Long term followers of FoodsMatter will remember John Scott and his spectacularly successful interaction with parasitic hookworms. (From being virtually bedridden with ME, Crohn's Disease, migraine, restless legs and crippling rhinitis – and forced to live on elemental infant …
John Scott
The worm doctor
I achieved remission of chronic urticaria (with hookworms) at 5.5 months and was able to stop the cetirizine at that point. Also by that point my migraines had completely stopped, headaches were minimal and I was having pain-free periods for the first time in my life. I was able …
The worms march on
While medical allergists stress about reaction thresholds for allergens – indeed, whether it will ever really be possible to set the 'population levels' that allergic consumer and the food industry are asking for – the helminthic therapy community continues to grow and prosper. …
Horizon on allergies
I have to admit to turning on last night's Horizon programme on allergies with a bit of a sinking heart – expecting the usual perfectly worthy but not really helpful selection of talking heads. But indeed not! Led by the wonderfully avuncular but authoritative Prof. Graham Rook, …
Horror stories….
I have just been working my way through John Scott's weekly compendiums of research reports for November and December (sadly, we are nowhere near as prompt at getting them onto the sites as he is at sending them to us) and I came across two really horrendous stories that he had …