{"id":72764,"date":"2017-09-23T13:02:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T20:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/why-are-these-people-eating-worms-to-be-healthy-part-ii"},"modified":"2017-09-23T18:41:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T01:41:44","slug":"why-are-these-people-eating-worms-to-be-healthy-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/why-are-these-people-eating-worms-to-be-healthy-part-ii","title":{"rendered":"Why Are These People Eating Worms to Be Healthy? (part II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-are-these-people-eating-worms-to-be-healthy-part-ii2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Summary: Helminthic therapy is the intentional consumption of parasites as a treatment for autoimmune disease. Out of the 7000 people who practice helminthic therapy each year, this report tells the story of a young woman who purchases black market worms and then treats herself at a high cost. Part 2 of a 2-part series. Cover photo: Eraxion \/ Getty Images.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Would you eat worms to boost your overall health or cure what ails you?<\/p>\n<p>Over 7,000 people intentionally self-infect with parasites, and the practice is growing in popularity.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/helminthic-therapy-why-are-these-people-eating-worms-to-be-healthy-and-cure-chronic-autoimmune-disorders-part1\/\">http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/helminthic-therapy-why-are-these-p...ers-part1\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Helminthic therapy is the intentional consumption of parasites as a treatment for autoimmune disease. Out of the 7000 people who practice helminthic therapy each year, this report tells the story of a young woman who purchases black market worms and then treats herself at a high cost. Part 2 of a 2-part series. Cover [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72766,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72764\/revisions\/72766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}