Helminthic Therapy: Personal Stories

Copied from the site, as I had no idea what it was either:

“ Helminthic therapy is the reintroduction to the digestive tract of a controlled number of specially domesticated, safe, mutualistic helminths (intestinal worms) in the form of microscopic eggs or larvae to treat and prevent disease.

The organisms that are used are similar to the ones with which people living in developed countries have gradually lost contact during the past 150 years as a result of the widespread use of flush toilets, refrigerators, new farming practices, food storage technologies and food preservation techniques.

Viewed from a medical perspective, helminthic therapy can be seen as an experimental form of immunotherapy that is being trialled to a limited extent as a treatment for chronic inflammation, autoimmune disease and other immunological disorders including allergy.

It is also used by many thousands of individuals as a form of probiotic self-treatment, employing tiny animals instead of bacteria to improve health by reconstituting and enriching a depleted intestinal biome.”