{"id":72765,"date":"2017-09-23T13:42:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T20:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/why-are-these-people-eating-worms-to-be-healthy-part-i"},"modified":"2017-09-23T13:42:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T20:42:26","slug":"why-are-these-people-eating-worms-to-be-healthy-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/why-are-these-people-eating-worms-to-be-healthy-part-i","title":{"rendered":"Why Are These People Eating Worms to Be Healthy? (part I)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-are-these-people-eating-worms-to-be-healthy-part-i2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Summary: The Hygiene Hypothesis persuades people to consume parasitic worms as a way to treat chronic autoimmune disorders. As well, people eat tapeworms as a way to lose weight. Learn more about two closely related scientific beliefs called the \u201cHygiene Hypothesis\u201d and the \u201cOld Freinds Hypothesis.\u201d Part 1 of a 2-part series. Cover photo: 3drenderings \/ Getty Images.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s difficult to believe, but thousands of people eat worms as a way to lose weight or cure diseases.<\/p>\n<p>People don\u2019t just eat worms on TV shows, like the Fear Factor. Some extreme dieters consume tapeworms as a way to lose weight. Another group of people ingests parasitic worms known as helminths to ward-off the debilitating symptoms of autoimmune diseases.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/helminthic-therapy-tapeworms-hygiene-hypothesis-old-friends-hypothesis-why-are-these-people-eating-worms-to-be-healthy-part1\/\">http:\/\/longevityfacts.com\/helminthic-therapy-tapeworms-hygie...thy-part1\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: The Hygiene Hypothesis persuades people to consume parasitic worms as a way to treat chronic autoimmune disorders. As well, people eat tapeworms as a way to lose weight. Learn more about two closely related scientific beliefs called the \u201cHygiene Hypothesis\u201d and the \u201cOld Freinds Hypothesis.\u201d Part 1 of a 2-part series. Cover photo: 3drenderings [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72765","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=72765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}