nyou something, that guy he was built\nlike a tank. He might look like a\npillow, but he's built like a tank.\nSo, okay. So, that was like at a\nrestaurant where you could get up and\nand almost like\nIt kind of was So, it was a nice event\nthat they have is a traveling I wouldn't\nnot like traveling circus, but it's a\nevent that travels around. It's called\nsumo and sushi. They go to New York,\nPhiladelphia, San Diego. They kind of\ntour They Yeah, they tour around.\nYeah, yeah. Those events are in Japan,\ndude. That is like the top of the top\nsports. Oh, yeah. Let me tell you\nsomething, this guy, right? So, his name\nis Ryu. According to like his profile\nthat they had, he's like the equivalent\nof a D1 wrestler in Japan.\nYeah.\n>> So, so so whatever the the Japanese D1\ncolleges, that's what this guy was. And\nsuper nice, super cool, you know, so we\nkind of played around a little bit. But\nlike I tell you, he is built like a\ntank, my man. I thought, you know, the\ncool part about it cuz what I really\nwanted to experience was just that that\nthat force of the sumo. So, you know,\nwhen I was trying to push him here and\nthere's one part where he actually puts\nhis body on me. I was like, \"Wow, this\nguy is like a linebacker.\"\nYeah, for sure. You know, but\nAkebono, if if you know sumo.\n>> Yes. Yes. Grand champion. He was a buddy\nof mine before, you know, when I met him\nover there, we hit it off. We\ngo to his restaurant. He just passed a\nfew years ago, which is really sad.\nYeah. But yeah, he was he was\nlike when I got to talk to him and\nunderstand more about sumo, I mean it\nwhen when you're in that high league,\nwhen you're in that top league, you get\na [ __ ] retirement. What?\nYeah, a full [ __ ] retirement. Yeah,\nso check this\nAkebono.\nI mean he was massive, you know, 6'8,\n[ __ ] 500 some pounds. I mean he was just\na god over there.\nAnd he was so he became kind of bigger\nthan than sumo. Restaurants and\nappearances and movies and [ __ ]\nCheck this out.\nHe got a tattoo. He knew this was\ncoming. He chose to do it. He got a\ntattoo.\nRight? That breaks the rules of sumo.\nThey [ __ ] turned off his retirement.\nReally? Yeah,\nthat just shows how strict and\ntraditional the roots of that go. So\nwhen I was doing this thing, the first\npart of the hour they talk about just\nlike the tradition and like the honor of\nbeing like a sumo wrestler, which is\nvery true to what you were saying, John.\nI mean these guys are not just seen as\nathletes, but they're seen as like\npillars of their community. 100%. You\nknow so\nthey go through that whole process and\nand it's it's a it's kind of like the\nmodern day samurai to a certain degree.\nYou know, there's a certain code,\nthere's a certain honor that you go\nabout it. Like it's as much a religious\nexperience because there's the whole\nthing going to the ring and you got to\nbless the ring and this whole you know,\npomp and circumstance before you get to\nthe actual event. But let me tell you\nsomething. It It was a It was an honor\nto kind of share that moment with him\nand just kind of being in the ring and\njust seeing a different perspective of a\nsport. Cuz you know, people now they\nthey they look at sumo and they kind of\nsee it comical with like oh, fat guys\nwith like diapers. They just\nThey just They just don't understand.\nYeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hanging\nout with Ramon Velas myself and John\nAnderson this morning on Mornings with\nLive with Keith John and friends. Johnny\nis so Ramon was on our show on Friday\nand then we grabbed coffee and he was\nlike, \"Dude, I've never experienced\nanything like that before.\" And we were\ntalking about it and he was very kind\nwith his accolades and then we were\nshooting the [ __ ] and talking over the\nweekend and and I said, \"Hey, you know,\nit's like hey, my birthday coming up.\"\nI'm like, \"Dude, why don't you come\nback?\" So, I said, \"Drop in.\" I said,\n\"I'll surprise Anderson.\" So, and then\nhe sends in the video of Anderson him\n[ __ ] wrestling. I'm like, \"Oh, this\nis going to be awesome.\" So, so Ramon's\na fan. We're going to bring him back I\nthink on on a regular basis to to tune\ninto stuff and I've been talking off\nshow with Ramon on a few things as well.\nBut, I thought to bring him in to hang\nout with us for a few minutes before we\nbring the lightning man in. Hey guys,\n>> He had one statement that [ __ ] told\nme that he understood what we were\ndoing. He's like, \"Well, you just you\npush him until I can't remember the\nexact wording. You push him until they\nchoke and you back up\nthen you double down.\" I was like, \"Hey,\nyou just explained the whole [ __ ]\ncapture of the audience in one [ __ ]\nsimple sentence.\nI like this guy.\"\nYeah, me too. Hey, so Johnny, we've been\nwatching Thor's journey to I guess his\nworld record coming up in May at the\nenhanced games. Got another video clip\nthrown in the tail here. It's where this\nepic spot 470 kg dead. Check this out,\nJohnny. I'd like to get your your I love\ngetting your your color commentary on\nit. Here's Thor doing a man 470 the 470\ndead. And that's actually his training\nfacility in Iceland right there, too.\nOh, is that where it is, eh? Yeah,\ninteresting. So, he's I I know I I just\nassumed Let's do a little test on your\nverbage, Keith. What is that bar called?\nOh, is that an elephant bar? That's an\nelephant bar. Good job.\n>> That is Oh, no [ __ ] yeah. So, could you\ntell because it looks so long?\nYes, it well, I mean, he's not because\nthe world he's only going to be pulling\non the bar. He's going to be pulling a\nbreak the world record and he it's it's\nthe elephant bar is a part of what\nallows that much weight to go up. As\nwe've discussed in the past, like when\nyou watch him pull,\nthat bar will give him 4 in of bend in\nthe bar before the weights leave the\nground. That little bit of That changes\nthe game. If that bar didn't bend, Yes.\nit would be It literally would be a\ndifferent world. That's the world record\non on It's kind of like an open class\nworld record.\n>> Oh, yeah, because there's no give,\nright? It's just a Yeah, I understand\nthat.