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By definition if it is effective at moderating excessive immune responses in people with allergies, MS, Crohn’s, UC, Asthma, Sjogren’s, Psoriasis, all of which we have observed respond, then of course it must be immunosuppressive. With that observation reason tells us there must come an increased risk of infection and of cancer.

The question then becomes what are those risks?

But if you examine the, very little, evidence that exists, the answer is a great deal more nuanced than that.

For instance cancers are known to recruit the inflammatory response to grow, helminthic therapy moderates inflammation. In addition various studies looking at the rate of Glioma, a brain cancer, in highly allergic people showed that they were about 30% less likely to develop that form of brain cancer compared to the general population. So, if we were to put someone’s allergies into remission then we would likely have increased their odds of developing that form of brain cancer by 43%, but their risk, if that was the whole effect of the therapy, would only be that of the general population.

In addition some studies suggest cancer itself results from excessive hygiene, for instance leukaemia in children, as this news story suggests.

So the picture is mixed, and besides someone who eliminates their allergies using helminthic therapy, particularly if severe, trades a definite benefit for a possibility.

As to the increased risk of infection, or increased vulnerability to symptoms of chronic infection, the evidence is weak but in favour of a slight increase in risk. We have also observed that, besides being either ignorant or dishonest on their Questionnaire about whether or not our clients have Herpes (we know about 60% of the US population have Herpes, but perhaps three people out of hundreds have admitted this on their questionnaires), that some of those with frequent outbreaks have seen a temporary increase in outbreaks during the innate immune response phase, at least, with whipworm. This effect can be magnified if dosing is duplicated before the three or four month anniversary of the first dose, before the first population has fully exerted its suppressive effect on the immune response to itself.

Having said that follow up studies in the tropics have shown that anti-helminth and vaccination campaigns make children more vulnerable to death by infectious diseases where it is the immune response that kills. I cannot find this reference to provide it, you will have to trust my memory.

One also has to consider the risks associated with various chronic illnesses vs. any increased risk of either cancer or infection. For instance chronic Ulcerative Colitis is associated with a substantially increased risk of colorectal cancer. So if helminthic therapy is successful in reducing the symptoms of UC, as it often is if whipworm are used, then one could reasonably propose that their risk of those types of cancer were reduced by helminths.

Because this is an experimental therapy one is trading clear and known risks, if one cares to research one’s disease, for a set of unknown risks, and whether that trade is sensible or reasonable cannot be gauged.

For me I made the decision that the potential benefits of losing my allergies and asthma outweighed any potential risks. If it worked I was trading a certainty for a possibility.

Being able to climb stairs or run or play with my children was worth any increase in risk in Glioma or otherwise. For me.

I would argue if the FDA is leaving the decision of whether or not to smoke tobacco, by their decision not to regulate it as a drug, in our hands then they can reasonably leave this choice in our hands too.

Aspirin is another example, a tonic for head aches or muscle pain that can cause Reye’s Syndrome resulting in brain damage or death. We accept such trade offs with all our medicines and cures.

If I suffered from, any, nasty immunological disorder or any involving inflammation this is what I would do:

1. I would not rely on experts, so-called, who have managed to create a situation where all these diseases are out-of-control and increasing. Clearly “modern medicine” not only does not have the answers for these conditions, it is clear that it is part of the problem. Having said that if you are currently reliant on some modern drug to function you are going to have to continue to rely on it until you can get things under control such that it is possible to discontinue its use.

2. I would systematically make my life as close in its daily routine to that of a hunter-gatherer. This sounds wildly impractical, but if you understand what is important about each difference between modern living and the stone age in terms of health it is very easy.

So what does that mean in terms of practical advice?

