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occasionally someone will push "therapeutic worms" as an idea, forex: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/helminth-therapy https://www.medicalnewstoday.co
by h2odragon 3y ago
occasionally someone will push "therapeutic worms" as an idea, forex: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/helminth-therapy https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/helminth-therapy
They rarely talk about what happens when the worms go their own way, as living things often do.
- secondcoming 3y ago'forex' is short for 'foreign exchange'
- everyone 3y agoIs that a site where they sell worms? Cus it wont load at all in EU.. Just get a "oops we cant conform to GDPR" page.
- zakki 3y agoThis is their first paragraphs: Helminth therapy, also known as helminthic therapy, is an experimental therapy in which people intentionally infect themselves with live helminth parasites. As helminths can alter a person’s immune response, some people believe that helminthic therapy may, one day, help doctors treat some autoimmune and allergic diseases.
- delfinom 3y agoYea I'll take mRNA therapy over some worms
- perilunar 3y agoI've never seen and article about 'therapeutic worms' that didn't include some discussion about the risks of worms, and indeed the article you linked to listed ten possible complications. There's almost always some comment about how we treat worms for good reasons, but maybe that comes at a cost.
- kortex 3y agoI've done a lot of literature review and there is no evidence hookworms enter the brain (TFA is about roundworms). Necator is associated with cognitive issues especially in the American South, but that's due to dozens or even hundreds of worms, not the 10-20 typically used for helminth therapy.