Saturday, December 4, 2010
Right now there is an explosion of articles on helmintherapy, because one single man had the courage to try worms independently, and do enough colonoscopies to prove efficacy. For those of you new to this blog, I’ve had Crohn’s colitis for over 20 years, tried almost all the available western (and alternative) medications, and tried [...]
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Many articles came out today about the case study of a man with ulcerative colitis who used human whipworms (trichuris trichiura) as therapy for UC, with colonoscopy samples to supply information on inflammatory pathways and mucus secretion in relation to these helminths: http://www.livescience.com/health/worm-therapy-stimulates-gut-mucus-101201.html http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/la-heb-worm-healing-20101201,0,2645483.story http://discussions.latimes.com/20/lanews/la-heb-worm-healing-20101201/10 From Scientific American: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=helminthic-therapy-mucus For the Good of the Gut: [...]
Monday, November 15, 2010
It was a stunningly beautiful weekend in LA. My husband and I arrived at the ICB 2010 conference early, and registered. The grand disappointment of the weekend was Dr. Pritchard got in a car accident a few days before the event and was unable to attend. The main reason I had come was to hear [...]
Saturday, November 6, 2010
My slides: http://openetherpad.org/deborawade-bter-slides My talk: (numbers in parentheses are the slides) (1)My name is Debora Wade and I have had Crohn’s disease for over 20 years. Since December of 2007 I have been experimenting with helmitherapy. In other words, (2)I have approximately 15 of these hookworms living in my small intestine as I speak.
Thank God, my symptoms have started improving the last few days. I’ve slept through the night twice, and am having mostly formed stools. I started drinking 2 bottles of kombucha a day, which has 2 billion s.boulardii as well as other organisms in it. S. Boulardii was one of the few probiotics to be found [...]