These are the changes I would make to my life knowing what I know now, and to a large extent have. The more severe your disorder the more disciplined you need to be with each of these changes:

1. Eliminate carbohydrates, both simple and complex, from your diet, as close to entirely as possible. Eat vegetables, fruit, nuts and seeds, and flesh of one kind or another. No grains or their products, ever. No sugar, no rice, no bread, no crackers, no cereal, no pizza crust, no pastry, no cake, no pie, you get it. Never eat prepared food, prepare it yourself from fresh ingredients, preferably organic or grown yourself. If you cannot pronounce it, from the label, and have no idea what it is, why the hell are you eating it? If you garden you win thrice, see below.

2. Make your meals smaller and more frequent. No large set meals, snack all day. Subject yourself to periods where you don’t eat at all. Episodic hunger is good. But drink a lot of water.

3. Expose yourself to sunlight, and drop the sunblock. Yes it may increase your odds of developing skin cancer, but be smart about it. When I lived in the tropics I stayed out of the sun from 11 am to 3 or 4 pm, and never burned although I went shirtless most of the time and never wore sunblock. I am blue-eyed and had blond hair as a child. If you have to go out during those hours wear a hat and a long sleeved shirt. Our skin can produce 20,000 IUs of Vitamin D, the right kind, in a few hours of shirtless exposure to sunlight. The RDA is 200 or so IUs? Really? If we evolved to produce that much vitamin D there is a reason for it, and lack of vitamin D is implicated in a host of immunological disorders.

4. Get in the dirt every day, ideally this would mean hikes in the woods, gardening, swimming in unpolluted rivers and lakes. You need to be exposed to the bacteria and other organisms in soil. Be smart, don’t rub dirt into cuts, by exposure I mean some should end up in your digestive tract, on your skin, in your lungs. Every day. Breathing dust is good, in moderation. If this is not practical eat some small amount of dirt from natural source every day. The practice is called Pica, and not just humans, but animals, have and do practice it, and have for millennia. Go to the woods, to areas you know they don’t spread fertiliser or herbicides. Mix it up. You can bring a week’s worth back with you, just store it in an open container and don’t refrigerate it. Quantity is not important, frequency is. If you garden eat tomatoes or carrots with minimal washing out of the garden, for instance.

5. Exercise, a lot. It has an enormous impact on well being, stress, etc., and our forebears were nothing if not active. But again, be smart, walking is vastly underrated as an exercise, but requires more time to produce a given result than something more intensive. Be sure to mix it up, I am not advocating marathon running, which is a modern abomination guaranteed just about to result in damage and injury. Combine walking, running, swimming, climbing, weight lifting, dancing, wrestling, boxing, etc., and do things you enjoy. Be active for 1 hour a day at least, and mix it up. You are not competing, you are doing it for pleasure, I hope. You can make all this stuff more time efficient by combining things whenever possible, so running or walking barefoot in the woods would deal with both exercise and exposure to dirt at the same time.

6. Simplify your life, we are not meant to live in large complex societies, or deal with all these modern distractions and contrivances. The result is stress, implicated in about every immunological disorder there is. Turn off the TV, close the laptop, bring your point of view down to the level of someone living in a social group of a few hundred people, tops, and a geographical limit of fifty miles, and unplug. The world will manage to continue to screw itself up without your active participation, don’t worry about it. Why the hell is the world so upset and angry anyway? Do you really need your share of that action?

7. Stop replacing your skin’s oils and biome with artificial substitutes on a daily basis, or ever. You can shower every day, but don’t use soap or shampoo. Think about it, you strip your skin and hair’s surface of naturally occurring oils, and by extension organisms, every day, and then immediately replace those lost oils with artificial substitutes. Stop using soap and shampoo, and the things that follow their use, and I guarantee you that within a few weeks you will wonder why you ever used either of those things. I still brush my teeth and recommend you do to. No, I don’t have an odour. My skin and hair are in the best shape of my life.

