Helminthic therapy and osteoporosis

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    Osteoporosis is a metabolic bone disease - a systemic skeletal disorder characterized by low bone mass (osteopenia) and more porous bone. It commonly affects older adults, particularly postmenopausal women, and involves the progressive deterioration of bone tissue over time with a consequent increase in the risk of fractures.

    Osteoporosis has no symptoms, and a person usually does not know they have the disorder until a bone breaks. It is also more prevalent among the elderly who are statistically less likely to be aware of helminthic therapy and open to using it, factors which may partly explain why there have been no reports to date from individuals with osteoporosis about their use of helminthic therapy.

    The scientific evidence[edit | edit source]

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    Here, we show that infection with the natural mouse helminth parasite, Heligmosomoides polygyrus bakeri (Hp) not only attenuates the development of arthritis in two different inflammatory arthritis mouse models (...) but also impacts positively on systemic bone metabolism.

    See also

    Age-associated inflammation is responsible for the decline in the number and function of the skeletal stem cells that enable bones to heal.

    Helminths that promote bone loss

    The reintroduction to the digestive tract of a controlled number of specially domesticated, mutualistic helminths (intestinal worms) in the form of microscopic eggs or larvae to reconstitute a depleted biome to treat or prevent chronic inflammation, autoimmune disease and other immune-related disorders, including allergy.

    The reintroduction to the digestive tract of a controlled number of specially domesticated, mutualistic helminths (intestinal worms) in the form of microscopic eggs or larvae to reconstitute a depleted biome to treat or prevent chronic inflammation, autoimmune disease and other immune-related disorders, including allergy.

    An intestinal worm which grows large enough to be seen with the naked eye when mature but which is microscopic when administered in helminthic therapy. Wikipedia:Helminths

    An organism that lives in or on another organism (its host) and benefits at the host’s expense. (The organisms used in helminthic therapy are, strictly speaking, not parasites, but mutualists, because they have a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship with their hosts.)

    An intestinal worm which grows large enough to be seen with the naked eye when mature but which is microscopic when administered in helminthic therapy. Wikipedia:Helminths

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