\n>> So, this one has give. If you went to a\nnon-elephant, like I think what they\nused to call it a Texas power bar. Now,\nthey change all the names, but that\n[ __ ] dude, there was nothing. No\n[ __ ]\n>> Yeah, it didn't [ __ ] There was so\nlittle bend. I mean, when I say nothing,\nyou had to have like 900 lb on it to\nbend it. Back in those days, nobody was\npulling 900.\nHe told the Ramones about it. He just\nposted an image of this one. He did not\nactually do the lift. He He posted it a\nlittle bit later. But then I threw this\none on here. Ramon, Keith, and John were\ntalking yesterday. On Saturday, Brock\nhung him up. And John, check this clip\nout, man, because here's a And you might\nunderstand this from being in the ring,\nbut apparently when they show the X,\nwatch him show the X. Watch Brock give\nthe X to Heyman. That's to say, no\nscript. This is real, apparently, John.\nThat's what I was told, which is the X\ntells tells your partner that this is\nnot This is off script. This is now real\nlife right now, Anderson.\nYeah, and the only reason he did this\ncuz he having a hard time talking.\nOh, yeah. Okay. He was Yeah, he You\nknow, at that point, he's just Heyman\nknows right away he was talking,\nyou know. Yes.\nYeah, that that This moment moves me,\nman, because he just It's like he's\ncommunicating to say, \"Okay, I I've made\nmy decision, right?\" And then they have\na big hug and embrace, and he's crying.\nAnd Ramon, do you watch wrestling, by\nany chance? So, I I do watch wrestling,\nand I I kind of fell off a little bit,\nbut I I I enjoy wrestling. Brock's one\nof my favorites. I I must say my\nall-time favorite is the Heartbreak Kid,\nShawn Michaels, by far.\nI love me some Shawn Michaels, and Bret\nthe Hitman Hart. Those were like my two\nmain guys. Brock, I I Oh,\nRandy Orton is one of my also favorites.\nSo, yeah, I I kind of go deep in the\nwell. I haven't watched it recently, so\nI'm a little I'm a little off on the\ncurrent stories, but I enjoy it. That's\nawesome.\n>> You know what's [ __ ] crazy about\nthat? Yeah.\nSo, that stadium, I don't know how many\npeople that [ __ ] holds, but it's big.\nAllegiance, yeah, about 85,000? Yeah,\nand that they the Wrestlemanias are\n[ __ ] pretty much sold out, right?\n>> Yes.\n>> And you're talking about that ring is\nbasically 20 by 20, you know, give or\nit's I don't remember the exact\nmeasurement in the center of this\n[ __ ] thing. Yeah, yeah. How little\nthat is compared to that ring?\n>> Yes. Oh, yeah. And then it's like that\nmany people\nshowing up to watch an ant. two Yes.\npeople in the [ __ ] ring. I mean, it's\ntalk about these the WWE has\nis like literally created a new level of\n[ __ ] putting butts in seats. They've\nbeen doing this They've been doing this\n>> Go ahead. They haven't done it once,\nthey do it twice now. Cuz Wrestlemania's\na two-day event now. two-day event\nTotally. And and they and they've been\nselling these [ __ ] out back, you\nknow, I think I mean, they've been doing\nselling these things out and they've\nsold out over 100,000 people, I believe,\nin Wrestlemania. You know how hard that\nis to do?\nUnbelievable.\n>> It's phenomenal to watch. I mean, I've\nbeen to a couple of live events and I\ncould say from that alone, it's it's a\nphenomenal event. It's loud as all hell,\nlet me tell you that much. But it it is\nphenomenal with the pyrotechnics, the\nlighting, and then the actual event\nitself. It It's It's a great show to\nwatch, and I think, you know, the WWE\nhas really solidified that that\nentertainment in in that genre. It's a\nJohn, I want to ask cuz I I I've heard\nyou you used to do some professional\nwrestling. What What was your finisher,\nJohn? Did you have a finisher? Yeah, so\nit's a because you have to kind of I\nmean\nyou could choose one that everybody\nknows, but to have your own tailored\none. So, it was it was called the\nstrongman slam. Okay. Cuz that was my\nname was strong was base I came from\nstrength world, so my name was\nstrongman. Okay.\n>> John strongman Anderson. And basically,\nthink of like a a Samoan drop but\ninstead of having them on your back I\nhad them up on the shoulders. Oh, okay.\n>> His his belly button would have been\nlike right here. You know what I mean?\nSo I pick him up, you know, get him you\nknow and I could get him like when\nthey're you know all [ __ ] up on the\nground I get him up they're just still\n[ __ ] over like this or bent over I\njust stick my stick my head in and up\nthey go. I grab grab an arm grab a foot\nup they go turn towards the [ __ ] hard\ncamera and\nWe got an eye coming up after a\nlightning strike triggered a total\nneurological collapse. This former\nadventure photographer Johnny he\nsurvived by using live honeybees to\nliterally sting himself back to health\ncoming up in a few moments. We got John\nFulbright in the lab joining myself and\nJohn this morning I'm morning to love.\nRight now we're hanging out with Ramon\nVelas. It is his birthday today. Happy\nbirthday brother. He's a 30\n37 years old I think he is today.\n[ __ ] actually 49.\n47 actually. Oh yeah, look at you. Go\nlook at you. But I'll I'll take 37 that\nworks.\n>> go. There you go. Hey where where are\nyou right now? Are you are you are you\nin front of a green screen or in your\nbackyard? I'm lounging in the backyard\nman. I'm I'm taking a day off today. I'm\ntaking in the the sun and just relaxing\nenjoy 47 with a nice relaxing morning.\nWell listen there was some folks sitting\nin the yard like yours that were Well\nKyle let's let's just run this clip.\nCheck this out man. Johnny imagine\nsitting in the backyard or sitting in\nyour house and the next thing you know\nthis lands in your backyard unexpectedly\nsome folks in Temecula, John with their\nring camera there was some folks hot air\nballooning overhead and they needed to\nland.\nSo they landed in the guy's backyard.\nHow did they get that thing down there?\nI know.\nI'm surprised it didn't end up in a\ntree. So it was an emergency and the guy\nnavigated right there. Like Johnny to\nyour point I was like holy [ __ ] how did\nthey Look at the tree that he's\nbasically part of the balloon touching\nthe tree.\n>> Yeah, that's crazy, man. Just like So, I\nI I'm not hot air balloon to start with,\nbut then when I see things like this,\nno, thank you. Ramon, you hot air\nballoon before? I I My wife tried to get\nme to hot air balloon, and I was like,\n\"Baby, no.\" There's There's certain\nthings I can do, but that hot air\nballoon\nI love it. I love it. Well, listen,\nRamon, what do you got going on today,\nbrother? You're taking the day off?