8. Repopulate your intestinal tract with the organisms your modern life, either by lack of exposure or by use of antibiotics, etc., has denied it and that you have evolved to live cooperatively with. See eating dirt above. We used to live in close contact with the soil and the organisms it contains, it was in our food, on our skin, we breathed in dust every day. Food preservation was largely fermentation or drying. Eat natural yoghurt’s, seek out odd fermented foods, if necessary acquire intestinal worms, helminths, for the most important class of organisms for your immune system, helminths or worms.

If you do all those things, if you are sick with a so-called “modern disease”, things will almost certainly radically improve.

This is not a quick fix, you have spent years screwing your body up, you can expect things to improve in a time frame of months and years, and that the changes will be slow but ongoing for a very, very long time.

We have largely come to terms emotionally with the trauma of having to leave our home in the US. It is hard still of course, and always will be. But it is no longer oppressive or a crisis, we have settled into something approaching a routine.

Our children is another matter, I don’t think we will ever get used to being separated from them. While it is sad to think I will likely never see Santa Cruz again, I can accept it, the idea that I will likely see my children less than once a year and then only for a couple of weeks each year still makes me angry and sad. I don’t expect that that will ever change. I was a good father, and I enjoyed it.

We have come to a consensus on how to proceed with Autoimmune Therapies, and we made some good decisions early on about some changes to our business model and to how we produce doses. In some ways the FDA decision to classify helminths as a drug have been good for us. It lit a fire under us and has also resulted in much more media attention.

I have been interviewed by Russian, French, Australian, and a few US media organisations. We will appear on Animal Planet’s Monsters Inside Me on one of the ten (I think) episodes for this season airing after June 9th. The Australian and US radio interviews went out about a week ago. Bloomberg’s article should be published some time in the next week, and is interesting because their take on the whole thing is different from any other news organisation we have dealt with, and there was a German newspaper article a few weeks ago.

I worry about all this media exposure. My paranoia lead me to turn down an interview request with Canadian television last week for instance. On the one hand media coverage helps to have more people getting well and to become familiar with the concept and the therapy, in terms of making it acceptable and perhaps one day restoring our lives to normal. And of course it should help our income which will give us more flexibility. But of course I worry that someone antagonistic towards us or helminthic therapy may read, hear or watch one of these interviews or pieces as well. That was how we came to the FDA’s attention in the first place.

The paranoia was overwhelming after leaving the US, we abandoned our mobile phones, credit cards and did not use our computers for weeks. We even avoided calling anyone, which of course freaked our families out. Having a finite amount of money, just six thousand US dollars, added to the fun.

But even now that the fear has settled down it is still ever-present, and it is hard to judge what is appropriate and what is not. Anger is also a common emotion, outrage at the consequences of this, not so much for us, but for all the very sick people who are depending on us and for whom modern medicine has nothing to offer. We tend to get those who have exhausted all the available alternatives, buying parasites over the internet from a stranger isn’t often the first choice. Yet no complaints were made by any of our clients, and we are making sick people well using an organism that one branch of the US Federal Government, the CDC, says is so benign a disease that US doctors should not treat light infections in their patients.

On the other hand another branch of the US Federal Government has classified it as an investigational new pharmaceutical, hence our predicament. To have one’s life turned upside down for making sick people well,, sick people mainstream medicine has nothing as effective, safe or cheap to offer, is infuriating.

It is tempting to be bitter, it is also tempting to see conspiracies, but of course neither makes sense. The corruption that lead to our situation is not the kind that involves phone calls and envelopes stuffed with money, it arises when corporations write legislation that congressmen then put forward unamended and without reading or understanding. The kind that arises when a democracy is perverted by the disproportionate access of large organisations, usually businesses, with money. When it becomes the creature of large corporations.

The FDA is so designed for dealing with drug companies that it is impossible for a small group like ours to engage with it except when on the receiving end of an enforcement effort. The fines for transgressions start at a quarter of a million for instance. We tried to hire lawyers with FDA experience to do what we could to avoid this type of situation at the start, years ago, but could not because their fees are tailored to large corporations. “We will require a retainer of $25,000.00 to get started, Mr. Lawrence”. Everything is set up to require large quantities of money because with pharmaceuticals large quantities of money are involved and are at stake.

