• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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    22 hours ago

    early on, before heavy sanitation, people were exposed to more parasites and other microbes than today. apparently parasites modulate the immune system to not attack them, so this has a beneficial effect against AUTOimmune and by extension cancers. i think there is helminthic therapy going on, but i dont think its sanctioned in the medical field. of course it doesnt work with all parasites.(hookworm seems to reduce allergic ashtma). but parasites ascaris worms can trigger it, mainly because the worms travel to the airways and trigger irritation of the lungs.

    • Jiggle_Physics@piefed.zip
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      8 hours ago

      Well this seems to be more exposure to the allergens themselves, rather than anything to do with parasites. I have heard this before, and I have seen research into how parasites affect your immune system, looking into the possibility that not only can we force functions to fight the parasites properly, but also possibly get into medicine that could modify autoimmune function to not go off the rails, and not react to things that aren’t actually some sort of poison.