\nWe're going to We're going to keep our\nshow rocking and rolling with John\nFulbright. What do you got going on\ntoday, brother? I'm not doing much. My\ndaughter's going to take me out for for\nlunch, and I'm just going to enjoy the\nday and just relax. So, it's it's going\nto be a fun day overall. I'm starting it\noff great with you guys, and I'm going\nto end it off strong. So, thank you very\nmuch for having me.\n>> Awesome. So much fun talking to my\nbrother. Great to see you. So much fun,\nman. So much fun. Thanks for playing\nalong with me today. I'm glad we're\ntexting. Let's keep in touch and chat\nlater, okay? Yes, sir. Talk to you\nlater. Have a good one, guys. Awesome.\nRamon's out of here. Keith and John\nhanging out. We got John Fulbright\njoining us here in a quick minute. John,\nI thought you'd enjoy that, man. I've\nbeen I've been talking\n>> Yeah, that was cool. That was really\ncool. I've been talking with Ramon, and\nhe did He's like He said to me, he's\nlike, \"You guys are making some stuff\nthat I haven't seen before.\" And he's\nshowing it to some of his colleagues,\nand I'm like, \"Yeah.\" Well, see, here's\nthe thing. Hearing that from that dude,\nthat means the industry I mean, when you\nhear you hear it from just a normal guy,\nwell, [ __ ] it. Of course YOU HAVE IT.\nBUT THIS IS A GUY WHO UNDERSTANDS the\nlandscape. He works in the business.\nHe's like, \"You guys are doing [ __ ] It's\na totally different compliment.\n>> Yeah, exactly, exactly. All right,\nspeaking of doing things nobody's doing,\nthis guy did something that I Well,\nlisten, he's a storm chaser, been struck\nby lightning. His name's John Fulbright,\nand the man who let bees sting him back\nto life, and now he helps thousands do\nthe same. Kai, Jimmy, let's run the\nclip. Sophia Grant, Keith Bellas, John\nAnderson, and John Fulbright this\nmorning on Mornings in the Live.\nHe built his life in the wildest places\non Earth, mountains, rivers, desert\ncanyons. John spent 35 plus years as a\nwilderness guide, adventure consultant,\nand professional photographer. His\noffice was wherever most people turn\naround. Then in In\nlightning found him. Not the kind he was\nwatching through a lens, the kind that\nchanges everything. That strike cracked\nopen something he'd been carrying since\nage 12, a dormant Lyme disease from a\nchildhood tick bite. He lost 60 lb, Lyme\nplus four co-infections. His nervous\nsystem was being taken apart piece by\npiece, and then he hit a wall nobody\ntalks about, the kind where you stop\nwanting to live. Doctors had nothing\nleft. Every conventional option had been\ntried. He was on his own. That's when he\nfound Hoshindo, Japanese meridian\ntherapy. Live bee venom along the body's\nmeridian points. The bees did what\nmedicine couldn't. He came back, not to\nthe man he was before, something more.\nToday, he works globally bringing\nHoshindo to patients who've been told\nthere's nothing left, the ones medicine\ngave up on. Last thing, his childhood\nsuperhero was Shazam, a kid transformed\nby lightning. He lived that story, and\nhe still photographs lightning. John,\nwelcome to Mornings in the Lab. We're\nhappy to have you here today.\nJohn after a lightning strike triggered\na total neurological collapse, this\nformer adventure photographer survived\nby using live honeybees to literally\nsting himself back to health, and we are\nfortunate to have him here this morning\nin the lab. We've got John Fulbright in\nthe lab, a man who survived lightning\nand still chases a storm.\nLet's bring him up, John Fulbright this\nmorning on Mornings in the Lab.\n>> a mic. What's going on here?\nI got to start right away, brother. What\nExplain this is I'm I'm in question, so\nI have them. By the way, great to have\nyou here. How are you today, brother?\nI'm just if if I'm wondering, I'm\nthinking that our our listeners are too.\nDefine the full neurological collapse.\nYeah.\nOh, I think we're having some audio\nJohn, can you hear us? John Fulbright,\ncan you hear us?\nHe I think he came in and spoke, so he\nhe uh\nYeah, we can have some So So, John, can\nyou hear us okay here? You We We got We\nwe heard you when you first came in the\nroom there.\nYeah, he's not hearing. No. All right,\nso Jimmy will call will bring him off\nstage for right now. We'll bring up John\nin a quick second here while he's\ngetting his audio set.\n>> What is that? That's I mean that's I've\nnever heard of that. I mean if I've\nheard that, I definitely haven't\nattached definition to it. Yes, let's\nask it. Hey Grok, what is that what is\nSo we're talking about a full\nneurological collapse. What does that\nmean?\nA full neurological collapse means your\nentire nervous system basically short\ncircuits.\nIn John's case, the lightning strike\nwoke up dormant lines that had been\nsitting there since he was a kid and\ntogether they wrecked his nerves. He\nlost 60 lb, had constant pain, numbness,\nweakness, brain fog, and eventually got\nto a place where he didn't even want to\nlive anymore.\nDoctors were out of answers.\nThat's when he turned to live beam and\nlimb therapy.\nWant me to pull up that hot air balloon\nclip from earlier while we're waiting on\nhim? No, we're good. Thanks, Grok.\nThat's That's interesting cuz if it woke\nup, like it's saying woke up nerves or I\nthink she said lines that had been\nasleep or whatever she said, you'd think\nthat'd be a positive thing.\nYeah, well it's so it's so and I guess\nthe neurological Lyme disease as well.\nLet's let's try him up here again.\nNakayla, let's bring him up here again.\nJohn, have we got you?\nJohn?\nHe looks content sitting there. Yeah,\nmine\nHe's just sitting there waiting. I don't\nthink he I don't think he knows he's\nbeen brought up.\nAll right, Jimmy, we'll we'll knock John\nFullbright there. Hey John, if you can\nhear me, head on over to the private\nchat there. We we're the producers are\nhelping you out there on the in the\nprivate chat to get you to get you\norganized out there this morning. Hey\nJohnny, how was your day yesterday? What\ndid you do yesterday?\nWhat I do? Let's see here. I had a good\nmorning, good nap, good filming, Yeah.\ngreat workout, Yeah. went and hung out\nwith my brother a little bit. He He down\nhere cuz I'm not going to see he he I\nwon't see him before we leave. So I just\nwanted to hang out with him a little\nbit. Okay. Yeah.