I second Marc's distinction between immunosuppression and immunomodulation. He took me (gently!) to task about this awhile ago, and it has since been a...
Hi all Question about secondary parasitic infections. My daughter was diagnosed with pinworm. If I caught the infection from her what would be the best thing...
"It really does look like we've stumbled upon the letters or words of a universal nematode language, the syntax of which we don't yet fully understand." ...
Please excuse any cross-posting. I am trying to judge whether there is interest in the HT community to mount an organized advocacy effort to promote the...
I've received the following information from a helminthic therapy user, along with his permission to publish it here for the benefit of others. I discovered an...
Up-coming TSO trial to assess the efficacy and safety of 2 different doses of TSO as compared with a placebo in patients with moderate to severe Crohn's...
I'm very pleased to announce that the National Library of Medicine (US) has officially adopted the term "Therapy with Helminths" as a bona fide Medical Subject...
I need a really good list of the premiere authors of HT science, i.e. those who have published in the scientific lit on the topic of HT. These are the authors...
A colleague of mine posted this web site, which purports to provide information about unnecessary medical testing: http://choosingwisely.org/?page_id=13...
One of our community, who got his first dose of helminths just over a year ago, and has used a lot of supplements and medications since inoculating, wanted to...
Hi all, This is a completely selfish post. I'm an Ulcerative Colitis patient since 1999. I've been able to manage, mostly. In the last few years, my...
There is a very brief discussion of "parasite therapy" for allergies in the latest issue of Discover Magazine, May 2012. It's in the middle of the one page...
(NOTE: This survey will close on 4/30; I only have 16 responses to date and I need close to 40 to achieve a representative sample.) Please excuse any...
One of the best literature sources available for alternative medicine products is The Natural Standard database. In print form, this is referred to as the...
"A new theory based on the same premise as the card game Hearts (also known as Hunt the Lady or Black Lady) turns traditional evolutionary thinking on its head...
Hello All, Ive had a few year history and ongoing suspiscion that the worms that we kept putting in in kept coming out... Still even dogged digging around...
So I have a colonoscopy scheduled for tomorrow. I just spoke with the hospital and they told me that I will be sedated with propofol which, from what I've...
Hi everyone, I have a patient with Crohn's who's interested in trying TSO. He lives in the US and is unable to travel, so going abroad to inoculate with human...
Please excuse cross-posting. Today I'm a dog chasing its tail. After a long hiatus, I'm coming back to working on a paper that I hope to publish someday, but...
I would like to draw attention to a helminth-friendly non-profit organization in the U.S. called the BTeR Foundation. At: http://www.bterfoundation.org/ After...
I am absolutely certain that egg-counting is nothing that the majority of helminth hosts need to get involved with, and all the knowledgable people I know...
http://www.amazon.com/Epidemic-Absence-Understanding-Allergies-Autoimmune/dp/1439199388/ I just pre-ordered 5 copies. One to give to my doctors and my family's...
There's a write-up here: http://the-scientist.com/2012/03/22/let-them-eat-dirt/ of a recent article (behind a paywall): Microbial exposure during early life...
