Two pieces on hookworm therapy aired on CBS this week. The first piece is on the hygiene hypothesis and focuses on allergies and asthma. Click on the little video to the right to see the piece:
http://cbs5.com/health/hookworm.treatment.therapy.2.1015341.html
You can also view the video in their video library:
http://cbs5.com/video/?cid=119 Click on May 20th’s “Some Turn to Hookworms [...]
3 new reviews in Immunology on how helminths are part of the missing link epidemiologically, along with certain other infections, and are probably the reason for the rise in autoimmunity, allergies, certain cancers, depression, nuerological diseases, and atherosclerosis. Click on the HTML or PDF link and you can read them in full.
Rook GAW; Review [...]
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Another article on worms and the hygiene hypothesis from the BBC. And a detailed, follow-up article that lists the three new Immunology articles that provoked these articles. The popularity of this in recent press is very exciting. Of course, they always say they’re looking for the molecule that the worms ilicit in [...]
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Yet another article in the NY Times on why babies should be allowed to eat dirt, children should be allowed to run barefoot and not clean their hands before they eat. Basically, the hygiene hypothesis with more quotes from Weinstock and Elliott. Worms, they state, are probably the biggest players in training the [...]
Just found this new study;
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18328783
I just read the abstract, but basically it’s linking depression and
anxiety to our modern lifestyle. Is it just me, or are most of your
relatives on anti-depressants? My whole family needs worms!
I’m not surprised that in the inflammatory reaction period to
hookworm, some of us are getting depression. And then, some of us [...]