\nYeah, we had kind of a fun conversation\nabout Terry's got this thing going and\nhe's actually got a lot of information.\nSo it's kind of fun. And I love to talk\nto him about stuff he likes to talk\nabout cuz it really raised his spirits,\nyou know, and he's\nYou know, he's he's he's definitely in\nkind of a struggling part of his life\nwith what he's going on with his with\nhis cuz he had a brain brain tumor, you\nknow. Anyway, He told me that. Yes, yes.\nAnyway, so cuz Terry's got this thing\nfor us. She She really wants to get her\npilot's license.\nAnd so\nwe're looking into doing that. And so I\nwas just talking to him about, you know,\nairplanes and pilot's license. It just,\nyou know, he lit up like a Roman candle,\nwhich was good. So it was nice to see\nhim really feeling happy before I left.\nDid you say Terry wants to get her\npilot's license? Yeah. Oh, very cool. No\n[ __ ] Yeah.\nYeah, it would be cuz it It's come from\njourney. Like where does her interest in\nthat come from?\nProbably\nknowing that she can do whatever the\n[ __ ] she wants whenever she wants.\nNo, but that's that's pretty cool\nthough, man. Like just because I you\nknow, not everybody wants to be a pilot.\nSo to have some interest in that and\ncuriosity in that She's always She She\ndoesn't like She gets She gets bored.\nAnd she doesn't like to be bored, which\nI totally get, you know. Yeah. Yeah,\nyeah, yeah. You know, her whole life was\nkind of interesting because when\nwhen I came into her life and the kids\nwere gone,\nyou know,\nand she always Excuse me. She always\nworked because she liked what she did.\nYeah. Trying to people stuff. But then\nwhen kids were gone, I was like, \"Right,\nbabe. Well, listen.\nYou don't have to [ __ ] anymore, you\nknow? Your [ __ ] American Express has\nno [ __ ] limit. You know, enjoy life.\"\nAnd that was sounded great, but she it\nleft her with these [ __ ] voids of\nlike Uh yes, yes. massive interest was\ngone cuz the kids were massive interest.\nYes. And so she's kind of bounced around\nwith, you know, different stuff that\nshe's investigated and liked and then\nshe does has things that she does, but\nyou know, being a parent monopolizes\nabsolutely.\nShe just is taking interest in that and\nthen I\nI start thinking I'm like, [ __ ] this\nwould be pretty cool because we have\nactually have a\nan airport like 10 minutes from our\nhouse.\n>> Yeah, well cuz then you told me where\nwhere where your where your where your\ngated community is didn't you say to me\nwhen we first started kind of hanging\nout and spending time together? Didn't\nyou say that your gated community has\nsome folks with I don't say runways\ninside of it but\n>> tried to put a [ __ ] runway just\noutside the [ __ ] fence. Yes. You just\nyou look at it's right in front of my\n[ __ ] house. You can see the\nThey actually had the cats out there and\nthey knocked it down.\n>> Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know what it\nwas. It was a [ __ ] homeowners got in\nthe [ __ ] way. Okay. It was a\nliability. Yeah, yeah. Because it's on\nthe homeowners land and so anyway,\nbut the airport's [ __ ] 10 minutes\naway because then you can you can it's\nanyway so\nI thought [ __ ] this would be pretty cool\nif we\nif we end up if she got her license we\nhad an airplane. We could go see friends\nfor a weekend. You just get in the\nrather than you know, spending\nyou know, 6 hours in a car you're in\nthere for [ __ ] 90 minutes.\n>> 100% Oh, [ __ ] yeah. Yeah, I'd say hey\nJohnny, why don't you and Terry come for\ndinner? Just flying up over the border.\nI realize you know, an airplane's 100%\nwrite off which I'm going to be looking\nfor you know, to cover myself for this\nyear for sure. Yeah. And then then my so\nmy brother actually has the idea. He's\nlike, look he goes here's here's what a\nlot of people do. Just think about this\nI this is all [ __ ] brand new to me.\nYou know. That's pretty cool, man.\n>> He's like he's like look he goes if you\nbuy her a starter airplane cuz she's\ngoing to [ __ ] land it hard. She's you\nknow, you don't want to buy the ones you\nwant\nnow because it's like it's like buying\nyour which I made the mistake. I bought\nI bought our [ __ ] kids, you know,\n[ __ ] Porsches and Mercedes for their\nfirst cars and they [ __ ] trashed them\nnot on purpose. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. They\njust they need a car with a if they run\ninto [ __ ] it's not a big deal. It's not\na, you know, a $4,000 fairing you got to\nreplace, you know.\n>> You know what's crazy how, you know, we\njust you we talk and stories come up and\nwe share life stories and we just and\nthings just weave in. So, dude, you tell\nme Terry wants to be a pilot with her\nown airplane. John Fullbright, I hear\nyou, brother. We'll bring you up in a in\na couple minutes here. I So, Johnny,\nwhen I was going to college in Kelowna,\nI went to college in in Kelowna, British\nColumbia for for a year and there was a\nflight school there and I had a buddy\nwho's getting his pilot's license.\nSo, I'm 21 years old,\nyou know,\nyoung, dumb, and full of [ __ ] and no\n[ __ ] no good decisions ever being\nmade. He's like, \"Hey, I got to get my\nflying hours in. You want to come flying\nwith me?\"\nYeah. So, [ __ ] you're not supposed to\ndo that when he's getting his license.\nYeah. So, I'm He's supposed to know\nthat. So, I'm up there flying with him\nand he's like, \"Hey, do you want to pull\nthe yoke?\" Yeah. So, he's like, \"Okay,\nwe're going to do dead stalls.\" So, we\nclimb up Christ, dude. Yeah. So, we\nclimb up over top like Big Bear in\nKelowna. Like there's a some mountain\ntop. He climb up, you go, \"Okay, we're\ngoing to dead stall it.\" And he [ __ ]\ndead stall it and we\nAnd then we start it up again and he go,\n\"Okay, okay, take the yoke and pull the\nyoke and go back up again.\" And I think\nabout it now as a 54-year-old man\nand if my son came to me and said, \"Hey,\nDad, I'm going to go do some flying\nhours with my buddy and we're going to\ndo some dead stalls.\" I'd be like, \"What\nare you [ __ ] doing, man?\" So, yeah,\nthere was all\n>> Yeah, that's not that's not a break your\nleg accident. No. That's a That's a\nbreak your life. Your life is over\naccident. dumb. Like when I think about\nit, but the yoke just fun. So, when you\nsaid to the Terry, I'm like, \"Oh, God, I\ngot to drop some to Johnny.