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Celiac, hookwormed, and freely consuming gluten.

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Inoculation and video development

On September 23, 2025, I did my latest inoculation. It was right around the five-month mark — plenty of time to avoid the expected adult hookworm die-off in my gut at around 6 to 6.5 months. I never noticed any interruption of “worm services.” Neither my gluten reactions nor the colitis ever reared their ugly heads, so it appears I had a smooth transition with the new hookworms. This time, out of the five small jars I prepared, four were almost entirely vacant of larvae — but one was hoppin
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Hookworms and ChatGPT5

I recently sprang for a ChatGPT5 subscription just to play with it and have found it to be a revelation. ChatGPT5 has become my new best friend helping me to explore and answer questions that have been nagging me sometimes for years. Of course our conversation turned to hookworms and celiac disease as well as my other condition, ulcerative colitis. ChatGPT5 had an awful lot to say on the topic and was able to summarize past research for me and tell me where future research is going. Here's
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Just did the jars for the next hookworm incubation

Took about 20 minutes and 1/2 of that was clean-up. As per what has become my usual process, I prepared five small jars with the expectation of only using the one jar with the greatest population of larvae. Today is August 29th, so given that a week appears to be sufficient time for the eggs to hatch and the larvae to do their thing of migrating down to the water at the bottom of the jars, the harvest date will be Friday September 5th. This time I'll be having a crack at making a video for
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Probably the best Helminthic Therapy video I've seen

A couple of therapists who use hookworms in their practice and a Crohn's patient talk about their use of hookworms and other helminths. Hookworm treatment is the same for celiacs as it is for Crohn's or any other Inflammatory Bowel Disease condition.  
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Hookwormed status report

Not much going on to report. My last inoculation of 25 Necator americanus hookworm larvae occurred April 11 2025, and I'm due to start incubating Aug 27 2026 and inoculate again with 25 larvae Sep 3 2025. Over the years I've seen my celiac/ulcerative colitis symptoms return six month-ish after inoculation, so I've settled on a frequency of a little less than 5 months, or in this instance, 4.79 months. Human hookworms (NA) don't reproduce in the body and since my immune system is constantly
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Kyla's YouTube channel

Followers of my blog probably watched Kyla's interview with William Porter from a few months ago. What might have slipped notice is that Kyla has her own YouTube channel where she posts videos about her experiences with Helminthic Therapy and Crohn's Disease. Spoilers, she's about 90% better because of HT. Kyla is very active on Instagram where her page is called @letshealIBD https://www.youtube.com/@letshealIBD Helminthic Therapy is used for Inflammatory Bowel Disease generally: celia
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Father, it's been some time since my last hookworm larvae innoculation

I did a 5-day fast in March that really messed up my stools making faecal sample collection problematic. Apparently I'm one of the few people that really need fiber always going through my system to prevent things going to hell, so next time I fast I'll be doing that even though it does break the spirit of fasting. Seven days ago I set up 5 small jars for incubation. When I looked at them today 2 were barren of larvae, 2 were ok but a little sparse, and one was grade A. Having a good concen
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A HT support group admin recently added her hookworm incubation protocol

https://www.helminthictherapywiki.org/wiki/NA_incubation:_super-simple_method_by_Laurel?fbclid=IwY2xjawIGlQJleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHUN-S9qo1ycPwriUfGr-_YYKVdu0kU_SuuYPPVcA_4q4Q4lrinbrr9g1Yw_aem_yAzwI8x20ZQN4ZIfGsUJzQ It's very close to what I do, except I wet the stool to make sure it doesn't harden and I use 5 jars at time since experience has taught me that some jars will be barren.
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An early incubation and inoculation

I did another test incubation that turned out to be successful. Though it was a month early, I didn't see any harm in inoculating early with 25 larvae. This time I used 5 jars. Three had zero larvae, one had an ok yield, and the last had good/very good population. The included pic is from that last jar. With that kind of density, collecting the needed number of larvae is quick work.  This experience reinforces to me the necessity of using multiple jars. Five seems to be the right numbe
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A recent Helminthic Therapy research article

Published 12 September 2024: Health-promoting worms? Prospects and pitfalls of helminth therapy A good summary of the topic with the low-down that more research is needed. In regard to celiac disease, the article says that while clinical studies haven't shown substantial results, self-treaters show consistent success (like me). I've mentioned this before, but doing a gluten challenge at 20 days post inoculation for a hookworm/celiac trial is doomed to fail. Necator americanus doesn't m
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Well how about that!

I'm still trying my hand at hookworm incubation. This time I set 5 jars going all using the same method, namely small, hermetically sealable jars stuffed with a coffee filter smeared with a small amount of egg infected stool (mine) with about a 1/2 cm of mineral water at the base and left for 9 days. I made sure the filter paper always touched the water and that the stool was moistened well before smearing. To the best of my knowledge, I prepared each jar in exactly the same way. I even weighed
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A two for four incubation

Last week I set four small jars going, and today I gave them a look. Two of the jars were completely devoid of larvae. The other two were "B-" results, enough for inoculation but would require a fair amount of work collecting the larvae as the observed quantity was low. Think maybe 5% of best jars I've seen so far. I'm becoming convinced this is truly all about the quantity of eggs in the stool. If the colony is having an off day and not releasing many eggs, resulting incubations will alway
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Rating of 4 jars for this incubation round

Yesterday I inoculated myself with 25 Necator americanus larvae from the small red jar. There were so many larvae, all I had to do was find a couple of drops that had the number of larvae I was looking for and pipette them onto the bandage. No messing with sucking up individual larvae and placing them in a tube. Much quicker, and why having a large crop is a good thing. Why choose the number 25? I didn't feel like bothering with more frequent inoculations, and 25 was as high as I was prepared to
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This time, a big incubation success!

