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: [...]
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.
I found a few case studies highlighting the potential dangers of helminthic therapy. These are probably rare, hence case studies, but I would like to be advised of the negative potential of any therapy I was considering before trying it. I was also told once by a helminth immunologist that in the mouse model, those [...]
For TSO users, because of the horrible expense, I’ve thought of a potentially elegant solution. Why not get and infect a pig? In most city ordinances, pot-belly pigs are allowed, and were quite popular in the 80′s as pets. I’m told they are intelligent, trainable animals that can live with dogs happily. I used to [...]
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