Tag: autoimmune disorders

Health & Fitness

Helminth Immunomodulation in Autoimmune Disease.

This study relates to my interest in ways to modulate an overactive immune system. One radical way is to inoculate the patient with hookworm. Because hookworm has learned how to evade the immune system and coexist with humans, the thought is that it can put the brakes on immune overreaction. It doesn’t work reliably, unfortunately,…

Ethics in Medicine

Parasitic Infections: Help Joint Inflammation?

This article lays out the possibility that certain helminths (worms) may prove to be beneficial for joint disease. It is very early in the science, but from my uninformed reading of the material, there may be a link between autoimmune disease and parasites but in a beneficial way. We discussed the possible link between…