Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Disappointing. 10 hookworms didn’t really work statistically for asthma or allergies, but there were immune changes. I wonder what “mimic most closely natural infection” means (last line of abstract for asthma study)? Less at once, more often? Or more than 10? I am feeing extraordinarily lucky that 10 hookworms caused such a pronounced change [...]
This is a very lonely therapy. But there are more people trying this, and I just wanted to post two accounts of other people trying hookworms for Crohn’s.
One is a blog: http://lukecology.blogspot.com/
Luke’s having a mixed response to 30 hookworm larvae; perhaps coming off the Prednisone is contributing to the ups and downs?
And a wonderful account [...]
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My titles are getting too long. 4 days after reinfection with 10 hookworms after infecting with 10 hookworms 2/2/09 after not having any hookworms from infecting 8 time the year earlier…
A walking experiment, ongoing. The outcome to be determined.
So far…Mmmmm….It really is a nice sensation. Hookworms in the bloodstream. I guess [...]
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Article after article extolling the virtues of helminths’ ability to prevent allergies and autoimmune diseases always end in quotes like this:
“The hope is that the work could aid the development of new treatments which work in the same way as gut parasites, by dampening down or rebalancing the immune system so that the body does [...]
So it looks like TSO has been bought by Asphelia Pharmaceuticals, who supposedly has rights to all uses of TSO except for IBD in Europe. Here’s a link to their site:
http://www.aspheliapharma.com/
And they have a fabulous video on the use of helminths for inflammatory diseases:
http://www.aspheliapharma.com/media.html
In their pipeline, they claim that they were [...]