The temperature was cooler for a stretch here near Detroit, so a week ago I decided to have another crack at incubating. As luck would have it, a day after I set up my jars, the temperature shot right back up again. I don't have A/C in my apartment, so I figured I had just wasted my time, but this morning when I checked one of the small jars I found things were hopping! In just a couple of drops there were all the larvae I would need, bopping and weaving, looking healthy as all heck. I didn
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Incubation failure

I followed the same technique I used last time that yielded such huge results, but this time basically I got zilch from two small jars. A few corpses and several uninspired zombie looking larvae moping around under my microscope's lens. Not enough to consider spending the time trying to get a harvest for an inoculation. The only thing different this round was the heat. It's been consistently over 30C in my non-air conditioned apartment this week. Damn global warming! Since I'm new at t
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A huge failure and a huge success with hookworm incubation

I had an interesting experience today. I set up 3 practice jars 8 days ago. The first of the large jars was ok, maybe a little light in larvae. The second large jar was BARREN! I think I saw one larva in my sample. The third, small jar was a surprise though, it was booming! Squirming larvae hanging from the chandeliers, partying like it was 1999. Huge numbers. We're talking 12 larvae in a 40X field of view! Previously I think the record was maybe 4, and that was searching around to get thos
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The crux of hookworm incubation

When I first got into hookworms to treat my several severe GI immune conditions, I was confused and filled with trepidation. Six years later, it all seems pretty simple, but I suppose perhaps everything is like that when you are starting out.  The first step is to purchase larvae from a provider listed in the Helminthic Therapy Wiki and when they arrive, slap them on your arm. Afterwards to save money, if you are into DIY, several months later you can start to incubate to provide your
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I bought a doohickey to attach my cell phone to my microscope

It took watching a YouTube video to figure out how to use it, and it's a bit touchy, but it does allow me to take pics and video of what I see under the microscope. The device came from AliExpress and costs under $5.  Here's a video of a particularly active larva. Let me know in the comments if the link isn't working. This larva was from a recent incubation and examined at the 6-day mark. Between the two jars there were hundreds of larvae.
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I started another couple of jars today

I was in a bit of a rush and didn't finesse the job as well as I would have liked. I ended up using too much stool in one jar and not enough on the other. The overweight one might tear through the threads and sink into the water, and the light one might not have enough stool to generate many larvae. This experience tells me there's some technique to this, and I'm thinking going forward I'll tape down the threads to the outside of jars before placing the stool on the filter and then pipette water
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A summary I wrote for the HT Group last year of my colitis/celiac/hookworm experience

Probably more concise than reading through my blog entries. Note, I'm now doing 10 larvae every 2 months. Hookworms successful against colitis and celiac disease after medicine fails ⚭Home>Personal stories>Detailed stories>Hookworms successful against colitis and celiac disease after medicine fails I currently inoculate with 25 Necator americanus larvae every 5 months to keep myself in remission from celiac disease and ulcerative colitis. This works very well for me. If I
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About those cheap microscope alternatives

This afternoon I tried the last one of those AliExpress sub-$20 microscopes. All told there were four, and I'm including a pic of the most promising one where the tube is suspended above a platform. Even with top and below lighting and a sample where I knew there was a larva directly in the center of the drop, I still couldn't see it. I could sort of make out other debris, but no, just no. It's still a cute tool, though. You plug into your computer's USB port and using an app like VLC
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A video showing another person's hookworm incubation method

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHRZkZ_b1sg Ted Simon uses an incubator and vermiculite. His channel offers several other hookworm related videos, including one where he shows using a microscope to harvest the larvae. My method doesn't use an incubator or vermiculite and I get good results, but I can't claim consistency as I don't have that much of a track record yet.
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Final thoughts on that practice incubation

I just had a last look at those two jars and this is what I came away with. The first jar's water probably had about 100 larvae total, the second had substantially more, in the order of 200-300. This estimate is based on how much water was in each jar and how much water I pipetted out of each into a petri dish and scanned. In the second jar that I launched 2 days after the first, I placed more stool onto the coffee filter. More stool = more eggs = more larvae. Collecting larvae from the fir
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I did a couple more practice jars

Both were successful. I think I have incubation down pat now, though I can see how a few refinements of technique might lead to larger larvae yields, not that such increases are necessary if I'm only going to be using 10 larvae at a time. Once again, the technique is pretty simple. Just use a hermetically sealable jar with 1/4" of mineral water (not distilled, not chlorinated) and put a coffee filter in that touches the water. You can probably see the threads hanging off the filter. They ar
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