On top of that it is obvious from what I have experienced that the FDA allows supplements, etc., to go unregulated only because they believe they have no effect, that they are useless. So it is ok to offer things, like those you can see on very late night television in the US claiming that baldness, obesity and small penises are optional things, so long as what you are selling does not work.

Another reason for outrage.

The moment the FDA decides something might work it is likely to be classified as a drug, so that tens of millions of dollars are required for its approval. Such a thing for helminthic therapy, where it is impossible to earn monopoly profits through patent protection, patents are not possible with helminthic therapy, mean that there is actually a disincentive to bring it to market for the only companies with the resources to do so.

Would you spend tens or hundreds of millions of dollars to bring to market something that would cheaply replace a lot of drugs earning you a hundred times as much money? Something it is possible for just about anyone to produce, and therefore something that anyone can enter the market for? Meaning the price would quickly drop to almost zero.

Nor is helminthic therapy the only possible therapy with enormous potential that this situation applies to. Search DCA and cancer for an eye-opener.

So I don’t believe in conspiracies, but I still believe my paranoia is justified.

It is just a matter of deciding how much paranoia is appropriate.

I have seen a lot of posts and received a lot of emails about what we charge over the years. It gets tiresome having the same conversation once a month or so, so here is an explanation I am hoping I can just point people to in the future when the subject comes up.

Believe it or not they come down about equal between our prices being a remarkable bargain and those who believe it should be a lot cheaper.

Before I get into it let me remind everyone that it is our objective to popularise this therapy to that it becomes widely available, and in so doing to drive down the price. The only way to accomplish what we want requires a strong and dedicated company focused on nothing else. That in turn requires people work on it full time, the only way we can pay for that is to charge prices which will allow it. Michelle and I do not own a car, or a house, we have no savings or insurance, all our possessions fit in two back packs. We own and have next to nothing. No one here is even comfortably well off. So if you are pissed off about what we charge console yourself with the knowledge that we are broke.

For those of you saying to yourselves “if they cut the price people would buy more helminths and they would make way more money”, think again. This is not price elastic, that is total sales will not rise enough to compensate for any cut in price, in fact the opposite is true. This is price inelastic, we would make more money if we raised our prices, and we would work less, too. Most people do not base decisions on medical care on price, primarily. They are focused on quality of service, safety, efficacy and want a trustworthy provider. No one offering cut-price helminths would be able to offer the level of service and support we do. “Cheap blood sucking parasites over the internet from strangers available here! One time clearance sale, this week only!” I don’t think so.

Those who believe it should be a lot cheaper, I am often quoted prices of $50 or so as being reasonable, obviously have no understanding of what it takes to provide a product or service. All they see is the raw material cost, and having no experience running a business they have no idea about all the other factors that go into price.

I don’t believe this is the place to explain issues like fixed and variable costs, amortisation, marginal pricing, overhead, arbitrage, competitive vs. cost-based pricing, etc. Suffice to say the cost of real estate, marketing, insurance, equipment, materials and chemicals, marketing, sales, hosting, legal expenses, risk, profit, fees for hosting and credit card processing, and many others all go into price.

Nor do I believe that anyone is that interested in a detailed price comparison of helminthic therapy with competing therapies. But as an example Tysabri for MS costs about $140,000.00 over five years for the drug alone, never mind the blood tests and medical care also required. For the same period of time, safer and with better results for MS, you would pay $3,050.00 (2010) for hookworm from Autoimmune Therapies.

Nor is that comparison exceptional, it is the norm. You would pay about $55,000.00 for TSO over five years. Over ten times what we charge, and the only directly comparable therapy available.

By those measures our prices are very low.

