Reactions to the shocking news of the TV doctor’s death on the Greek island of Symi, where he was 67 years old, were mixed. While some celebrities paid tribute to him, others focused on his trailblazing work throughout a five-decade career.
He performed strange experiments on himself for a number of programs focusing on health and wellness, such as consuming tapeworms for six weeks and then swallowing a camera to record them in his stomach for the news documentary Infested! Living With Parasites in 2014.
He gave a leech permission to feed on his arm’s blood in the same documentary, and he also contracted head lice.
In the 2015 documentary The Wonderful World Of Blood, he injected snake venom into his body and consumed a black pudding created with his own blood to observe how his blood clotted.
In addition, he participated in a clinical trial with the magic mushroom drug psilocybin in 2011 for his news series The Brain: A Secret History. At the time, he described the psychedelic experience as “beautiful but disturbing.”.