\" Cuz I\nremember like it was yesterday. Rob\nGallagher and he's like, \"Hey, he's\nlike, Keith, he's like, you know, we\ncould fly home with us weekend to go see\nyour family.\" I'm like, \"No, I'm okay.\nI'll just stay home.\" Cuz we had to go\nfly in the mountains and everything.\n>> on that level, you know, cuz this guy\nclearly was not managing not managing\ndanger properly.\n>> No, he didn't, actually.\n>> Terry's got like she has like the\nin almost every situation I can think\nof, yeah, she fears for her existence or\nher life way before it enters my radar.\nOh, yeah. There is\nThere is No, she's not going to take\n[ __ ] chances. That's just That's not\nher, you know. Oh, well, I'll tell you\nwho wasn't taking chances. He's got his\naudio sorted out, Johnny. Let's bring\nhim up. Johnny Fulbright, the guy who\nwas struck by lightning and brought\nhimself back to life with bees. Johnny\nFulbright, you're shaking. How you\ndoing, Dobbs? Good morning. Nice to have\nyou. Thank you for having me on here.\nYes, thank you. You were joining us from\ntoday besides in the green screen clouds\nof lightning. Where are you coming from\ntoday? Taos, New Mexico. Nicely done.\nYeah. So, tell us your story. You're\nstruck by lightning. Bees save you.\nPeriod.\nYeah. That You know, it's a funny story,\nfor sure. I didn't Like a lot of Lyme\npatients, actually. So, hold on. You\nsaid Lyme, like as in L Y like Lyme\ndisease, right? Lyme disease, yeah,\nexactly. Oh, Johnny, that's what it is.\nOkay. So, when I was 12, I got bit by\nticks, got sick, didn't know that it\nwould be a long-term thing. My immune\nsystem seemed to hold it in place for\nyears. In 2004, after getting hit by\nlightning, burning my insides like your\nBasically, my system fell apart. And by\nthe time I realized in 2014 that I was\ndying of Lyme, I was disabled, fully\nsuicidal. What?\n>> Basically, 50 different symptoms,\ncouldn't sleep, tremors, no memory.\nWhat?\n>> Heart palpitations, couldn't smell,\ncouldn't sleep. Just my immune system\nwas in collapse. And then when I found\nout I had Lyme, I was like, \"No way.\nThat I haven't had anything to do with\nticks since I was like a kid.\" And it\nwas just kind of the gift of the\nlightning. And so, having spent 10 years\nrecovering from lightning, I wasn't\nabout to just start eating handfuls of\nantibiotics. And In doing my research, I\njust basically was looking for\nsolutions. And a And a friend of mine\nsaid, \"Well, there's this woman in New\nMexico that\nuses this ancient Japanese method called\nHoshindo, which is essentially\nacupuncture with honey bee venom.\nAnd we Yeah, there's some killer [ __ ]\nand ancients and like the thing that\nthat the things that we forget about are\nunbelievable.\nWell, exactly. And you know, this is\nused daily today in China and Korea and\nall throughout a lot of Asia still and\nit is just one of the most powerful\nthings ever. And when I actually\n>> sure pharma helped us forget about this\ncuz it works and it's not it doesn't\nhelp their subscription model. Well, you\nknow, exactly. It's a very affordable\nthing. Like when I was at my worst, I\ncalled a a center in Arizona and for the\nsymptoms I had, they said it'd be about\n$300,000 cash to get IV drip antibiotics\nfor maybe 9 months. And there was just\nno way I could afford it. They didn't\ntake insurance. And so, I thought, well,\nI have nothing to lose. I better try\nthis bee thing even though I thought it\nwas honestly ridiculous. Well, what what\nhave you got to lose, huh? Well, I had\nnothing to lose. I was already I went\nfrom you know, being very capable\noutdoor athlete to not being able to\nlift my brand new little baby out of her\ncrib. And I basically\nas soon as I tried the bees, I couldn't\nbelieve it. Within 2 hours after my\nfirst treatment, I went back to the\nriver. I hadn't kayaked in 2 years and I\nwas able to start doing flips and all\nkinds of tricks again like I hadn't\nmissed a day. And that was about 11\nyears ago and now I've got, you know,\nthousands of patients throughout the\nworld that I coach. And this is just one\nof the most powerful things that you can\nuse because, you know, bee venom is\nwater soluble, it's all natural and\nbecause it's water soluble, it goes\nthrough every cell in the body. So, it's\nnot\n>> Well, brother, what was the timeline\nthat you were that that you were not\nfunctioning the way you that you should\nhave before you from from the accident\nto the the bee treatment? What was that\ntimeline? How much of your life was\nthat? About 11 years of slowly getting\nworse and not knowing what it was. Wow.\nWow. You know what's You know what's\ncrazy Anderson is that and Fulbright\nthat you know it seems like over the\nlast whatever half dozen or so years\nthere's been this\nconstant stream of celebrities who have\nthis Lyme disease. And and then and then\nI read a story that it was actually why\nare celebs getting Lyme disease all\ntime? It's like because I guess when\nfolks have some bucks they get off the\nthey get off the normal path go off the\nwell beaten path into places where\nthere's ticks. And the next thing you\nknow they're being bit they're not even\nbeing noticed by it and then time goes\nby Avril Lavigne wakes up or was it\nBieber? There's there's folks who wake\nup going what's wrong with me? Oh yeah.\nTimberlake all these guys.\nWhat's that What's that pro Fulbright?\nWell like you know Justin Timberlake all\nthese different celebrities you know if\nyou look where it's really bad it's\nactually most of north the northern\nhemisphere of the globe. So right now\nthe estimates worldwide are one in seven\nhave one of 130 infections of a tick\nborne disease and don't even realize it.\nSo I live in Manitoba ticks are bad\naround here brother. Guys I I and it's\nit's crazy when I when I see these\nlittle things I [ __ ] hate them man.\nThey're just so gross dirty and gross.\nAnd they're so teeny.\nWell they burrow into you man. Yeah.\nAll it takes is one bite and these\nthings can dump in one bite they can\ndump half a dozen different infections\ninside you that are very stealth and\nthey disarm the immune system and they\nstart to propagate throughout your\nsystem and they're and they're these\nsubtle things like oh my joints hurt oh\nmy muscles hurt. I'm getting cramping.