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Category Archives: helminth therapy

BTeR Foundation’s International Conference on Biotherapy

http://www.bterfoundation.org/icb/icb2010.htm November 11-14 at the Hollywood Hilton in Los Angeles, there will be a conference on biotherapy, which is the use of living organisms to treat or diagnose medical illnesses.  On Thursday at 4:00 Dr. Pritchard from the University of Nottingham will be giving a talk on helminth therapy.  On Sunday, there will be a [...]

I’m so Bored with the USA

Very trying times in helminthic therapy-land.  Symptoms have rapidly been going downhill.  I’ve now felt nauseous for about 2 weeks, lost 5 pounds, and have had diarrhea mixed with soft stools for many days. Because of this, all progress on the magnesium front has reversed, and I am twitching away, bad as ever. I need [...]

Bay Area Support Group

Would you like to get together in the Bay Area (California) to discuss helminthic therapy?  I’d like to invite those who either have been infected, or are interested in trying worms for their various ailments.  We could discuss the following topics:  (Please feel free to enter your topic suggestions in the comments below) * your [...]

Nottingham Hookworm Results for Allergies and Asthma

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 in [...]

Other Accounts of Hookworms and Crohn’s

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 [...]