Re: A "Wormy" Apple A Day Keeps the Doctor Away!

From the science and results around Helminth therapy and the evolutionary perspective of how parasites have contributed to our DNA, we could say that there are good and bad parasites. If we look at it from the perspective of ecosystms and the overall balance of everything within that ecosystem, then we see that parasites and bacteria are neither good or bad. What allows them to exert a negative effect is the diveristy and health of the internal ecosystem as a whole. This article from Albert Einstein College of medicine in this post helps to clarify that.

A condition where "bad" parasites exist is also a condition of some degree of immune system suppression, but not suppession of the entire immune system, which is what most people think of when they hear about suppressed immune systems. The medical field thinks that way, which I think is another example of how they exert an influence on what society thinks as a whole thinks. You can have suppression of just the Th1 immune response, while other responses stay active or dominate. Suppressed Th1 responses allows for parasitic, viral, fungal, and certain bacterial responses. Candida and most pathogenic microbes are known to suppress the Th1 response through various means.

I've successfully treated parasitic problems in many patients and myself over the years. I find that Agrisept-L is the most effective product. Herbs work, but take too long, in my opinion. I had a patient who had blood-borne parasites. She was originally from Thailand, but had lived in the states for years. She returned from visiting Thailand and began feeling ill. Over the course of a few months she had visited medical doctors, naturopaths, acupuncturists, and had taken the typical stuff like flagyll, wormwood, clove, etc., with no improvement. Blood tests kept showing parasites. Within 1 week of Agrisept-L, the blood tests were negative and the improvement in her health was dramatic. So what caused someone who had lived in Thailand for years, without parasitic problems, become reactive and severely infested with them after years in the US? Probably the accumulative effect of chemicals and antibiotics on the immune system and the internal ecosystem of the digestive tract.

The point of posting research articles like those surrounding helminth therapy is to show other perspectives. Holistic health practitioners can be as narrow minded as allopathic practitioners, but on the whole, that's not true. I do see it in a lot of curezone psosts and forums where people adopt "pet" theories and everyone else is wrong.

Helminths are shown to be non-infectious, noncolonizing, and most likely help to re-establish the Th1 response. If you read the research all the way through to the end and beyond, what seems to happen is that these people relapse. That may be an indication that the system as a whole is still out of balance and needs to balanced along with the therapy. Short-term helminth therapy, along with long-term balancing of the immune system should offer better results. In this research, as in so many others of the medical field, the focus is still on the one fix, instead of on fixing the entire system.