\nI'm not seeing so well. Like with me and\nthe Lyme I I literally was seeing\ndouble. I was trembling. I had heart\npalpitations you know thousands of extra\nheartbeats a day. I wasn't sure I was\ngoing to live to to see my kids grow up.\nAnd and when you look at what happens on\na cellular level when you You\nantibiotics and Chinese medicine which\nis the roots of Hoshindo, it's five\nelements theory and you have your basic\nfive elements of that the fire makes\nearth. Earth is what we mine for metal\nor minerals. Yeah. Minerals is what\nattracts water. It's the mother of water\nand then water feeds wood. Wood then\nagain feeds fire. So this five element,\nthose are the basics of all the\nmeridians and acupoints. So all the all\nthe organs in the body have a river and\nwhen you look at the elements, Chinese\nmedicine and looks at things like\npharmaceutical drugs as flamethrowers or\nfire and it's kind of when it gets in\nthe system, the organisms sense the\nantibiotics and then burrow deep into\nyour bones and your brain and hide. And\nwith bee venom, because it's water\nsoluble and it has an affinity for every\ncell in the body through the calcium\nchannels, which is like your inner\nelectricity, which is kind of funny\nabout lightning and the venom follows\nthese cellular waves. So when we start\ndoing treatments on people, one of the\nthings we'll notice right away is people\nget goosebumps and their electrical\nsystem starts\nticking and the the cells get excited on\na very teeny level and this starts to\ndetox. And then people get swollen lymph\nand they begin to actually really get\nwhat's called a Herxheimer reaction. And\nbee venom is just so gentle and because\nit's all plant-based medicine with the\nbees, it's just unbelievable. I mean, I\nliterally went from disabled to able to\nkayak in in minutes.\nNo [ __ ]\nBut I needed more treatments, you know.\nSo okay, so yeah, from, you know,\nnoon on this day, I'm just making a the\nkind of a a Yeah. Joke here. Noon, you\nyou can't do [ __ ]\nOne, you're [ __ ] running like you\nhaven't done in 11 years. Describe\nwhatever that treatment was. What was it\nexactly that made that change, as you\nsay, in minutes?\nIt was venom from the bee. We used\ntypically in a treatment, people can't\ntake a lot of venom. We go very slow\nbecause we don't want to create a\ntsunami of die-off coming out of the\ncells and\nclogging up lymph glands. And so, my\nteacher was very safe about that. She\nShe did three bees on me throughout my\nbody. Each bee, she know, we pulled the\nstinger from the bee and then we use it\nas as like little droplets of venom on\nacupoints.\n>> Wow. So So, you're not actually getting\nstung by the bee?\nNot directly. Now, we we do do that once\npeople are used to the venom. And when I\nwas at my sickest, I would use 30 bees\nevery other day all throughout my body.\nI'd use five full bees in my head. I'd\nuse 20 up and down my spine. And then\nI'd use some in my lower legs, my\nabdomen, and then, you know, up to 30\nbees. Now, that's quite a lot. Most\npeople don't do that. We'll work people\nup from one bee to five bees to maybe 10\nbees every other day.\nAnd a lot of protocols you may see\nonline, they work focus mostly on the\nspine. But again, this isn't always\nnecessary. It can burn out your adrenals\nand exhaust the body. So, one of the\nthings about Hoshindo is that we're just\nconstantly bringing the body back into\nbalance. Just like acupuncture, but\ninstead of needles as the stimulus,\nwe're using the venom of the bee.\nAnd because, you know, bee venom, when\nyou look at the research, it's primarily\nneurologic. So, it restores your nervous\nsystem and in that, it restores the\nimmune system.\nAnd it's just unbelievable. Uh you know,\nI didn't try to target each of the\ndifferent infections. I just did lots of\nbees. And so, basically, I would use 30\nbees every other day. And that continued\nfor at least a year. And then after that\nfirst year, I could start doing less,\nmaybe 20 bees every other day.\nAnd that went on for another couple\nyears. And then now, you know, I don't\nreally need a lot of venom. So, what So,\nwhat happens if you missed your 20-bee\nday?\nMy system would just start falling apart\nagain. I would tremor. I would shake. I\nwould start losing my vision again.\n>> All from missing a single day.\nNot always. Like in the beginning, like\nI went to I did 11 days in a row, which\nnormally again most people don't do, but\nI wasn't reacting very bad and I was\ndetoxing every day kayaking. So, I\nliterally would would do 20 30 B's\nand then I'd go kayak and I would wear\nmy waterproof top and then I'd take that\noff at the end of the day and it\nliterally would smell like ammonia.\nJust\nit would make my eyes water. All the\npoisons coming out of my skin. You know\nthat's interesting because a lot of\ntimes brother when I when I when I not\nso much now as I'm older, when I was\nyounger, I would often smell like\nammonia when I would train. That's\n>> Well, and you know when you eat a lot of\nprotein, one of the biggest things\nthat's created when you eat protein when\nit digests is ammonia. And the liver\nthrough the Krebs cycle is pulling\nammonia out and getting it into your\nurine so you can pee it away. One of the\nthings that Lyme seems to do is clog up\nthe cellular detox. So, most people not\nonly are they sick from the infections,\nthey're sick cuz they're so clogged up\nthat their normal digestive toxins are\ntoxifying their body. That makes you\nknow, I always thought that was detox,\nbut I never really knew for sure. I mean\nit would There was There was a period\nprobably a 15-year period where shirts\nwe would have to throw them away because\nas soon as they got moist, that [ __ ]\nammonia smell would come out so strong\npeople would ask What is wrong with you?\n>> Well, exactly and you know this we see\nthis a lot with patients too with Lyme.\nLike I had a friend, he was skiing,\namazing skier, had tick bites, history\nof tick bites, didn't know anything\nabout it. He was skiing for a Warren\nMiller movie, broke his leg, next thing\nyou know, they said you're dying of\nliver toxicity and you're an alcoholic.\nAnd he's like, \"But I don't drink.