Parasites are normal

Parasites can be subtle, and you needn't travel to the jungle to become infested (gardening, eating restaurant food, playing with pets or children or any kind of travel markedly increases risk).  Simply being damp and going to the park or hiking can be enough.   There are thousands of parasites that quietly invade us and our pets. 

We associate parasites with Third World countries and poor sanitation, but these animals that have microscopic stages are a problem everywhere, even in the West.  Where sanitation is a priority, people wrongly assume that there is no problem and don't worry about an enemy too small to see.  However, parasites are everywhere, waiting to latch onto an unsuspecting host.

When traveling, the water may not be fully sanitized, avoid 'the potato chip dip' and bring bottled water.  Another way is to boil drinking water for 1 minute.   Drink pasteurized beverages.  Wash raw fruit and vegetables before eating and cook meat until safe (145-165 degrees).  Do a herbal parasite cleanse anyway the next two full moons upon returning.

Parasitism is a popular lifestyle.  Most animal species are parasitic.  Humans specifically carry more than 100 different parasites.  Parasites are integral, basic part of the ecosystem, (the more intact, the more parasites). It is commonly thought that parasites mean a system is out of balance. 

These tiny animals are so subversive that testing is chancy and and tends to be misleading with many false-negatives and/or common partial findings and results that are often ambiguous (with words like putative).

Candida and parasites "hang" together and friendly bacteria (promoted by fiber, probiotics and fermented foods) have a varied arsenal against both.  Candida thrives on sugar and parasites are attracted to heavy metals and prey on any immune weakness.  Chronic immune-inciting biofilm triggers the metabolic switch from fitness to flabbiness and storing fat as well as toxins.  

Why are so many biofilms dominated by yeast and why do those with cancer often have candida overgrowth; or why do those with immune response to resident candida often develop cancer? Do we treat candida or cancer? Answers probably lie in lifestyle, dietary and/or emotional patterns. 

Most of us have 3-6 different types of parasites or worms, and identifying some and getting rid of them does not guarantee wellness.  As Sidney Baker, MD, said, "When you are sitting on two tacks, removing one does not eliminate most symptoms."

Becoming infested does not mean you are unclean.  Parasites are very clever and can hide in apparently clean water.  And deserved weight in this time of plenty can be an unknowing and uplifting benefit of infestation.  Many like the lack of appetite induced by anemia (which is often caused by parasites) and are not motivated to find the cause of reduced energy.

Parasites secretly sap some of our energy, cause infections to spread, coughing, psoriasis, heart problems, constipation, diarrhea, poor coordination or balance, muscle weakness, floaters in the eyes, odd food cravings, excessive appetite, allergies and cancers as well as irritability and/or depression.  Upon doing a parasite program, most are happier and enjoy others more.

Abdominal girth gives greater risk, while fat stored on bottoms, thighs, hips or upper arms means less.  Having lower stomach fat reduces cardiovascular risk.  Fatter thighs are linked with less metabolic syndrome, a metabolic switch that includes diabetes, elevated blood pressure, altered blood fats with high triglycerides and cancer.  

Usually, when body fat increases, so does muscle mass and strength.  Intermittent stress of dietary change including vegan and high fat, not eating, sunshine. exercise, fruit, alcohol. coffee, tea, chocolate or vanilla fuels fitness while chronic stress triggers a metabolic switch to making and storing fat.  Obesity (flabbiness and unfitness) is a big risk, more than smoking or alcoholism.  

Many people believe that parasites only happen to someone else and that they do not have them. Infection only means exposure while immunity was lowered by (often in service to some ideal) not getting enough sleep, too much stress (vacation) and/or toxicity (sugar, invisible microwaves, microbes and/or poisons, alcohol and/or other recreational drugs).  

Poor sleep, restlessness and anxiety often result from parasites. Diarrhea alternating with constipation is classic for intestinal parasites.  Hives, coughing, wheezing, floaters and/or loss of balance and coordination are signs of systemic parasites.   Parasites are not all bad, once inside, many secrete a sugar-based anti-inflammatory and the host becomes less allergic.

Descriptive medical diagnoses (and doctors are trained to look for symptoms to relieve, not for the underlying or parasitic cause).  Descriptive diagnosis provided by a sought out expert can be very misleading. 

Many are treated for intestinal problems like candida or a leaky gut and only temporarily get better, the underlying problem is often a parasite infestation Invited by biofilm changes and weakened host immunity due to deficiency or excess (toxicity).

Most authorities are not trained to suspect parasites.  It is only when parasites are visually seen that American doctors will diagnose them, and that requires an especially terrible case.  

There are many symptoms of parasite infestation which people experience daily, believing that these issues are normal.  Sickness is often regular in our lifestyle.  The damage that parasites can cause is literally limitless, because many of them can travel anywhere. 

Parasites obtain sustenance by robbing the body of nutrients. Parasites attracted and allowed by a weakened immunity caused by an unbalanced biofilm due sugar or excess toxicity is officially reported to be just another "incurable disease" and an "autoimmune disorder."  

Besides diarrhea and/or constipation, parasites can  incite: ectopic dermatitis, contact dermatitis, hives, infected hives, itchy hives, herpetiform dermatitis, ichthyosis (fish-scale skin), wet and/or dry psoriasis, eczema, psoriatic arthritis, 

Even diagnoses which seem unrelated like periodontal disease, tooth decay or cervical erosions, cavitations, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, inguinal hernia, low back pain, poor coordination, urogenital problems, hypertension, normal aging, acquired monocular vision, low testosterone, ataxia, cerebellar syndrome, surgeon's back, spinal stenosis, hyper-reflexia, nerve auto-immune destruction, carcinoid syndrome, cancer, non-Hodkin's lymphoma and Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Tapeworms and roundworms attach themselves to the small intestine, causing internal bleeding and loss of nutrients or travel anywhere as blood flukes.  This infestation is usually described as irritable bowel or metastasized cancer.

Worm infestation may create no symptoms or one may slowly become allergic or anemic.  Protozoa can cause acute or chronic diarrhea or can cause symptoms that are not ordinarily associated with parasitic infection like constipation, fatigue, dizziness, joint pain or hives.

Millions will die from water and mosquito-born malaria, 3.3 billion (half the world) live in areas at risk.  Malaria kills more than all wars put together.  Some people have had malaria more than 40 times, so unlike certain kinds of infection, no immunity is acquired.  Perhaps a billion are infected with helminths that spend some of their cycles living in soil, 200 million with Schistosoma varieties and 100 million with Strongyloides.  These parasites are common. 

Although often sub-clinical and not diagnosed, these infections can cause significant illness, even death.  Parasites are a very complex and broad category of organisms.  Helminthic infections are frequently soil-transmitted (Ascaris, Trichuris, hookworm), Strongyloides and Schistosoma. 

During the full moon, parasites mate and lay eggs (usually in the intestines).  When anti-parasitic herbs and essential oils are ingested along with plentiful fiber and that is repeated 12 times for a year, the body is likely cleared of parasites. Systemic parasite medications get into the blood and are stronger than non systemic Mebendazole and Pyrantel Pamoate.  

Systemic parasites travel in blood and lymph.  When there are parasites in the brain (eyes), then killing them could cause  problems.  When these little animals are killed, their dead bodies release the pathogens they were carrying and the dead parasite itself becomes food (for pathogens living in you).  Die off can be a big problem with systemic parasite medications.

Since the start of presumptive albendazole (1999) in those new to the US, prevalence of soil-transmitted helminths detected after arrival has dramatically decreased.  Without steroids first, praziquantel or ivermectin risks further damage linked with immune-stimulating dying parasites.