Long term followers of this blog and of the original FoodsMatter publications will remember John Scott, champion of helminthic therapy and world expert on living with total food intolerance. John did just that himself for many years, surviving only on elemental infant …
John Scott
Could worms (helminths) protect against COVID?
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 …
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, …