Problem: Since the dust has settled on the COVID19 pandemic, a noticeable upswing in the incidence of parasitic diseases has been acknowledged by our colleagues. Once a subject confined to the elevated, jargonized discussions of health professionals, “parasite” has now become a buzz word in the community as people have cottoned on to the real risk posed by unhealthy organisms all along.

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Some claim that the current parasitic pestilence can be traced to bugs being included with certain recently-mandated injections. Could this be true? Well, anything could be true, but we don’t have to stretch to such cynical assumptions to come up with a logical answer. There is another common-sensible factor that may account for the connection between the human response to the recent perceived health crisis and the explosion in parasitic conditions gripping many parts of the world.

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The fact is, parasites are everywhere all the time, and have been so since time immemorial:

‘Many organisms exist within us without making their presence felt ... The pathogen has entered our system but is kept under control by the immune system. Some pathogens or parasites may lurk within us for many years, even decades, without causing symptoms. But then an event takes place — possibly another infection, an emotional upset or shock, or even just getting physically cold—which results in our immunity being suppressed. The pathogen has lost its deterrence and is able to proliferate and take over. This is when you actually start to feel symptoms and are typically determined to have a named health condition.’ 1

 

Think on this chain of events:

1. A parasite enters someone.

2. The immune system swings into gear and stops the invader from spreading, resulting in the foreign organism lying dormant for perhaps many years.

3. The person has, perhaps years later, an immune-altering event take place (e.g. another disease, getting physically cold, an onset of depression, or a medical procedure such as a course of antibiotics, chemotherapy, a blood transfusion, or an immunisation).

4. The already-present parasite has lost its protection momentarily and takes the opportunity to proliferate.

5. As parasite numbers rapidly increase, the person experiences symptoms of a “new” condition from a bug that was present all along.

 

This is likely the scenario that has played out in millions of cases worldwide as populations everywhere were required to line up for their doses of experimental pharmaceuticals that were experienced as an assault (temporary or otherwise) on their immune systems. The parasites were always there and opportunistically took advantage of a temporarily compromised system.

The end result is the same, though. Pathogenic or parasitic diseases are not pleasant, and can be serious. There are also, in a growing number of cases, unhealthy organisms growing resistance to drugs which makes treating these diseases increasingly difficult. As the solutions available to doctors become increasingly ineffective, or the acknowledgement of a parasitic cause is denied in many diagnostic settings, it is only natural for desperate sufferers to turn to options out of left field for a resolution.

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Solution?: The impact of parasites on human health is a field that we’ve worked in for over two-and-a-half decades. If we had a single lesson to take away from all of this experience it would be that few operators really have an accurate grasp on what parasites are, how they operate, and what to do about them. It seems that the fog that most healers work in emanates from the attitudes propounded by western medicine.

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Well-entrenched attitudes are hard to shake, and sometimes these views are so ingrained in our belief systems that we are not even aware that they need challenging in the first place. Take some of these quotes, for example:

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‘Giardia is commonly found worldwide, however is more common in areas with poor sanitary conditions.’ 2​

‘Blastocystis hominis is a common intestinal parasite found in humans living in poor sanitary conditions, living in tropical and subtropical climates, exposed to infected animals, or consuming contaminated food or water.’ 3

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‘People living in areas with warm and moist climates and where sanitation and hygiene are poor are at risk for hookworm infection …’ 4

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Take these “authoritative” sources by their word and you would adopt the belief that parasites are primarily a third world problem and that living in wealthy, developed lands shields us from contamination. This is nothing but a whitewash to stop agitation amongst the masses (and the voters – “parasite” is a very unsavoury word politically).