Oh, hi, it's me, the guy in the grocery store parking lot who pointed out that the moon looked cool.

Alleyward, we're back with an aquatic toxic episode of allergies. It was so mysterious, so dangerous,

so hopeful. We had to have two allegis for it. One studies the chemistry and the molecular composition

of this very niche, but trust me, intriguing sea snail venom, and then another who investigates

what microbes have to do with the whole shebang, because there are roughly a thousand species of

cone snail. Who are they? What are they doing? They each have perhaps their own signature venom,

and today we're going to make you care about every single one of them, and not just because they

could kill you. They could also save your life if they don't kill you first, as one researcher

found out. We'll get into it. But first, to the lifesavers out there, thank you to everyone at

patreon.com slash allergies first, they've been in your questions and always supporting the show.

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who this week left a review that said, allergies is hope, and dares us to be curious instead of

fearful. Thank you for the intrepid pursuit of wonder, and Steve, thank you. Also,

this one is fearful. I'm scared of cone snails, but I'm definitely in wonder of them as well,

as you will be too. Also, kale neuro left a three star review because the urology episode was

skipping on you. kale neuro, I love you. That's a wi-fi and a streaming issue. AKA, that's a

you problem, my babies. But if you have spotty wi-fi, just let her download fully. I'm just saying,

love you. Okay, kono toxicology. The word, as far as I can tell, has been used legitimately

one time in a 2001 publication called Konotoxins in retrospect, which happened to be authored by a

certain Dr. Toto Alavera, more on him and a bit. But essentially, I found out about it. It was on.

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