Have we become so soft as a nation in a few hundred worms in our stool causes us to stress?
Have we become so soft as a nation in a few hundred worms in our stool causes us to stress?
And I recall a guy intentionally walking barefoot on a dirty 3rd world beach so he could get hookworm because there was a theory it would cure an allergy or illness of some type. He did and was successful. Cant find the story now but I recall it was bizarre.
Apparently its an official thing now:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helminthic_therapy
the life cycle of hookworm is quite impressive.
The cysts/larvae enter your feet from walking on the ground with them in it. Go through the blood and get trapped in the lungs like little blood clots, then they chew through into your airway. You cough them up, swallow the phlegm, then they create offspring in your stool that you then redeposit back in the dirt. Or so I recall.