Risk is another issue that affects price in any business. Think of various third-world agricultural commodities like Copra or Cocoa, Palm Oil, Coffee, now think of those third-word agricultural commodities that are not available from the corner store. A similar dynamic is at work here, and reasonably so given our flight from the US and our likely lifetime separation from our children.

Would you be willing to sell something cheaply that might result in your going to jail? Again, I would argue that on that basis our prices are very low.

Nor do we just sell helminths, a host of necessary services go into providing helminths, above and beyond dose preparation, particularly when one’s goal is more than turning a profit:

Information: before and after the sale, not just providing it but gathering it to improve what everyone wants, the rate at which people get better and the degree to which they when they respond. Formulating protocols to deal with every eventuality post infection. All of that takes a lot of time. Surveys, aggregating the results and trying to draw conclusions about what the information means. At some point in the future all that will be known and understood, and it will no longer be charged for.

Tailoring therapy to the individual: This is not a therapy where one dose fits all, it goes beyond balancing the desire for the biggest therapeutic impact on the first dose and avoiding unpleasant temporary side-effects from taking too many the first time. When someone buys therapy from us they are not just buying a single dose of helminths. They are buying that and the ability to add supplemental doses within the first year for just the cost of shipping, a 25% discount on supplemental organisms, reinfection for just the cost of shipping if they lose their infection, a 25% discount on then current prices when reinfection becomes necessary in five or so years when the first dose dies of old age, consideration and advice by us regarding our observations on the use of traditional therapies in conjunction with helminths, our experience reducing dependence on other drugs and how best to go about it, etc.

We promise everyone that we will do whatever is possible to make them well, and we do exactly that.

Discounts for those deserving: In the last week we decided to provide combination therapy for free to a sixty-plus year-old woman with primary progressive MS who is on social security. Those with the ability to pay full price are in effect paying for her therapy, and we have done this more than once.

Programs for unstudied diseases: before leave the US we provided therapy on a deferred payment basis to anyone with a disease, like Diabetes or Rheumatoid Arthritis, for which we had no experience and for which there is no science yet. Those with diseases we believe could respond were able to obtain therapy for just the cost of shipping. If after a year they decided it had not worked if they told us they had eliminated the helminths they owed us nothing. If they decided to keep them because they had benefited they owed us for therapy, with the option to pay over time.

We did this, and a successor program where therapy is discounted by almost 2/3, because we are working constantly to expand the amount of information on helminthic therapy’s potential, which we believe is enormous, and to add to the store of knowledge. We are able to do this because of the fees paid by those willing and able to do so.

Variability in the level of service required: Rather than charge for each of our services currently included in the cost of helminthic therapy: replacement of doses blocked or lost in shipping for free, reinfection for the cost of shipping regardless of the cause of the loss of helminths, stool tests to confirm infection because most western labs are incompetent to do the test, ongoing advice before and after treatment for as long as the client hosts the helminths, discounts on future purchases of any therapy we sell, access to a private forum, blog site and mailing list, setting up and managing this forum and various sites with information about this therapy and the issues surrounding it, we included those costs in the price of therapy.

We do this because response, what is required to get well, varies so much from person to person, and because people would be unwilling to pay for all these services individually, and because there is no practical way to cleave those services from the provision of the helminths in terms of pricing. This of course means that some people are paying for services they many never use. But many others are receiving services beyond that which they paid for, and if we did not roll all those services up in the price it would be too confusing to be able to sell, and less efficient.

People are not buying hookworm or whipworm from us, they are purchasing the chance to be well. There is far more to accomplishing that, and maintaining it once attained, than just shipping some hookworm or whipworm.

You can argue that you may not want or require those services, but we are not willing to abandon our goal of making this therapy accepted, or our goal of 100% response rates for all diseases we routinely treat. To do that we need to steer a course that is quite particular, and that requires us to behave as we do. If you don’t like that you have the option to obtain helminths independently of us.