\" And\nwhat they figured out they they ended up\ntaking his blood to Nigeria to a\ndisaster to a disease expert and that\ndoctor basically described that he had\nLyme disease. And so, one of the big\ncommon things with Lyme is once you're\nonce you're packing a big infection, it\ndestroys the liver and it really affects\nyour ability to clean yourself. So,\ninternally, you just get this extremely\ndirty fishbowl. So, it's really most\npeople are, you know, underestimate the\nlevel of detox you need with a thing\nlike Lyme disease. But, that's really I\nmean, all these celebrities that are\ngoing to, you know, the Hamptons and\nMontauk and out there, those are endemic\nareas where there's ticks everywhere.\nWow. Hey,\nwhat happens to a guy that uses this bee\ntherapy that doesn't have Lyme's?\nAll kinds of amazing things, you know,\nas long as you're not allergic. So, we\ngo very slow to make sure nobody's\nallergic. We keep, you know, lots of\nEpiPens and antihistamines around. But,\nwhat what the most common thing I find\nwith people I, you know, I was treating\nParkinson's the other day. This guy's\nlike\nwithin seconds, he was walking like he\nhadn't walked in 11 years.\nAnd he was just in tears at the joy of\nbeing able to do He did literally two\nbee stingers and he was able to glide\nacross the room and walk smooth again.\nSomething that hadn't happened in 10\nyears. So, I mean, I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm\njust making some interesting questions\nhere for obviously So, if you've been\nstung by a bee before and you're not\nallergic, you If you're allergic, you\nknow correct?\nNot always. I have had a few reactions.\nOne of them actually was in my own child\nand there can be days where you'll have\na histamine overload, which isn't really\nan allergic reaction, but it is a\noverload of histamines. And with my\ndaughter, for example, she had a major\nreaction and a week later, we just\nstarted adding more venom again very\nslowly and she's been fine for years\nnow. No big deal. So, again, it's it's\nAnd you know, in ancient China, they\nrefer to bee venom medicine as dragon\nmedicine because bees are dragons. They\nlive in the trees. They're they're these\nmysterious little benevolent creatures\nthat could harm you. I just had a really\ngood friend, a beekeeper professional,\nhas about 8,000 hives, and his wife went\nto Southern Texas to one of their\nhouses, and the neighbor had had raised\nbees, and then he let the bees go wild,\nand in the Southern states of the United\nStates, we get these Africanized bees,\nwhich are incredible bees. They're\nlittle, they're aggressive, and they\ndon't need medications to kill the\nmites, and these things are survivors.\nAnd what happens when you have European\nhoneybees being taken over by an\nAfricanized queen, they get very\naggressive, and these this this friend\nof mine, his wife, they let the dogs\noutside, and three of her dogs were\ncovered in thousands of bees. She went\nto protect the dogs and got over 100\nstings, and they all ended up in the\nhospital. The three dogs, unfortunately,\npassed away. Holy [ __ ] And I mean, so,\nyou know, in the Southern states, killer\nhoneybees are a real thing now. They've\nmigrated up from South America, came\nover from Africa, and these are just\nincredible bees, but again, what we do,\nif we find wild hives of Africanized\nbees, we get the queen, we kill her,\nand then we add a European queen to that\nhive, and within 6 weeks, they're going\nto be docile bees, cuz whatever the\nqueen is like, the rest of the bees are\nlike.\n>> Yeah, yeah. Interesting. And so, if I go\nif I go out today, I find some bees,\nsome honeybees, like docile bees,\nand I get stung,\nand I I go purposely go get stung. I've\nI've been stung before. It's all I\nnotice is it [ __ ] hurts.\nYeah, it does. It hurts. I get stung\nwith the open idea that [ __ ] this might\nactually help something, what might I\nnotice, or is am I just being ridiculous\nin my thought process? No, it's totally\ntrue. Within seconds, typ- typically,\npeople notice a deep sense of\nrelaxation, almost euphoria.\nAnd then what we start to see is if they\nhave any sort of neurologic issues, like\ntremors, the tremors start to fade. You\nmight see deep mental clarity, and then\none of the thing biggest things that\nI've seen studies on that I've been\ndoing myself a lot of my patients have\nan aura ring\ntheir sleep gets incredibly deep and\nthen they recall their memories\n>> [ __ ] stung by a bee? Yeah, it it's\nlike a neurological reset. I treat a lot\nof veterans with PTSD. There's points\nfor relaxation. There's points to\nstimulate recovery. There's points\n>> you're talking about points like you\nhave to put it a certain I'm just\ntalking about finding a way to piss a\nbee off to sting me.\nYeah, and you may not notice as much\nlike if I was to take a bee and pull the\nstinger and do like six to 10 points\nthroughout your body, you would\ndefinitely notice from that one bee a\nsystemic effect. Now, if you just go out\nand get wildly stung by bees, you're\ngoing to notice some benefits, but you\nmight look like SpongeBob if they stung\nyou all over your face or something. So,\nI mean how many how many bees cuz I mean\nbro, I'll ship it. I'll go [ __ ] find\na bee and piss him off and get stung.\nI'm just curious what what am I looking\nfor? I mean I've been stung plenty of\ntimes. I'm pretty confident I'm not\nallergic. Right. You know, the thing\nthat I would I would definitely advise\nagainst that because we want to have\nantihistamines around liquid\nantihistamines, EpiPens just because\nanybody could have a major reaction,\nespecially if you're on if you're on\nimmune suppressors or steroids. You want\nthere's a few things you don't want to\ninteract with venom. But generally, what\nyou're going to notice when you do a bit\nof venom, especially if you do any on\nthe head or any of your healthy, you're\ngoing to have a lot more mental clarity.\nNow, I've had a several friends. One was\nin a very bad car accident. He had a\ncoup contre coup side impact injury.\nAfter 6 months of recovery, his life was\nstill disabled. He wasn't able to think\nwell. He was foggy. He didn't have a lot\nof energy. He couldn't really interact\nwith noise or people or music. It was\njust too distracting. We did three bees\non this character and literally he he\nwent back to the point of accident.\nMuscle spasticity, he could hardly walk.