As far as isolating a protein from parasites it’s not a bad thought, but part of the “benefits” of helminth infection are probably due to active immunomodulation that they engage in to hide from the host immune system. You probably need the living worms, but we don’t know for sure.
Getting infected with hookworms does seem to reduce autoimmune symptoms in people with existing disease, which is really interesting. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helminthic_therapy
Allergies and autoimmune diseases are considered diseases of affluence by some epidemiologists.
Asthma is a tricky one because it can be increased by exposure to environmental pollutants. One of the easiest ways to develop asthma is by inhaling cockroach feces, something that affluent people have an easier time avoiding.
Unlike all you affluent bourgeois white western leftists I don’t have allergies which means my takes are untainted and should be listened to without argument
y'know, I never know what new unhinged turn my belief system will take when I open this website. Apparently today it's "wow, I'm glad I got pinworms as a kid"
No you’re remembering it right, it’s called the Hygiene Hypothesis
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis
As far as isolating a protein from parasites it’s not a bad thought, but part of the “benefits” of helminth infection are probably due to active immunomodulation that they engage in to hide from the host immune system. You probably need the living worms, but we don’t know for sure.
Getting infected with hookworms does seem to reduce autoimmune symptoms in people with existing disease, which is really interesting. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helminthic_therapy
wow. This just changed my outlook.
MS and Asthma are bougie decadence and people who have them are deserving of ridicule. (this is a joke)
Allergies and autoimmune diseases are considered diseases of affluence by some epidemiologists.
Asthma is a tricky one because it can be increased by exposure to environmental pollutants. One of the easiest ways to develop asthma is by inhaling cockroach feces, something that affluent people have an easier time avoiding.
Unlike all you affluent bourgeois white western leftists I don’t have allergies which means my takes are untainted and should be listened to without argument
Me with MS:
Though MS is actually potentially caused by Epstein-Barr virus, the same virus that causes mono.
MS sucks, I’ve got RA but I have friends with MS. Im sorry you have to live with that bullshit.
y'know, I never know what new unhinged turn my belief system will take when I open this website. Apparently today it's "wow, I'm glad I got pinworms as a kid"