Dr. Lauren Esposito

But that is that's helpful.

Go ahead.

Go on.

The 1% are really interesting, not because they could kill you, which it's not actually the scorpion venom itself that can kill you.

It's the effects of your body responding to this like trick that the venom plays on your brain.

And so venom is a cocktail.

And one of the things in this cocktail is a neurotransmitter inhibitor.

And so what it does is it goes in and it interferes with the way that your cells signal each other, your nerve cells.

And so it tells your brain that your hand is like experiencing some severe trauma when all that's actually happened is you got a prick in your finger, like nothing else is going on other than the scorpion venom tricking your brain to think that you're like being smashed with a sledgehammer.

And what happens is that your brain turns on this immune response that raises your blood pressure.

And that really rapid increase in blood pressure can have downstream consequences like a heart attack.

And the heart attack is ultimately what kills you.

So it's not technically the scorpion, it's you.

It's me killing me, as always.

Scorpion dating is like pretty serious business.

So here's how it works.

Scorpions are out at night checking, surveying the scene, seeing who's around.

A male finds a female.

He approaches her, and as he approaches her, he starts kind of doing this like shuddering movement that's like, almost like, hey, check me out, look at me.

Like flashing his little, his pincers or his tail?