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  • How to cure your asthma or hayfever using hookworm - a practical guide: This is my personal account of curing my asthma and hayfever by deliberately infesting myself with the intestinal parasite hookworm. It isn't for the faint hearted and for some should not be read while eating. It involves a great deal of research, a trip to Cameroon and a lot of barefoot walking in open air latrines in west Africa. If you have asthma, or know someone who has asthma (or for that matter Crohn's disease, IBD or colitis) and are suffering badly you owe it to yourself to consider this approach. Because although it sounds strange and is repellent it is founded on sound science and it has one other virtue.
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  • Is Crohn's disease on the rise because we've eliminated hookworm infections?: Crohn's disease is a painful immune disorder that causes people's intestines to swell. Some researchers say that the intestines of Crohn sufferers reject the bacteria normally needed for proper functioning. The prescribed treatments have horrible side effects, including cancer and brain infections. Some people with Crohn's are electing to be infected with parasitic hookworms instead. In order to live as a parasite inside the human, the parasite must convince the host's immune system to chill and not try to reject it. With hookworms, they secrete a chemical that distracts the immune system, dampening down its response. Hookworms are common in undeveloped countries, places where inflammatory bowel disease is rare. In the United States, thanks to advances in modern sanitation techniques, hookworms are rare but immune disorders on the rise. Is there a connection? There could be. "As we have made things more hygienic," ; Dr. Terdiman explained, "we may in fact be precipitating an outbreak or

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