\nBut by morning, he woke up feeling\nincredibly refreshed, clear as a bell,\nand he went for his first run in 6\nmonths.\nAnd this is a good friend of mine that\nhe he was able to go back to work as a\nski patroller. And it's just you just\nvenom when you start to see what it can\ndo for people, it should be in every\nemergency room in the United States. If\nsomebody came in after a car accident,\nyou do an allergy test, a little teeny\nbit of venom can restore brain function\non a level that is just I've just never\nseen anything like it. We're talking\nvenom with myself, Bill Anderson, and\nour guest this morning, John Fulbright,\non Mornings in the Lab with Keith, John,\nand friends. Hey Fulbright, I got to\ntell you, man, I got a gazillion\nquestions, perhaps a little bit of\nskepticism. I got\nI got the resident [ __ ] professor\nbeing curious who got we got we got we\ngot our we got our resident BS professor\nin the lab here who's always curious\nabout things. Here's what I want to\nextend an invite to you. We got we got\nour resident relationship expert, Briana\nBaste, joining us here in a couple\nminutes. How to fight fair in\nrelationships. We got that conversation\nstarting shortly. John, I'd like to have\nyou come back. Dude, I want to have you\ncome back. I want to continue this chat\nwith you. I'm fascinated by this. Some\nun- some unanswered questions.\nHoneybees, they're they're they're\nthey're endangered. So, like\nare people like, you know, pissed are\nyou pissing people off because you're\nkilling honeybees? And don't answer\nthat. We'll tease that for next time.\nI'm curious about that. I'm also curious\nabout like we haven't we haven't talked\nmuch about being like struck by\nlightning itself. And then just this\nidea of like it seems like Lyme disease,\nFulbright, seems like it's\nlike I don't know. My perception is is\nlike it's pooh-poohed by by Western\nmedicine that is not real. Or or that\nit's like a or that it's kind of like\nit's misunderstood. Would that be fair\nfor me to say, John Fulbright?\n>> It's definitely misunderstood. And you\nknow, a lot of insurance companies don't\nwant Lyme to be understood well cuz they\ndon't want to pay to heal it. It may\ntake a hundred thousand dollars in\nantibiotics and pulsed antibiotics. You\nknow, there's a big thing out there\nright now that oh, if you do two weeks\nof doxycycline and you're not cured then\nyou have post treatment Lyme disease\nsyndrome. Well, that's not true at all.\nMonica is one of the best scientists in\nthe United States running the primate\nlab at Tulane University has proven\nscience proven that it is a persistent\ninfection that hides in the bones and\nwhat you have to do is sneak up on it\nwith antibiotics then you have to stop\nthen you use a different kind of\nantibiotic it hits them again and then\nyou stop and let them come back out and\nthen you hit it again. And so she's\nproven you can do this with a six or so\ndifferent antibiotics. It's called\npulsed antibiotic therapy combinations\nof antibiotics and this is one way to do\nit. Now, what I'm working on doing is\nbringing this globally especially in the\nwestern states of the the United States\nall of the United States really in\nEurope is to bring the venom underneath\nthe new international disease codes that\nallow for extended care coverage. So\nwithout really claiming a cure, it's\ndefinitely an alternative medicine that\ncan help ease people's symptoms and get\ntheir life back on track to where they\ncan do whatever else they need to to get\nrid of it. You may need anti-parasitics,\nyou know, all this kind of stuff\nto hit some of the other things but the\nvenom itself is showing to be an all\nnatural way to really help restore\nnervous system and function even if\nyou're not quote cured yet, you're going\nto feel a lot better within within\nminutes. But again, you want to be doing\nWe'll bring you back to talk some venom\nin the future my brother. Johnny\nAnderson closing words for Fulbright\nthis morning.\nFascinating, eh? Curious. Yeah, I mean\nyou got me thinking. I know you advise\nagainst it but I'm going to go try to\npiss it next time I see a bee I'm going\nto piss it off try to get stung. Stay\nnear the hospital. Well, I'm going to\nand I'm going to the thing is is and I\nbut I would here's the crazy thing is\nthat I think of every time I've gotten\nstung it's\ngod damn it.\nWhat if I get stung and I'm like,\n\"Okay.\"\nYeah. Breathe it in. What am I feeling\nbesides getting frustrated that I got\nstung by a [ __ ] bee? I'm programmed\nto be mad when I get stung by a bee.\nYeah, most people are terrified of it.\n>> Well, and just by the nature of having\nthat mental position, I'm turning off\nwhat you're talking about. Yeah, if you\nknow, to do a to do a little bit of\nvenom consciously is a life-changer. Uh\nI'd say nine out of 10 of my patients\nare just like, \"Oh my god, what a\ngodsend.\"\n>> and unless you can explain to me how to\ncatch that bee, pull out his stinger,\nand do it like you'd do it, I have no\nchoice but to go piss one off and try to\nget stung. And we'll do that the next\ntime Fulbright comes back. Fulbright,\nwhere can we find you, man? Where can we\nconnect with you and bring you back to\nthe lab? Where can folks find you?\n>> I'm on Instagram @john.fulbright,\nFacebook. I'm also on LinkedIn. I've got\na new website coming up,\njohnfulbright.com with two L's. That'll\nbe launching. I'm just re- rebuilding\nit. And yeah, we're out there and happy\nto share. This is, you know, there's\nquite a few of us around the country.\nApitherapy goes back 10,000 years in the\nEgypt.\n>> Yeah. So, this is nothing new. It's just\nIt's just about facing fears and\novercoming, you know? The bees are there\nfor us. It's All right, we're going to\nbring Fulbright back because hey guys, I\nsaid bring interesting people into the\nlab and we have found an interesting\none, to so to speak. John Fulbright,\nthanks for hanging out with us today.\nAnderson, final words for John?\nAll right, let's keep it rocking, man.\nI'm very curious to investigate more of\nthis therapy. Come to Dallas, we'll take\ncare of you. And if you got some of\nthese celebrity friends that are\nhurting, they're going to be blown away.\nIt's definitely the most soothing\nmedicine in the world, definitely the\nmost powerful. 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