Take one example of our experience and why we believe our approach is required: Debora Wade’s, who I feel comfortable discussing because she is so open about it and has documented it so extensively online. Debora purchased Multi-dose therapy from us when it did not exist. That is we created multi-dose therapy, where treatment with hookworm consists of 3 or more doses over time, at her request.

We planned on providing her 3 doses, but we priced it on the basis of two doses, that is we did not charge her 3x single dose therapy, we charged her 2x because we believed it was too expensive. Not that we did not feel it was justified, we were expecting to do three times the work. We ended up providing her with around ten doses at no additional charge. I also took risks at the time, which she had not paid for, to provide her with helminths at her home because the impact of travel on her health was so great.

After improving initially she lost her helminths after about six months, and because her side effect reaction had been so strong, and because we mis understood one another so badly and she did not trust me she was afraid to reinfect. I persisted, despite many differences between Debora and I, and at great cost to us in many ways, and was finally able to persuade her to reinfect bout fifteen months ago.

We spent so much time on Debora’s case, man-weeks or -months, that even though Debora paid almost $8K to us we probably ended up earning minimum wage or less.

The result is that Debora has reported to us in the latest survey that her response, in her own words, is a 4.0 out of a possible 5.0, where 5.0 is drug free remission (I asked DW’s permission to publish her survey result). Obviously this might change, for better or worse, as we do not have long term information.

Doing this for Debora required countless conversations and discussions with her and internally here. It required a great deal of thought, and argument, and research. Finding, downloading and reading and discussing dozens of scientific papers. The background was an often shrill and very public series of arguments between Debora and I.

A lot of sleepless nights thinking about it, worrying about her and how to make her well, about whether or not it would work. How much do you think a doctor would have charged for such a service?

I am certain that no other business or group of people would have persisted with Debora at such great cost in the way we did.

We did so because to be able to treat Crohn’s effectively we needed to learn how to treat Debora successfully. We learned things we use with every Crohn’s patient we have, things that have raised our success rate and improved the end result for many, when if we had just treated her as an opportunity to sell some helminths her case would have been a failure from which nothing would have been learned. if we just sold helminths as cheaply as possible as so many advocate I know this therapy would not be as advanced as it is, and it may have disappeared. The information we gather and provide is crucial to helminthic therapy’s development and success.

When people buy therapy from us they are getting the commitment that we will work tirelessly and do everything we reasonably can to help them get well. We are not just simply selling them a package of hookworms or whipworms.

Did Debora pay a lot of money? Yes. Did we make a lot of money off Debora? Not on an hourly basis, no. Was it worth it? Yes, if viewed from our point of view.

From Debora’s point of view? I have no idea. But I do know that after over twenty years and countless traditional drugs that Debora’s Crohn’s is doing very well for the first time in a long time, and thanks to hookworm alone.

We have done the same for others as for Debora many, many times. We will continue to do so.

Over time we have adapted our treatment protocols, added whipworm to deal with Ulcerative Colitis, and adapted our policies. At each step this has been to the benefit of our clients, and to our sometimes substantial cost.

Once we had obtained whipworm we offered them for just the cost of shipping to every one of our existing clients to that point, so that those who had not benefited from hookworm alone or who had only seen a partial result could have another shot at getting better.

Do you think other companies or people would have made that choice? Do you think that having failed with hookworm people would have been prepared to pony up for whipworm even if prices were lower? I don’t, and all those failures with hookworm we turned into successes with whipworm would not have happened, would not have become part of the public record if we just treated this as an opportunity to sell helminths at the lowest possible price. Helminthic therapy would not be as far advanced.

It is our policy that this process will repeated if we ever acquire other potentially beneficial organisms. This has resulted in some of our UC clients getting better when hookworm alone proved to be of no use for Ulcerative Colitis for just the cost of shipping to that group. They did not pay for this when they bought hookworm from us, and had no reasonable expectation that it or any other organisms would be offered in this way.

