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Are you freaked out by the idea that you may have parasites? Well, you are not alone! Globally, due to intestinal parasitic infections, 3.5 billion people are affected; 450 million are symptomatic, and yearly more than 200,000 deaths are reported ( 1 ). That is such a foreign idea to North Americans because we think our way of living is so clean that we don’t even consider parasites when trying to unlock reasons why we don’t feel our best. For the same reason health professionals are not looking there either. Take, for instance, a patient who was diagnosed with a brain tumour only to find during surgery that it was not a tumour at all. It was a huge nest of parasites! During the life cycle process, it is possible for parasites to travel to the liver, brain and lungs. For example, in multiple studies of autopsied brains of people who died from Multiple Sclerosis, parasitic worms/nematodes were found in 100% of the cerebrospinal fluid samples!( 2 ) What are some of the symptoms of par...

                              What are parasites? The word “parasite” was first used in English in 1539. It comes from the Medieval French word parasite and from the Latin parasites and greek parasitos “one who eats at the table of another”. A parasite is an organism that lives on or in a host organism and gets its food from or at the expense of its host. Are parasites something new? People have known about parasites such as roundworms and tapeworms since ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. In 1668, Francesco Redi was the first to recognize and correctly describe details of about 180 internal and external parasites including sheep liver fluke and ticks. Up until the end of the 1950’s it was commonplace to give children “worm powder" to clear their body from parasites. How do humans get parasites? Parasite infections are an insidious and underestimated health problem, affecting millions of people worldwide. In fac...