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Ep 96 Tapeworm: We encyst you listen

This Podcast Will Kill You

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Tapeworm Eggs - The History of the Thin Ideal

The tapeworm diet was popular in the 18 30 to 19 hundred. The idea is that someone would get an adult tapeworm to suck up some of their food so that they then lose weight, right? That's the idea behind the tapew Worm diet. In the later decades of the 18 hundreds, various companies advertised a mail service where they would send you a few tapeworm eggs for a nominal fee. But i have so many issues with aya. You're not going to ship these eggs and have them survive the journey and even be infectious. So eggs is obviously not going to do that. No, y just going, like, these are environmentally stable eggs, but

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