At some point helminthic therapy will be widely available, and the situation will have changed so that instead of being an experimental therapy regarded as lunacy by most it will be accepted as something obvious, as part of the medical landscape. When that happens the cost of therapy will no longer includes so many factors, like risk or the acquisition of knowledge or providing it to the client. Those services will be provided to you by your doctor, not by whatever company will be selling you helminths.

Which is something else to consider, pioneers like us do not profit from their efforts, it is those who follow. We have no expectation of getting rich, and if you are interested we are broke.

If anyone disagrees with us in terms of pricing or our policies they always have the option do obtain helminths independently of us and to start a business selling them, or, to give them away if that is their wish.

What they do not have the right to do is to criticise our prices when utterly ignorant of the factors that go into our pricing and without consideration of the services we provide surrounding the delivery of the helminths themselves.

Every time someone expresses an opinion here many people will read it. Many are not equipped to evaluate what they read here, they see opposing view points, worry that we don’t know what we are talking about or that we are crooks, and make the best decision they can based on the available information.

You may be raising a valid point, you may also be putting off dozens of people who are seriously sick who we could make better, and who may chose not proceed with helminthic therapy because you have posted something that frightens them that has no basis in fact.

If you sincerely disagree with our point of view, or believe that while it is valid there exists a place in the market for a company providing helminths without all the supporting services, you are welcome to do so.

Go to the tropics and risk violence and infection with diseases you don’t want.

Learn how to use a microscope, centrifuge and micropipette, and buy all of the above.

Buy and learn how to use the chemicals and antibiotics required.

Learn how to set up and administer a web site, databases, security, back-up and redundancy, and a business entity and associated bank accounts and ability to process credit cards suitable to do what is required.

Learn how to advise people on what dose to use, which organisms are appropriate for their disease, age, gender, etc.

Research and write various web sites to provide supporting information, create and manage an online forum or forums to create and support a community.

Accept the responsibility that goes with offering something like this when profoundly sick people, often at the end of their financial and physical ropes, are depending on you. When you are the last hope for someone facing surgery, death and bankruptcy, lie in bed at night considering every syllable of what you say to them.

Don’t forget about their spouses, parents and children who are in turn dependent on them, and therefore, on you.

Accept the risk, as we did in advance of it happening, that the FDA or similar may drive you away from your children, your home, the place you have lived your entire life.

Set up a travel bag with everything you will own if such a thing happens, and put a few thousand dollars in it so you can get to a safe place, remembering that everything you own will be contained in that bag and that that money will be all you have.

Remember that even calling your children could expose you to arrest.

In addition remember that you will be working in an environment that is very different from the one I saw when considering this. More research, more widely discussed and understood, many websites and blogs discussing this, news and media coverage. You will not have to sacrifice your career, mortgage your house, endure ridicule or doubt as I did, or impoverish your family, in an environment where there was very little evidence to support your ideas and beliefs. No one had seen their asthma go into remission before I started doing this, never mind their Crohn’s or MS, their Ulcerative Colitis or Sjogren’s. None of these things were known.

When you take that responsibility and do all those things, then, and only then, if you still disagree with our pricing you will have earned the right to debate us on the issue of pricing.

Hi, I am not sure anyone is reading this blog anymore, I have not updated it in about six months I think.

After we left the US in November to continue to be able to provide helminthic therapy after the FDA classified helminths as a pharmaceutical, we were a little preoccupied with finding a place to live and reconstituting the business, and being able to see our children again.

It wasn’t our finest hour, we did a lot of drinking. It was the only way to keep the fear and the pain of separation from our kids at bay.

So I have neglected this blog, but now that we have set aside alcoholism as a coping mechanism and have largely rebuilt the business, it is time to start writing again.

That is enough of apologising and explaining. My next posts over the next few days will detail what has been going on and what our plans are. To the extent I am comfortable speaking in public about those things.