I deliberately infected myself with 25 hookworm, twice, in order to alleviate "allergies". In short, basically, it is indeed effective, but can have side effect

I deliberately infected myself with 25 hookworm, twice, in order to alleviate "allergies". In short, basically, it is indeed effective, but can have side effects of its own. Also, I don't think it's so clearcut that I have allergies because I'm missing 50 hookworm so much as because my immune system developed without a broad range of 'germs' and 'parasites' and other natural cofactors. As a treatment option for quality-of-life, though, it's pretty sound. Helminthic therapy is pretty analogous to supplementing probiotics, and directly analogous to supplementing the subtype of probiotics known as soil-based organisms.