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.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
November 11-14 in Los Angeles, the BTeR Foundation (BioTherapeutics, Education & Research Foundation) is hosting an international conference on biotherapy, including helmintherapy: http://www.bterfoundation.org/icb/icb2010.htm Dr. Pritchard from University of Nottingham will be giving a talk: “A Critical Appraisal of Worm Therapy” on the 11th, and on the 14th will be having a workshop on “Practical Helmintherapy”. [...]
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 in [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
There are very few studies on the effect of helminths on humans. As a patient trying this therapy, there are few immune markers we have on hand to check immune response. We have measures of inflammation, like CRP and SED rates, but only in the research setting can one measure IL-10, the T 1 and [...]