[HN Gopher] Helminthic Therapy: Personal Stories
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       Helminthic Therapy: Personal Stories
        
       Author : alecst
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2022-01-24 20:51 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (helminthictherapywiki.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (helminthictherapywiki.org)
        
       | mackatsol wrote:
       | Copied from the site, as I had no idea what it was either:
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       | " 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.
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       | 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.
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       | 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."
        
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