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: [...]
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 [...]
Thursday, October 14, 2010
http://evmedreview.com/?p=457 « Genetic Origins of Common Human Diseases Reconstituting the depleted biome to prevent immune disorders Oct 13th, 2010 by The Editors The light of evolution points toward reconstitution of the biome as the only reasonable therapy for a wide range of immune-associated disorders, including allergy, autoimmunity and perhaps autism. By William Parker, Duke University [...]
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 [...]