Worms can't live the whole life cycle in a human. Most of them can, but once it's adu at its adult stage, it doesn't reproduce. For a worm to survive in us, it has to produce like a an a an immune suppressing response and so it could actually bring your immune vigilante down a bit. Thisis where thea, the hypothesis, or theory of the am what's it called? The hygiene theory, comes from, in terms of, we've always lived with worms. So when we live in society now where where ultra sanitized, let's say, and we don't have worms living in us, our mu system kind ofis b
In this episode, Dr Matt and Dr Mike discuss all the living (and non-living) organisms that can cause disease. This includes, viruses, prions, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and helminths (worms).
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