This is the home of multiple blogs by the owners of Autoimmune Therapies and interested clients of Autoimmune Therapies.
All blogs on this site are available under Blogroll to the right.
Topics include, but are not limited to, the Hygiene Hypothesis, the Old Friends Hypothesis, the Paleolithic Diet and other concepts attached to the idea that the changes man have made to our environment and to the ecosystems formed by our bodies have had serious health consequences to a growing minority of humanity.
This collection of blogs will explore these issues and what can be done to improve health through the practical application of discoveries and anecdote in this area.
A little about me and Autoimmune Therapies:
I first infected myself with the type of parasites known as helminths, specifically human hookworm, in January of 2006.
I had to go to Cameroon to do so, and after my asthma and allergies went into remission as a result, I realized that I could help others by making hookworm, and later whipworm, available without the requirement of dangerous and uncertain travel to the tropics.
Three years later I have infected around 90 people with excellent results, and the company I helped found, Autoimmune Therapies, continues to grow, attract new clients, and a lot of media attention.
The blogs here are an attempt to make more and richer sources of information about the Hygiene Hypothesis and related ideas available to more people.
Immunotherapy based on the use of benign infectious organisms like helminths will one day, I believe, come to dominate the field of immunology. Much of health care will become the management of the beneficial organisms we and in particular our immune systems co-evolved with to prevent or treat a host of immunological and chronic inflammatory conditions.
I have since also infected myself with human whipworm, without any ill effect. Not surprising as the CDC recommends that American doctors not treat light infections of either hookworm or whipworm.
I hope you enjoy your time here and find something useful in your quest for health if you are sick.
